hard disk drives and enable hard disk drive rebuilds to complete up to 10 times faster. • LSI Nytro XD solutions, designed for storage area network (SAN) environments, combine flash with seamless caching and acceleration software that detects hot spots and stores this frequently accessed data in a Nytro WarpDrive® card to accelerate application response. • While flash technology is fast and energy-efficient, flash reliability is sometimes a concern for the heavy transactional loads common in the datacenter. LSI SandForce® flash storage processors give enterprises the flash reliability they need to increase performance and power efficien-
cy. LSI SandForce DuraClass™ technology delivers industry-leading data protection and reliability – increasing the endurance of SSDs up to 8-fold over competitive solutions. • LSI Nytro WarpDrive cards accelerate database transactions and application I/O performance – delivering up to 100 times the speed of a traditional hard disk drive. • LSI hard disk drive, flash and server storage customers include ASUS, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Micron, NetApp, Oracle, Samsung, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, Toshiba and Western Digital. continued on page 23
Left to right: The Nytro MegaRAID card combines on-board flash technology with LSI RAID-on-Chip technology to help accelerate key business applications. The Axxia communication processor family is designed to meet the increased performance and low-power demands of next-generation mobile and enterprise networks. LSI SandForce flash storage processors enable standard flash memory to operate in enterprise, cloud and client storage environments.
LSI – A Rich Tradition of Innovation Formed in 1981, LSI sprang from the storied technology wellspring of Silicon Valley. LSI – then LSI Logic – pioneered the modern-day gate array, standardcell application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), system-on-a-chip, platform ASIC and other technologies that gave rise to a rich tradition of innovation that continues today. Little did the founder and his contemporaries know that digital communications and data would become the new currency, uniting people from all over the world in ways unimaginable even 10 years ago. The rise and explosive growth of social platforms, the mobile Internet, video and cloud computing are all among the drivers of a massive data deluge. And as the value of data increases, a new standard for speed has emerged: users want their data in an instant, sometimes in microseconds. meptec.org
n LSI products move data faster, more efficiently and at lower cost, touching information at virtually every point from source to consumption – from datacenters and enterprise and mobile networks to consumer devices including laptops, tablets and smartphones.
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