Greg McSorley

The SCSI Trade Association (STA) is spearheading the SCSI Express initiative. SCSI Express represents the natural evolution of enterprise storage technology building upon decades of customer and industry experience. SCSI Express is based on two of the highest volume and widely deployed, interoperable technologies in the world – SCSI and PCI Express. These two technologies enable unprecedented performance gains while maintaining the enterprise storage experience.

SAS is the backbone of nearly every enterprise storage deployment. It is rapidly evolving, adding new features, enhancing capabilities and offering “no compromise” system performance. SAS not only excels as a device level interface, its versatility, reliability and scalability have made it the connectivity standard of choice for creating new storage architectures.

SAS is the backbone of nearly every enterprise storage deployment, rapidly evolving, adding new features such Zone Block Commands, enhanced capabilities and offering

Learning Objectives

SCSI continues to be the backbone of enterprise storage deployments and continues to rapidly evolve by adding new features, capabilities, and performance enhancements. This presentation includes an up-to-the-minute recap of the latest additions to the SAS standard and road maps, the status of 12Gb/s SAS deployment, advanced connectivity solutions, MultiLink SAS™, SCSI Express, and 24Gb/s development.