ATTO Technology is a manufacturer of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments. ATTO manufactures host adapters, RAID adapters, interface bridges, RAID storage controllers, and acceleration software with storage interface connectivity to SCSI, SATA, SAS, Fibre Channel and iSCSI.
History
The company was founded in 1988 by Timothy J. Klein and David A. Snell and is headquartered in Amherst, New York. All of ATTO's products are engineered and manufactured in the United States and ATTO has delivered more than an estimated 1.5 million products to the market in a broad range of storage applications and environments.
Areas of operation
ATTO products are sold worldwide directly to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and systems integrators as well as through ATTO authorized distributors and resellers. ATTO OEM customers encompass a wide range of technology companies including Apple Computer, EMC – Data General, Eastman Kodak, Quantum, SUN Microsystems, Avid Technology, Overland Storage, NEC, ADIC, Unisys and many more.
Some of the countries where ATTOs products are available include: United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin & South America, Australia, New Zealand, China, Korea, South West Asia (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), Taiwan, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Japan.
Products
Products include: Acceleration Software, RAID Adapters, and Host Adapters (4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel, 10GbE FCoE, Ultra320 SCSI, 3Gb and 6Gb SAS, 3Gb SATA and 1GbE and 10GbE iSCSI), sometimes called Storage Adapters or Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).
Other products include: RAID Storage Controllers—self-contained hardware that add RAID protection for stored data to SAS, SATA or Fibre Channel JBOD Storage Enclosures. RAID storage controllers also provide a single point of management for shared (networked) storage. RAID controllers are ideal for high-bandwidth applications such as video and IT environments.
Protocol conversion products, called Bridges, convert one protocol to another, for example: iSCSI to SAS/SATA, Fibre Channel to iSCSI, Fibre Channel to SCSI or Fibre Channel to SAS/SATA.
Applications
- Storage-intensive applications such as database management, online transaction processing (OLTP), email, Internet serving and document management solutions.
- Streaming media applications such as digital video (NLE), digital audio, film, broadcast and video-on-demand solutions.
- Image-intensive applications such as mapping, pre-press, publishing, printing, CAD/CAM, medical and document imaging.
- Server environments for direct attach and/or network attached storage such as SAN and NAS with disk, tape, optical, CD or other storage media.
- Enterprise backup environments such as tape library connectivity, disk-based backup and serverless backup solutions.
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