Chelsio The Latest To Introduce iSCSI Target Software

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Chelsio on Friday unveiled its iSCSI Target 3.0 software, which can be loaded on an industry-standard server with or without a hardware accelerator, said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company.

The company, which is better known as a developer of high-performance 10-Gbit Ethernet controllers and iSCSI acceleration adapters, is making its first foray into the stand-alone software space with the new iSCSI target, Naghshineh said. It expects to follow up later this year with a full set of software solutions including iSCSI initiator and boot-from-SAN software, he said. "We're dipping our toe into the waters," he said.

The software comes from a set of middleware applications Chelsio developed for its line of 10-Gbit and 1-Gbit Ethernet adaptors, which are part of the company's "Unified Wire" family of adaptors. The adaptors allow mixed connectivity solutions and partitioning of bandwidth to different simultaneously-running applications, Naghshineh said.

The software can be downloaded onto a server with a standard embedded gigabit Ethernet port, turning the server into an iSCSI appliance, Naghshineh said. Solution providers who also add a Chelsio 10-Gbit Ethernet network interface card get higher performance as the card's on-board TOE (TCP Offload Engine) provides hardware acceleration.

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