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Achieve improved performance benefits of 12Gb/s SAS with existing 6Gb/s drive infrastructure
 
LSI to demonstrate DataBolt technology, together with Xyratex, at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase

MILPITAS, Calif., May 8, 2012 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced DataBolt™ bandwidth optimizer technology, a unique performance acceleration feature for LSI® 12Gb/s SAS solutions designed to allow users to take advantage of 12Gb/s speeds while using existing 6Gb/s drive infrastructure.

Simplifies high-availability (HA) storage solutions and redefines economics for cloud datacenter and SMB customers

MILPITAS, Calif., May 8, 2012 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) announced it will demonstrate high-availability direct-attached storage (HA-DAS) solutions for Microsoft® Corp.'s Windows® Server platforms at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase taking place May 9, 2012, at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. LSI's HA-DAS solutions are designed to provide small and medium-sized business (SMB) and cloud datacenter customers with continuous application uptime at a fraction of the cost and complexity of existing HA solutions.

Extensive Nytro application acceleration portfolio combines PCIe flash technology with intelligent caching software; seamlessly integrates into existing environments

MILPITAS, Calif., April 2, 2012 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today introduced the Nytro portfolio, a comprehensive family of solutions that combines PCIe® flash technology with intelligent caching and management software to achieve accelerated application performance in datacenters and cloud environments.

High-performance, low-cost storage networking option allows storage resources to be shared across multiple servers for optimized storage utilization and simplified management

MILPITAS, Calif., October 12, 2010 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today introduced in the channel the industry's first 6Gb/s SAS switch. The LSITM SAS6160 switch is designed to significantly extend the capabilities of SAS in direct-attached storage (DAS) environments by allowing multiple servers to connect to one or more independent external storage systems. The 6Gb/s SAS switch offers customers a high-performance, low-cost and easy-to-use storage networking option for rack-mount server and storage installations in cloud computing, data center and managed hosting application environments.

New MegaRAID, 3ware and HBA products allow single card to directly connect up to 24 drives inside the server or externally connect up to 512 devices for efficient and simplified storage expansion

MILPITAS, Calif., July 27, 2010 ­ LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today launched in the channel new high port count 6Gb/s SATA+SAS MegaRAID® and 3ware® RAID controller cards and host bus adapters (HBAs). The new storage adapters support both internal storage and external JBOD expansion to provide customers with a scalable and reliable solution to address the growing storage requirements in application environments ranging from cloud computing and video streaming to high-performance computing and general-purpose servers.

New CTS2600 family of configurable storage components enable channel partners to build, customize, brand and sell complete external storage systems

MILPITAS, Calif., June 22, 2010 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today introduced the CTS2600 family of configurable storage components, offering white box channel partners a quick, efficient and cost-effective approach to build, customize, brand and sell a wide range of external storage system configurations. The unique approach using configurable components is designed to provide channel partners with the flexibility to assemble complete systems to their customers' specifications without the need for costly stocking of pre-configured systems.

Engenio 2600 with SAS technology provides small and mid-size enterprises with midrange performance and functionality at entry-level affordability

MILPITAS, Calif., May 11, 2010 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today introduced the LSITM Engenio® 2600 storage system, an entry-level external storage system based on 6Gb/s SAS technology. The system provides midrange performance and advanced functionality designed to allow small and medium businesses and enterprise remote and branch offices to easily adapt to escalating data volumes and performance requirements without sacrificing simplicity or affordability.

New rack-optimized 6Gb/s SATA and SAS storage enclosures enable channel customers to cost-effectively expand storage capacity beyond the server

MILPITAS, Calif., March 23, 2010 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today introduced in the channel two rack-optimized 6Gb/s SATA and SAS JBOD storage enclosures designed to allow businesses to cost-effectively respond to escalating data volumes and changing storage requirements. The LSI™ model 620J and 630J storage expansion enclosures are the latest additions to the broad LSI portfolio of storage building blocks, which enable channel customers to deploy affordable and highly scalable, high-performance storage solutions.

SAS switches enable direct-attached storage to be used as a scalable, low-cost storage network for SMB, mega data center and cloud computing environments

MILPITAS, Calif., March 16, 2010 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced the sampling of the industry's first series of 6Gb/s SAS switches to OEM customers. The new LSITM model SAS6160 and SAS6161 switches significantly extend the capabilities of SAS in direct-attached storage (DAS) environments by allowing multiple servers to connect to one or more independent external storage systems. SAS616x series switches are designed to provide a low-cost and easy-to-use shared storage option for rack-mounted server and storage installations in cloud computing, mega data center and small- to medium-sized business environments.

Next-generation LSI SAS and RAID technology integrated across NEC server platforms, enabling new levels of performance, scalability and reliability

MILPITAS, Calif., February 9, 2010 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that NEC has selected LSITM 6Gb/s SAS MegaRAID® controller cards for integration into NEC Express5800 series servers. The recently launched LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i controller, featuring the LSISAS2108 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC), provides the NEC Express5800 server platforms with new levels of performance, scalability and reliability for consolidation, database and line-of-business applications.

