Category: Investment Protection

Investment Protection By Design

By LSI Logic Today’s enterprise storage landscape is dominated by products using the SCSI interface. With close to 90 percent market share of all enterprise-class storage systems, SCSI is clearly the most widely deployed, high-availability enterprise storage I/O technology in use. Over its twenty-year history SCSI has evolved dramatically, currently offering a parallel interface that… Read more »

NACIO Systems on SAS and Investment Protection

Adaptec recently met with a group of Value-Added Resellers (VARs) to get their insights into today’s storage market. Representing one of those VARs was Vince Conroy, Chief Technology Officer of NACIO Systems, a full-service provider of managed hosting, storage and connectivity solutions for businesses that rely on the Internet for daily operations. In the following… Read more »

Three Keys to SAS Investment Protection

By: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies The ATA and SCSI hard drive interfaces that are commonly associated with desktop and enterprise storage applications are examples of parallel bus architectures. These architectures will eventually transition to serial implementations to improve data signal integrity, enable smaller designs and overcome the bandwidth limitations of their predecessors. The new serial… Read more »

Protecting Your Investments, Today and Beyond

Author: Debika Ingham Intel Corporation With the advent of any new interface, users of the technology invariably ask, “Now what do I have to buy?” And perhaps more importantly, “What existing investments have been protected?” The transition to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) will ensure many levels of investment protection, both during its initial stages and… Read more »