MILPITAS, Calif., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today introduced the CTS2600 family of configurable
storage components, offering white box channel partners a quick,
efficient and cost-effective approach to build, customize, brand
and sell a wide range of external storage system configurations.
The unique approach using configurable components is designed to
provide channel partners with the flexibility to assemble complete
systems to their customers' specifications without the need for
costly stocking of pre-configured systems.
"The introduction of the CTS2600 family is a significant
milestone on our mission to be the most trusted and comprehensive
storage building block supplier to the channel," said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel
sales and marketing, LSI. "The CTS2600 family complements our
existing channel portfolio and provides partners with one-stop
shopping for delivering both direct-attached and external storage
solutions to vertical market segments such as managed hosting,
cloud, medical applications and digital content."
The LSI™ CTS2600 family is designed for small to midsize
enterprises in direct-attached and storage area network (SAN)
environments and includes affordable, high-quality external storage
components such as controllers, storage enclosures and disk drives.
The CTS2600 family is built upon the robustness of more than 20
years of LSI system design and development expertise and over
400,000 storage systems shipped across a wide range of workloads
and market segments.
The CTS2600 family allows channel partners to deliver systems
with 6Gb/s SAS back-end drive connects and offers multi-protocol
host connectivity, mixed drive support, simplified management and
low power consumption. Multi-protocol host connectivity includes
6Gb/s SAS and 1Gb/s iSCSI or 6Gb/s SAS and 8Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC)
interface options. The multi-protocol host connectivity delivers
support for a wide variety of implementations, from low-cost
rack-integrated solutions and single-room data centers using SAS,
to SAN environments utilizing iSCSI or FC for larger consolidation
and virtualization projects.
"Colfax International offers a broad spectrum of
high-performance computing solutions, all of them completely
customizable to meet our customers' unique requirements," said
Gautam Shah, CEO, Colfax International. "The addition of
configurable external storage building blocks to the LSI channel
portfolio is well aligned with our business model and will enable
us to deliver low-cost, high-performance storage solutions that can
quickly and efficiently meet customers' changing mission-critical
demands."
Midrange performance, functionality with entry-level
affordability
LSI CTS2600 controller technology combined with leading host
interface connectivity can deliver bandwidth up to 4,000 MB/s on
sustained reads from disk and over 40,000 input/output operations
per second (IOPS) random disk reads. By offering both balanced and
sustainable performance, partner-configured systems can reliably
support both random and sequential access-intensive application
workloads.
The CTS2600 family offers additional flexibility with drive
enclosures supporting performance-optimized SAS drives,
capacity-optimized SAS drives and solid-state drives (SSDs).
Customers can intermix up to 96 drives in either 2.5-inch form
factors using the new 2U, 24-drive CTS2600-24 enclosure or 3.5-inch
form factors using the 2U, 12-drive CTS2600-12 enclosure. By
offering the ability to intermix drive types within a single
system, customers can more easily address a wide range of capacity
and performance requirements while optimizing rack space and power
and cooling costs.
The CTS2600 family's support for 2.5-inch drives and SSDs, which
deliver higher IOPS per watt and produce much less heat than
mechanical 3.5-inch drives, also promotes lower overall annual
energy expenditures. In addition, the CTS2600 power supplies comply
with Energy Star, 80 PLUS® energy efficiency and Climate Savers
Computing specifications for even greater energy efficiency.
The CTS2600 family helps to ensure high reliability and
availability with fully redundant hot-swappable components,
automated path failover and extensive online dynamic RAID
administration capabilities. Partner-configured systems also
provide simplified storage management using LSI SANtricity® ES
management software. The SANtricity ES graphical user interface is
designed to meet the needs of both full-time storage administrators
who want complete control over their storage configuration as well
as part-time system administrators who need an intuitive and
easy-to-use interface that helps them ensure optimal storage
utilization.
SANtricity ES software also offers optional, fully integrated
replication features including volume snapshot, volume copy and
remote volume mirror across Fibre Channel host ports, helping
customers in managed hosting, cloud, medical applications, digital
content and other vertical markets to meet high data availability
and protection requirements.
Branding guide and training
LSI offers a branding guide to authorized system builders with
information about the process of branding systems built from
CTS2600 components. In addition, LSI provides comprehensive product
training and support tailored to the needs of system builders as
part of the LSI Authorized Systems Builder Program. The initial
online training includes hardware and software configuration,
maintenance and troubleshooting designed to ensure high-quality
installations and a positive end-customer experience.
The CTS2600 family of configurable storage components will be
available from select LSI distributors, system builders and system
integrators on July 7, 2010.
Additional information on the CTS2600 family is available in an
online press kit at www.lsi.com/presskit and at the LSI Channel
Gateway (www.lsi.com/channel).
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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