Deep content inspection expert will discuss performance studies of security
accelerators
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today announced that Randy Smerik, senior vice president,
Network Components Group, will be presenting at the RSA Conference next
week at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif.
On Friday, April 11, at 11:10 a.m. in Red Room 309, Smerik will be
joined by Pranav Mehta, senior principal engineer and chief technical
officer for the Embedded & Communications Processor Division, Intel
Corporation, where they will jointly present the session Multi-core Intel
Architecture Plus Security Accelerators: A Performance Study.
This session will explore security applications on the multi-core Intel
architecture with special emphasis on scenarios in which the addition of
content processing silicon for accelerating threat detection is indicated.
Reference benchmarks will be presented for anti-virus, intrusion detection
system and XML security applications, characterizing the contribution of
the multi-core platform with and without regex, XML and "crypto silicon"
accelerators.
Randy Smerik is a serial entrepreneur whose leadership roles span 25
years. He was the co-founder, president and CEO of Tarari, Inc. prior to
its acquisition by LSI. In that role he was the company's visionary,
leading the company in developing solutions for deep packet inspection,
inline security and content-based, value-added services such as
content-based billing. These capabilities are being integrated into the
broad LSI portfolio of networking and storage solutions that will enable
security, telepresence, unified access and video over next-generation
networks. Prior to Tarari, he held senior management positions at Intel,
BEA, NCR and AT&T.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative
silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which
seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The
company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including
custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are
trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the
Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at
http://www.lsi.com.
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CONTACT:
Dan Devine of LSI Corporation,
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