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Second-Generation 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip Controllers for PCIe 3.0 x86 Platforms
PMC-Sierra announced the SRCv family of 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers, including the industry’s first 24-port RoC, which enables the highest levels of server performance and connectivity, along with an eight-port RoC targeted at the volume x86 server market.
The SRCv family, which includes the 24-port PM8015 SRCv 24x6G and the eight-port PM8020 SRCv 8x6G, integrates the latest in host, drive and memory interface standards with RAID hardware acceleration and an advanced multi-core processor subsystem. Both SRCv devices are based on PMC-Sierra’s proven RoCstar™ architecture and multi-core processor subsystem and more than double the IOPS and throughput performance of existing solutions, and fully leverage PCI Express® 3.0. The devices are SAS 2.1 compliant and consume 30 percent less power than comparable solutions.
PMC-Sierra’s SRCv devices are based on the same multi-core processor subsystem and RoCstar architecture as its successful predecessor, the SRC 8x6G RoC controller. The architecture efficiently interconnects all device subsystems, eliminating internal bottlenecks and resource contentions that limit competing shared-bus solutions. By enabling simultaneous access to all chip resources, RoCstar technology improves system performance by increasing I/O throughput and lowering latency. IT professionals will see a marked performance increase in time-critical functions such as RAID rebuilds and data backup.
“Clients require next generation server and storage technology leveraging high speed SAS connectivity to maximize performance of their business applications. By integrating HP’s 6Gb/s SAS SmartArray products with PMC-Sierra’s RAID-on-Chip Controller, HP delivers impressive levels of performance, reliability and power efficiency for next-generation scale-out storage platforms.”
McLeod Glass, Director of Marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP
"PMC-Sierra's SRCv family represents a major advancement in RAID-on-Chip technology that will help our customers deliver storage solutions to address the increasing system performance demands driven by virtualization and enabled by SSDs. Compared to our first-generation SRC device, the SRCv delivers a stunning doubling in performance in a similar power envelope, and simultaneously shrinks the package size of the device by roughly 20 percent. These advancements support PMC-Sierra's continued pursuit of technology and product leadership in the enterprise storage semiconductor market."
Adaptec by PMC's maxCache Whitepaper Now Available
Adaptec by PMC has updated the maxCache whitepaper and is now available to download. The whitepaper titled, “Increase Application Performance Up To 8X With Adaptec maxCache SSD Caching Solutions” focuses on the performance benefits of using Adaptec maxCache SSD Caching Solutions for key read-intensive applications such as databases, web servers, e-commerce applications, file servers, and email.
The benefits of maxCache are illustrated by comparing the performance levels between an Adaptec storage controller with maxCache SSD Caching Solution, and an Adaptec storage controller without maxCache SSD Caching Solution. The tests are performed using industry-standard performance tools and/or validation via real world web server application testing.
PMC-Sierra Presents at Green Data Centers: (NY) Conference
On October 21, 2010, Dr. Jon Flower, principal engineer presented a case study at the Green Data Centers: (NY) Conference titled, “Going Green by Improving Architectural Balance in Servers and Storage.” The case study discussed how to improve the utilization of computational resources with virtualization and how it can lead to efficiencies in IT capital expenditures, operational expenses and energy consumption.
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PMC-Sierra is committed to delivering and developing high-performance, reliable RAID solutions for our OEM and channel storage customers. Since the acquisition of the Adaptec channel storage business in June 2010, the team has been hard at work joining our technologies.
This acquisition has strengthened PMC-Sierra's enterprise storage business by accelerating access to our industry leading products for our channel customers.
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"Today's storage infrastructures require technologies that provide the highest levels of performance with robust functionality, efficient power and cooling and environmental characteristics. Storage products with these capabilities help system integrators and others to further differentiate their storage solution offerings."
Roger Cox, Research Vice President,
Data Center Systems, Gartner.
PMC-Sierra is a leading provider of enterprise storage system solutions for networked (SAN/NAS) and server storage applications, with a broad portfolio SAS/SATA and Fibre Channel protocol controllers, RAID controllers and SAS and FC disk interconnect products. PMC-Sierra’s Tachyon® protocol controllers, Fibre Channel loop switches, enclosure management controllers and maxSAS™ expander switches and multiplexers provide the industry’s most comprehensive solution for enterprise-class storage systems. Together, these products are providing end-to-end semiconductor and software solutions to the industry’s leading storage OEMs and ODMs.