LSI and Seagate to Accelerate SAS Market Adoption

MILPITAS, Calif. and SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Logic Corporation and Seagate Technology today jointly announced the SAS Leadership Initiative, aimed at driving rapid end user migration to SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) technology. As the first step under the new initiative, the two market leaders are bundling LSI SAS adapters with Seagate SAS hard drives for the indirect channel market, making it possible for end users to convert seamlessly from SCSI to SAS or upgrade Serial ATA (SATA)-only configurations to SAS/SATA combination configurations.

LSI is the worldwide market share leader in enabling SAS solutions with more than a half-million SAS component shipments achieved to date. Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives.

"SAS holds tremendous promise for end users with its ability to address multiple classes of storage in a single system and will prove to be a critical technology for years to come," said Joe Leader, senior director of channel marketing and business development, LSI Logic. "Together with Seagate, we are helping our channel customers and the industry to quickly adopt SAS and realize the benefits of improved performance, built-in storage scalability, and the flexibility to work seamlessly alongside SATA."

"This joint effort with LSI allows us to accelerate design of SAS systems to meet rapidly increasing customer demand," said Bill Schilling, director of global product marketing, Seagate. "Now that key infrastructure components are in place, SAS can fully assume its role as the next generation of SCSI technology."

The LSI/Seagate SAS Leadership Initiative offers channel system builders the opportunity to leverage a combination of the industry's leading SAS technologies, LSI MegaRAID(R) adapters and Seagate Cheetah(R) drives. Participating distributors are offering up to $700 in instant rebates to resellers purchasing the LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E adapter with any Seagate Cheetah SAS drive. The offer is effective now through June 2, 2006 from ASI, Bell Micro, and Tech Data.

Open to all resellers, the following products are included in the rebate promotion:

-- LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8408E -- $100 off (per unit, maximum of 1) -- Seagate Cheetah SAS HDD 146GB -- $75 off (per unit, maximum of 8) -- Seagate Cheetah SAS HDD 73GB -- $40 off (per unit, maximum of 8) -- Seagate Cheetah SAS HDD 36GB -- $20 off (per unit, maximum of 8)

SAS maintains proven parallel SCSI command set support and management capabilities while enabling a seamless transition from SCSI systems, offering increased performance, scalability, reliability and flexibility. SAS also offers the ability to implement a cost-effective tiered storage solution in a single system, supporting a mixture of SAS drives for mission-critical applications and SATA drives for near-line data.

For more information on this promotion, please visit http://www.lsi.com/sasleadership.

About LSI Logic

LSI Logic Corporation is a leading provider of silicon-to-system solutions that are used at the core of products that create, store and consume digital information. LSI offers a broad portfolio of capabilities including custom and standard product ICs, host-bus and RAID adapters, storage area network solutions and software applications. LSI products enable leading technology companies in the Storage and Consumer markets to deliver some of the most advanced and well-known electronic systems in the market today. More information is available at http://www.lsi.com/.

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