MILPITAS, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today introduced the LSI™ Engenio® 2600 storage system,
an entry-level external storage system based on 6Gb/s SAS
technology. The system provides midrange performance and advanced
functionality designed to allow small and medium businesses and
enterprise remote and branch offices to easily adapt to escalating
data volumes and performance requirements without sacrificing
simplicity or affordability.
"The industry has already shifted to 6Gb/s SAS on the drive side
and is beginning to move toward solid deployment of related 6Gb/s
SAS storage infrastructures," said John
Monroe, research vice president, Storage Markets at Gartner.
"Systems configured with 6Gb/s SAS on both the drive and the host
side should outperform 4Gb/s Fibre Channel alternatives, cost
considerably less and consume less power – compelling reasons to
make such systems primary choices for upgrading storage
infrastructures."
The 2600 system is the newest member of the Engenio line of
modular storage systems, and the first to feature 6Gb/s SAS
technology. The next-generation storage system builds on the
robustness of more than 400,000 storage systems based on LSI
Engenio technology that have been deployed across a broad range of
environments and industries. The system provides customers with
improved performance and scalability, multi-protocol host
connectivity, flexible drive support, and advanced energy saving
and data security features.
"Customers demand storage solutions that boost performance and
improve storage utilization and efficiency," said Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and
general manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "By combining dynamic
flexibility with the increased performance and reliability offered
by 6Gb/s SAS technology, the Engenio 2600 delivers comparable
functionality to Fibre Channel systems while maintaining the lower
price point that entry and midrange customers expect."
The Engenio 2600 system combines proven LSI controller
technology with leading host interface connectivity to deliver
bandwidth up to 4,000 MB/s on sustained reads from disk, a 4X
improvement in throughput performance compared to the previous
generation product. The system also delivers over 40,000 IOPS
(input/output operations per second) random disk reads, more than a
2X improvement compared to the prior generation.
The system's balanced and sustainable performance allows it to
support a wide range of workloads by being equally adept both at
delivering throughput to bandwidth-intensive applications, such as
data warehousing and rich media, and delivering IOPS to
transaction-oriented applications, such as OLTP and Web
servers.
The 2600 system also doubles the capacity of its predecessor by
offering pay-as-you-grow scalability up to 96 drives in either
2.5-inch form factors using the new DE5600 2U, 24 drive enclosure
or 3.5-inch form factors using the DE1600 2U, 12 drive
enclosure.
Mixed host interface and drive support
The Engenio 2600 offers multi-protocol host connectivity,
allowing users to take advantage of concurrent direct-attached
storage (DAS) and storage area network (SAN) implementations. The
2600 system's four native 6Gb/s SAS host interfaces can be
intermixed with eight 1Gb/s iSCSI or eight 8Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC)
host ports per dual controller. This flexible and multi-purpose
dual protocol approach allows organizations to implement a variety
of configurations – from rack-mounted server and storage DAS
implementations using SAS, to iSCSI and FC SAN environments for
larger consolidation and virtualization projects.
The 2600 also offers the ability to intermix drive types to
allow organizations to cost-effectively address a wide range of
capacity and performance requirements. Customers can deploy
high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) or SAS drives for the
most demanding application workloads and cost-effective nearline
SAS drives for less performance-sensitive, high-capacity
applications. Self-encrypting drives are also supported to secure
an organization's most sensitive data. The system's flexible drive
support and modular scalability help to keep initial costs low
while enabling tiered storage for optimized performance and
reliability, reduced rack space, lower power and cooling costs and
enhanced data security.
Improved energy efficiency and data security
The 2600 system delivers new energy-saving features without
impacting performance, scalability or functionality. The system's
support for 2.5-inch drives and SSDs, in addition to power supplies
that are designed to meet the forthcoming Energy Star, 80 PLUS®
energy efficiency and Climate Savers Computing specifications, can
result in lower overall annual energy expenditures while still
meeting performance requirements.
Utilizing 2.5-inch SAS drives, which are supported by the DE5600
enclosure, the 2600 can deliver up to a 3X improvement in IOPS per
watt in power consumption and up to a 134 percent improvement in
IOPS performance per U compared to a 3.5-inch drive enclosure.
Advanced data security is provided with support for SEDs
utilizing LSI SafeStore™ Encryption Services, which helps to secure
a drive's data from unauthorized access or modification resulting
from theft, loss or repurposing. Fully integrated into LSI
SANtricity® ES management software, SafeStore services provide
local key management for self-encrypting drives for comprehensive
data at rest security throughout the drive's lifecycle with minimal
cost and complexity, and without sacrificing storage system
performance.
The LSI Engenio 2600 is immediately available to OEM customers.
More information is available in an online press kit at
http://www.lsi.com/presskit.
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 www.lsi.com.
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