"As a result of our continued, collaborative relationship with Microsoft and the T10 SCSI standards committee, Dell today can demonstrate ODX capabilities that further expand our innovation on intelligent storage technologies with Dell EqualLogic arrays," said Laz Vekiarides, executive director, Dell EqualLogic software engineering. "As Dell continues its commitment as a leader in driving new storage innovations, we see our investment in ODX as an opportunity to support our customers with this new enabler for advanced virtualization and cloud technologies."
"Companies are looking to increase IT agility to deal with unpredictable cloud workloads," said Steve Crimi, Director, Storage Solutions and Alliances, HP. "HP and Microsoft's collaboration on Windows Offloaded Data Transfer converges server and storage technologies, including HP 3PAR Storage, so clients can quickly and non-disruptively adjust to new requirements and drive end-user productivity."
Santosh Rao, Technical Director, NetApp said "Working together, NetApp and Microsoft are focused on innovating to bring differentiated solutions that offer outstanding efficiency and flexibility to customers who rely on Microsoft to run their business. With ODX support for Windows Server 2012, customers can leverage industry leading data management capabilities of NetApp storage systems to provide Windows users and applications a high performing and efficient data mobility experience with minimal utilization of server and network resources. Along with the broader set of Thin Provisioning and Storage Management capabilities supported for Windows Server 2012, NetApp looks forward to providing these innovative capabilities to our joint customers."
Storage industry leaders together to deliver enterprise storage features
Windows ODX is a joint effort in between Microsoft and storage array partners. At today's announcement, Dell, HP, IBM and NetApp demonstrated ODX data transfer features with Windows Server 2012 Beta OS. The demonstrations run on a physical system or virtual machines (VM). ODX technology showcases rapid VM deployment and high-performance copy offload among ODX capable physical arrays, SMB shared disks, and virtual hard disks (VHD). The ODX feature delivers high performance data transfer, efficient CPU/Network bandwidth consumption and flexible data transfer path design. Microsoft and its storage partners are committed to continuous enterprise storage innovation and delivering the most productive and reliable storage solutions to Windows customers.
STA Technology Showcase, Santa Clara, CA, May 9, 2012 - LeCroy Corporation, the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, today announced the addition of the Sierra M124 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Protocol Analyzer platform to its leading Sierra protocol analyzer line of products; supporting protocol testing and debugging of all 12Gb/s SAS and legacy SAS storage interfaces. Previously, LeCroy has provided the Storage industry with the broadest range of test capabilities in the SCSI protocol test market. Now, along with today's announcement of the Summit PCIe protocol analyzer line's support of SCSI Express, LeCroy is also extending this commitment to the next generation of SAS.
]]> As the datacenter continues to explode with increasing storage complexities, the Sierra M124 12Gb/s SAS Protocol Analyzer and 12Gb/s SAS specification, enables SCSI device manufacturers to meet these demands and provide a more seamless path forward from legacy implementations. See how LeCroy's protocol test tools and cutting-edge SAS technology solutions are "Taming the Data Beast" at this year's SCSI Trade Association (STA) (http://www.scsita.org/) Technology Showcase."The LeCroy Protocol analyzer is further evidence of the maturing infrastructure for 12Gb/s SAS, and facilitates the industry transition to this next generation," said Harry Mason, president of the SCSI Trade Association and director of Industry Marketing for LSI Corporation. "STA greatly appreciates LeCroy's effort and support as a sponsor for the 2012 Technology Showcase as well as its continued collaboration on the development of open industry standards."
"SAS is an industry standard approach to storage supporting high performance requirements, scalable storage bandwidth, and backward compatibility," said Joe Mendolia, vice president of Marketing for the Protocol Solutions Group, LeCroy Corporation. "LeCroy's continued support of these new technologies is enabled by leveraging our experience in leading analysis techniques currently shipping in the Sierra products, and our high-speed probing capabilities developed in other technologies like PCI Express Gen 3. The Sierra family of products and LeCroy's linear pass-through probing technology provide an important industry component to ensure quality and performance for SAS based development moving forward."
