Industry leaders in storage software and hardware partner with LSI to provide creative solutions that meet the challenges of evolving technology and a rapid-paced business environment. We believe in strong relationships that deliver innovative technology leadership and offer demonstrated storage solutions. Working together with our alliance partners, LSI offers our customers the compatibility, performance, and reliability they demand when configuring a storage system.

LSI Alliance Partners

LSI is proud to partner with the following technology leaders. We believe in strong partnerships that have proven innovative technology leadership and offer continued storage solutions throughout the industry.

AIC AIC is a leading provider of OEM/ODM server and storage solutions that are developed to meet the unique demands of a wide variety of markets. With expertise in in-house design, validation, manufacturing and production, our expansive selection of products is highly flexible and can be configured to any form factor or custom configuration. AIC leads the industry in all categories, with over 100 years of combined experience in mechanical, electronic, system-level engineering as well as a dedication to product innovation and customer support.
"AIC is committed to providing reliable, scalable and cost-effective SAS/SATA server and storage solutions to the market. The long-term partnership between AIC and LSI is a proven success with the implementations of joint solutions across all industries." Gene Lee, Vice President, AIC.

“AIC is committed to providing reliable, scalable and cost-effective SAS/SATA server and storage solutions to the market. The long-term partnership between AIC and LSI is a proven success with the implementations of joint solutions across all industries.” Gene Lee, Vice President, AIC
http://www.aicpc.com
Akiwa Technology Established in 1972, Guanghsing (Akiwa; US location), is one of the pioneers in manufacturing 19" Rackmount chassis, Storage, Wall Mount, and Compact PCI enclosures to Industrial Automation, Networking, ISP, Computer Telephony and the Medical field. From our full line of standard rackmount chassis to our custom designed enclosures, Akiwa utilises CAD/CAM design tools to create products that are perennially recognised and acknowledged by our customers as an innovative, high-quality and cost-effective solution provider.
http://www.akiwa.com/
Chenbro Founded in 1983, Chenbro is an old veteran and ISO9001 certified in casing manufacturing in Taiwan. The Company provides comprehensive product lines (PC chassis, Pedestal Server/Workstation chassis, Rackmount chassis and HDD enclosures) and innovative mechanical solutions in the 3C industry. Aside from casing manufacturing, which Chenbro does best, the company also offers excellent thermal, EMI, and acoustic solutions that differentiate Chenbro from its competitors.
http://www.chenbro.com/
Ci Design Founded in 1983, Ci Design has evolved from a designer and manufacturer of personal computer peripherals to a global company providing complex server and storage enclosure solutions for manufacturers and system integrators.
http://www.cidesign.com/
CRU-DataPort Founded in 1986, CRU-DataPort is a pioneer in data security and data mobility devices. The company's flagship DataPort®, along with Data Express® and RhinoJR® (formerly StorCase), and WiebeTech™ product brands of removable and external hard drive enclosures are the de facto standard for physical data security and safe data transporting in government, education and business markets. CRU-DataPort products are widely used in media-rich data environments including audio/video production, digital cinema, video security capture, digital forensics and disk-2-disk backup and archiving applications.
http://www.cru-dataport.com/
DataCore Software

DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualisation, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, lowers the cost and complexity of IT by making storage efficient, fast, flexible, fail-safe and virtual. DataCore has developed a rich set of features and functions that frees storage from mechanical constraints and improves the speed, resilience and utility of all the popular disk storage brands. As a storage virtualisation pioneer, DataCore fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence.
DataCore's software operates across different networking connections to form a storage area network (SAN) that allows you to protect your data, avoid storage interruptions to your business and easily manage your storage centrally. Thousands of installations around the globe, ranging from petabyte-sized disk farms to small workgroups, speak to the scalability and robustness of DataCore Software.
http://www.datacore.com/

