FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHELSIO JOINS HP BLADESYSTEM SOLUTION BUILDER PROGRAM
SUNNYVALE, CA, APRIL 10, 2007 – Chelsio Communications, Inc., the leading provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet unified wire solutions, today announced it has joined the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program, a comprehensive community of technology and service providers working together to accelerate the deployment of customer-centric solutions on the HP BladeSystem.
We are excited to be part of the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program and help accelerate the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet in the server blade market, said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. Our T3 Unified Wire technology is the highest performance 10Gb Ethernet solution available today and is a good fit with HP BladeSystem for enabling the convergence of storage, clustering, and server networking applications onto a single unified fabric.
HP is pleased to have Chelsio Communications as part of our growing BladeSystem Solution Builder Program, said Michael Kendall, manager, BladeSystem Solution Builder Program, HP. Chelsio is an important addition to our impressive community of industry leaders committed to furthering the deployment of HP BladeSystem into a growing set of workloads and industries.
Chelsio’s T3 cards are the first 10Gb iWARP adapter accepted into the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and the upstream Linux kernel. As a result, these cards can run InfiniBand applications unmodified, and when combined with Chelsio’s iSCSI stack, can run Fibre Channel applications unmodified.
In addition, Chelsio’s T3 cards offer an integrated traffic manager and classification engine. It can shape and pace traffic on a per connection basis or per class basis for such applications as video on demand, converged clustering and storage traffic. It can further examine traffic at line rate and compare against tens of thousands of rules using bitwise masks and wild cards for use in firewall and sniffing applications. T3 further offers integrated virtualization facilities that allow running of multiple guest operating systems on the same card. The above facilities can be further combined with each other to allow a host of traffic engineering features unique to T3.
About Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is leading the convergence of networking, storage and clustering interconnects with its robust, high-performance and proven unified wire technology. Featuring a highly scalable and programmable architecture, Chelsio is shipping 10-Gigabit Ethernet and multi-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards, delivering the low latency and superior throughput required for high-performance computing applications. For more information, visit the company online at http://www.chelsio.com.
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