LSI, Seagate to team up for PCI storage

CALIFORNIA: LSI Corporation, based in Milpitas, California, the United States, and Seagate Technology Incorporated, headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, have decided to collaborate on PCI-based solid-state storage for data centers.

David Mosley, executive vice-president (sales and marketing) of Seagate Technology, said in a statement that LSI Corporation will manufacture board-level products, which integrate SAS and PCIe communications with Seagate Technology’s solid-state drive (SSD) technology.

These products, the statement from Seagate Technology claimed, will solve architectural problems that have restricted the adoption of solid-state storage. OEM customers are likely to get product samples in the second quarter of 2010.

The new products of LSI Corporation, according to David Mosley, will speed up enterprise application processing and also help reduce I/O latency by using standards-based interfaces and protocols to minimise the impact to existing end-user enterprise infrastructures.

In the same statement, Jeff Janukowicz, a research manager at the market research company IDC, said that future market requirements pertaining to price per gigabyte, performance, reliability, and power consumption align well with the benefits of solid-state storage. PCIe-based SSS solutions, Janukowicz added, are equipped to meet these requirements in data center environments where higher performance is at a premium.

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