SUNNYVALE, CA – April 17, 2012 – Chelsio Communications, a leading provider of 10Gb Ethernet Unified Wire adapters, ASICs and Unified Storage solutions, today announced it is significantly expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region by establishing an office and incorporating in Japan.  Chelsio KK, located in Tokyo, has immediate plans to expand the market for Chelsio’s 10Gb Ethernet Unified Wire solutions into major markets in the region.

“The Asia-Pacific region in general, and Japan in particular, is an important emerging market for Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet solutions, and the establishment of Chelsio KK will enable the company to directly interact with the innovation hub within the region to develop and deliver high value solutions tailored to our customer’s needs,” said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio Communications.

“Formation of Chelsio’s Japanese operation is not only a further step in the company’s global thrust into the 10Gb Ethernet market, but it also underscores their commitment to the Japanese market.  We believe Chelsio has strong synergy with NTT group of companies and it leverages our relationship with Chelsio’s strategic partners,” said Masaaki Nogawa, president of NTT FINANCE.

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About Chelsio Communications, Inc.

Chelsio is a leading technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments.  Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions focused on specialized applications.  Visit the company at www.chelsio.com.

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The demonstration will include five iSCSI initiators (running MS Windows 2008 R2) accessing the high performance iSCSI target through a generic 10GbE switch.  The iSCSI target server includes a Chelsio T4 Unified Wire adapter, four enterprise-class PCIe SSDs from Micron Technology, Inc., and Chelsio’s USS software.   IOmeter benchmarking software will be used to show the read/write performance of the system.

Comprised of off-the-shelf components, this solution demonstrated at SNW will show how resellers and integrators can use the USS software to easily construct a cost-effective, high performance iSCSI target.

“PCIe flash-based solutions have proven to provide a dramatic performance boost for enterprise systems—evident by the demonstration Chelsio is showcasing at SNW,” said Kevin Kilbuck, director of marketing for Micron’s NAND Solutions Group. “Micron’s customers choose our P320h PCIe SSD not just for best-in-class performance, but because they know it is designed to perform reliably in demanding enterprise environments.”

“The combination of Chelsio USS software and offload silicon technology and SSDs shatters the expectations of what a customer would have to pay for a million IOPS storage solution,” said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio.  “USS software uniquely takes advantage of all the offload features of Chelsio’s Terminator architecture to enable a new level of price/performance.”

The feature-rich USS software supports CIFS, NFS, RDMA, HTTP, Thin Provisioning volumes, Volume cloning, snapshots, instant restore from snapshots, volume encryption and replication compression.  For more information on this Chelsio software, visit the Chelsio USS Software product webpage.

About Chelsio Communications, Inc.

 Chelsio is a leading technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments.  Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions focused on specialized applications.  Visit the company at www.chelsio.com.

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SUNNYVALE, CA – March 6, 2012 – Chelsio Communications, a leading provider of 10Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters, ASICs and Unified Storage solutions, today announced that its Unified Wire adapters have successfully completed the NetApp validated Ethernet Advantage program,  with  Chelsio’s Unified Wire adapters and  NetApp^® FAS and V-Series Enterprise Storage Systems for iSCSI data traffic.

The NetApp Ethernet Advantage program is designed to create a trusted ecosystem to accelerate iSCSI deployment by offering customers fully tested configurations supported by best-in-class vendors.  The program incorporates automated testing and best practices that are used to qualify iSCSI solutions.  Configurations listed in the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT) enable customers and partners to verify end-to-end solutions and to design the most robust FCoE, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI solutions.

Five Chelsio adapters (S320E-CR, S320E-LP-CR, S302E, S320EM-BCH, S320EM-BS) have been certified by NetApp for both Windows and Linux operating systems.  The certification also includes iSCSI SAN boot for Windows.   The certified drivers are available from the Chelsio website: NetApp Download Center.

“The certification of Chelsio Unified Wire adapters by NetApp is an important validation milestone; especially for our customers, who are looking to contain cost and complexity, while increasing performance of their storage networks,” said Bob Dugan, director of engineering at Chelsio.   “Performance, flexibility and reduced cost of ownership are important criteria for today’s storage networks, and the Chelsio Unified Wire Adapter is engineered to meet the requirements of the most demanding environments.”

 About Chelsio Communications, Inc.

 Chelsio is a leading technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments.  Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions focused on specialized applications.  Visit the company at www.chelsio.com.

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SUNNYVALE, CA – March 2, 2012 – Chelsio Communications, a leading provider of 10Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters, ASICs and Unified Storage solutions, today announced the availability of Network Direct (ND) Driver for Windows Server 2008 R2 on the Chelsio T4 Unified Wire adapters.   The Chelsio T4 Unified Wire adapters are the only Internet Wide Area RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) Protocol (iWARP) cards in the industry that are fully tested and certified for ND on Windows Server 2008.  This Microsoft certification enables Chelsio T4 adapters to be the preferred high performance, cost-effective iWARP Ethernet RDMA solution for all Windows high performance computing (HPC) applications.

