Atto: Quad-port Celerity 32Gb FC-324E HBAs

Atto Technology, Inc. announced the availability of its quad-port Celerity 32Gb Gen 6 FC-324E HBAs.

This addition to the company’s FC portfolio will enable companies to capitalize on their existing SAN infrastructure and addresses the need for performing, scalable and secure storage to support exponential data growth from applications such as 4K/8K editing and performance computing and data warehousing, along with the proliferation of virualized servers and flash arrays.

Firm’s 32Gb HBAs support 3,200MB/s per channel data throughput, maximizing the number of VMs per physical server and delivering unmatched storage performance. With x16 PCIe bus connection and four 32Gb/s FC ports, the FC-324E eliminates the bottlenecks created by I/O data intensive applications.

With data centers moving to all-flash arrays, the need to drive greater performance to more SSDs is becoming critical. Four FC ports in a single PCIe slot ensures high-density connectivity at te highest available performance for upto 1.2GB/s throughput making it suited for environments utilizing next-generation, flash-based storage.

32Gb Celerity HBAs support up to 2X the number of outstanding commands than the competition, allowing sustained maximum performance and enabling users to continue to meet SLAs.

Celerity 32Gb HBAs also make it possible to have longer distances between servers and storage. They support more data in-flight, allowing users to extend their connection to storage up to 10km, without degrading throughput for demanding long-distance applications such as a stretch cluster.

“Upgrading an existing FC SAN to 32Gb Gen 6 is a logical choice to maximize performance,” said Tim Klein, CEO, Atto. “FC remains the go-to storage technology for high performance enterprise applications, which makes it a great match for flash storage and all flash arrays. Atto will soon have NVMe support for FC fabrics, allowing users to bring the latest NVMe drives onto a FC SAN.“

The company’s Gen 6 line includes Celerity 32Gb and 16Gb HBAs in low-profile single-, dual – and now quad-port full height versions. All versions are backward compatible, reducing the complexity of deploying and managing the SAN, and take advantage of advancements for reliability and forward error correction to improve network performance and resiliency.

Celerity HBAs are designed to provide fast, redundant and highly available connectivity to FC storage and are engineered to manage latency for real-time applications. The firm’s Advanced Data Streaming (ADS) technology provides controlled acceleration of data to deliver consistent performance and reliable data transfers.

For an end-to-end connectivity solution, the XstreamCORE 7550 and 7500 16Gb FC storage controllers provide users the ability to create a FC SAN and the ability to disaggregate stranded SAS/SATA storage with performance up to 6.4GB/s or 1.4 million 4K IO/s with less than 4µs of latency.

The XstreamCORE 7600 for 32Gb/s will be available in 2018.

Celerity 32Gb Gen 6 quad-port FC-324E HBAs are available for purchase.