SAS Plugfest Program

The next plugfest is scheduled for October 4 -8 2010, at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory in Durham, New Hampshire. If you are interested in participating, please email STA Plugfest Committee Chair, Mike Fitzpatrick (mfitzpatrick@us.fujitsu.com). Here are details for participation.

Plugfest Administration

A committee of the STA membership developed a set of administrative plans and policies to guide the event for both STA members and non-members.

• STA membership is not required to participate
• STA will collect fees and pay UNH-IOL per agreement to support the events (program is intended to be self-funding)

STA Member	Fee
STA Sponsor Member Company	$1,500
STA Principal Member Company	$2,000
STA Promotional Member Company	$2,500
STA NON-Member	$3,500
Sponsorship for Wednesday evening reception (note: must be attending the plugfest)	$500

• Non STA members are invited to participate in the plugfest, but STA Plugfest Committee calls & meetings are for STA Members only. If you are interested in joining STA, please go to this web page http://www.scsita.org/aboutsta/join.html to learn about the membership levels, affiliated benefits and costs. If you have questions about membership after reviewing this page, please contact Chris Lyon, STA Executive Director [link to clyon@scsita.org]
  
  
• If a company participates as a Non-Member in the Plugfest, and decides to join STA within 90 days after the Plugfest, you will have your membership fees discounted by the appropriate amount, as by the STA membership level at which your company has elected to join STA.
  
  
• In order to participate in Plugfest Committee test planning calls and the plugfest itself, a sighed NDA agreement must be signed and in the STA office prior to the date set for each event. The NDA form may be found at http://www.scsita.org/news_events/plugfests/SAS_Plugfest_NDA.pdf
  • Deadline to submit: July 26, 2010
  
  
• STA Plugfest Registration Form
  • Deadline to register: September 1, 2010

   

UNH-IOL Sponsored SAS Consortium

University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory is starting a Serial Attached SCSI Consortium. While this is not endorsed or sponsored by the SCSI Trade Association, we would like to make the information on such available to anyone who would like to participate in this. Please go to http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/sas/ to find out full details on how to participate. Contact David Woolf (djwoolf@iol.unh.edu) with any questions or if you would like to get involved.

 

STA SAS Plugfest history

• 10th SAS Plugfest: October 26-30, 2009 - Read full Press Release at "Industry Comes Together to Test 6Gb/s SAS"
• 9th SAS Plugfest: November 10-14, 2008 - Read full Press Release at "SCSI Trade Association Held First 6Gb/s SAS Plugfest November 10-14, 2008"
• 8th SAS Plugfest: June 16-19, 2008 - Read full Press Release at "SCSI Trade Association Holds Eighth SAS Plugfest June 16-19"
• 7th SAS Plugfest: July 23 - 27, 2007 - Read full Press Release at "SCSI Trade Association Completes Seventh SAS Plugfest"
• 6th SAS Plugfest: April 24-28, 2006 - Read full Press Release at "SCSI Trade Association Holds Sixth Plugfest at UNH-IOL"
• 5th SAS Plugfest: September 26-30, 2005 - Read full Press Release at "SCSI Trade Association Holds Second 2005 Plugfest at UNH-IOL"
• 4th SAS Plugfest: April 25-29, 2005 - Read full Press Release at " Recent SAS Plugfest Advances Market Readiness"
• 3rd SAS Plugfest: November 1-5, 2004 - Read full Press Release at " STORAGE INDUSTRY LEADERS ATTEND LARGEST-EVER SAS PLUGFEST SPONSORED BY STA AND HOSTED BY UNH-IOL"
• 2nd SAS Plugfest: June 21-25, 2004 - Read full Press Release at " Second Plugfest Puts SAS On Track for Product Availability in Fourth Quarter"
• 1st SAS Plugfest: March 1-5, 2004 - Read full Press Release at " First Serial Attached SCSI Plugfest Held at UNH-IOL"