MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today announced that the LSI™ SAS6160 switch has been
selected as a finalist for the 2010 Storage
magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year Awards. The
LSI SAS6160 is the industry's first 6Gb/s SAS switch. It is
designed to significantly extend the capabilities of SAS in
direct-attached storage (DAS) environments by allowing multiple
servers to connect to one or more independent external storage
systems. The product offers customers a high-performance, low-cost
and easy-to-use storage networking option for rack-mount server and
storage installations in cloud computing, data center and managed
hosting application environments.
The 2010 Products of the Year finalists are selected by the
editors of SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine,
storage industry experts and storage users. The LSI SAS6160 switch
is one of six finalists in the Networking Equipment category, which
covers switches, host bus adapters, network interface cards,
virtualization appliances, security devices and caching appliances.
The winners in each category will be announced in the February
issue of Storage magazine.
"The LSI SAS6160 switch helps customers to optimize storage
resource utilization, reduce islands of storage and simplify
storage management, backup and upgrades," said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel
sales and marketing, LSI. "The product's selection as an award
finalist underscores its unique and innovative capabilities to
deliver significant cost savings to customers in today's
challenging IT environment."
The SAS switch extends the comprehensive LSI portfolio of 6Gb/s
SAS and SATA storage building block solutions, including MegaRAID®
and 3ware® RAID controllers, host bus adapters, the WarpDrive™
SLP-300 card, JBOD enclosures, the CTS2600 family of configurable
storage components and advanced software options. Additional
information is available at 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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