September 11, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Vijay Char from Promise Technology demonstrated some early technology platforms to meet the needs for faster links to and from storage. The emergence of Thunderbolt 2 technology will double link speeds to 20Gbps. Promise is a 25-year old company that has been focusing on SATA and RAID systems…
January 6, 2013, Storage Visions Conference, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the requirements for digital production flows for media. Pallab Chatterjee from M & E Tech moderated the panel. Speakers included Don Molaro from DataDirect Networks, Jim Jonez from Dot Hill, Tracey Doyle from HDS, and Steven Cohen from Aberdeen LLC. In addition to the…
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…
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….