LeCroy's protocol analyzers have been at the forefront of SAS development. All LeCroy protocol analyzers feature a hierarchical display, real-time statistics, protocol traffic summaries, detailed error reports, powerful scripting, and the ability to create user-defined test reports which allow developers to troubleshoot intricate problems and finish their projects on time.
Availability
The Sierra M124 is scheduled for first customer shipment in June, 2012. For additional information, contact LeCroy at 1 -800-5LeCroy (1-800-553-2769) or visit LeCroy's web site at www.lecroy.com.
About LeCroy
LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing and verifying complex electronic signals. The Company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, signal integrity test solutions and global communications protocol analyzers used by design engineers in the computer, semiconductor and consumer electronics, data storage, automotive and industrial, telecommunications, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy's 48-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in "WaveShape Analysis" - capturing, viewing and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies. LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at www.lecroy.com.
About STA
The SCSI Trade Association (STA) was established in 1996 to provide a focal point for members to communicate the benefits of SCSI to the industry. STA promotes the understanding and use of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology and influences the evolution of SCSI standards to meet future industry needs. The Association has a nine-member Board of Directors, which oversees the Marketing Communications and Technology Committees and all STA activities. To subscribe to Serial Storage Wire, STA's free Serial Attached SCSI newsletter, please visit: http://www.scsita.org/serial-storage-wire/. For more information, please visit the STA web site at http://www.scsita.org, follow us on Twitter: @SAS_Storage, or send an email to info@scsita.org or call the STA office at (415) 561-6273.
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STA Technology Showcase, Santa Clara, CA, May 9, 2012 - LeCroy Corporation, the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, today demonstrated new features added to its PCI Express protocol analyzer line of products that will support testing and debugging of all recently announced PCIe® Solid State Drive (SSD) host interfaces. Previously, LeCroy had been the first to introduce NVM Express decode functionality to all of their Summit protocol analyzer line of products, helping reduce decoding time for complex PCIe host/device transactions. Now LeCroy is broadening its support of SSD host interfaces to include support for SCSI Express's PQI (PCIe architecture Queuing Interface).
]]> The SCSI Express protocol is derived from the INCITS T10's SOP-PQI Working group and the SCSI Trade Association. The protocol is based on the SCSI over PCIe (SOP) host interface specification which enables SCSI initiators communicating to SCSI targets over PCIe through the PQI transfer layer. This new protocol will enable SCSI devices to utilize the faster PCIe transport required to meet the demand in next generation enterprise designs."The availability of these tools demonstrates the strong ecosystem that is developing around SCSI Express," said Harry Mason, President of the SCSI Trade Association and director of Industry Marketing, LSI Corporation. "We are pleased that companies such as LeCroy which have a high level of expertise in storage protocol decoding are providing tools that will help bring SCSI Express enabled products to the marketplace."
"PCI Express is an industry standard approach to PCIe storage supporting low latency performance requirements, and scalable storage bandwidth. LeCroy supports the complexity of these new technologies by adding new features like these SSD decodes to our Summit analyzer platforms as standard features," said John Wiedemeier, Product Marketing Manager for the Interconnect Communications Group, LeCroy Corporation. "The Summit Family of products provides an important requirement to insure quality and performance for PCIe-based SSD development."
LeCroy's protocol analyzers have been at the forefront of PCI Express development. All LeCroy protocol analyzers feature a hierarchical display, real-time statistics, protocol traffic summaries, detailed error reports, powerful scripting, and the ability to create user-defined test reports which allow developers to troubleshoot intricate problems and finish their projects on time.
Availability
The PQI SSD decode features are included, at no charge, in the PETracer™ 6.55 software release. For additional information, contact LeCroy at 1 -800-5LeCroy (1-800-553-2769) or visit LeCroy's web site at www.lecroy.com.
About LeCroy
LeCroy Corporation is a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creating advanced instruments that drive product innovation by quickly measuring, analyzing and verifying complex electronic signals. The Company offers high-performance oscilloscopes, signal integrity test solutions and global communications protocol analyzers used by design engineers in the computer, semiconductor and consumer electronics, data storage, automotive and industrial, telecommunications, and military and aerospace markets. LeCroy's 48-year heritage of technical innovation is the foundation for its recognized leadership in "WaveShape Analysis" - capturing, viewing and measuring the high-speed signals that drive today's information and communications technologies. LeCroy is headquartered in Chestnut Ridge, New York. Company information is available at www.lecroy.com.