The Chelsio ND driver is Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL)-certified by Microsoft as an iWARP Ethernet RDMA solution for HPC clusters running Windows 2008 R2.  In addition, Chelsio’s ND driver and T4 Unified Wire Adapters have been fully qualified by IBM as part of the HPC solution for the IBM^® Intelligent Cluster products (IBM’s fully integrated, factory-built and tested high performance cluster products).

“Exxact servers utilize Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 8 Operating Systems to provide optimized throughput for datacenter applications,” says Jason Chen, VP of Exxact Corporation.  “By leveraging Chelsio network cards we can further improve networking optimizations and capabilities that increase I/O efficiency and decrease I/O latency through Microsoft Network Direct.”

The ND driver for T4 Unified Wire adapters is available for free from the Chelsio Download Center.

 About Chelsio Communications, Inc.

 Chelsio is a leading technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments.  Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions focused on specialized applications.  Visit the company at www.chelsio.com.

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The B420-SR is a dual port 10Gb Ethernet card with PCI Express 2.0 host bus interface and the B404-BT is a quad port 1Gb Ethernet adapter with PCI Express 2.0 interface.   The key architectural advantage of these bypass adapters is the ability to fully offload key functions such as TCP/IP, traffic management, packet analysis and filtering onto the T4 ASIC, thus relieving the CPU of network traffic and deriving a higher level of performance.  The T4 ASIC-based Unified Wire Ethernet cards also perform inline wire-speed sniffing, tracing and time-stamping.

“We forecast sizeable growth in the number of 10Gb Ethernet deployments over the next year, in part driven by WAN optimization, load balancing and business continuity applications,” said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research.  “Bypass adapters with strong offload capabilities should find significant success in higher-layer network appliances and network edge servers.”

To help maintain business continuity in the event of a failure, the bypass adapters provide for the network traffic to flow out of the alternate port on the adapter, bypassing the problem server appliance and maintaining the traffic flow.  In addition to maintaining business continuity, the integrated switch and built-in traffic management capabilities on the T4 ASIC can classify flows, redirect and reject traffic without host intervention such that the host listens on desired flows only.  This selective bypass can be enabled on a per packet basis at line rate.  The T4 ASIC also offloads TCP traffic completely from the CPU, enabling CPU resources to be used for application processing rather than network protocol overhead processing, resulting in significantly higher performance of the entire system.

The new B420-SR and B404-BT Bypass Adapters are available now from Chelsio and its network of distributors and resellers worldwide, along with a full suite of protocol software and drivers.

About Chelsio Communications, Inc.
Chelsio is a leading technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments.  Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software, high performance storage gateways, unified management software, bypass cards, and other solutions focused on specialized applications.  Visit the company at www.chelsio.com.

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SUNNYVALE, CA – Jan. 24, 2012 – Chelsio Communications, a leading provider of 10Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters, ASICs and Unified Storage solutions, today announced the availability of  Unified Manager (UM) 2.0, software that centrally manages all Chelsio network adapter cards, Unified Storage Router (USR) appliances, and Unified Storage Server (USS) software across Linux, Mac, Solaris, VMWare, and Windows environments.

In addition to supporting Chelsio T4 Unified Wire adapters and the USR and USS solutions, UM 2.0 greatly simplifies operations by allowing driver installation and maintenance across multiple nodes and also enabling customers to manage their Chelsio Unified Wire adapters via mobile devices such as iPADs, Kindle Fire, Android, Blackberries and iPhones, etc.  UM 2.0 also extends OS support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Mac OS, Oracle Solaris 10, VMWare and Windows.

UM 2.0 further reduces operational costs with new built-in tools and guides.  With its intuitive, easy to navigate user interface, the Unified Manager software enables users to manage all their Chelsio Unified Wire adapters, USR appliances and USS in one window, from anywhere, centralizing the management of networking and storage (SAN or NAS) environments.   Among the new feature enhancements added into UM 2.0 are remote bulk driver installation, boot management, network discovery, automatic alerts, event notification, FCoE support, statistics gathering, managing access controls, and bandwidth management of flows.  While it minimizes operational costs through centralized control, UM 2.0 easily scales to support small and large deployments.

“The Unified Manager software has proved to be a very successful administrative tool for our Chelsio customers, enabling them to minimize their operational costs with centralized control,” said Gautam Shah, president of Colfax International (Sunnyvale, CA).  “UM 2.0 has a lot of added flexibility, bringing a host of new features for a wide range of operating systems and including new mobility capabilities that our customers should find extremely useful.”

Free 30-Day Trial

UM 2.0 is available today from Chelsio and distributors.   Chelsio is currently offering a free 30-day trial.  This license supports 10 Chelsio Unified Wire Adapters along with 10 USR appliances.  To learn more about UM 2.0, visit Unified Manager 2.0.

About Chelsio

Chelsio is a leading technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments.  Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, Unified Storage Server software, high performance storage gateways, Unified Manager software, bypass cards, and other solutions focused on specialized applications.  Visit the company at www.chelsio.com.

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