Enhance Technology Founded in 1997, Enhance Technology designs and manufactures high-performance storage systems and products for digital content creation, medical imaging, security surveillance, data archive applications, and IT market spaces. Headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California with an Asian branch in Taipei, Taiwan and a European branch in Neu-Ulm, Germany, Enhance Technology has become a world leader in hybrid I/O storage design and development.
http://www.enhance-tech.com/
Fujitsu With more than thirty-five years of experience in hard disk drive technology, Fujitsu offers state-of-the-art storage products for your most demanding enterprise applications. Fujitsu was the first to bring SAS hard disk drives to the enterprise market and are currently shipping their second generation products. This reflects determination and confidence in the SAS technology Fujitsu has championed. Fujitsu SAS hard disk drives help enterprises keep costs lower and maintain flexibility.
http://www.fujitsu.com/
Hitachi Logo Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) creates dependable high-performance storage technologies that allow channel partners to secure a competitive advantage in selling their market-focused solutions.
In dynamic IT environments, storage requirements are ever-changing. SATA and SAS compatible technologies help businesses quickly adapt to their customer needs and market demands. High capacity and enterprise storage purchase decisions continue to be based on investment protection and low total cost of ownership. Hitachi GST emerges as the trusted vendor offering both SATA and SAS hard disk drive solutions with a broad spectrum of hard drive offerings and delivering on the promise of innovation, meeting unique market demands – today and tomorrow.
http://www.hitachi.com/
iStarUSA iStarUSA has over 20 years of experience specialising in OEM/ODM projects and manufactures industrial Power Supply, rackmount chassis, rackmount cabinets, and storage enclosures. iStarUSA products have been widely used in industrial computing, server, multimedia production, DVR/Surveillance, and telecommunication industries. In the past 20 years, our factory has provided unsurpassed OEM/ODM products and services by high design flexibility, rapid prototyping, and cost-effective solutions. The ISO 9001 ensures iStarUSA product quality and our commitment to our customers.
http://www.istarusa.com/
Nexenta Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc. has developed NexentaStor™, the leading open storage enterprise class hardware independent storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system that combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease-of-use and breadth of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file system ZFS. More information about Nexenta Systems, Inc. and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor can be found on the website or call: (877) 862-7770.
http://www.nexenta.com/
Norco Norco Technologies, Inc., established in 1991, is a leading manufacturer of server rackmount chassis, storage systems, rack cabinet, industrial PC solutions. Our goal is providing customers with great performance/price ratio products and considerate services.
http://www.norcotek.com/
Open-E Open-E®, Inc. is a leading provider of unified file and block storage management software. The Open-E Data Storage Software V6 (DSS V6™) offers support for Network Attached Storage (NAS), iSCSI, InfiniBand and Fibre Channel SAN (Storage Area Network) functionality, all in a single, easy to use storage application. Open-E DSS V6 also provides, at no extra cost, Automatic Failover and Failback for high availability, Remote Mirroring for disaster recovery, WORM (Write Once Read Many) support for digital archiving, and NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) support for universal backup – ensuring better data security, increased fault tolerance, and improved availability of all data, ultimately delivering better overall performance and value.
http://www.open-e.com/
Samsung Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics, information technology and electronic components. Samsung hard disk drives provide the best performance and quality with the state-of-the-art technology that enables customers to strengthen their business and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). The RAID class hard drives from Samsung are designed for demanding enterprise applications such as email and web servers, software development, data warehousing, audio-video streaming, surveillance, call centres and near-line/backup storage. These applications require critical features such as high reliability in high workload and 24 hr / 7 day operations, low power consumption, high IOPS and high capacity at low cost. Samsung’s RAID class enterprise drives meet the hard drive industry’s highest quality standards and demonstrate mean time between failures (MTBF) of over
1.3 million hours at normal operating temperature but high workload condition. Drives are also equipped with enterprise class functions such as command completion time limit (CCTL) and RV controller (RVC) for vibration tolerances.
http://www.samsung.com/
Seagate Seagate®, a long-standing LSI partner, drives innovative enterprise-class storage solutions. First to market with 6Gbps SAS HDDs, we offer the peace of mind that results from deploying solutions that enhance business continuity. Seagate's Savvio™, Cheetah™ and Constellation™ HDDs optimise performance, reliability, capacity, availability and security. Customers look to our OEMs and system builders to boost efficiencies, minimise complexity while reducing costs and administrative overhead by leveraging best-in-breed technological advances including SFF (small form factor), SAS (serial attached SCSI) and SED (Self-Encrypting Drives). Seagate delivers optimised, robust enterprise HDDs where choice, security and simplicity provide businesses with a sustainable storage strategy.
"Seagate and LSI both share the fundamental belief in maintaining the focus
on meeting customer needs, from initial planning and development, to the final delivery of products into the channel. This customer focus and a tireless commitment to meeting their needs has enabled both companies to enjoy the number one leadership positions in our respective areas of storage."
Henry Fabian, executive director of Seagate Core Product Marketing.
http://www.seagate.com/
Shuttle Computer Established in 1990, Shuttle Computer Group Inc. is the American arm of the world-renowned Shuttle Inc. Based in Taiwan with an extensive worldwide network of subsidiaries, resellers, partners, and suppliers, Shuttle Inc. is recognised as a premier manufacturer of motherboards and barebones systems. Shuttle Inc. has received numerous awards and accolades from independent media and analysts, affirming the superior quality of Shuttle products and services.
http://us.shuttle.com/
Supermicro Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a leading provider of application-optimised, high-performance server, workstation and blade systems. Established in 1993, Supermicro emphasises superior product design and uncompromising quality control to produce cutting-edge serverboards, chassis, servers, workstations and blade systems. These Server Building Block Solutions® provide benefits across many environments, including data centre deployment, high-performance computing (HPC), high-end workstations, storage networks and standalone server installations. As one of the premier server manufacturers in the world today, Supermicro provides outstanding quality and service.
http://www.supermicro.com/
Terabytes Server Storage Tech Terabytes Server Storage Tech (TST) was established in 2005 by a group of design engineers primarily from the most distinguished technology institute in the US and Taiwan. TST was founded on the philosophy of providing leading-edge technologies, innovative designs, and delivering the highest-quality products and offering complete customer services.
http://www.tstcom.com/
TYAN TYAN, as a leading server brand under MiTAC Group, designs, manufactures and markets advanced x86 and x86-64 server/workstation board technology platforms and server solution products. Its products are sold to OEMs, VARs, System Integrators, and Resellers worldwide for a wide range of applications. TYAN enables its customers to be technology leaders by providing scalable, highly integrated, reliable products for a wide range of applications such as server appliances and solutions for high-performance computing, and server/workstation usage in markets such as CAD, DCC, E&P and HPC.
http://www.tyan.com/
WD Logo Western Digital, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organisations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state storage that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. WD applies its storage expertise to consumer products for external, portable and shared storage applications.
"WD is excited to partner with LSI in delivering exceptional storage solutions. Because LSI SAS/SATA adapters are compatible with our large selection of SATA hard drives, system builders can enable business productivity and global enterprise applications with greater design flexibility," said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of WD’s enterprise storage solutions business unit.
http://www.wdc.com/

 

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