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Thursday 12 June 2014
Sole Provider of USB3.0 4K Ultra HD Docking solutions, Good Way Technology highlights the cutting edge of display technology in Computex
Good Way Technology, a global leading USB peripherals and Docking solution provider, has announced the USB3.0 4K Ultra HD Docking station at COMPUTEX Taipei 2014, which shows its cutting edge of 4K display technology development.More and more 4K ultra-high resolution displays are in the markets. They are more affordable with features offering an amazing picture for work or even entertainment. Good Way Technology's USB3.0 4K Ultra HD Docking station is one of the major launch products this year in COMPUTEX, which is enabling DisplayPort display technology and 4K video over USB3.0 interface for Notebooks and other Desktop PCs. This result is great news for an industry on the cusp of widespread adoption of 4K video technologies. Good Way Technology is targeting the mass market with the desktop-friendly design of USB3.0 Docking station, which allowing user to display 4K resolution even through popular HDMI ports.This docking station is built-in USB 3.0 ports which could enable the Super Speed data transfer between USB peripherals and provide full backwards compatibility with older USB specifications. Also, Supporting BC1.2 charging port design is fitting the flexible demands on charging various mobile devices.The Docking station equipped with three USB3.0 downstream ports, one DisplayPort and one HDMI port and both with resolution up to 3840x2160, one DVI-I port with resolution up to 2048x1152, one stereo audio out, one mic in port and one Gigabyte Ethernet port. To meet the demands for handling massive files in 4K video production to proper displaying with different sized ultra-high resolution displays, Good Way Technology's solution is well tested and performed with Windows 8.1 DPI scaling enhancements to massively improve user experience.USB3.0 4K Ultra HD Docking Features• Support 4K UHD displays with DPI optimized capability • Backup of video display with resolution up to 2048x1152 through DVI-I ports• Support 4K UHD displays for HDMI or DisplayPort with resolution up to 3840x2160• Coexist with USB Battery Charging 1.2 specificationFor more information, please visit: www.goodway.com.tw.
Tuesday 10 June 2014
Maxim Integrated Li-ion battery monitor featured in Nissan Pathfinder
Maxim Integrated announced that its lithium-ion (Li+) battery monitor is being used by Nissan for the Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid, a sport utility vehicle for the North America market. The Li+ battery system for the Nissan Pathfinder Hybrid is supplied by Hitachi Automotive Systems. Hitachi Vehicle Energy developed the system and incorporated Maxim's IC.Maxim's Li+ battery monitor provides self-diagnostics and robust daisy-chained data communications that easily handles the high-voltage requirements of the automotive industry. Maxim's highly integrated solution enables a smaller, lighter weight, and high-performance Li+ battery system in the hybrid. Using Hitachi's battery system with Maxim's Li+ battery monitor IC, the Pathfinder Hybrid achieves greater driving range than competitive systems and improves the overall safety of the battery system."Maxim's battery cell-monitoring IC was integral to achieving the highly reliable, smaller, lighter, and high-power Li+ battery system required for the newest hybrid car," said Mr. Koji Masui, Department Manager, Lithium Ion Battery Development Dept., Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd."The automotive market is a major focus for Maxim, and I am pleased that Nissan selected our cell-monitoring IC for its Pathfinder Hybrid," said Kent Robinett, Managing Director, Automotive Marketing for Maxim Integrated. "Maxim is advancing into a next-generation EV/HEV powertrain system, and we will continue to develop highly integrated products for this important market."Maxim, a leader in analog innovation and integration, is unique among semiconductor companies in its ability to integrate extensive and different analog functions on a single chip. Maxim's highly integrated solutions help customers produce smaller systems with greater energy efficiency.
