MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ACCELERATING
INNOVATION SUMMIT -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today launched the
Channel Alliance Partner Solutions™ (CAPS™) program for
manufacturers of storage products and solutions. The CAPS program
is designed to help member companies strengthen their channel
position and extend customer relationships through the joint
development and promotion of compatible solutions based on LSI®
storage technologies.
"The new CAPS program enables LSI to forge deeper relationships
with our alliance partners to target specific end customer
environments with trusted solutions that have been rigorously
tested for compatibility with LSI storage offerings," said
Brent Blanchard, director of
Worldwide Channel Sales and Marketing, LSI. "These collaborative
efforts will better position LSI and member companies to deliver
differentiated solutions that meet customers' unique requirements
and extend business value."
The CAPS program includes product evaluations and testing to
help ensure interoperability between ecosystem products and LSI
technologies in order to create solutions that are easily
integrated into customer environments. The evaluation program
includes product exchanges for joint lab testing, new product beta
testing for verifying compatibility prior to release and access to
product samples for joint customer design win opportunities.
"LSI was Nexenta's first technology partner, and today we're
able to offer the system builder channel NexentaStor with embedded
support for LSI storage products," said Brad Stone, vice president of Product Management
for Nexenta Systems. "With greater access to LSI customers and
alliance partners, as well as ongoing product certifications
through the CAPS program, our efforts with LSI to push direct
attached storage further into the cloud will be greatly
enhanced."
"System builders need LSI's storage controllers and advanced
software offerings to be compatible with Seagate's hard disk, solid
state hybrid, solid state and self-encrypting drives to create
unique configurations for requirements ranging from application
acceleration to security," said John
Teeple, director of Americas Channel Marketing at Seagate.
"As we continue to work with LSI to create advanced storage
solutions that facilitate new business opportunities for our joint
customers, the product evaluation program, extended marketing
support and vertical focus offered by the CAPS program will be
critical."
"Supermicro and LSI's collaborative efforts empower system
builders and resellers with high-performance, highly scalable
server storage solutions optimized to meet the most challenging
application requirements," said Wally
Liaw, vice president of Sales, International at Supermicro.
"LSI's new CAPS program accelerates our ability to deliver
cutting-edge SuperServer® and Double-Sided Storage® solutions
first-to-market, providing our customers and channel partners with
the most compelling and competitive server storage solutions on the
market."
The solutions created through the CAPS program are backed by a
dedicated team of LSI marketing and support contacts capable of
assisting alliance partners with sales, technical support and
co-marketing efforts targeted at joint customers. CAPS members
benefit from joint development efforts and participation in
webinars, trainings and events, as well as the creation of solution
collateral materials, including case studies and technical papers.
The collateral materials are hosted on an alliance partner Web
portal, which also will include a product compatibility matrix.
The LSI CAPS program is focused on vertical market applications,
providing alliance partners with the opportunity to expand end
customer engagements in vertical market segments such as digital
content, security and medical imaging. LSI will work with alliance
partners to identify strategic vertical market opportunities, and
then tailor solutions and marketing initiatives based on these
customers' specific industry requirements.
CAPS members can collaborate with LSI on solution development
and marketing opportunities spanning the complete LSI storage
portfolio, including MegaRAID® and 3ware® RAID controllers, host
bus adapters, 6Gb/s SAS switches, advanced software options and the
WarpDrive™ SLP-300 acceleration card. LSI storage products are
available through a worldwide network of distributors, system
integrators and VARs.
For more information about the LSI Channel Alliance Partner
Solutions program, please visit:
http://www.lsi.com/channel/partner/alliances/Pages/AllianceProgram.aspx.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) designs semiconductors and software
that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile
networks. Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced
application performance, and is applied in solutions created in
collaboration with our partners. More information is available
at www.lsi.com.
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