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News Release from: LSI Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 June 2006
SAS storage components prove popular
Eight influential ODMs will use LSI SAS storage components to build high-performance server motherboards for data centre, clustered configurations and data-processing intense applications.
Eight influential ODMs will use LSI SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) storage components to build high-performance server motherboards for data centre, clustered configurations and data-processing intense applications LSI is recognised worldwide as the leading SAS technology provider and has shipped more than 500,000 SAS storage components to the server OEM market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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LSI is supplying SAS component products to: Asustek, Gigabyte, Inventec, Mitac, MSI, Quanta, Tyan and Wistron.
These Taiwan ODMs supply market-leading SAS-based server platforms to the worldwide server market.
IT managers deploying SAS-based solutions will reap the performance benefits associated with the dual core Intel Xeon platform, along with the proven reliability based on interoperability testing conducted by LSI with leading HDD manufacturers.
"With the new dual-core Intel Xeon-based platform now in production, LSI supplying SAS components in volume and HDD makers delivering various SAS drive options, server OEMs can quickly ramp SAS platforms into high production".
"Everything is coming together nicely", said Greg Schulz, founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO Group.
"IT managers deploying SAS solutions will reap the performance benefits associated with the Intel platform, along with proven reliability based on thousands of interoperability tests by LSI with the leading hard disk drive manufacturers".
IDC estimates the worldwide server market will grow from 7.7 million units in 2006 to 9.6 million units in 2008.1 By 2008, IDC estimates that Serial Attached SCSI HDD shipments will achieve 25% market share in enterprise storage and server applications.
"Taiwan is a very important market for LSI and we greatly value our Taiwanese customers and working relationships", said Robin Wagner, Director of Product Marketing, Storage Components Group, LSI Logic.
"Taiwanese Server ODMs fulfill a significant portion of the world's server demand and require the latest in technology at the highest levels of quality".
"LSI has a long history of success in this market and our SAS products are enabling a next generation of high-performance solutions".
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