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Storage IO Controller Optimized for Data Centers
September 2014 – The growing data storage requirements of cloud server providers and data centers is driving a new generation of high speed IO control system. PMC has introduced a new chip that can be packaged in three separate configurations with a common pinout. The data centers are currently I/O bound, and complexities such as…
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PMC Releases New NVRAM Module
August 5, 2014, Sunnyvale, CA—PMC released a new family of FlashTech NVRAM drives to create a new level of storage devices. The PCIe-based card uses DRAM with a super cap for supply backup as the main storage medium, and backs up the data on flash. This combination provides the speed and endurance of DRAM and…
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PMC advances 12G SAS at IDF2013
September 2013, At IDF in San Francisco, PMC was discussing their Series 8 RAID controller for the 12G SAS interface. This is the continuation of the Adaptec product line targeted at the enterprise marketplace. For the definitions of PMC, enterprise storage includes Hadoop in addition to traditional multi-tiered (hot-warm-cold-archive) architectures. These storage networks are changing…
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PMC-Adaptec Intros PCIe RAID Controllers
September 11, 2012, Intel Developers Forum, San Francisco—PMC, the parent company for Adaptec, showed off their new Series 7 RAID controller using PCIe 3.0. These new boards can improve throughput and reduce latency by enabling better storage flexibility and drive configuration flexibility. In addition to the high connectivity and throughput, the boards can connect to…
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PMC releases Metro OTN processor
PMC Metro OTN Logo May 2012 – As the amount of media content enters the internet traffic patterns, network providers are seeing new solutions for aggregation of the networks at the Metro level. This increased traffic and longer data structures is forcing the control at the network level to push down to the packet…
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PMC Advances Fiber to the Home (FTTH)
February 2012, PMC recently introduced several new products for the Fiber to the Home segment based on PON (Passive Optical Network) controllers. First introduced in 2006, they have now surpassed the 20M install ONU (Optical Network Unit). The new chips are for updating the bandwidth for the connections. PON is currently a 1G environment. EPON…
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PMC – Enterprise 12Gbps SAS Controllers
January 2012, In a recent discussion with Kevin Burbank, director of marketing, Enterprise Storage Division (ESD), and Brad Craig, manager product marketing, ESD of PMC we had the opportunity to get an overview of their new enterprise class storage controllers for the SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) marketplace which increased the data rates up to 12Gbps….
