AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (SC08, Booth 1348)
-- Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions, is
demonstrating for the first time the company's innovative, energy-saving
Intelligent Power Management solution for high-performance storage at SC08
this week in Austin, Texas, in booth #1348. SC08 will showcase how high
performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in
research, education and commerce. Teaming-up with Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies (Hitachi GST) and Super Micro Computer Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), the
live demo showcases up to 40 percent savings in storage energy consumption
using Adaptec Intelligent Power Management in enterprise-class storage
environments, without sacrificing performance.
"While supercomputers push the limits of performance, they also push the
limits of power consumption. The Adaptec Intelligent Power Management
high-performance demo running at SC08 proves that super performance can also
be super 'green,'" said Suresh Panikar, director, Worldwide Marketing,
Adaptec. "Featuring Adaptec's award-winning Series 5 Unified Serial(R) RAID
controllers, Hitachi's Ultrastar A7K1000 and Ultrastar 15K450 enterprise hard
disk drives, and Supermicro's SuperServer 6015C-M3B, this demo provides a real
world example of how any system builder, integrator or IT manager can create a
high-performance computing environment today and still be capable of
minimizing power consumption, resulting in enormous cost and energy savings."
About Adaptec Intelligent Power Management
Offered as standard on all Adaptec Series 5 and Series 2 RAID controllers,
Intelligent Power Management reduces storage power consumption by up to 70
percent without sacrificing performance. Supporting both SATA and SAS drives
through Adaptec Storage Manager(TM) software, it is ideal for applications
with large blocks of idle time, such as such as media ISPs, bulk email,
backup, archive, print and file serving.
Intelligent Power Management can be particularly beneficial in
supercomputing environments where petabytes of data are being generated for
advanced scientific research projects, modeling of financial data, or oil
exploration, for example. In these supercomputing environments, data is not
accessed frequently, eliminating the need for constant full power.
Intelligent Power Management allows drives to be operated in three power
states -- Normal (full power), Standby(1) (low-power), and Power-off (disks
not spinning) -- managed by user preferences. Blackout periods can be set in
which power management features are disabled, allowing users full access to
data -- during daytime business hours, for example.
The Adaptec RAID Series 5 controller family is the first RAID solution
offering up to 28-port connectivity with both internal and external ports to
achieve massive scalability (up to 256 devices for total capacities of up to
250TB) and I/O performance up to 5X faster than competitive products. The
low-profile Series 2 RAID controllers, built on the same Adaptec
industry-leading architecture used in Series 5, provide significant
performance enhancement and scalability to low-cost data storage systems.
For more details on Adaptec's Green Power Initiative please visit
http://www.adaptec.com/greenpower.
About SC08
SC08, sponsored by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and the
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and the IEEE
Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, will showcase
how high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to
advances in research, education and commerce. This premiere international
conference includes technical and education programs, workshops, tutorials, an
exhibit area, demonstrations and hands-on learning. For more information,
please visit http://www.sc08.supercomputing.org/.
About Adaptec
Adaptec provides trusted storage solutions that reliably move, manage, and
protect critical data and digital content. Adaptec's software and
hardware-based solutions are delivered through leading channel partners and
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to provide storage connectivity, data
protection, and networked storage to enterprises, government organizations,
medium and small businesses worldwide. More information is available at
http://www.adaptec.com.
Adaptec is a registered trademark and Unified Serial is a trademark in the
United States and other countries. Other product and company names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Adaptec
disclaims any and all rights in these trademarks.
(1) Must be supported by the disk drive
Contact:
Sara Lee
Walt & Company for Adaptec
408-369-7200 ext. 2980
slee@walt.com
