Storage processor startup Trebia Networks Inc. is claiming that its SNP-1000 chip is not only the fastest on the planet when it comes to Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), but that it also now holds a new world record for SCSI over IP (iSCSI). But there's still a question of whether the company can stick around long enough to capitalize on its supposedly blazingly-fast technology (see Trebia Sets iSCSI Record).
Since last month, when Trebia announced that its silicon had topped 300,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) on an FCIP test, the startup has added firmware to the product allowing it to reach nearly the same performance for iSCSI (see Is Trebia Up for Sale?). The company claims that its in-house iSCSI test results show 245,000 IOPS across two ports and 452-Mbyte/s throughput -- a new industry benchmark for performance.
"Having leading performance and having dual-port capability definitely gives us an advantage... so we can win in the iSCSI market place," says Trebia director of marketing George Harper.
If Trebias numbers check out, they far surpass the 92,000 IOPS performance announced by competitor Silverback Systems Inc. in March (see Silverback Makes iSCSI Howl).
But Silverback officials insist that the results are not comparable, since Trebia's test did not go across a PCI backplane to convert memory. "They just converted from Fibre Channel to iSCSI," says Mike Strickland, director of marketing at Silverback. "They never went to a host... At the end of the day, data originates somewhere and terminates somewhere."
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