PMC-Sierra Announces RAID Development Agreement With IBM

Santa Clara, CA - PMC-Sierra, Inc. recently announced a multi-year joint development agreement with IBM for RAID technology. Building on PMC-Sierra's industry-leading 6Gbit/s SAS and 8Gbit/s Fibre Channel storage protocol controller family and IBM's extensive RAID technology, this agreement is expected to accelerate the development and industry availability of innovative RAID chipset and software solutions, enabling the next generation of enterprise server and storage system designs.

"PMC-Sierra is committed to providing our customers with innovative, industry-leading storage chipset solutions," said Bob Bailey, President and CEO of PMC-Sierra. "Our joint technology development program with IBM combines the strengths of two industry leaders to accelerate RAID product solutions for broad customer and industry benefit."

"IBM continues to expand the scope of its successful innovation network strategy and develop new initiatives for collaborative R&D," said Bernard Meyerson, IBM Fellow and Vice President of Strategic Alliances. "We are pleased to have PMC-Sierra as a RAID technology development partner and member of IBM's innovation network."

About PMC-Sierra's Storage Products

PMC-Sierra is a leading provider of enterprise storage system solutions for networked (SAN/NAS) and server storage applications, with a broad portfolio of Fibre Channel and SAS/SATA protocol controllers, encryption protocol controllers, RAID controllers and disk interconnect products. PMC-Sierra's Tachyon protocol controllers, Fibre Channel loop switches, enclosure management controllers and maxSAS expander switches and multiplexers provide the most comprehensive solution for enterprise-class storage systems. Together, these products are providing end-to-end semiconductor and software solutions to the industry's leading storage OEMs and ODMs. For more information, visit http://www.pmc-sierra.com/storage.

SOURCE: PMC-Sierra, Inc.