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LeCroy Contact: John Wiedemeier, Product Marketing Manager — (408) 486-7211
Customer Contact: LeCroy Customer Care Center — (800) 553-2769
MILPITAS, Calif., May 8, 2012 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced DataBolt™ bandwidth optimizer technology, a unique performance acceleration feature for LSI® 12Gb/s SAS solutions designed to allow users to take advantage of 12Gb/s speeds while using existing 6Gb/s drive infrastructure.
]]> The explosive growth of data in cloud and enterprise datacenters is driving the need for a higher-performance storage interface to enhance the ability of critical applications to rapidly access data. 12Gb/s SAS helps to address this challenge by doubling the performance of current 6Gb/s SAS solutions, delivering the performance to unlock the full potential of PCI Express 3.0-based systems and solid-state storage solutions."The market adoption of 12Gb/s SAS systems begins with the availability of individual ecosystem components like SAS controllers and expanders," said Benjamin Woo, program vice president of IDC's Worldwide Storage Systems Research. "Technology like LSI's DataBolt feature that enables early access to 12Gb/s SAS performance will help pave the way for a smooth technology transition."
LSI DataBolt technology is designed to:
DataBolt technology demonstration
LSI is demonstrating leading 12Gb/s SAS server storage performance utilizing DataBolt bandwidth optimizer technology at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase on May 9, 2012, at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif.
The demo consists of a PCIe 3.0-based server with LSI 12Gb/s SAS HBAs connected to multiple 12Gb/s SAS enclosures, including the next-generation Xyratex OneStor™ storage enclosure supporting 12Gb/s SAS host connectivity. The drive enclosures house a mix of 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s HDDs and SSDs, and utilize LSI 12Gb/s SAS expanders featuring LSI DataBolt technology to achieve significant throughput and IOPS performance improvements compared to an end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS storage solution.
"The transition to 12Gb/s SAS technology will be essential to unleashing the full performance potential of PCIe 3.0 platforms using 6Gb/s drives and flash-based storage," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, RAID Storage Division, LSI. "By accelerating server storage performance, DataBolt technology provides users with a time-to-market advantage in achieving 12Gb/s performance benefits and allows them to meet the demands of I/O-intensive applications, cloud datacenters and virtualized server environments."
The LSI 12Gb/s SAS product portfolio includes:
LSI 12Gb/s SAS products are currently sampling to OEM customers, with general availability expected in the fourth quarter.
Since the inception of SAS, LSI has delivered an industry-leading portfolio of products including SAS ROC, controller and expander ICs, host bus adapters, MegaRAID and 3ware® RAID controllers, 6Gb/s SAS switches, advanced software options and the Nytro™ portfolio of intelligent flash-based solutions.
More information on the complete LSI SAS portfolio is available at www.lsi.com/12GBSAS. Connect with LSI via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile networks. Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced application performance, and is applied in solutions created in collaboration with our partners. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
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For more information, contact:
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LSI Corporation
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MILPITAS, Calif., May 8, 2012 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) announced it will demonstrate high-availability direct-attached storage (HA-DAS) solutions for Microsoft® Corp.'s Windows® Server platforms at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase taking place May 9, 2012, at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. LSI's HA-DAS solutions are designed to provide small and medium-sized business (SMB) and cloud datacenter customers with continuous application uptime at a fraction of the cost and complexity of existing HA solutions.
]]> High-availability systems are essential to nearly all businesses regardless of size or industry. When systems running business-critical applications such as transaction processing, Web serving or electronic commerce are not accessible, the results can be lost revenue, lost productivity and reduced customer satisfaction."A critical goal of Windows Server 2012 is delivering high availability to a volume market, and LSI has been key in this effort," said Thomas Pfenning, general manager, File Server Foundation, Microsoft. "The combination of LSI® HA-DAS with Windows Server can provide SMBs and cloud datacenter providers with a low-cost and easy-to-manage option for meeting their high-availability requirements."
