Newisys
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Newisys, a Server and Storage company with expertise in glue-chips for Opteron
s, based in Austin, Texas, was co-founded by Claymon A Cipione (who was later AMD CIO from 2005-2008) and Phil Hester
(who later was AMD's CTO
from 2005 till 2008) in 2000, and was acquired in 2004 by manufacturer Sanmina-SCI
. In 2006, the company acquired the "bloc" product division of Adaptec
(essentially the products that weren't Snap or HBAs), expanding the storage offering to rack-mount JBOD and RAID systems.
In May 2007, the Server portion of the company was shut down, leaving Storage as the main focus.
Opteron
Opteron is AMD's x86 server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor which supported the AMD64 instruction set architecture . It was released on April 22, 2003 with the SledgeHammer core and was intended to compete in the server and workstation markets, particularly in the same...
s, based in Austin, Texas, was co-founded by Claymon A Cipione (who was later AMD CIO from 2005-2008) and Phil Hester
Phillip Doyce Hester
Phillip Doyce Hester is the senior Vice President of R&D at National Instruments.Earlier, he had worked as the CTO and Senior Vice President of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc....
(who later was AMD's CTO
Chief technical officer
A chief technology officer is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupant is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization....
from 2005 till 2008) in 2000, and was acquired in 2004 by manufacturer Sanmina-SCI
Sanmina-SCI Corporation
Sanmina-SCI Corporation is a global electronics manufacturing services provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in technology-related industries such as communications and computer hardware. Sanmina-SCI has nearly 80 manufacturing sites...
. In 2006, the company acquired the "bloc" product division of Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec is a computer hardware brand owned by PMC-Sierra that is used on some of its host adapters for connecting storage devices to computers. The production line of Adaptec is in Indonesia. Products are made to interface with SCSI, Serial ATA, and Serial attached SCSI. Some of its host adapters...
(essentially the products that weren't Snap or HBAs), expanding the storage offering to rack-mount JBOD and RAID systems.
In May 2007, the Server portion of the company was shut down, leaving Storage as the main focus.
Products
- The Horus chip for creating large Opteron systems.
- The Newisys SA2120 SAS (Serial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
) JBOD is a high-density SAS host to SAS/SATASataSata is a traditional dish from the Malaysian state of Terengganu, consisting of spiced fish meat wrapped in banana leaves and cooked on a grill.It is a type of Malaysian fish cake, or otak-otak...
disk direct attached primary or near-line storage solution. Based on the SCSISCSISmall Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...
extended command set and serial interface, the Newisys SA2120 delivers up to 6.0 TB of incremental storage capacity at transfer rates up to 4800MB/second aggregate bandwidth. Dual controllers allow two separate hosts to connect to independent RAID sets, each with an independent 2400MB/second bandwidth or 4800MB/second aggregate bandwidth in a dual I/O module configuration. - The Newisys SC4100 SCSI JBOD is a proven, high-density SCSI host to SCSI disk direct attached primary storage solution. Based on the Ultra320 SCSI technology, the Newisys SC4100 delivers up to 3.6 TB of incremental storage capacity at transfer rates up to 640MB/s aggregate bandwidth. Dual controllers allow two separate hosts to connect to independent RAIDRAIDRAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...
sets within the same enclosure, each with an independent 320MB/s bandwidth or 640MB/s aggregate bandwidth in split bus mode. - The Newisys NA-1400 Network-Attached Storage Appliance incorporates a RAID system featuring four hot-swap SATA drives. It features dual gigabit interface and two USB ports. The device connects to networked personal computers and other electronic home media devices, providing up to three terabytes of external storage in "A package the size of a toaster," the company said.