Business decision makers are constantly under pressure to maintain adequate computing resources in support of organizational goals. Sometimes the pressure comes out of need – the need to store and access data that is growing exponentially. Sometimes the pressure comes from opportunity – the chance to exploit social media, voice, and video data formats or new “e-commerce” routes to new markets.

Whether the need for a new server is driven by data growth, business growth, or both, any new server purchase decision presents and opportunity to optimize your IT infrastructure. That's where LSI enters the picture. A leader in storage technology, we are frequently first to market with highly reliable, leading edge storage components such as 6Gb/s SATA and SAS HBAs, or the award-winning 3ware® and MegaRAID® lines of 6Gb/s RAID controllers.

Combine our MegaRAID controllers with our MegaRAID CacheCade™ and Fast Path software and you will see order-of-magnitude improvements in overall system performance. CacheCade software enables you to take full advantage of the microsecond speeds of solid-state drives (SSDs) by configuring dedicated SSDs as an additional layer of cache under command of the MegaRAID controller. Fast Path software is designed to optimize data I/O rates for dense, high performance SSD arrays, unleashing the potential of flash-based storage.

To make them easy to install and easy to use, each LSI storage product is rigorously tested for reliability and compatibility across the storage technology ecosystem. This extensive testing ensures system builders can design a server that works with minimal issues in a timely fashion. What's more, LSI’s management application allows support staff to receive notifications and manage server storage remotely and easily, a true benefit for end customers using these solutions.

LSI storage technologies also are ideal if you are upgrading e-mail or file sharing services, implementing SQL, or developing an ecommerce site.