Friday 6 June 2014
New Vivitek D755WTIR interactive ultra-short throw projector
The Delta Group today announced the release of the new education-focused Vivitek D755WTIR ultra-short throw interactive projector at Computex Taipei 2014. Ideal for small and space limiting environments with big presentation requirements, the compact D755WTIR can be easily installed in a space-limited classroom without compromising performance or user experience. With the optional finger touch interactive kit installed, the D755WTIR is turned into the ultimate and fun classroom study device to stimulate instruction and learning. The Vivitek D755WTIR combines a native WXGA projection with ultra short-throw technology and interactive whiteboard (IWB) functionality. The D755WTIR allow users to project larger images from shorter distances. From a distance of about 44.5cm (17.5") from the projection surface, this ultra-short throw projector can display a large 100-inch (diagonal) picture. The D755WTIR offers full IWB functionality with standard pen support and finger touch interactivity with the optional finger touch kit installed. With the finger kit installed, this enables a user(s) to just use their finger(s) to write or interact in a natural, intuitive and fun way. This interactivity allows for two way communications for simultaneous use between a teacher and student, and collaborative learning. The Vivitek D755WTIR features a brightness of 3300 lumens, a contrast of 5,000:1 and Texas Instrument's DLP BrilliantColor technology, ensuring stunning image quality. It can be easily integrated into a school's network, with the IT administration benefitting from the machine's system administration capability via RJ45. As is usual with Vivitek projectors, the D755WTIR feature multiple display connectivity ports, including HDMI, VGA-In, Composite, Video Out, and more. At 5kg (11lbs), the D755WTIR is compact in size and quiet in use at about 29dB (in ECO mode). It also has a convenient top-loading, sliding cover for quick and easy lamp replacement. Designed to be filter- and dust-free, the D755WTIR enables cool and efficient operation, which eliminates the need to replace or discard filters. This fabrication keeps the projectors running at top energy efficient levels. Vivitek D755WTIR Source: Company
Friday 6 June 2014
WD demonstrates its first PCIe hard drive, leading the way in breaking SATA's 6Gb/s barrier
At Computex Taipei 2014, WD, a Western Digital company, is demonstrating its first hard drive with PCI Express (PCIe) support. Technological cooperation with its partners has resulted in the creation of a storage product prototype that uses the SATA Express interface, allowing computers to easily exceed previous performance limits.With cloud computing and big data technologies advancing and telecoms gearing up for 4G LTE services, terminal data output rates have been increasing. Therefore, it can be anticipated that in tomorrow's digital world, data will be generated faster and users will be more demanding in terms of real-time data transmission. Although front-end access speeds have continued to improve, transmission speeds of the mainstream terminal storage interface SATA has been limited at 550MB/s. If this bottleneck could not be overcome, current and future high-speed applications would continue to be restricted.The SATA-IO organization spent three years developing the SATA Express specifications, which was announced and introduced in 2013, with a goal to create an environment where PCIe and SATA would co-exist, and the relatively superior bandwidth capabilities of PCIe could be used to enhance the read/write speeds of SATA storage devices. One year after the SATA Express specifications were unveiled, WD and its technology partners have built a corresponding prototype storage product to allow computer manufacturers to adopt SATA Express into their motherboards running on the Intel 9 series chipsets.WD's Senior Director of Platform Engineering Kevin Peterson has showcased the world's first-ever hard drive with PCIe support at Computex 2014.According to Kevin Peterson, in the future, the speed of global data creation is likely to dramatically increase, especially with IoT applications becoming more widespread, which will likely result in a steep growth. This will come as a strong contrast to the relatively flat growth of storage devices. This demand gap between the two sectors will create endless opportunities for hardware equipment vendors. However, whether or not they will be able to seize this business opportunity will depend on whether or not there is a high-speed interface available for speeding up data processing rates. It is clear that the SATA 6G specifications alone cannot meet user expectations.With SATA Express, vendors can use a new type of