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News Release from: LSI Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 June 2006
Fujitsu Siemens to adopt SAS adapters
Low-profile MegaRAID Serial Attached SCSI adapters have been selected by Fujitsu Siemens Computers for integration into the next-generation Primergy server platform
LSI Logic's industry-first low-profile MegaRAID SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) adapters have been selected by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, a leading European IT provider, for integration into the next-generation Primergy server platform. These new SAS adapters, which extend the MegaRAID family of 3Gbit/s SAS and SATA II adapters, are the industry's broadest line of host-based SAS RAID solutions and further complement the LSI silicon-to-systems storage portfolio.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 June 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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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.
The LSI SAS portfolio uniquely addresses the full spectrum of server, workstation and enterprise storage architecture requirements for implementing complete SAS solutions.
'We have been closely aligned with MegaRAID and storage technologies provided by LSI for years'.
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'The company's storage expertise and the new, innovative SAS product offering, makes LSI an ideal partner to work with for our next-generation Primergy line', said Klaus Kratzer, Vice President Enterprise Server Products at Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
'Our Primergy servers and storage subsystem solutions, now powered with SAS technology, allow us to address the high performance, availability and reliability that our customers require'.
The Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy Dual S3 product line, featuring dual-core processors, will integrate a variety of LSI SAS technologies, including the two new 3Gbit/s PCI Express half-height adapters, the MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP, with eight internal SAS/SATA ports, and the SAS 8344ELP (to be released by Fujitsu Siemens Computers in the second half of 2006), with four internal and four external SAS/SATA ports.
Additional LSI products selected by Fujitsu Siemens Computers include the MegaRAID SAS 8480E with eight external SAS/SATA ports, the SAS1068 IC, eight-port 3 Gbit/s SAS controller, and its forthcoming LSI SAS1078 RAID-on-chip (ROC) silicon solution.
The MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP and SAS 8344ELP are optimised for cost-sensitive and space-limited direct attached storage (DAS), server and workstation environments that demand feature-rich and high-performance solutions.
'With the selection of our MegaRAID SAS and SAS controller ICs by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, LSI continues to deliver maximum flexibility and performance to customers', said Phil Bullinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Logic.
'In addition, we are pleased to announce that as a result of the qualification tests performed by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Fujitsu-Japan will distribute our MegaRAID SAS adapters into the Japanese and Asia Pacific markets'.
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