Author: Mike Micheletti, Product Manager LeCroy Corporation Now that component vendors Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) are shipping in volume, storage integrators are rolling up their sleeves to begin evaluating this powerful new storage interface. Anxious to harness superior performance, these SAS developers are testing hosts, devices and storage subsystems for compatibility and reliability. Early adopters… Read more »
Category: System Integrators
SAS Advice to Systems Integrators from Gary Goodwin of Hitachi GST
Author: Jim Pascoe, Hitachi Corporate Communications, interviewed Gary Goodwin, Firmware Development Engineer Hitachi Global Storage Technologies In the following interview, Gary Goodwin of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) reviews some of the key issues related to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) scalability and how systems integrators (SIs) and other end-users deploying SAS-based storage are expected… Read more »
SAS for the SMB: A Guide For System Integrators
Author: David Woolf – Senior Technical Staff University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab When it comes to data storage and protection, small and medium businesses (SMBs) often find themselves not knowing where to turn for data storage solutions. They are torn between high-end product offerings intended for large enterprises, or trying to piece together a… Read more »
Important SAS Expander Features for System Integrators
Rachelle Trent, SAS Product Marketing Manager, PMC-Sierra As enterprise storage requirements rapidly increase, expanding data throughput and providing scalable storage capacity is crucial. System Integrators (SIs) need to understand the new features of expander devices now, in order to be ready for market adoption of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). The SAS standard specifies expanders, which… Read more »
The Importance of Expanders to System Integrators
By Rachelle Trent PMC-Sierra As enterprise storage requirements rapidly increase, expanding data throughput and providing scalable storage capacity is crucial. One of the goals of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) was to overcome the scalability limitations of parallel SCSI and significantly improve the ability to add hard disk drives to a system. Parallel SCSI is a… Read more »
System Integrators Can Benefit From a Crash Course in SAS Expanders
Author: Rachelle Trent PMC-Sierra As enterprise storage requirements rapidly increase, expanding data throughput and providing scalable storage capacity is crucial. System Integrators (SIs) need to understand the advantages and architecture of devices called “expanders” now, in order to be ready for market adoption of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). The SAS standard specifies expanders, which are… Read more »
What System Integrators Should Know About SAS Qualification Tools
Author: Mike Micheletti, Product Manager LeCroy Corporation With Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) products now entering the market, system integrators and storage vendors are accelerating their transition to serial-based storage infrastructure. By taking the lead on delivering SAS-based solutions, these vendors can build high performance sub-systems while developing valuable expertise in this next generation direct-attach storage… Read more »
How Do I Connect SAS and SATA HDDs to a SAS System?
PMC-Sierra was interviewed by a System Integrator about Serial Attached SCSI’s Cable and Connector Features and Uses Author: Rachelle Trent, Product Marketing Manager PMC-Sierra All Figures are courtesy of Molex The challenges that System Integrators (SIs) encounter when learning how to handle new technologies, new components and especially how to make everything work together, requires… Read more »
Reducing IT Costs With a Unified Storage Infrastructure
Author: Paul Griffith Adaptec, Inc. Today’s system builders must develop, test, qualify, inventory and sell separate subsystem backplanes to meet their customers’ needs for storage of reference and transactional data. Distributors and IT managers must also deal with the inefficiencies of separate systems. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) will enable computer makers to build a single… Read more »
