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 »

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 »

Never before has the enterprise enjoyed such a broad variety of storage solutions from which to choose. Innovative new offerings in both hardware and software seem to appear almost daily, promising unprecedented flexibility to specify the most appropriate, targeted solution for any storage challenge. Yet in the midst of this embarrassment of riches, IT budgets… Read more »

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 »

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 »