With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, the sheer volume of data storage requirements from a variety of smart networking devices and cloud services poses a daunting challenge for data center operators - apart from having to meet customer requirements for data storage reliability, security, The demand for access speed also has to account for the energy efficiency and resiliency of storage technologies to reduce operating costs.
To meet these needs, Microsemi introduced the new Smart Storage family of solutions designed specifically for data center SAS / SATA server storage applications designed for HBA and RAID, including Adaptec HBA 1100 Series, SmartHBA 2100 and SmartRAID 3100 series using the company's 28nm SmartIOC 2100m and SmartROC 3100 memory controller ICs for software defined storage (SDS), cold storage architectures and a broad range of hybrid legacy hard disk drives (HDDs ) Enterprise servers with solid state drives (SSDs).
According to Mark Orthodoxu, director of product management and strategy at Microsemi's Scalable Storage Group, according to market research firm IDC, public cloud / private cloud data centers continue to expand in size to drive continued growth in global server shipments and are expected to surpass 2021 by 2021 In server storage solutions, SAS / SATA drives and SSDs are expected to occupy more than 80% of the global enterprise storage market in the next five years. Microsemi's intelligent storage platform is designed to support the mainstream market SAS / SATA hard disk drive / solid state disk server storage and the birth of the latest adapter board supports 12Gbps speed, saving 40% of the previous generation of power consumption.
Among the three new products, the HBA 1100 is optimized for SDS, cold storage and native high-performance connectivity applications. The SmartHBA 2100 is optimized for SDS applications that require OS bootable disk drive hardware RAID and entry-level RAID for SMBs, The SmartRAID 3100 is built to withstand harsh environment applications such as enterprise storage that requires the highest level of data availability and a cache-centric data center; all three of these solutions offer 24 half-length half-height ports with multiple connections Port configuration. And Microsemi also supports the enhanced version of ZMCP (Zero Maintenance Cache Protection) power protection, using its own research and development of a new generation of super-capacitor, smaller size, can be integrated in the half-height board.
In conjunction with Microsemi's Smart Storage stack, SmartComm's integrated Smart Storage stack software platform provides a complete solution for storage management and connectivity. Orthodoxu notes that the servers used in many of the world's largest data centers are powered by Taiwan Vendor supply, Taiwan factory's expertise is tailored to meet the different needs of customers, and Microsemi also works closely with Taiwanese server OEM / ODM suppliers to provide flexible support for diversified storage product selection and deployment flexibility .