LSI has entered into a collaboration with Seagate Technology to deliver PCI Express (PCIe)-based solid-state storage (SSS) offerings for data centre and cloud computing environments. Through the joint effort, LSI is expected to deliver products that integrate LSI SAS and PCIe technology with Seagate solid-state drive (SSD) technology.
The company claims that the products are designed to provide enterprise OEMs and channel partners with new levels of performance, and ease of use while addressing architectural challenges that have limited SSS adoption.
Jeff Richardson, executive vice president and general manager of Semiconductor Solutions Group at LSI, said: By building upon the industry’s most widely deployed SAS software stack, OEMs and system builders will gain a proven, lower-risk path to market and continuity across technology generations.
David Mosley, executive vice president of sales, marketing, and product line management at Seagate, said: These new LSI products will accelerate enterprise application processing and help reduce I/O latency by using standards-based interfaces and protocols to minimize the impact to existing end user enterprise infrastructures. The collaboration extends Seagate’s enterprise solid-state strategy, which is focused on delivering the best-fit solutions for IT using both traditional hard disk drives and solid-state storage.
Product samples are expected to be available to OEM customers in the second quarter of the year.
