LSI® Syncro™ Architecture Establishes New Sharable, Scalable
Storage with Benefits for Small Businesses to Mega-Datacenters
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ACCELERATING
INNOVATION SUMMIT -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today
introduced Syncro, a new and innovative storage architecture
designed to deliver unprecedented storage sharing and scaling
capabilities for multi-server solutions. The Syncro architecture
takes direct-attached storage (DAS) out of the box and builds
advanced storage-sharing capabilities on top of industry-proven
MegaRAID technology, enabling business benefits including reduced
cost, power and failure rates, while improving storage utilization
and application uptime.
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Today's datacenter architects and managers face enormous
challenges managing massive data growth, increased cost and power
consumption, while grappling with issues including reliability,
downtime and data loss. By bridging the gap between DAS
single-server storage and traditional external storage with a new
storage architecture that brings sharing and scaling capabilities
to multi-server environments, the Syncro architecture intelligently
solves these challenges.
The Syncro architecture offers benefits for a range of
next-generation datacenter environments including SME, enterprise,
mega-datacenter and cloud. The Syncro architecture will extend to
Syncro CS and Syncro MX product families.
Syncro CS:
- Delivers enterprise capabilities and redundant, shared-node
storage to DAS environments, offering solutions that are simple,
easy to manage and cost-effective.
- Provide SMEs and remote, departmental and branch offices with
increased application availability and uptime without the
complexity and costs of traditional high-availability storage
solutions.
Syncro MX:
- Targets large cloud and mega-datacenters with server solutions
focused on reducing costs and increasing reliability.
- Simplifies datacenter management by reducing complexity and
storage rebuilds
"The Syncro architecture is the result of customer requests to
increase data protection across multiple server and storage systems
by enabling levels of enterprise-class availability and flexibility
never before offered for DAS," said Bill
Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, RAID
Storage Division, LSI. "The new Syncro architecture and product
family demonstrate LSI's long, proven commitment to delivering the
most innovative and productive solutions for next-generation server
and storage systems."
"As information consumption continues its exponential growth,
businesses of all sizes need scalable storage solutions that can
deliver increased efficiency and uptime while meeting goals for
lower cost and power consumption," said Dave Reinsel, group vice president at IDC.
"Intelligent storage solutions that can address these critical
areas, like the LSI Syncro architecture, are invaluable for
businesses and IT departments as they design and rearchitect their
datacenters to deal with massive data growth."
The Syncro architecture will serve as the foundation for a
series of new products to be introduced over several years designed
to solve challenges in many applications and verticals. The first
member of the Syncro product family, the Syncro MX-B Boot
Appliance, is currently available to manufacturers. Other products
in the Syncro product family are expected to ship during the first
half of 2013.
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that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters, mobile
networks and client computing. Our technology is the intelligence
critical to enhanced application performance, and is applied in
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