The ATTO FibreBridge 7500 allows you to build your own high performance flash, hybrid or capacity storage using standard SAS SSD Flash or HDD drives and direct attached JBOD storage enclosures. Its key function is to add Enterprise Fibre Channel SAN capabilities to SAS storage and enable such applications as shared storage and multi-site stretch clustering. By aggregating up to 240 drives, the FibreBridge 7500 gives users flexibility in architecting their data center with very little added latency— less than four microseconds for a full read/write cycle of data.
With IT managers under pressure to maximize ROI, there's a new openness to flexible system architectures that avoid vendor lock-in. Virtualization, which uses software tools to maximize existing storage hardware resources, was the initial step in this direction. A key aspect of the 7500 is its modular design: It is a standalone device requiring no operating system, drivers or peripherals. Features such as automation, provisioning and compression that typically sit onboard in storage arrays, taking up CPU cycles and bogging down performance, now can reside in the software layer. This allows a storage controller to drop CPU-intensive services and features and be a stand-alone, high powered device that controls mass storage from a single interface with high performance and extremely low latency.
