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Showing posts with label LSI. Show all posts
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Friday, December 13, 2013

Avago Technologies joins enterprise storage fray with LSI acquisition

Avago Technologies became the new kid on the storage component block this week when it spent $6.6 billion to acquire LSI Corp.

Avago executives said they expect the deal to close in the second quarter of 2014, and the combined company could generate more than $5 billion in annual revenue.

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Monday, November 25, 2013

LSI releases dual interface flash controller, 12 Gbps SAS cards

LSI Corp. has been busy upgrading its flash product lines, pushing out new SandForce and MegaRAID flash controllers last week.

LSI introduced its SandForce (SF) 3700 series flash controllers and filled out its 12 Gbps Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) MegaRAID product line. The SandForce 3700 provides native support for PCI-Express and 6 Gbps Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) interfaces. The latest MegaRAID products are the SAS 9300 controller cards and the 12 Gbps SAS expanders.

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

LSI Nytro PCIe cards get capacity, feature upgrades

LSI Corp. expanded its Nytro application-acceleration product line this week with a 3.2 TB WarpDrive PCI Express (PCIe) flash card and two new MegaRAID PCIe intelligent flash acceleration and storage cards.

The LSI Nytro application-acceleration product line features PCIe cards with multiple form factors that can connect internally to direct-attached storage or externally to SANs with both SATA and SAS interfaces.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Intel to sell LSI Nytro MegaRAID PCIe flash cards

LSI Corp. and Intel Corp. today expanded their OEM partnership to include the LSI Nytro MegaRAID PCI Express flash card. Intel will sell the server-side flash device with two of its RAID solid-state drive storage cache controllers.

LSI's Nytro MegaRAID PCI Express cards sit in the server PCIe slots to accelerate storage directly attached to the server. Intel previously offered LSI MegaRAID controller cards for SATA, SAS or solid-state application acceleration with RAID-on-chip data protection technology. Nytro MegaRAID cards add on-board NAND flash, SandForce flash storage processors and intelligent caching for faster application acceleration. LSI acquired flash controller chip vendor SandForce in October 2011.

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