Traditional HA solutions ensure continuous application availability through server clustering and shared-node storage area network (SAN) connections that build redundancy into a cluster and eliminate single points of failure. LSI is pioneering HA-DAS solutions that lower the cost and complexity of HA solutions by providing fully redundant, shared-node storage and application failover without requiring storage networking hardware. LSI's HA-DAS solutions also reduce latency compared to SAN-based solutions, helping to accelerate storage I/O performance and speed applications.
"LSI HA-DAS solutions are designed to bring SAN-like shared storage and application failover capabilities to DAS environments to provide customers with a low-cost and easy-to-manage and -deploy solution for ensuring business-critical applications remain up and running during server failures," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, RAID Storage Division, LSI. "We're excited to be collaborating closely with Microsoft to bring HA-DAS solutions to the marketplace."
LSI is demonstrating its HA-DAS solutions based on leading MegaRAID® controller and intelligent HA-DAS technology. The demo utilizes two servers with two internal LSI MegaRAID controllers running HA-DAS firmware connected to twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS drives through an LSI SAS expander. The demo showcases how LSI HA-DAS solutions can bring simpler, lower-cost shared storage and failover capabilities to DAS environments.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile networks. Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced application performance, and is applied in solutions created in collaboration with our partners. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
LSI, the LSI & Design logo and MegaRAID are trademarks or registered trademarks of LSI Corporation. All other brand or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
For more information, contact:
Brian Garabedian
LSI Corporation
408-433-8253
brian.garabedian@lsi.com
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 8, 2012 - PMC® (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks, today announced its participation and sponsorship of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase. PMC will demonstrate its industry leading 12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SAS and SSD caching products at this event for customers, industry analysts, editors and partners.
]]> "PMC is excited to be sponsoring this showcase with the SCSI Trade Association," said Derek Dicker, vice president of product marketing for PMC's Enterprise Storage Division. "Storage innovation continues to be at the forefront of PMC's business and we are looking forward to demonstrating our latest products." Technology Showcase Event
| What: | SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase: Taming the Data Beast! |
| When: | Wednesday, May 9, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. |
| Where: | Santa Clara Hyatt, 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Sponsors: Amphenol, FCI, Fusion-io, HGST, HP, Intel, JDSU, LSI, LeCroy, Molex, PMC, SanDisk, Seagate, SerialTek, TE, Toshiba, WD and Xyratex. |
About PMC
PMC (Nasdaq:PMCS) is the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that
connect, move and store digital content. Building on a track record of technology
leadership, the company is driving innovation across storage, optical and mobile
networks. PMC's highly integrated solutions increase performance and enable nextgeneration
services to accelerate the network transformation. For more information, visit
www.pmcs.com. Follow PMC on Twitter, LinkedIn and RSS.
About STA
The SCSI Trade Association (STA) was established in 1996 to provide a focal point for
members to communicate the benefits of SCSI to the industry. STA promotes the
understanding and use of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology and influences the
evolution of SCSI standards to meet future industry needs. The Association has a ninemember
Board of Directors, which oversees the Marketing Communications and
Technology Committees and all STA activities. To subscribe to Serial Storage Wire,
STA's free Serial Attached SCSI newsletter, please visit: http://www.scsita.org/serialstorage-
wire/. For more information, please visit the STA web site at
http://www.scsita.org, follow us on Twitter: @SAS_Storage, or send an email to
info@scsita.org or call the STA office at (415) 561-6273.
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Kim_mason@pmc-sierra.com
Cupertino, Calif. -- May 7, 2012 -- Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) will demonstrate a variety of technologies at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase this week aimed at improving the performance of servers, datacenters and cloud computing applications, including the first public demonstration of solid-state drives operating at 12 gigabits per second.