connector to simultaneously route both PCIe and SATA interface signals, thereby integrating the world's most popular computer bus with the world's most popular storage bus. This innovative combination allows users to use a single bus for SSDs, SSHDs, or HDDs. It also allows SATA's transmission speed to exceed the 550MB/s limit, further advancing toward the second-generation PCIe x2 interface's 900MB/s, or even the third-generation PCIe x2 interface's 1,800MB/s. Many of the storage applications that have been available in recent years have been developed around standard SATA technology, which is why SATA Express is an extremely meaningful development for users. SATA Express has the ability to provide a path for significant improvements to the existing applications environment.SATA Express features the SRIS (Separate RefClock with Independent SSC) technology that allows the removal of the PCIe Sync line. This means that PCIe components that support SRIS will automatically produce their own clock signals, without the main system and device having to jointly send reference clock signals, thereby achieving the benefits of SSC. This way, computer manufacturers can maintain synchronization between the main system and devices simply by using a general PCIe connection, thereby reducing overall connection costs.Kevin Peterson stressed that WD is at the forefront of SATA-based technologies, and clearly sees a future market where SATA Express will be the mainstream. This is why it is showcasing its SATA Express prototype at Computex 2014. This brand-new platform is built around a SATA Express core architecture in a dual hard drive environment consisting of a 128GB SSD and 4TB HDD. It also uses a standard AHCI driver, providing compatibility with existing user-end operating systems.Extensive tests have shown that the read/write speeds provided by this architecture are consistently maintained at 680-700MB/s, clearly exceeding the performance of traditional SATA technologies.However, there is clearly still room for taking the performance beyond 700MB/s to approach the 900MB/s limit of the second-generation PCIe x2 interface. Therefore, WD hopes that motherboard manufacturers will continue to work on it to boost performance to almost 900MB/s by using SSDs and HDDs with even better specifications, as well as optimizing the designs of their architectures. Furthermore, WD is looking to extend its partnerships from the PC motherboard sector to the server or even testing equipment sector, creating a diverse environment for the development of ubiquitous end-to-end high-speed storage applications.Kevin Peterson, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at WD
Friday 6 June 2014
Mediatek adopts SpyGlass DFT solution
Atrenta Inc., the leading provider of SoC Realization solutions for the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries, announced that MediaTek has adopted Atrenta's SpyGlass DFT (Design for Test) tool suite to enhance its semiconductor design and verification flow. This addition has helped the team achieve stringent test coverage goals while meeting their challenging schedules."At Mediatek, we are committed to very high test coverage to ensure the highest possible quality products," said Andrew Chang, Corporate Vice President at MediaTek. "By adding SpyGlass DFT to our workflow, we have seen increases in our test coverage while finding problems very early in our flow. This has allowed us to meet our test quality goals, aggressive schedules and customer demands."Previous workflows waited until after implementation to look at testability of the design. This caused an increase in time and difficulty, to find and fix the many types of problems that can occur, often back in the RTL (Register Transfer Level) description. Atrenta allows the designers to determine and address testability issues upfront, in the RTL, while it is more feasible and cost effective to do so.SpyGlass DFT and SpyGlass DFT DSM tools provide an added boost to the capabilities in Mediatek's advanced design flow. It allows them to improve the testability of their designs at the beginning of the design flow for both stuck-at and transition fault analysis. The tool helps identify design rule violations and reports untestable faults, prior to implementation, allowing the team to make quick design changes while giving them more confidence in their RTL quality and project schedule."Atrenta prides itself in working with great electronics companies around the world, like Mediatek, and helping them find design problems early in the workflow, where it is easier and more cost effective to fix," said Piyush Sancheti, vice president of marketing at Atrenta. "Our DFT technology is a key component of RTL Signoff and our entire SpyGlass platform is dedicated to this effort."
