PMC Delivers Industry’s First 16-port SAS and SATA Storage Controllers for Data Center Servers
September 17 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
PMC’s I/O Controllers Enable OEMs and ODMs to Provide Customized
Server Hardware for Hyperscale Deployments at 2X the Density and up
to 40% Less Power
PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMC®) (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor and
software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect,
move and store big data, today announced the company is first to
ship 16-port 12Gb/s SAS and 16-port 6Gb/s SATA I/O controller
solutions. PMC’s data center I/O products enable OEMs and ODMs to
design cost-effective customized server hardware for hyperscale
deployments, such as Open Compute, Windows Cloud Servers, OpenStack
and Project Scorpio. The devices have the industry’s highest port
density, lowest power and are capable of more than 1,000,000 I/Os
per second to support the most demanding cloud software
applications.
The product line, which includes eight- and 16-port devices, is
optimized for density, power and design flexibility to lower both
deployment and development costs and speed time to market. All
devices are pin compatible, enabling three solutions based on one
hardware design. The hardened operating system drivers can be
leveraged as is or customized with available Linux open source code
to a specific application. The data center I/O controllers,
combined with PMC’s SAS expanders, Adaptec by PMC® RAID adapters
and HBAs, and Flashtec™ NVMe solutions, provide an end-to-end
solution to address the breadth of data center storage
requirements, including Big Data, Hadoop, dense SAS and SATA server
storage for compute nodes, large scale disk attachment for warm and
cold storage, caching to maximize the performance of slower storage
media, and RAID for mission-critical data.
“Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) builds products tailored to
specific workloads in the cloud datacenter, and the ability to
drive three storage options via one design improves engineering
efficiency,” said Mike Yang, general manager of QCT. “IOC solutions
from PMC play an important role in helping us deliver products to
market quickly, with the flexibility to support SAS or SATA drive
interfaces and higher-density solutions.”
“The diversity of customized solutions that hyperscale data
centers are deploying and the demanding density, power and cost
requirements present significant challenges to our OEM and ODM
customers,” said Pete Hazen, vice president of the Data Center
& Server Group at PMC. “PMC’s I/O controllers are designed to
address these challenges. It’s the only solution that enables a
three-in-one design, and our higher port count and lower power give
our customers the advantage they need in this competitive market
segment.”
The data center I/O product line supports the PCI Express® 3.0
specification and includes the following devices:
- 16-port 12Gb/s SAS I/O controller:
PM8076
- 8-port 12Gb/s SAS I/O controller:
PM8074
- 16-port 6Gb/s SATA I/O controller:
PM8006
The 16-port controllers enable the highest density solutions
with a single chip, double the density of other products. An
end-to-end solution using the I/O controllers and PMC’s expanders
is the lowest power in the industry, up to 40 percent more power
efficient than other solutions. PMC’s flexible and configurable
single binary Linux host driver and full suite of host drivers
enable easy customization so data center architects can tune for
specific applications and use cases.
Availability
The devices, PM8076 16-port 12Gb/s SAS I/O controller, PM8074
8-port 12Gb/s SAS I/O controller and PM8006 16-port 6Gb/s SATA I/O
controller will be available in volume production in October 2014.
For more information, visit: http://www.pmcs.com/storage.
About PMC’s Server, Storage System and Flash
Solutions
PMC is a leading provider of enterprise storage system solutions
for networked and server storage applications, with a broad
portfolio of Adaptec by PMC RAID adapters and HBAs, Tachyon®
SAS/SATA and Fibre Channel (FC) protocol controllers, RAID
controllers, Flashtec PCIe flash controllers and NVRAM drives, and
maxSAS™ expander and FC disk interconnect products. Together, these
products provide end-to-end semiconductor and software solutions to
the industry’s leading storage OEMs and ODMs and hyperscale data
centers. For more information, visit
http://www.pmcs.com/storage.
About PMC
PMC (Nasdaq:PMCS) is the semiconductor and
software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect,
move and store big data. Building on a track record of technology
leadership, the company is driving innovation across storage,
optical and mobile networks. PMC’s highly integrated solutions
increase performance and enable next-generation services to
accelerate the network transformation. For more information, visit
www.pmcs.com. Follow PMC on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and
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PMC-SIERRA, ADAPTEC and Adaptec by PMC are registered trademarks of
PMC-Sierra, Inc. in the United States and other countries. PMCS and
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ownership rights in other product and company names mentioned
herein. PMC is the corporate brand of PMC-Sierra, Inc.
PMC-Sierra, Inc.Kim Mason, +1 604-415-6239Manager,
Corporate Communicationskim.mason@pmcs.comorUS
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