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Article: Optimizing network storage processing performance: programmable multi-processors and high-speed I/O enable new levels of flexibility and performance for network storage systems.(Storage Networking)
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- Computer Technology Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Storage system architects today face a dilemma. Overall data proliferation coupled with rapid emergence of new technologies such as IP storage and storage virtualization have created the need for faster, higher performance storage network solutions. Today's Storage Area Networks (Fibre Channel-based, iSCSI, or FCIP), and Network Attached Storage (NAS) system designs, often do not deliver enough performance, flexibility, or scalability to keep pace with growing demands for capacity and throughput.
To address next generation storage processing requirements, a new category of powerful, programmable multi-processors with high levels of I/O and memory bandwidth is ...