Friday 6 June 2014
Lanner releases 4K-ready digital signage module and appliance
Today sees the release of two products from Lanner: The LEC-7388, an Open Pluggable Standard (OPS) compliant module; and the LEC-7388S, a digital signage industrial PC. Both the LEC-7388 and the LEC-7388S are 4K-ready, offering support for the Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) resolution via their unique hardware configurations.The LEC-7388 and the LEC-7388S are both powered by the Intel Haswell processors and the Intel HD Graphic 4600 GPU. They are designed to deliver performance and reliability for Ultra HD applications such as broadcast content playback, video surveillance and interactive whiteboard.While the LEC-7388S's hardware specifications include native support for 4K content delivery, the LEC-7388 aims to bring such support for other 4K compatible systems without compromising the demand for compact design and hardware performance.The Open Pluggable Standard on which the LEC-7388 is based offers three major benefits:- Speeding up the development and simplifying the deployment of interconnected devices- Drawing up a blueprint for designing compact and streamlined hardware- Future-proofing interoperability, upgradability and scalabilityBoth products support the fourth generation Intel Core i3/i5 CPU, the Intel QM87 chipset and the Intel AMT for remote management. The LEC-7388 offers two USB 3.0 ports and supports hardware-based 4K decoders on external HDMI output port whereas the LEC-7388S offers the same support on both external HDMI output port and DisplayPort. The LEC-7388S also features a swappable 2.5" HDD/SSD drive bay, DDR3L memory (max. 16GB), three USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports and a mini-PCIe slot with SIM card reader.4K-ready OPS-compliant digital signage module powered by the Intel Haswell processors4K-ready digital signage IPC powered by the Intel Haswell processorsIn terms of physical dimensions, the LEC-7388S measures at 220mm x 46mm x 172mm while the LEC-7388's smaller form factor measures at 200mm x 30mm x 118mm.You can contact a Lanner representative at contact@lannerinc.com for more information.About LannerLanner Electronics Inc (TAIEX 6245) is a world-leading provider of design, engineering and manufacturing services for advanced network appliances and rugged applied computing platforms. Founded in 1986, Lanner is an ISO 9001 accredited organization with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, and offices in the USA, Canada and China.Lanner is an associate member of the Intel Intelligent Systems Alliance, a group of companies committed to developing modular, standards-based solutions based on technologies, processors, products, and services from Intel.
Friday 6 June 2014
IPC & Embedded Expo 2014 registration is open now
In August 2014, IPC & Embedded Expo 2014 will be held in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu. As the only large-sized technical exhibition focused on the IPC and embedded fields in China, IPC & Embedded Expo will be working with leading global enterprises - such as Advantech, Artesyn, Congatec, Comstar, EVOC, Jetway, LEXSystem, Norco, Apacer, ADI, Freescale, Fujitsu, Microchip, Renesas, ST, TI, Xilinx and so on - to fully exhibit a variety of embedded technologies including X86, ARM, MIPS, ASIC, FPGA and GPU, etc. as well as their innovative applications in various vertical industries in order to meet the increasingly diversified requirements for specialization in different industries.Registration for the event is open to press and guests seeking the latest intelligence on IPC and embedded tech. During the exhibition, seminars themed on hot topics such as medical electronics, smart home, motor control, smart metering and industrial communication will be held. Senior experts engaged in the fields of automation, network communication, security/monitoring, medical electronics, automotive electronics, digital signage, railway transportation, smarter city, Internet of Things (IoT) will be invited to provide their professional interpretation on how embedded technology can meet diverse specialization requirements for various industries, and lead the industries into an intelligentization revolution.Frank Yuan, CEO of Comstar Technology, commented: "Participating in the IPC & Embedded Expo had positive effects on our brand promotion. We wish the expo would have a larger scale in the future."Wang Xiaohua, Project Manager of Midea