STORAGE LEADERS TO DEMONSTRATE FIRST 4G FIBRE CHANNEL MULTI-VENDOR INTEROPERABILITY SAN AT SNW FALL 2004



Storage Networking World, Orlando, FL – October 26, 2004 – Keeping pace with the storage industry’s evolution to 4Gb/s Fibre Channel adoption, LSI Logic (NYSE: LSI) and leading server, switch and disk drive manufacturers will collaborate on product interoperability demonstrations at Storage Networking World in Orlando Oct. 25 – 28.  The demonstrations will take place at the LSI Logic booth #P6 beginning Tuesday.

"As enterprises deploy tiered storage architectures, they want their SAN infrastructure providers to deliver solutions that are cost effective, non disruptive, and able to meet future needs," said Richard Villars, Vice President of Storage Systems research at IDC.  "The demonstration of interoperable 4Gb Fibre Channel partners is critical to IT managers that want assurance that emerging 4 Gb FC products work together."
 
Joining with LSI Logic will be disk drive manufacturers, Hitachi and Seagate, fabric switches from Brocade and Broadcom, and HP with a ProLiant DL585 server using AMD Opteron processors.  

“Demonstrating interoperability among these critical system components is the first step toward a smooth 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel migration,” said Doug Pickford, Director Product Strategy and Planning, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. “Disk drives running at 4Gb/s speeds will help our customers improve system performance in their most demanding enterprise storage environments.”

The interoperability demonstration will feature LSI Logic's dual-port 4Gb Fibre Channel LSI7204XP-LC HBA with Fusion-MPT™ architecture installed in an HP ProLiant DL585 server with AMD Opteron processors. The Adapter is connected to a to a 4Gb SAN that includes 4Gb fabric switches from Brocade and Broadcom (BCM98440) and 4Gb hard disk drives from Seagate and Hitachi.  Running Windows 2003 Enterprise Server operating system, the demonstration also showcases the management capabilities of LSI Logic's MyStorage™ software for monitoring these new 4Gb Fibre Channel infrastructures.

In addition to interoperability, the demonstration will highlight the full-duplex capabilities of LSI Logic's HBAs, as they deliver data transfer rates of 800 MB/s per port, showcasing the ability of 4Gb/s technology to meet the needs of today's bandwidth-intensive applications.

"LSI Logic has a long history in providing leading-edge Fibre Channel technology, and as 4Gb emerges we plan to continue in this tradition," said Bill Wuertz, vice president for the LSI Logic Storage Standard Products division.  "As users look to take advantage of the performance benefits of 4Gb technology, they can be assured that interoperability will not be an issue with LSI Logic products, as we are demonstrating here at SNW."

The 4Gb/s HBAs leverage the LSI Logic LSIFC949X Fibre Channel controller and feature a 64 bit/133MHz PCI-X bus interface.  Supporting 1-2-4GB/s operations, these HBAs are ideal for storage clustering and deliver optimal performance for SAN applications.  LSI Logic's Fibre Channel HBAs are bundled with the company's MyStorage™ software, which provides HBA monitoring, load balancing, and path failover protection, and allows IT managers to control and configure any LSI Logic HBA in their storage area network in just a few mouse clicks.   

4Gb Fibre Channel Demonstration Equipment

About LSI Logic Corporation
LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) focuses on the design and production of high-performance semiconductors for Consumer, Communications and Storage applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. LSI Logic engineers incorporate reusable, industry-standard intellectual property building blocks that serve as the heart of leading-edge systems. LSI Logic serves its global OEM, channel and distribution customers with Platform ASICs, standard-cell ASICs, standard products, host bus adapters, RAID controllers and software. In addition, the company supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1621 Barber Lane, Milpitas, CA 95035. http://www.lsilogic.com.

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