LSI 6Gb/s SAS Products Selected by Leading Storage Providers to Enable Next-Generation External Storage Platforms
July 22 2009 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Dot Hill, Infortrend, NEC and Xyratex select LSI 6Gb/s SAS external
storage solutions including controller and expander ICs and
SAS-to-SATA bridge cards Milpitas, Calif., July 22
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today
announced that Dot Hill, Infortrend, NEC and Xyratex have selected
LSI(TM) 6Gb/s SAS solutions to enable their next-generation
external storage platforms. As the SAS market segment leader with
over 13 million SAS ICs shipped worldwide, LSI provides the
industry's only end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS product portfolio for external
storage applications, including SAS controller and expander ICs and
SAS-to-SATA bridge cards. "By offering OEM customers a complete
production-ready family of solutions for external storage
applications, LSI is enabling the growth of SAS interface
technology in external storage," said Steve Fingerhut, senior
director of marketing, Storage Components Group, LSI. "And, because
our 6Gb/s SAS portfolio stands on the shoulders of our proven 3Gb/s
SAS products, we're able to provide OEMs with reduced risk and
offer a time-to-market advantage." LSI offers an 8-port 6Gb/s
SAS+SATA controller designed for blade, entry and mid-range servers
as well as external storage systems; a family of 6Gb/s SAS
expanders (24-, 28- and 36-port) that allow multiple hosts and
targets to connect through a switched device for greater
scalability; and SAS-to-SATA bridge cards which allow existing
2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA drives in enterprise storage
environments to be enhanced with essential enterprise-class
features. The products are shipping in production volumes and are
supported by a full range of turnkey software designed to minimize
OEM integration cost and accelerate time to market. According to
industry estimates, 6Gb/s SAS market adoption will begin with the
release of individual SAS components and devices, and gain momentum
as tier-one OEMs begin production volume shipments of 6Gb/s
SAS-enabled servers and external storage systems. Widespread market
adoption of 6Gb/s SAS-enabled servers is estimated to occur by end
of year, followed by the availability of external storage systems
in early to mid-2010. Since the inception of SAS, LSI has delivered
industry-leading products across its portfolio of controller ICs,
expanders, host bus and MegaRAID adapters, RAID-on-motherboard
solutions and storage systems. By offering best-in-class SAS
technologies, broad interoperability and single-vendor support, LSI
is the silicon-to-systems supplier of choice for OEMs that want to
deliver a wide range of storage solutions. More information on the
complete LSI SAS portfolio is available at http://www.lsi.com/sas.
About LSI LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) is a leading provider of
innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable
products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital
content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of
capabilities and services including custom and standard product
ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's
best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and
Networking markets. More information is available at
http://www.lsi.com/. Editor's note: Quote Sheet follows in
alphabetical order by company name. "Dot Hill leverages a highly
modular, dynamic storage architecture to empower its OEMs in the
volume storage market," said Andy Mills, Vice President of
Marketing, Dot Hill. "We rely on strong partners such as LSI to
help us deliver new technologies like 6Gb/s SAS. The end results
for our customers are technology leadership and proven solutions."
(http://www.dothill.com/) "Infortrend has taken a leadership role
in technical innovation in RAID storage solutions and LSI is one of
the key partners we are working with to deliver high quality 6Gb/s
SAS storage solutions to the market," said Thomas Kao, director of
product planning and global marketing at Infortrend Technology Inc.
"We share the commitment to help users meet demanding application
requirements, and in turn, realize great business returns with
best-in-class storage solutions." (http://www.infortrend.com/) "LSI
and its market-leading 6Gb/s SAS technology enables NEC to engineer
storage products which meet the performance, scalability and
reliability needs of our customers worldwide," said Tetsuyuki
Hishikawa, Chief Manager, NEC System Storage Products Division.
"Our valuable tradition of cooperation benefits both companies, and
provides the best possible solutions for our customers."
(http://www.nec.com/) "Xyratex has a history of delivering industry
leading storage solutions, and our support for LSI's SAS-to-SATA
bridging technology continues that tradition of product
innovation," said Paul Vogt, senior director product management,
Networked Storage Solutions, Xyratex. "We look forward to working
with LSI to enhance 6Gb/s SAS/SATA technology, enabling us to
provide the cost-effective, high-performance, high-reliability
systems that drive our customer's success."
(http://www.xyratex.com/) Additional Editor's Notes: 1. All LSI
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