Group, commented: "The Internet of Things is the development trend of future products and will have hundreds of billions of industry scale in the future. After participating in the expo, I learned something new, met many new suppliers and got new ideas about the development of our subsequent products. I hope the expo will continue and grow more and more successful."IPC & Embedded Expo 2013 ReviewIPC & Embedded Expo 2013 was held in Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center from August 1 to 3, with total area of 11,000 square meters. The IPC & Embedded Expo 2013 attracted more than 146 exhibitors, about 60 media establishments at home and abroad reported the event, and over 12,000 professionals visited the tradeshow during the three days.Photo: Company
Friday 6 June 2014
GigaFast launches brand new HomePlug AV2 (gigabit-class) MIMO PLC series and introduces a new high definition PLC-based home monitoring system
GigaFast Ethernet, an OEM/ODM manufacturer of HomePlug powerline (PLC) technology equipment, has launched a series of HomePlug AV2 MIMO PLC Ethernet Bridges during Computex. HomePlug PLC technology is an innovative solution that turns the electrical outlets into wired network connections by simply plugging a pair of these bridges into sockets without pulling any extra cables. No extra wires means saving time and money on installation cost and cable material cost. The addition of MIMO technology to PLC utilizes the third ground wire to create multiple paths for data communication, providing an increase in home coverage.The launch of GigaFast's HomePlug AV2 MIMO Ethernet Bridges is a major step forward in the next generation of multimedia networking. GigaFast's HomePlug AV2 MIMO Ethernet Bridges provide better performance, higher quality networking over existing home wiring, and additional coverage compared to their predecessors. At the same time, HomePlug AV2 MIMO Ethernet Bridges are completely interoperable with HomePlug AV, HomePlug Green PHY, and IEEE 1901 certified devices.GigaFast's HomePlug AV2 MIMO Ethernet Bridges is designed to future proof PLC deployment for tomorrow's high demand for reliable and fast network performance needed in next generation digital entertainment and broadband access. GigaFast's HomePlug AV2 Ethernet Bridges provides gigabit-class speed to every electrical outlet, making each outlet ideal for HDTV, IPTV, multi-room HD DVR, online gaming, HD/3D video, HD audio, smart grid utilities management, home monitoring, and other home networking applications demanding ultra-fast network speed. GigaFast's HomePlug AV2 MIMO Ethernet Bridges can also stream multiple HD video and audio programs on the PLC network simultaneously and can be be connected anywhere throughout the home. Currently, GigaFast has 4 Homeplug AV2 Ethernet Bridges. The most notable one is the small AV2 Pass Through Bridge (PS959-EP65), which is the smallest and fastest bridge of its kind with a built-in noise filtering AC socket for another device needing power to be plugged into this socket without taking up another wall socket space. There will be many more GigaFast HomePlug AV2 MIMO devices being launched in the next couple of months.Also showcasing at Computex is GigaFast's HomePlug HD AV Home Monitoring System: IP Camera with Night Vision (PC11). This home monitoring system is extremely easy to setup since this system is sending signal through existing home electrical wires, eliminating pulling long cables throughout the house. Users can monitor their home anytime from anywhere in the world with iOS/Android devices. Unlike most home monitoring systems, this system does not have website configuration or long serial numbers to enter. The entire setup takes only three easy steps: Simply plug in the camera, download the app for either iOS or Android devices, and scan the QR code for pairing. This system has a built-in microSD slot to save recorded videos and the recorded videos can be viewed anywhere with an iOS or Android device without any subscription fee. The camera has infrared night vision for little to no light environment and has email notification for motion detecting. This camera also has 2-way digital audio for listening from and speaking to the surrounding from the mobile device.This camera system can be used as day to day home or small office security surveillance. Another usage for this camera system is for baby safety monitoring. Parents can monitor their baby sleeping inside the crib or monitor the nanny while