New Engenio 4900 disk storage system from LSI

LSI has introduced the LSITM Engenio 4900 disk storage system, designed to deliver 8Gb/s fibre channel (8GFC) and 1Gb/s iSCSI host interfaces, the multi-protocol connectivity, modular architecture for server and storage consolidation.

"In today's challenging economic environment, IT organizations face the difficult task of controlling costs while still accommodating rapid data growth. The key to facing this task is to deploy storage solutions that boost efficiency and performance without requiring major infrastructure upgrades," said Richard Villars, vice president of Storage and IT Executive Strategies at IDC. "Storage solutions based on products like LSI's Engenio 4900 will make it easier for enterprises to address changing storage requirements without busting their IT budget."

The Engenio 4900 system delivers 1.6GB/s on sustained reads from disk, and over 50,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) disk reads. By utilizing the system's 8GFC host interfaces, the number of host bus adapters (HBAs) can be reduces per server.

"Faced with relentless data growth and shrinking budgets, companies continue to look for ways to reduce storage costs through improved resource utilization and efficiencies," said Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "The Engenio 4900 provides customers with a highly adaptable, cost-effective solution that delivers the balanced performance necessary to tackle the mixed workload demands of virtualization and consolidation environments."

The 4900 modular architecture allows to start small and seamlessly grow capacity up to 112 FC or SATA drives, including self-encrypting drives (SEDs). The pay-as-you-grow scalability combined with the ability to intermix up to sixteen FC, SATA or SEDs in a single drive enclosure.

Advanced data protection also is provided with support for SEDs utilizing LSI SafeStore Encryption Services.

Availability: to OEM customers
For more details visit www.lsi.com