LSI and Seagate Extend SAS Leadership Position in Channel Market
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New MegaRAID and Cheetah drive offering delivers highest levels of SAS performance.
MILPITAS, Calif., July 10 / / -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI) today strengthened its industry leading SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) position with the expansion of its previously announced SAS Leadership Initiative in cooperation with Seagate Technology. Through the program, qualified system integrators will receive SAS starter kits to enable rapid self certification with leading server platforms.
"End users are anxious to leverage the configuration flexibility and performance capabilities of SAS, which is why Seagate is joining with LSI to combine the benefits of LSI storage adapters with Seagate high-performance Cheetah drives," said Bill Schilling, Director of Segment Marketing at Seagate. "These new kits put the right technologies and materials in the hands of system builders to satisfy growing demand in the channel."
The SAS kits feature an LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E storage adapter and three Seagate 73GB1 Cheetah hard drives. The first-to-market MegaRAID 8408E adapter features a PCI-Express interface for increased bandwidth, eliminating bottlenecks and enabling system builders to realize the true scalability of SAS.
"As the world's leading SAS technology provider, LSI continues to expand the industry's broadest SAS portfolio in a first-to-market fashion," said Joe Leader, senior director of channel marketing and business development, LSI Logic. "By engaging with hard drive leaders such as Seagate to deliver proven self-certification kits, LSI is enabling system builders to extend their reach and deliver the promise of SAS to valued channel customers."
LSI is the worldwide market share leader in enabling SAS solutions with more than a half-million SAS product shipments achieved to date. Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives.
SAS maintains proven parallel SCSI command set support and management capabilities while enabling a seamless transition from SCSI systems, offering increased performance, scalability, reliability and flexibility. SAS also offers the ability to implement a cost-effective tiered storage solution in a single system, supporting a mixture of SAS drives for mission-critical applications and SATA drives for near-line data.
For more information on LSI SAS technology and partnerships, please visit www.lsi.com/sas.
About LSI Logic
LSI Logic Corporation is a leading provider of silicon-to-systems solutions that are used at the core of products that create, store and consume digital information. LSI offers a broad portfolio of capabilities including custom and standard product ICs, host bus and RAID adapters, storage area network solutions and software applications. LSI products enable leading technology companies in the Storage and Consumer markets to deliver some of the most advanced and well-known electronic systems in the market today. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
Notes:
1. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard
drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.
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