MILPITAS, Calif., May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today announced the company has shipped more than
750,000 storage adapters based on 6Gb/s SAS technology, reinforcing
LSI's continued leadership in the SAS market segment. The milestone
underscores the broad market demand for LSI® 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID
controllers and host bus adapters (HBAs) among server OEMs, ODMs,
system integrators and resellers worldwide.
SAS has rapidly become the predominant storage interface offered
by server vendors worldwide for direct-attached storage
connectivity to SATA and SAS hard disk drives (HDDs). In their
latest worldwide HDD forecast and analysis for 2010-2014, industry
analyst firm IDC estimates that disk drives with SAS interfaces
will account for over 64 percent of all enterprise disk drive
shipments in 2011. IDC further estimates that by 2014, disk drives
with SAS interfaces will account for a 72 percent share of all
enterprise HDD shipments.(1)
"The fact that LSI has already shipped three quarters of a
million 6Gb/s SATA+SAS storage adapters – while our competitors
have only recently announced availability of 6Gb/s controllers – is
testament to the outstanding combination of performance,
scalability, reliability and ease-of-use offered by our host bus
and RAID adapter solutions," said Kelly
Bryant, vice president of marketing, RAID Storage Division,
LSI. "As the rapid industry transition to 6Gb/s SAS technology
continues, our extensive portfolio of 6Gb/s SAS and SATA solutions
will continue to enable our OEM and channel customers to
cost-effectively meet the diverse and demanding application
requirements of a wide variety of markets."
Since the inception of SAS, LSI has delivered industry-leading
products across its broad portfolio of 6Gb/s SAS solutions,
including complete families of MegaRAID® and 3ware® RAID
controllers and a wide range of HBAs. LSI recently announced a
second-generation line of MegaRAID 6Gb/s SATA+SAS controllers that
deliver the industry's highest server RAID performance at 465,000
RAID 5 random IOPS. Powered by the LSI dual-core 6Gb/s SAS
RAID-on-Chip (ROC) IC, these controllers extend the performance
leadership offered by the first-generation family of products.
In addition to RAID controllers and HBAs, LSI offers 6Gb/s SAS
ROC, controller and expander ICs, SAS switches, advanced software
options and the WarpDrive(TM) SLP-300 acceleration card. The
products are available through the LSI worldwide network of
distributors, system integrators and VARs as well as select
enterprise server and external storage OEMs.
More information on the complete LSI SAS portfolio is available
at www.lsi.com/sas.
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.
(1) IDC Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2010–2014 Forecast,
April 2010, IDC #222797.
Editor's Notes:
- 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.
- LSI, the LSI & Design logo, 3ware, MegaRAID and WarpDrive
are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Corporation.
- All other brand or product names may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.
SOURCE LSI Corporation