Extensive line of entry- to enterprise-class storage adapters enables channel partners to match storage solutions to customer requirements

MILPITAS, Calif., January 19, 2010 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today expanded the industry's broadest portfolio of 6Gb/s SATA+SAS storage adapters with the introduction of new MegaRAID® controller cards and host bus adapters (HBAs). New offerings include the first 6Gb/s controller cards in the MegaRAID entry line, expansion of the MegaRAID value and feature lines, and new HBAs including a high port count configuration.

High-performance 3ware SATA+SAS RAID controllers extend broadest portfolio of storage adapters for the channel

MILPITAS, Calif., January 19, 2010 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced a new family of high-performance LSITM 3ware® SATA+SAS RAID controller cards based on 6Gb/s SAS technology. The new 3ware 9750 series cards, which are immediately available to indirect channel partners, provide exceptional performance, usability and reliability for small- to mid-sized enterprises, particularly in sequential I/O and multi-stream application environments such as video streaming and data archival.

Breadth of LSI and Supermicro 6Gb/s SAS portfolios allow channel customers to deploy high-performance, highly scalable storage solutions

MILPITAS, Calif., October 26, 2009 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced a collaboration with Super Micro Computer, Inc. to enable end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solutions for channel customers. Combining LSITM 6Gb/s SAS silicon and MegaRAID® technology with Supermicro® 6Gb/s SAS Server Building Block Solutions® and Seagate® 6Gb/s SAS drives, these solutions enable scalable direct-attached storage topologies that deliver high I/O performance in large cluster and datacenter environments.

New LSI SAS 9200 series HBAs deliver SATA+SAS connectivity and offer twice the throughput rates and scalability of the previous generation

MILPITAS, Calif., October 13, 2009 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced availability of a new family of high-performance SATA+SAS host bus adapters (HBAs) based on 6Gb/s SAS technology. The LSI™ SAS 9200 series HBAs, based on the LSISAS2008 6Gb/s SAS controller IC, offer new levels of performance and scalability for internal and external direct-attached storage deployments using SATA and SAS disk drives.

LSI claims top position in SAS unit shipments as industry rapidly transitions to serial RAID technology

MILPITAS, Calif., August 26, 2009 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that Gartner, Inc. ranked LSI as the worldwide leader in host bus RAID controller unit shipments for 2008. According to the latest market data released by the firm, LSI maintained its No. 1 position for the second consecutive year with 31.4 percent unit share.^[1]

Extensive SATA+SAS controller line delivers powerful performance advantage and innovative features to enable channel partners to gain a competitive edge

MILPITAS, Calif., July 28, 2009 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today launched in the channel a new generation of high-performance MegaRAID® SATA+SAS RAID controller cards based on 6Gb/s SAS technology. With innovative new 6Gb/s SAS product features and support for SATA, SAS and solid-state drives (SSDs), the MegaRAID 9200 series controllers provide small- to mid-sized enterprises with superior levels of RAID performance and scalability for internal and external storage.

Dot Hill, Infortrend, NEC and Xyratex select LSI 6Gb/s SAS external storage solutions including controller and expander ICs and SAS-to-SATA bridge cards

MILPITAS, Calif., July 22, 2009 -LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that Dot Hill, Infortrend, NEC and Xyratex have selected LSITM 6Gb/s SAS solutions to enable their next-generation external storage platforms. As the SAS market segment leader with over 13 million SAS ICs shipped worldwide, LSI provides the industry's only end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS product portfolio for external storage applications, including SAS controller and expander ICs and SAS-to-SATA bridge cards.

Dell, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, IBM, Intel, NEC, Sun Microsystems and others incorporate LSI SAS ICs, HBAs and MegaRAID products

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, ORLANDO, Fla., April 7, 2009 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that its SAS ICs, HBAs and MegaRAID® products will enable more than 80 new server and workstation models based on the recently announced high-performance, multi-core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 series. Industry-leading OEMs incorporating LSITM SAS storage technology include Dell, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, IBM, Intel, NEC and Sun Microsystems, underscoring the broad demand for LSI SAS technology across the industry's broadest spectrum of OEM platforms.

Single server performance milestone underscores role of direct-attached storage as scalable, sharable solution for data center environments

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, ORLANDO, Fla., April 6, 2009 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that it is the first company to achieve more than 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) in a 6Gb/s SAS performance demonstration running on a single server. One million IOPS is a crucial step toward increasing the adoption of direct-attached storage (DAS) as a scalable and sharable solution for organizations struggling to keep pace with growing data volumes and rising data center costs.

New features also enable hard drive spin-down for reduced power consumption and energy costs; extend VMware virtualization support

MILPITAS, Calif., March 10, 2009 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced MegaRAID® Release 3.6, which provides new features and advanced functionality for 3Gb/s MegaRAID SAS 87XX and 88XX series adapters. New features include enhanced management and data protection capabilities for solid state drives (SSD), hard drive spin-down for reduced power consumption and expanded VMware® virtualization support.