LSI High-Availability DAS Solutions Chosen by Intel
To enhance storage portfolio
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on September 21, 2012 at 3:11 pmLSI Corporation
announced that its high-availability direct-attached storage (HA-DAS) solutions
have been selected by Intel Corp. to enhance its storage portfolio.
LSI HA-DAS
solutions are designed to provide SMB and remote, departmental and branch
offices with increased application availability and uptime without the
complexity and costs of traditional high-availability storage solutions.
"Data growth and consumption have
fueled the need for high-availability server systems where shared storage and
uptime are especially critical," said David Brown, director of marketing,
Intel Enterprise Platforms and Services Division. "Intel RAID HA-DAS
solutions powered by LSI technology will provide those benefits found in
traditional high-availability systems, while at the same time being easier to
manage and more cost-effective."
HA computing systems are designed to
ensure that applications and data are continuously available even in case of
component failure. Traditional HA solutions combine servers into clusters and
share storage across a SAN to ensure continuous application availability and
eliminate single points of failure.
LSI HA-DAS solutions lower
the cost and complexity
of HA solutions by providing:
- Fully redundant, shared-node storage
- Application failover to guarantee uptime
and availability - Easy-to-manage storage without
complex storage networking hardware
"LSI HA-DAS solutions are an
exciting new option for system architects and IT managers that deliver shared
storage application failover with the cost-effectiveness of DAS," said
Kelly Bryant, VP of marketing, RAID Storage Division, LSI. "LSI is excited
to collaborate with Intel as they have taken a leading position in offering these
new solutions to the marketplace."
LSI showed the benefits of its HA-DAS
solutions
as well as several other products
at the Intel Developer Forum in San
Francisco, CA, including:
- HA-DAS in failover prevention
environment - 12Gb/s SAS I/O performance with Intel
SSDs - LSI SandForce Flash Storage Processors
(FSPs) in mobile computing technology demonstrations, including Ultrabooks
currently shipping with SandForce Driven SSDs and a Windows To Go-compatible
USB 3.0 flash drive powered by SandForce FSPs
LSI will also participate in the NVM
Express Showcase displaying its PCIe flash-based LSI Nytro application
acceleration products with forthcoming NVM Express support.
LSI HA-DAS solutions are expected to be available
in 4Q2012.