]]> Seagate will show Pulsar.2™ solid-state drives working with the new 12Gb/s SAS standard at the showcase, taking place at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. on May 9, 2012. The new standard doubles the data throughput of industry-standard drives equipped with the enhanced SAS interface, enabling much faster server and storage solutions. The enhanced standard also fully maintains the rich data integrity, scalability, serviceability, and hot swappable protocol feature set that enterprises depend on to safeguard critical data, minimize costly downtime, and ensure infrastructures easily keep up with growing data storage demands.Faster data throughput paves the way for drives and storage systems that can deliver larger amounts of data more rapidly to servers and processors. This provides improved overall performance and efficiency for cloud services and other enterprise applications throughout all tiers of data storage. As the enterprise market leader and strategic storage partner enabling these enterprise systems, Seagate continues to drive the industry in developing the standard in the INCITS T10 Committee and is collaborating with other STA members to bring it to market.
While Seagate will first demonstrate the technology on its solid-state drives to optimize the high performance benefits of SSDs, the 12Gb/s SAS standard is also compatible with high-performance and high-capacity hard disk drives. These can be seamlessly integrated within existing infrastructures using 6Gb/s SAS because the new faster SAS standard is backwards compatible with all previous generations of SAS speeds. Seagate's implementation of 12Gb/s SAS is fully compatible with controllers and other technologies from PMC-Sierra and LSI, two of the leading Host Bus Adapter and Expander vendors.
The 12Gb/s SAS standard is currently stable and expected to be finalized by the end of the year. Products based on the 12Gb/s standard will start to hit in the market in 2013 with general availability in the second half of the year.
Seagate subject matter experts will be on hand at the event to discuss all the new and future advancements in SAS and SCSI based storage including the recently announced SCSI Express initiative. These advancements ensure that SAS and SCSI based storage will remain at the leading edge of providing performance, reliability and efficiency well into the future.
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]]>SALT LAKE CITY - May 3, 2012 - Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that it is actively participating with the SCSI Trade Association (STA), a member-run industry association established to support and promote SCSI technology, to develop and market the open SCSI Express industry standard for PCI Express based storage. By leveraging PCIe connections in the server with a focus on NAND flash technologies, the standard will provide organizations with more options for integrating performance storage solutions into their datacenters. Fusion-io will also join in the upcoming SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase, "Taming the Data Beast!" on Wednesday, May 9 in Santa Clara.
]]> "STA is pleased with the decision of Fusion-io to join STA in helping drive SCSI Express as open industry standard for PCIe based storage," stated Harry Mason president of STA. "Given Fusion's rich heritage in delivering innovative NAND flash solutions to the market, their contributions will be important in shaping the final outcome of the initiative."SCSI Express comprises a set of technologies designed to deliver an enterprise storage solution based on PCI Express, including the SCSI over PCIe (SOP) protocol, the PCIe architecture Queuing Interface (PQI), a universal drive connector focused on 2.5-inch platforms, the PCIe physical layer and OS support. To help develop open standards for SCSI Express, Fusion-io will participate in the T10 Technical Committees, which are responsible for standardizing the foundation SCSI technologies.
The T10 Committee's work on the logical SCSI protocol, transport and delivery standards will provide the basis for SCSI Express standardization. SCSI Express utilizes the SCSI over PCIe and the PCI Express architecture queuing interface model being defined within the T10 Committee. The T10 standardization efforts will become the basis of SCSI Express, which in turn is defined and marketed by the SCSI Trade Association. Fusion-io was the first company to integrate server-based NAND flash via the PCI Express bus. Through the PCIe interface, Fusion's sophisticated ioMemory software architecture can significantly reduce the I/O barriers that otherwise limit CPUs in modern datacenters.
"Originally previewed at HP Discover, an ioMemory-based 2.5-inch form factor drive connected to a 2U HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server via SCSI Express will be demonstrated in a technology preview at the upcoming SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase, and we are proud to be continuing our work with STA members and the T10 committee to help shape the open SCSI Express standard," said Gary Orenstein, Fusion-io Vice President of Products. "We believe that SCSI Express will be adopted as a leading standard for PCI Express deployments. We look forward to collaborating with fellow STA members and leading SCSI experts to share our expertise in this area to provide open standards as organizations modernize IT infrastructure by eliminating legacy storage interfaces and move data performance closer to the host processors."
For more information about the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase in Santa Clara, go to http://www.scsita.org/sas-showcase-2012.html. Please visit the SCSI Trade Association to learn more about the emerging SCSI Express at www.scsita.org. More information on the T10 Technical Committee can be found at www.t10.org.
