Pliant’s Lighting Flash Drives Qualify with LSI’s CTS2600 Components
The storage innovator joins the LSI Channel Partner Alliance Program, and it says the interoperability of its products will appeal to white box system builders.
Solid-state storage innovator Pliant Technology has announced the qualification of its Lightning family of flash drives under the specifications of LSI Corp. Specifically, the Lightning enterprise flash drives are now fully compatible with the LSI CTS2600 family of configurable storage components for white box channel customers.
Pliant has also joined the LSI Channel Partner Alliance Program.
Pliant’s Lightning flash drives are designed to deliver high levels of performance, reliability, and efficiency, enabling data center IT infrastructure and system providers.
The LSI CTS2600 family includes external storage components (such as controllers and storage enclosures) that support solid-state drives and capacity-optimized SAS drives.
By qualifying with the LSI CTS2600 family, Pliant Lightning flash drives are now options for LSI white box channel customers to integrate into and deliver systems with 6 Gb/s SAS back-end drive connects, multi-protocol host connectivity, mixed drive support, simplified management, and low power consumption. The multi-protocol host connectivity includes 6 Gb/s SAS and 1 Gb/s iSCSI or 6 Gb/s SAS and 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) interface options.
“Pliant’s qualification on our CTS2600 family underscores the value that the channel community places on flash in advancing enterprise storage performance and efficiency,” said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel sales and marketing, LSI.† “By supporting Pliant SSDs with the CTS2600, our channel customers can build custom configurations to address specific system and application performance requirements while maximizing storage density and energy efficiency.”
“By qualifying across the LSI CTS2600 family of high-performance storage components, Pliant is well-positioned to provide the same technology chosen by leading enterprise server and storage OEMs to solutions providers building the best storage solutions for their enterprise and data center customers,” says Greg Goelz, Pliant’s vice president of marketing. “And by joining the LSI Channel Partner Alliance Program, we’re able to provide solutions providers with assured interoperability and ease of integration for CTS2600-based storage solutions utilizing Pliant SSDs.”
The LSI Channel Partner Alliance Program provides a venue for industry leaders in storage software and hardware to work closely with LSI in providing creative solutions that meet the challenges of evolving technology and a rapid-paced business environment.†
