STORAGE

iVivity, a leading technology provider for storage networking systems, and StoreAge Networking Technologies, an innovator in enterprise SAN storage management and data protection applications, today announced the results of a demonstration showcasing the application support and protocol mediation capabilities of the iVivity iDiSX platform technology which enables OEMs to achieve highest-end iSCSI functionality and performance, at cost-effective prices, to create new classes of storage solutions with enterprise features. iVivity ported StoreAge's software agents to iDiSX(TM) to demonstrate full featured iSCSI storage management capabilities. The porting occurred over a period of two weeks -- one week for porting and one week for testing -- highlighting rapid time-to-market porting capabilities. The demonstration shows that by leveraging iDiSX, OEMs have a path to full iSCSI functionality for their existing Fibre Channel SAN products without compromising performance or incurring additional costs. "The impressive results of our demonstration helps validate the new value proposition we are introducing into the market," said Zulfiqar Qazilbash, chief strategy officer of iVivity. "We are taking an exponential step forward in providing OEMs with a flexible 'storage server in a chip' platform technology featuring high-end storage services with wire-speed performance -- while dramatically reducing overall costs." "We are very pleased to be working with iVivity," said Kevin Liebl, vice president of marketing, StoreAge Networking Technologies. "The porting of StoreAge's software to the high performance iVivity iDiSX(TM) enables storage network system vendors to leverage the power of the StoreAge SAN management and data protection services while running embedded in the network fabric on iVivity's high performance storage network processor." "This emerging category of disruptive technology in the form of very efficient, high performance storage processor chips which combine low-latency data paths with out-of-the-path protocol processing for efficient storage I/O operations will become the preferred engines for the next generation of storage controllers and other intelligent storage I/O platforms," said Tom Burniece, partner, IN-fusion. "iVivity is delivering on the promise of storage processors and is well positioned to be the best in this emerging class of chips that will fuel the next great leaps forward in storage." iVivity/StoreAge Demonstration Highlights The iVivity/StoreAge demonstration showcases the power and performance of the industry's only announced full duplex 10Gbps storage engine. OEMs designing around the iDiSX(TM) technology platform can leverage the line rate performance of the 10Gbps storage engine to build storage application systems that address both FC and iSCSI protocols with the highest functionality, the highest systems IOP performance and at lower price points.