MILPITAS, Calif., March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that its SAS storage
solutions will power more than 200 new server models based on the
recently announced Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family.
Leading server manufacturers that have selected LSI® 6Gb/s SAS and
MegaRAID® solutions to provide accelerated storage performance and
enterprise data protection for their next-generation server
platforms include Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, IBM,
Intel, Lenovo and NEC.
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"The escalating demands on IT in datacenters and cloud
environments are driving the need for an optimal balance of
performance, efficiency and costs," said Jim Pappas, Director of Technology Initiatives,
Intel Corporation. "As new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product
family-based platforms roll out with PCI Express® 3.0 capability
and LSI SAS technology, customers will benefit from systems
designed to capitalize on the full performance potential of flash
storage and the IT efficiency of virtualization."
"LSI SAS storage solutions integrated with servers based on the
new Intel Xeon E5-2600 product family place LSI at the heart of the
enterprise datacenter," said Bill
Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, RAID
Storage Division, LSI. "We have shipped more than 30 million SAS
ICs and close to 5 million SAS storage adapters, establishing LSI
as the SAS provider of choice for the world's leading server
manufacturers. As wide adoption of our 6Gb/s SAS technology
continues, LSI will be in a strong position to support customers at
the next critical inflection point, the 12Gb/s SAS rollout."
LSI announced the industry's first sample shipments of 12Gb/s
SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC), controller and expander ICs to server and
external storage OEMs in mid-2011, underscoring LSI's leadership in
the SAS market segment.
Since the inception of SAS, LSI has delivered a leading
portfolio of products including SAS ROC, controller and expander
ICs, HBAs, MegaRAID and 3ware® RAID controllers, 6Gb/s SAS
switches, advanced software options and PCIe® flash adapters. By
offering best-in-class SAS technologies, assured interoperability
and single-vendor support, LSI SAS solutions are implemented across
the industry's broadest spectrum of server platforms.
More information on the complete LSI SAS portfolio is available
at www.lsi.com/sas.
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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