ATTO announced the XstreamCore FC 7500 storage controller, a 1RU plug-and-play device supporting dual 16Gb Gen 5 fibre-channel and quad 12 Gb SAS (serial-attached storage) connections for low-latency direct-connect storage. It's meant to add open features to high-performance flash-based storage systems. 

The company said its new XstreamCore technology includes parallel data-acceleration engines that reduce latency below the four-microsecond mark. The eCore Control Engine interfaces with open storage services and integrates with standard APIs to handle various control functions. And the XstreamView System Manager is said to be a "single-pane-of-glass" solution for managing up to 960 off-the-shelf flash storage devices.

The new controller will allow direct-attached storage to be shared with throughput of up to 12 GB/sec or 3,000,000 4K IOPS in a dual-controller configuration, ATTO said. The idea is to let customers build highly capable storage systems that function like a 16Gb fibre-channel SAN using off-the-shelf SAS RAID, JBOD or JBOF enclosures, the company said.

"XstreamCore Storage Controllers are unique plug-and-play devices that enable storage architectes to build highly scalable, shared-storage solutions that take advantage of commodity flash and capacity storage," said product manager James U'Ren in a prepared statement. "XstreamCore is an open technology that provides common services and features for storage that increase overall solution performance with end-to-end latency of less than four microseconds."

The FC 7500 sells for $9,996 without storage, and the FC 7550 dual-controller is $19,992.

ATTO said it is demonstrating the XstreamCore FC 7500 at the Flash Memory Summit coming up August 9–11 in Santa Clara, CA and at VMWorld, being held August 28–September 1 in Las Vegas.