InfiniBand Trade Association ratifies iSER (iSCSI RDMA) storage protocol for InfiniBand.(STANDARDS)

The InfiniBand Trade Association announced that it has released a new annex to the specification providing support for iSER over InfiniBand. The iSER annex extends InfiniBand's support for high-performance storage. At 10-20Gbps bitrates, InfiniBand's performance is now more than triple that of Fibre Channel, at only half the cost. Subsequently, InfiniBand has six times the price performance advantage of Fibre Channel.

iSER is a new IETF standard extension to iSCSI that includes support for RDMA-enabled networks such as InfiniBand; the new annex closes the loop by mapping the iSER extensions onto InfiniBand. The combination of iSER and InfiniBand's unsurpassed …