11th Annual Well-Connected Awards: Storage and Servers

Posted by Don MacVittie on May 4, 2005

		• Introduction • Infrastructure • Business Applications   Network and Systems Management • Security • Storage and Servers • Mobile and Wireless • Digital Convergence • N+I Coverage • Best of Interop Finalists

Categories

• iSCSI Host Bus Adapter
• SAN Manager
• Online Backup Service
• Virtual Tape
• Storage Virtualization
• Storage Security
• iSCSI Target
• Server

iSCSI Host Bus Adapter

Winner: SES1001T iSCSI Accelerator. Alacritech, (877) 338-7542, (408) 287-9997. www.alacritech.com

Without a dedicated host bus adapter, your iSCSI SAN is destined to eat up processor power and spend life in the slow lane. The Alacritech SES1001T was the only iSCSI HBA whose capabilities included "teaming"--pooling more than one card with redundant data paths to ensure that a network outage did not automatically set off a server outage. The Alacritech HBA returned double the performance numbers of its nearest competitor in our IOMeter throughput and latency testing. With strong showings in our bidirectional throughput tests and all the features we could ask for, this affordable device was the best iSCSI initiator we tested. (Read the original review)