LAS VEGAS, (Interop Las Vegas, Booth #458)
– April 28, 2008 – 4Blox™
Inc., dedicated to improving iSCSI SAN
performance, today announced that the
company is collaborating with Applied
Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) and Tehuti
Networks to demonstrate enhanced iSCSI
performance on AMCC PowerPC-based embedded
processors. The companies will showcase
the iSCSI storage solution with 10GbE
connectivity at Interop Las Vegas being
held on April 28-May 1 at the Mandalay
Bay Convention Center – AMCC booth #458.
The demonstration will show the performance
gain of 4Blox’s 4Mezzo™ software accelerator
when applied to a storage appliance, running
on the AMCC RAID-accelerated PowerPC 440SPe
and using a Tehuti Networks TN7585-D Network
Interface Card (NIC) for high-performance
10GbE connectivity. The combination of
software and hardware acceleration provides
a platform for an iSCSI storage solution
ideal for OEMs and ODMs. The demo is the
first to showcase an embedded version
of the 4Mezzo™ software leveraging the
DENX Linux operating system.
“This collaborative effort with Tehuti
Networks and AMCC marks a new milestone
in the storage market showcasing an innovative
approach using off the shelf commodity
hardware,” said Dan Munro, CEO of 4Blox.
“4Blox is pleased to team up with these
market innovators and deliver a fully
embedded 10GbE iSCSI platform that will
benefit OEMs and ODMs by increasing their
overall performance.”
4Mezzo – Offering Dramatic
Reductions in CPU Utilization
4Mezzo™ offers dramatic reductions in
CPU utilization without the use of any
specialized acceleration hardware. 4Mezzo™
provides more than 3X improvement in
iSCSI performance relative to CPU utilization
on commodity hardware platforms (standard
NICs, standard CPUs and standard motherboards),
which is particularly important at high
network speeds including either multiple
single Gigabit Ethernet (1GbE) connections
or 10 GbE connections.
According to Blaine Kohl, Vice President
of Marketing of Tehuti Networks, “Tehuti
Networks’ controller chips and adapters
are focused on optimizing value and
performance in power-and cost-sensitive
applications. This combined solution
from Tehuti Networks, 4Blox and AMCC
demonstrates a standard, commodity-based
iSCSI solution that offers both the
required performance and affordability.”
“With this announcement, 4Blox, AMCC
and Tehuti Networks illustrate how commodity
storage systems and standard Ethernet
adapters can be used to build iSCSI
Storage Area Networks (SANs) that are
built to leverage 10GbE,” said Sam Fuller
, Vice President of Marketing at AMCC.
“AMCC’s S-series PowerPC processors
offer a powerful mix of high bandwidth,
design flexibility and robust features
that are ideally suited for building
low cost storage solutions.”
About AMCC
AMCC provides leadership semiconductor
solutions to process, transport, and
store digital information for the world's
wired and wireless networks. As a leading
supplier of Power Architecture™ based
processors and with world-class expertise
in SONET and Ethernet protocol processing,
PHY technology, Storage processors and
RAID controllers our products are the
foundation of the IP Communications
Revolution. AMCC's 3ware® SAS and
SATA RAID controllers deliver cost-effective,
high-performance, high-capacity storage
for enterprises and consumers worldwide
in applications like disk-to-disk backup,
near-line storage, network-attached
storage (NAS), video, and high-performance
computing. For further information regarding
AMCC, please visit our website at http://www.amcc.com.
About Tehuti Networks
Tehuti Networks is a leading provider
of single-chip and board-level solutions
that provide 10 Gigabit Ethernet line
rate combined with low CPU utilization
and low-power for networking end point
applications. These inexpensive, high
performance solutions support all major
operating systems as well as both hardware
and software virtualization schemes.
Additional information is available
at www.tehutinetworks.net.
About 4Blox
4Blox, Inc., is the first software
company dedicated to improving iSCSI
SAN performance. The company's family
of software-based accelerators reduce
the host CPU processing overhead associated
with iSCSI. As a result, businesses
enable higher connection loads and the
ability to take advantage of higher
network line speeds like 10GbE. For
more information on 4Blox please visit
www.4Blox.com
Contact:
Donna Michaels
Loughlin/Michaels Group
408-393-5575
email:
donna@lmgpr.com
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