LSI jumps to #2 spot in PCIe flash adapter segment

LSI Corporation has announced its elevation to #2 position, in the rapidly growing enterprise PCIe® flash adapter market segment, according to leading market research firms. Since the introduction of the Nytro^TMproduct portfolio in April 2012, the company has shipped more than 40,000 Nytro flash adapters. Demand reflects the needs of hyperscale web and cloud datacenters, financial services, and other enterprises to accelerate application performance, increase datacenter efficiency, and lower IT costs.

"Flash-based solutions are becoming pervasive in the data center, and LSI has established itself as #2 merchant supplier of enterprise PCIe flash adapters in the US, as well as the fastest-growing PCIe flash supplier worldwide," said Greg Wong, founder and principal analyst, Forward Insights. He further added, "The fact that LSI has achieved such success in the 1^st year of the Nytro product line is significant and underscores LSI's strength in the storage industry."

LSI Nytro products are being deployed to cut latency and accelerate performance for key applications like Hadoop® software-based big data analytics, online transaction processing, virtual desktop infrastructure, and shared-nothing infrastructures for highly virtualized, private/enterprise cloud build-out. 

"Having flash integrated into our controllers and other technology directly helps us to provide customers with the performance and consistency that they are looking from Rackspace," said John Engates, CTO, Rackspace Hosting. "LSI is collaborating with Rackspace on a number of hybrid cloud and Open Compute projects using LSI solutions including the Nytro product line."

"LSI's broad portfolio of PCIe flash adapter products allows us to uniquely address customer challenges across a wider range of data center workloads than the competition," said Gary Smerdon, senior vice president and general manager, accelerated solutions division, LSI. "Customers value and benefit from LSI's long track record of delivering robust, high-performance storage solutions as they struggle to accelerate applications while meeting the challenges of the growing data deluge."

LSI serves the market directly, and through a broad base of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers and LSI's existing reseller channel. The company recently announced a Nytro OEM agreement with Intel, which adds to a list of previously announced top-tier OEM customers. Additionally, the number of end customer engagements, ranging from trials to production, has more than tripled in the past quarter.

The comprehensive Nytro product portfolio includes the Nytro WarpDrive®, Nytro XD, and Nytro MegaRAID® product families. More information on the LSI Nytro application acceleration product portfolio is available at www.lsi.com/acceleration.