the parents are away using their mobile devices.GigaFast prides itself in designing and manufacturing the highest quality of HomePlug PLC products and being the first ones out with the newest PLC technology. That also goes the same when it comes to our casing designs. This camera system's casing is the smallest one of its kind on the market and the camera and the camera securing stand designs are unconventional to other home monitoring systems. It has a clean and streamline egg-shape design that is aesthetically pleasing when placed in different areas inside a home. The casing for the camera was inspired by the concept of an egg resting gently inside a nest. The egg nest functions as a camera stand that a securely hold the camera in place with the desired camera angle.For more information on GigaFast PLC products, please visit www.gigafast.com or visit GigaFast's Computex booth at D0309a, Hall 1, 1F.The small AV2 Pass Through Bridge (PS959-EP65) comes with a built-in noise filtering AC socket for another device needing power to be plugged into this socket without taking up another wall socket space.Photo: Company
Friday 6 June 2014
IoT gateway based on Intel Quark SoC released by AAEON in collaboration with Asus Cloud at Computex 2014
In collaboration with Intel and Asus Cloud, AAEON will be revealing the world's first Intel Quark SoC gateway in a live demo at Computex 2014. Named the AIOT-X1000, this platform represents one of the latest technological advances for the Internet of Things (IoT). AAEON is an associate member of the Intel Internet of Things Solutions Alliance.The AAEON AIOT-X1000 is a gateway platform supporting the Intel Quark SoC X1000 series. The processor core at the heart of this system-on-a-chip (SoC) is a 32-bit, single-core, single-thread Intel Pentium instruction set architecture (ISA) compatible CPU operating at speeds up to 400 MHz. The SoC includes support for DDR3, Mini-PCIe, Ethernet, USB device, USB host, SD, UART, I2C, PIO, SPI, JTAG, IDE and WinRiver Linux. The AIOT-X1000 also can support CAN Bus, PAN (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, RFID), LAN (Ethernet, Wi-Fi), and WAN (2G/3G/LTE). Development for the AIOT-X1000 is supported by the Intel Gateway Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) Development Kit DK100 and the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT Production Kit PK100 Series."AAEON's AIOT-X1000 is based on the Intel Gateway Solutions for IoT which is a family of platforms enabling companies to seamlessly interconnect industrial devices into an IoT-ready system over cross-platforms. Designed to connect edge devices to the cloud, the AIOT-X1000 gateway is ideal for manufacturing, transportation and energy applications," said Wayne, CTO of AAEON. "By supporting a variety of connectivity protocols, the AIOT-X1000 is a COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product ready for OEMs and operators.""Asus Cloud platform is capable of big data computing and storage, connecting and compiling numerous signals on various types of smart devices and sensors to have such signals gathered, computed, and analyzed on the platform. This means our platform enables real-time bilateral control of device availability as well as many innovative applications," said Peter Wu, CEO of ASUS Cloud. "It is a great honor for us to work with AAEON and Intel this time, and I believe our Internet of Things cooperation is going to bring in brand new intelligent applications to the manufacture sector."Live demos of the AIOT-X1000 for factory automation will be demonstrated to the public in AAEON's booth (KO315a) and Intel's booth (MO820) at Computex in Taipei from June 3-7, 2014.AAEON AIOT-X1000Photo: CompanyAbout AAEONAAEON is a leading manufacturer of advanced industrial and embedded computing platforms. Committed to innovative engineering, AAEON provides integrated solutions, hardware and services for premier OEM/ODMs and system integrators worldwide. Reliable and high quality computing platforms include industrial motherboards and systems, industrial displays, rugged tablets, PC/104 modules, PICMG half-size and full-size boards and COM modules, embedded SBCs, embedded controllers and related accessories. AAEON also offers customized end-to-end services from initial product conceptualization and product development on through to volume manufacturing and after-sales service programs. www.aaeon.comPress ContactAAEON Technology Inc.Patty WuTEL: +886-2-8919-1234 ext. 1118Email: pattywu@aaeon.com.tw
