By Daniel D. Reno, Director, Technical Marketing, Western Digital and Member-at-Large, STA Board of Director Enterprise customers demand the highest levels of quality and reliability for the systems they deploy. To deliver these robust solutions, industry leaders rely on the most advanced technologies available as a foundation of their product solutions. Within these products, the… Read more »
Category: In the Enterprise
SAS and the Enterprise – is Each Ready for the Other?
Author: Mark Peters, Storage Systems Analyst, and Tony Palmer, Lab Engineer Enterprise Strategy Group Introduction The relative success of new technologies is not a one-way street. Indeed, the history of IT is littered with great developments that never ‘made it’, storage technologies that have had more written about them than on them. 6Gb/s SAS products… Read more »
Serial Attached SCSI Hard Disk Drives – Enterprise Proven
Authors: Paul Vogt, Senior Director of Product Management Dale Lafferty, Director of Alliances and Partnerships Xyratex International Introduction There is a technology shift taking place in enterprise storage environments that could help IT departments address some of the constraints the economy… Read more »
Storage Device Dynamics for Enterprise Datacenters – An IDC Perspective*
Author: John Rydning, Research Director, Hard Disk Drives IDC Storage device options continue to broaden for disk storage system OEMs and end users. For enterprise applications, hard-disk drives (HDDs) are now available in several form factors, configured with parallel SCSI, Fibre Channel, Serial ATA (SATA) or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interfaces. An increasing number of… Read more »
Unless You Ride a Horse to Work, What Follows Should Make Sense
Author: Mike Karp, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates “Storage density” is the term that describes how much storage capacity can be packed into a specified amount of space. The actual measurement varies a bit depending on your focus. Disk drive vendors measure bits per square inch, while tape vendors think in terms of bits per… Read more »
The State of Solid State in the Enterprise
Author: Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant GlassHouse Technologies Flash drives, also known as solid state drives, have a promising future in the enterprise space. They promise to overcome literally all limitations of traditional hard drives – power consumption, heat dissipation, mean time between failures, speed and IO/s, etc. The list is long. There is no doubt… Read more »
Advanced Enterprise Features Enable Next Generation SAS Systems
Author: Sam Barnett, Business Manager, Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA Storage / Storage Networking Products, Storage Products Group, Maxim Integrated Products As first generation systems based on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology enter the market, leading server and storage OEMs are racing to deliver the next group of platforms based on an ever-evolving technology… Read more »
HDD Interfaces in the Enterprise: Sorting through the Murkiness
Excerpted by David Reinsel, Director, Storage Hardware Research, IDC Note: The following is an excerpt from an IDC publication¹ Hard disk drive (HDD) interface transitions within enterprise systems are being clouded by a number of issues. Disk storage system vendor strategies are far from similar and HDD vendors are considering various options with respect to… Read more »
Broad New Enterprise Features Enable Next Generation SAS Systems
Author: Sam Barnett, Product Line Manager, Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA Storage & Storage Networking Products, Storage Products Division, Vitesse Semiconductor As first generation systems based on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology enter the market, leading server and storage OEMs are racing to deliver the next group of platforms based on an ever-evolving technology… Read more »
SAS: Revolution in Enterprise Storage – The Expander and Its Usage in Tomorrow’s JBOD Uncovered
Author: Sam Barnett, Product Line Manager, Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA Storage & Storage Networking Products, Storage Products Division, Vitesse Semiconductor Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) offers a wealth of benefits to the enterprise server and enclosure customer (high reliability and performance, mixed enterprise/desktop drive support, improved economies of scale), and key to scalability and… Read more »
