LSI plans a transceiver capable of support both Fibre Channel and 10-Gbit/s Ethernet, Richardson said. Also on the drawing board is a data management offering tied to solid state disk and traditional magnetic disk technology. (See IDC: SSDs to Go Mainstream, LSI Annexes StoreAge, and LSI Buys StoreAge.)
There is evidence that other component suppliers have put storage at the forefront of their networking plans. AMCC is said to be readying a SAS RAID controller for release October 1. The product, which is geared for networked disk arrays, will ship by the end of this fiscal quarter and is now in evaluation at two "major" but unnamed OEMs.
In a recent financial announcement, AMCC declared that storage components alone grew during the quarter ended June 30, 2007. The company predicts total net revenues of $50 million, down 29 percent sequentially, and plans are underway to use storage as a leg up on faltering profits.
Among AMCC plans are storage/networking synergies. "We're seeing true convergence of networking and storage," said AMCC SVP and GM of storage Barbara Murphy in a recent interview with Byte and Switch. The highest market growth, she points out, is in companies like Cisco that blur the line between networking and storage.
Some players are shifting their focus within storage. Ailing Vitesse sold sold its SAS and SATA chips to Maxim Integrated Products for $63 million last week. But Vitesse has chosen to hold onto its Fibre Channel and RAID-on-a-chip wares.
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