Exar's new processor chip for enterprise storage applications

Exar has introduced new Hifn 9725 PCI-Express Applied Services Processor (ASP), an advanced data reduction and encryption processor. 9725 ASP can simultaneously perform compression, hash acceleration for deduplication, and encryption to save power.

"The 9725 ASP coupled with its comprehensive software suite enables OEM development of leading-edge storage capacity optimization and data encryption solutions." said Zack Mihalis, senior director, marketing, Exar. The chip's CPU offload capability enables better utilization of valuable CPU resources to improve overall system performance and maximize overall performance per Watt. In today's IT environment, efficient CPU utilization is increasingly important as customers are deploying more virtualization for server consolidation across their data centers."

The 9725 Software Development Kit (SDK) offers a new Unified API to provide better software failover capabilities and end-to-end data protection enabling OEMs to customize the 9725 ASP as per their unique system designs and operating system requirements.

The 9725 ASP's CPU features a throughput of up to 1,800 MB/sec. 9725 ASP is suggested for applications and market segments such as Network Attached Storage (NAS), Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Storage Area Networks (SANs), replication, and backup. The 9725 SDK supports Windows and Linux OS.

For further details visit www.hifn.com/products.aspx?id=5126.

Availability: Now in Samples for OEM customers