LSI Corporation 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. Nytro solutions allow datacenters to contend with massive data growth and speed the ability of databases and other applications to access data and provide real-time analytics and reporting.

LSI Corporation has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SandForce, Inc., the leading provider of flash storage processors for enterprise and client flash solutions and solid state drives (SSDs). Under the agreement, LSI will pay approximately $322 million in cash, net of cash assumed, and assume approximately $48 million of unvested stock options and restricted shares held by SandForce employees.

LSI announced it is shipping in volume the TrueStore RC9700 read channel IP integrated into system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs for the hard disk drive (HDD) market. The TrueStore RC9700 is a second-generation 40nm read channel featuring a low-density parity check (LDPC) iterative decoding architecture. First available in silicon in November 2010, the RC9700 is shipping in production volumes with its initial silicon, accelerating time-to-market for n...

LSI Corporation announced that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has deployed a system utilizing LSI® 6Gb/s SAS RAID controllers with LSI CacheCadeTM cache tiering software to explore some of the unprecedented data storage challenges that will come with the Dark Energy Survey. The Dark Energy Survey is a large-scale, multinational effort to study the acceleration of the expanding universe. Involving more than 120 scienti...

LSI is honoring 18 world-class suppliers for their exceptional support in helping LSI meet its goal to be a technology leader while remaining cost competitive. STATS ChipPAC Ltd. was named “Strategic Partner of the Year” and was one of three companies designated “Best-in-Class” in recognition of their excellent value as full system suppliers, and for their design capabilities and aggressive pursuit of cost reductions.

LSI announced the company has shipped more than 750,000 storage adapters based on 6Gb/s SAS technology, reinforcing LSI's continued leadership in the SAS market segment. The milestone underscores the broad market demand for LSI® 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID controllers and host bus adapters (HBAs) among server OEMs, ODMs, system integrators and resellers worldwide.

LSI Corporation announced a platform featuring the company’s networking and storage solutions to enable content delivery networks (CDN) that bring rich media services to multi-screen environments. The combination of the LSI® Axxia® Network Accelerator, Axxia Media Accelerator and WarpDriveTM SLP-300 solid-state acceleration card provides a programmable platform that brings significant performance, manageability and scalability enhancements to...

LSI announced that LSI CacheCade technology for application I/O performance acceleration is now available with Dell PowerEdgeTM RAID Controller (PERC) H700- and H800-family cards.

LSI Corporation today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its external storage systems business to NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) for $480 million in cash. The company also announced today that its board of directors has authorized a new stock repurchase program of up to $750 million.

LSI Corp announced the StarPro SP2704S, a higher-speed version of the StarPro SP2704 media processor, enabling new levels of performance for networking infrastructure equipment manufacturers. The production-qualified family of SP2700 media processors, including the SP2704, SP2704S and SP2716, offers a single platform for a wide range of applications from enterprise to carrier-class media gateways, servers and wireless base stations, and can scale...

LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that Bryon Look, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, will be presenting at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, at 2:55 p.m. Pacific Time.

LSI Corporation introduced the LSITM APP3100 multicore communication processor for enterprise and service providers. Based on the award-winning LSI APP3300 communication processor, the LSI APP3100 gives networking equipment providers a space-efficient and cost-effective solution for accelerating Carrier Ethernet and network security functions.

LSI Corporation announced the availability of a media processing development system based on the LSITM SP2704 StarPro media processor, which extends the LSI asymmetrical multicore architecture to enterprise video applications using the company’s proven family of networking silicon and software. The new development system allows OEMs to build media-aware networks that enable intelligent media and graphics processing in the data center and enterp...

LSI Corporation announced the LSITM Tarari T2500 content processor, which has been designed to meet the content processing requirements of ultra high-speed, ultra low-latency networking applications. The Tarari T2500 offloads critical security processing and application recognition from the host processor, delivering improved network performance and increased security.

LSI Corporation announced the availability of the company’s portfolio of asymmetric multicore silicon solutions and software for use in enterprise and data center networking applications. The portfolio allows networking OEMs to use LSI advanced communications, media, content and security and link communication processors to build enterprise networks that deliver increased levels of intelligence, control and security.

LSI Corporation announced it has achieved 1 million random read input/output operations per second (IOPS) using a 4K block size in a PCI Express (PCIe)-based solid-state storage (SSS) performance demonstration running in a single server. The demo showcases the improved price-to-performance ratio, lower power consumption and increased storage density offered by new LSI PCIe SSS cards compared to storage solutions utilizing hard disk drives (HDDs).

LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced new software drivers for LSITM 3ware® 9750 series RAID controller cards that provide support for Mac® OS X, VMware® ESXTM and ESXTMi 4.0, OpenSolarisTM and FreeBSD®. In addition, the 3ware cards now include embedded Linux® driver support for Linux kernel 2.6.33 and higher, allowing support for many Linux distributions. The extended operating system (OS) support is designed to enable white box chann...

LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that SpectSoft has selected high-performance LSITM 3ware® 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID controller cards as the embedded RAID solutions for its new line of Rave 4.0 disk drive-based video production appliances.

LSI Corporation announced four advanced software options for LSI MegaRAID 6Gb/s SATA+SAS controller cards. The new software offerings are designed to provide white box channel partners with enhanced performance and data protection capabilities, enabling end users to address key business challenges while helping to deliver a higher return on their IT investments.

LSI Corporation introduced the LSI 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.