To learn more about Fusion-io visit www.fusionio.com. Follow Fusion-io on Twitter at www.twitter. com/fusionio or www.twitter.com/fusionioUK and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fusionio.
About Fusion-io
Fusion-io has pioneered a next generation storage memory platform for shared data
decentralization that significantly improves the processing capabilities within a datacenter by
relocating process-critical, or "active", data from centralized storage to the server where it is being
processed, a methodology referred to as data decentralization. Fusion's integrated hardware and
software solutions leverage non-volatile memory to significantly increase datacenter efficiency
and offers enterprise grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability. Fusion's data
decentralization platform can transform legacy architectures into next generation datacenters and
allows enterprises to consolidate or significantly reduce complex and expensive high performance
storage, high performance networking and memory-rich servers. Fusion's platform enables
enterprises to increase the utilization, performance and efficiency of their datacenter resources
and extract greater value from their information assets.
Contacts:
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HGST is Participating in the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase on May 9, 2012
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 1, 2012 - HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NYSE: WDC) today announced the storage industry's first technology demonstration of a 12 gigabit per second (12Gb/s) SAS solid state drive (SSD), representing the next performance step in the evolution of SAS, the preferred interface technology for enterprise servers and storage solutions. HGST is participating in the 12Gb/s SAS demonstration at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase on May 9, 2012, at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif.
]]> SAS SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs), with their rich SCSI heritage, continue to be the building blocks of choice for enterprise and cloud storage. Enabling next-generation storage solutions, 12Gb/s SAS is a broadly supported industry standard as it delivers twice the throughput compared to today's 6Gb/s SAS solutions, while maintaining established enterprise protocols and attributes. It is also backward compatible with 6Gb/s SAS for investment protection in current SAS infrastructures.One of the enterprise features of today's SAS drives is a second interface port that provides additional bandwidth to the drive. With 12Gb/s SAS on each of these ports, the drive can transmit and receive data at a rate of 12Gb/s, resulting in a total available interface bandwidth of 4.8GB/s per drive. With this speed, enterprise and cloud datacenters will be able to reduce latency by harnessing the ultra-high performance of SSDs or by improving the performance of large-scale HDD infrastructures.
"We have successfully achieved interoperability between our 12Gb/s SAS drive and 12Gb/s SAS HBAs and expanders from both LSI and PMC-Sierra," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing, HGST. "Meeting these interoperability milestones is critical when preparing the industry for the adoption of a new interface standard. We will continue to promote broad industry support for 12Gb/s SAS, including our sponsorship and participation in the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase on May 9."
"Since the inception of SAS, LSI has delivered an industry-leading portfolio of SAS-based products," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, RAID Storage Division, LSI Corporation. "As the preferred enterprise interface of the future, 12Gb/s SAS will be essential to unleashing the full performance potential of SSD storage solutions to help datacenters and cloud environments contend with massive data growth and accelerate application performance. With our ongoing validation processes and compatibility testing with HGST, we are paving the way for a smooth industry transition and market adoption of 12Gb/s SAS solutions by 2013."
"PMC's 12Gb/s SAS protocol controllers, RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controllers and expanders enable breakthrough performance and scalability for next-generation server and networked storage systems," said Derek Dicker, vice president of marketing for PMC's Enterprise Storage Division. "We have been working closely with HGST on interoperability testing, and the high-performance benefits of our 12Gb/s SAS solutions, coupled with HGST's 12Gb/s SAS drives, will enable a new generation of cutting-edge, scalable tiered storage for corporate and cloud datacenters."
SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase Event "Taming the Data Beast"
As the datacenter continues to explode with increasing storage complexities, cutting-edge SAS technology solutions are taking on the challenge of "Taming the Data Beast." SAS solutions can be seen in action at this year's SCSI Trade Association (STA) (http://www.scsita.org) Technology Showcase. Reservations can be made now for this free event at: www.scsita.org/technology_showcase.
About HGST
HGST (formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies or Hitachi GST), a Western Digital company, develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world's most valued data. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.hgst.com.
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