Neterion, Inc., a provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters for server and storage environments, has announced the broad availability of Xframe by tier 1 storage OEMs. Vendors have launched the 10 Gigabit Ethernet option for their product lines over the last 6 months, and shipments have been ramping up since then, demonstrating high end-user interest in this technology.

Storage platforms that have adopted the Xframe 10 GbE option are multiplying, as shown by recent industry announcements, reinforcing the value-proposition of IP storage. 10 Gigabit Ethernet SANs can be used as a replacement or a complement to Fibre Channel installations.

Storage products equipped with Xframe provide integrated NAS and iSCSI functionalities to deliver high performance, availability and scalability - as well as advanced management functionality and virtual file-system technology.

Neterion's Xframe completed rigorous storage OEMs qualification testing that included hundreds of hours of technical tests designed for the most demanding business-critical applications. Other leading factors considered by OEMs to select Neterion were Xframe's superior product features and performance, best-in-class quality and operational excellence, high-volume manufacturing capabilities and a solid financial position.

By deploying IP SANs at 10 GbE speeds, storage clients can build a flexible, scalable storage platform and move data at high speeds to locations throughout the world - in effect, creating a global SAN.

Data center management will also benefit from Neterion's industry-leading Hyperframe I/O virtualization (IOV) architecture that expands hardware virtualization support to input/output devices; this will allow IT managers to deploy key multi-channel and multi-path features, increasing flexibility, reliability and performance of storage solutions..

10 GbE storage platforms support simplified, web-based management systems along with other storage and data management tools. In addition, customers now have a broad choice of 10 GbE IP SAN options, based on their price/performance and configuration requirements.

For more information, see www.neterion.com/. ENS