LSI 6Gb/s SAS Switch Selected as a Finalist for the 2010 Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year Awards

MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that the LSI™ SAS6160 switch has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year Awards. The LSI SAS6160 is the industry's first 6Gb/s SAS switch. It is designed to significantly extend the capabilities of SAS in direct-attached storage (DAS) environments by allowing multiple servers to connect to one or more independent external storage systems. The product offers customers a high-performance, low-cost and easy-to-use storage networking option for rack-mount server and storage installations in cloud computing, data center and managed hosting application environments.

The 2010 Products of the Year finalists are selected by the editors of SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine, storage industry experts and storage users. The LSI SAS6160 switch is one of six finalists in the Networking Equipment category, which covers switches, host bus adapters, network interface cards, virtualization appliances, security devices and caching appliances. The winners in each category will be announced in the February issue of Storage magazine.

"The LSI SAS6160 switch helps customers to optimize storage resource utilization, reduce islands of storage and simplify storage management, backup and upgrades," said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel sales and marketing, LSI. "The product's selection as an award finalist underscores its unique and innovative capabilities to deliver significant cost savings to customers in today's challenging IT environment."

The SAS switch extends the comprehensive LSI portfolio of 6Gb/s SAS and SATA storage building block solutions, including MegaRAID® and 3ware® RAID controllers, host bus adapters, the WarpDrive™ SLP-300 card, JBOD enclosures, the CTS2600 family of configurable storage components and advanced software options. Additional information is available at www.lsi.com/channel.

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