LSI Life Storage Inc

Performance, reliability and flexibility of LSI MegaRAID(R) family drives shipments MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today announced the company has shipped more than one million MegaRAID SAS/SATA solutions, underscoring LSI leadership in both SAS and RAID-on-chip (ROC) technologies. LSI offers the most complete family of host-based RAID solutions in the industry, including a wide range of MegaRAID adapters, ROC and RAID-on-motherboard controllers. This milestone underscores the broad market acceptance of LSI MegaRAID technology throughout the storage industry. Eight out of ten leading server OEMs today rely on MegaRAID solutions based on the LSI SAS 1078 ROC IC to power their storage offerings. In addition, solutions based on MegaRAID technology are widely available in the channel through leading distribution partners. "The growing market demand for LSI SAS technology combined with our leadership in direct-attached storage (DAS) RAID over many generations continues to make LSI the top choice for host-based RAID solutions among the world's largest server vendors and leading distributors," said Kelly Bryant, DAS RAID business line director, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "The outstanding combination of performance, bulletproof reliability and flexibility delivered by our time-tested adapters, controllers, and software are simply unmatched." The LSI MegaRAID family of adapters supports both SATA and SAS hard drives, eliminating the need to choose between drive types. The family comprises a complete range of RAID adapters, using PCI-X and PCI Express technology in a variety of 4- to 16-port internal and external connect configurations. The MegaRAID Management Suite(TM) is a comprehensive set of applications and tools, including next-generation pre-boot and advanced online RAID management utilities. These applications feature a variety of configuration options and SAS topology views from the system host, controller, and disk enclosure down to the logical and physical drive level. For administrators, this means the ability to efficiently configure, monitor and manage RAID volumes locally or over the network. MegaRAID Management Suite software supports all MegaRAID family adapters, delivering the added benefit of using a common software utility for all models and configurations. About LSI Corporation 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 Notes: 1. All LSI news releases (financial, acquisitions, manufacturing, products, technology, etc.) are issued exclusively by PR Newswire and are immediately thereafter posted on the company's external Web site, http://www.lsi.com/. 2. LSI, the LSI logo design, MegaRAID and MegaRAID Management Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Corporation. 3. PCI-X and PCI Express are trademarks or registered trademarks of PCI-SIG. 4. All other brand or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. DATASOURCE: LSI Corporation CONTACT: Robert Guenther of LSI Corporation, +1-610-712-1514, ; or Jay Russo of LVA Communications, +1-860-739-5598, , for LSI Corporation Web site: http://www.lsi.com/ http://www.lsilogic.com/

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