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of Sheridan, Wyoming is a solutions providerdelivering information systems and technology to agriculture and naturalresource industries. The company's solutions help businesses collect,manage, and share information more quickly and accurately so they canbetter manage workflow, make informed decisions and deliver higher valueto their patrons.Copyright 2009, Market Wire, All rights reserved.-0-. LSI Provides Rack-Optimized, High-Density SAS Drive Enclosure for FujitsuHigh-End ServersNew DE5300 with 2.5-inch SAS drives offer efficient space utilization, ultra-low power consumption and freedom from scalability limitations of internalstorageMILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ LSI Corporation(NYSE: LSI) today announced that Fujitsu has selected the new LSI(TM)Engenio(R) DE5300 high-density, 2.5-inch 3Gb/s SAS drive enclosure for itshigh-end server lines.

The small form factor, ultra-low power 2.5-inch SASdrives housed within the DE5300 will allow Fujitsu(R) server customers facedwith IT space constraints and ballooning energy costs to utilize nearly 50percent less power than 3.5-inch drives, and enable nearly twice as manydrives to reside in the same 2U of rack space. In conjunction with LSI SAShost bus adapters (HBAs), the DE5300 also provides a cost-effective solutionfor growing businesses to transition to external storage for improvedperformance and scalability in a small physical footprint."The selection of the DE5300 SAS enclosure continues our overalltransition from SCSI to SAS-based storage and expands our long-standingrelationship with LSI," said Mr. Kenichi Sakai, general manager, MissionCritical Server Division, Enterprise Server System Unit, Fujitsu. "As powerconsumption and physical footprint continue to be hot-button IT issues drivingthe data storage market, we're providing customers with a solution to tacklethese challenges head-on."The DE5300 is a 2U, 19-inch rack-mountable drive enclosure that supportsup to twenty 2.5-inch SAS drives for a maximum capacity of 2.9 TB in a singleenclosure. The dense drive accommodation supports intense random I/Oapplications making it an ideal solution for a wide range of computingenvironments, from databases and email to streaming video and onlinetransaction processing."The struggle to manage escalating data volumes will not stop, even in aslow-growth economy," said Steve Gardner, director of product marketing,Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "As the industry leader in the SAS market segment,LSI is uniquely positioned to provide Fujitsu server customers with a solutionthat allows growing businesses to maximize storage density and powerefficiency by combining the benefits of small form factor SAS drives with theflexibility to move beyond the scalability limitations of internal storage."The DE5300 is designed to minimize acquisition costs by allowing users toadd additional enclosures as capacity requirements change for a "start small,grow big" approach. In addition, the DE5300's split-bus backplane allows theenclosure to be shared between two hosts.

By sharing a common physicalinfrastructure, 10 drives can be assigned to one server and the remaining 10drives to another, lowering cost of ownership.About LSILSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon,systems and software technologies that enable products, which seamlessly bringpeople, information and digital content together. The company offers a broadportfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard productICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best knownbrands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. Moreinformation is available at http://'s Notes:1.All LSI news releases (financial, acquisitions, manufacturing,products, technology, etc.) are issued exclusively by PR Newswire andare immediately thereafter posted on the company's external web site, http://, the LSI logo and Engenio are trademarks or registered trademarksof LSI Corporation.3.All other brands or product names may be trademarks or registeredtrademarks of their respective companies.SOURCELSI CorporationJay Russo of LVA Communications, 1-860-739-5598, , for LSICorporation; or Brian Garabedian of LSI Public Relations, 1-408-433-8253,. ) Jeffrey Loria, the owner of the Marlins, seems to be upset that his team did not make the 2009 postseason. He is so mad he may even fire manager Fredi Gonzalez in the upcoming weeks. Loria and his executives will meet about the future of the team. There is somethat Gonzalez could be out, with wacky but effective Bobby Valentine to be the new skipper.If Loria wants to upgrade managers and go with Valentine to try to improve, then I can respect that.