Converged Network Adapter Cards suit IBM servers.
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Designed for IBM BladeCenter and System x customers, Converged Network Adapter Cards deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet and full protocol offload iSCSI Storage Area Network capabilities on single card. IBM has qualified BEM3I10 High-Speed I/O expansion card for use in IBM BladeCenter servers through IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Program and BEA3X10 stand-up PCIe adapter card for use in IBM System x servers through IBM System x Compatibility program.
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ServerEngines Makes Available 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CNA) Cards for IBM Servers
IBM Qualifies the 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards based on ServerEngines' BladeEngine technology
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 17 /- ServerEngines Corporation, a pioneer in I/O virtualization and converged Ethernet solutions for enterprise computing, announced today the availability of two 10 Gigabit Ethernet Converged Network Adapter (CNA) cards for IBM BladeCenter and System x customers.
ServerEngines will make available to IBM customers the industry's first CNA that delivers standards-based 10 Gigabit (10Gb) Ethernet and full protocol offload SCSI over IP (iSCSI) Storage Area Network (SAN) capabilities on a single card. The combination of ServerEngines CNA cards and IBM servers allows users to benefit from the high bandwidth and low latency of 10Gb Ethernet networks.
"IBM BladeCenter's open architecture allows companies to use it as a building block to create new products like ServerEngines' CNA cards. This reduces system design costs for third parties and lowers costs for customers while creating a broad ecosystem of products for the BladeCenter platform," said Alex Yost, vice president, IBM BladeCenter. "By collaborating with ServerEngines, IBM is providing our customers with new choices in the rapidly growing 10Gb solutions space."
"We are very excited to be working with IBM, the world leader in providing innovative and affordable bladed infrastructure solutions to datacenters around the world," said Raju Vegesna, CEO, ServerEngines. "The ServerEngines 10Gb CNA with full iSCSI offload is ideal for supporting environments that require scalability, shared IP storage and reliable uptimes needed to meet the demands of business critical applications."
IBM has qualified both the ServerEngines BEM3I10 High-Speed I/O expansion card for use in IBM BladeCenter servers through the IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Program and the BEA3X10 stand-up PCIe adapter card for use in IBM System x servers through the IBM System x Compatibility program .
In addition, ServerEngines 10Gb CNAs have passed the VMware ESX 3.5 NIC Hardware Compatibility Tests in September 2008 (see VMware HCL), passed all the Microsoft WHQL NIC & iSCSI Initiator certification in June 2008 (see Windows Server Catalog) and passed 10Gb iSCSI interoperability testing at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Labs (UNH-IOL) in October 2007.
ServerEngines is a member of Blade.org, a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the development and adoption of blade server solutions.
The BEM3I10 10 Gb Ethernet & iSCSI I/O mezzanine expansion card and the BEA3X10 PCIe adapter are available now from ServerEngines. For more information, send an email to info@serverengines.com.
About the IBM BladeCenter Interoperability and System x Compatibility Programs
Please see the BladeCenter Interoperability Program web site or the System x Compatibility Program web site for details of testing performed on the BEM3I10 or BEA3X10 CNA cards. IBM makes no guarantee regarding the compatibility of specific products, including those tested under the BladeCenter Interoperability or the System x Compatibility Programs.
For more information on IBM's qualification of these two cards, please visit the IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Program
Website (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/advantages/alliance/interop.html) and the IBM System x Compatibility Program
Website (http://03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/serverproven/inh ouse/sysxcompat/sysxcompatsp1.html)
About ServerEngines Corporation
ServerEngines Corporation is the industry's first manufacturer and supplier of unified 10GbE network & storage controllers and adapters. With the BladeEngine architecture being designed for storage, server, and network virtualization, the company's products leverage Ethernet, iSCSI, and FCoE standards to dramatically lower costs and operational expenses by converging physical and virtual server I/O interconnects into a single, unified fabric. For more information, visit www.serverengines.com.
CONTACT: David Ridgeway of ServerEngines Corporation, +1-408-215-7187, davidr@serverengines.com
Web Site: www.serverengines.com/
