LSI and Seagate Collaborate to Enter PCI Express-Based Enterprise Solid-State Storage Market Segment
January 26 2010 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
New board-level solutions from LSI will integrate LSI and Seagate
technology to achieve breakthrough performance, reliability and
ease of use MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced a collaboration with
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) to deliver robust, PCI Express®
(PCIe®)-based solid-state storage (SSS) solutions for data center
and cloud computing environments. Through this joint effort, LSI is
expected to deliver board-level products that integrate LSI(TM) SAS
and PCIe technology with Seagate solid-state drive (SSD)
technology. The products are designed to provide enterprise OEMs
and channel partners with new levels of performance, reliability
and ease of use while addressing architectural challenges that have
limited SSS adoption. Product samples are expected to be available
to OEM customers in the second quarter of this year. "LSI is
uniquely positioned to execute a broad solid-state storage
strategy," said Jeff Richardson, executive vice president and
general manager, Semiconductor Solutions Group, LSI. "We're already
deeply engaged in delivering solid-state storage technologies, from
custom silicon to storage systems. Entering the emerging PCIe-based
SSS market segment is a natural extension of our core competencies.
By building upon the industry's most widely deployed SAS software
stack, OEMs and system builders will gain a proven, lower-risk path
to market and continuity across technology generations." "IT
professionals want server and storage solutions that can deliver
the performance and efficiency benefits of solid-state technology
without impacting system resources or further complicating already
complex enterprise storage environments," said David Mosley,
executive vice president, Sales, Marketing, and Product Line
Management, Seagate. "These new LSI products will accelerate
enterprise application processing and help reduce I/O latency by
using standards-based interfaces and protocols to minimize the
impact to existing end user enterprise infrastructures. The
collaboration extends Seagate's enterprise solid-state strategy,
which is focused on delivering the best-fit solutions for IT using
both traditional hard disk drives and solid-state storage." Market
research firm IDC forecasts that SSD revenue in the enterprise
segment will reach $2.0B by 2013.[1] PCIe-based solutions will
constitute a significant portion of this growing market segment due
to their ability to further boost performance, reliability and ease
of use within an existing IT infrastructure. "Solid-state drives
remain in the spotlight as a technology and an area of growth in
the storage market," said Jeff Janukowicz, research manager, Hard
Disk Drive Components and Solid-State Drives at IDC. "Future market
requirements related to price per gigabyte, performance, power
consumption and reliability align well with the benefits of
solid-state storage, and PCIe-based SSS solutions are poised to
meet these requirements in data center environments where higher
performance is at a premium." LSI and Seagate bring decades of
enterprise-level experience in the design, manufacture and support
of storage products for critical applications. Having two
experienced leaders with proven engineering capabilities and the
global scale to commit resources toward the development of
PCIe-based SSS solutions will help pave the way to market maturity
and broad enterprise adoption. 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/. About Seagate Seagate is the
worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions. Learn
more at http://www.seagate.com/. [1] IDC Worldwide Solid-State
Drive 2009-2013 Forecast and Analysis, Doc #218553, December, 2009.
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companies. DATASOURCE: LSI Corporation CONTACT: Brian Garabedian of
LSI Corporation, +1-408-433-8253, ; or David Szabados of Seagate
Technology, +1-831-439-2859, Web Site: http://www.lsi.com/
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