Friday 6 June 2014
Supermicro announces storage solutions optimized for extreme scale-out object-storage applications
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing announces complete server and storage rack solutions configured with Inktank Ceph. Inktank was acquired by Red Hat in April 2014. Supermicro's 42U rack object-based storage clusters feature end-to-end 10GbE interconnectivity across triple redundant 1U Monitor nodes and compute/capacity balanced 3.5" HDD/SSD storage servers in 2U 12x bay, 4U 36x bay and 4U 72x bay configurations.The complete cluster solution is engineered to handle extreme scale-out storage applications with maximum performance and reliability to meet the most stringent SLAs. Fully populated rack solutions make it easy for cloud providers to rapidly implement and scale with consistent rack-to-rack layouts, simplifying the maintenance and management of multi-petabyte storage deployments."With Internet and cloud expansion generating massive amounts of unstructured data, there is an urgent need for extremely scalable, manageable and cost effective storage solutions that go beyond the scope of today's ordinary storage solutions," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Our enterprise class, energy efficient server, storage and networking architecture with the sophisticated data synchronization and balancing capabilities of Inktank Ceph deliver a truly extraordinary solution that addresses these industry growth challenges. Our Ceph-based 1U 4x 3.5" HDD monitor node and 4U 72x HDD/SSD object-based storage servers combined with high-bandwidth 10GbE network interconnectivity maximize performance while delivering the highest density and practically infinite scalability in our fully integrated 42U rack solutions.""Ceph was developed with the goal to transform deployment, management and maintenance of cloud-scale storage infrastructure," said Ben Cherian, vice president, Strategic Development, at Inktank. "Our open source-based software-defined storage solution is highly scalable and provides world class data protection and performance, all of which can lower the barrier of entry to many organizations in need of hyper dynamic storage pools. Collaborating with Supermicro, we've found an ideal solution partner that can deliver well tuned server and storage platforms that complement our technology and drive to deliver cost-effective high performance storage solutions to mass markets."Supermicro ready-to-deploy object-based storage solutions are configured, tested and delivered in 42U rack clusters featuring end-to-end 10GbE interconnectivity with a 1U performance optimized Monitor node, 2U or 4U high density, high capacity Object Storage Daemon (OSD) nodes, a 10GbE top-of-rack network switch and out-of-band server management utilities.Supermicro Announces Storage Solutions Optimized for Extreme Scale-Out Object-Storage ApplicationsPhoto: CompanySupermicro Clusters and Components- 42U SuperRack Cabinet (SRK-42SE-02) * 42U-320TB (SRS-42E112-CEPH-01) - Integrated Ceph Rack, 3x Mon, 8x 2U OSD, Networking & PDU * 42U-1.08PB (SRS-42E136-CEPH-01) - Integrated Ceph Rack, 3x Mon, 9x 4U OSD, Networking & PDU * 42U-2.16PB (SRS-42E172-CEPH-01) - Integrated Ceph Rack, 3x Mon, 9x 4U OSD, Networking & PDU- Monitor Node (SYS-6017R-MON1) - Single Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 Processor, 128GB memory, 4x 3.5" hot-swappable 400GB HDDs, dual-port 10G (SFP+)- 2U 12x HDD/SSD Bay OSD Node (SSG-6027R-OSD040H) - Dual Intel E5-2630 v2 (6-core) Processors, 128GB memory, 2X 400GB SSD, 10x 4TB HDDs, rear 2.5" mirrored 40GB hot-swap OS SSDs, dual-port 10G (SFP+)- 4U 36x HDD/SSD Bay OSD Node (SSG-6047R-OSD120H) - Dual Intel E5-2630 v2 (6-core) Processors, 128GB memory, 6X 400GB SSD, 30x 4TB HDDs, rear 2.5" mirrored 40GB hot-swap OS SSDs, quad-port 10G (SFP+)- 4U 72x HDD/SSD Bay OSD Node (SSG-6047R-OSD240H) - Dual Intel E5-2670 v2 (10-core) Processors, 256GB memory, 12X 400GB SSD, 60x 4TB HDDs, rear 2.5" mirrored 40GB hot-swap OS SSDs, quad-port 10G (SFP+)- 1U Layer 2/3, 1/10GbE Ethernet Switches - 24x (RJ45) 1GbE ports, 4x (CX4, XFP, or SFP+) 10GbE ports (SSE-G24-TG4); 24x (SFP+) 10GbE ports (SSE-X24S / SSE-X3348S(R)- Supermicro Server Management Software Utilities (www.supermicro.com/SMS)- Supermicro Onsite Service and Support (www.supermicro.com/OSS)For more information about Supermicro's Ceph-based Scale-out Storage Solutions, visit www.supermicro.com/Storage_Ceph.