STA President Marty Czekalski presented “SAS: The Fabric for Storage Solutions” on April 7, 2015, at SNIA’s Data Storage Innovation Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Topics in this presentation included: SAS Market Overview, including basics of SAS architecture and deployment SAS Technology Update, including 12Gb/s SAS, 24Gb/s SAS, and Advanced Connectivity SSDs, MultiLink SAS™, and… Read more »
On January 21, 2015, STA President Marty Czekalski gave a presentation titled “SCSI Continues to Evolve” at the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) meeting during the SNIA Annual Members’ Symposium. In this presentation, Czekalski covered the following topics: New SCSI features for flash and performance Beyond 12Gb/s SAS Advanced connectivity Status of 24Gb/s SAS Zoned… Read more »
STA President Marty Czekalski participated on a panel entitled “New Applications, New Technologies – What’s Ahead for Content Storage” on January 5, 2015, at Storage Visions in Las Vegas, NV. During this session, Czekalski provided an overview of new zoned block devices and how this new SCSI command set will allow applications to better take… Read more »
STA President Marty Czekalski and STA Vice President Greg McSorley gave a series of presentations at Powering the Cloud in Frankfurt, Germany in October 2014, including one presentation in the Storage Innovation Theatre and two shorter presentations in the Meet the Experts Theatre. Storage Innovation Theatre Presentation: SAS: The Fabric for Storage Solutions (October 29,… Read more »
On September 16, STA President Marty Czekalski presented an update on SCSI standards and technology at Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Topics include: SCSI Express New SCSI features for flash and performance, including extended copy, atomic operations, hinting, SCSI-SF, and power limit control Express Bay Beyond 12Gb/s SAS Advanced Connectivity 24Gb/s SAS MRD… Read more »
During a panel presentation at Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara on August 6, 2014, leading storage industry experts from STA discussed the challenges of distributed storage systems and how the SAS storage protocol is uniquely positioned to handle the mixture of workloads and I/O demands required. The panel was moderated by Jeff Janukowicz, research… Read more »
This video presentation is hosted on Juku Italy, however Czekalski’s remarks are in English. November 9, 2013 Czekalski discusses SCSI Express and the roadmap for 12Gb/s product deployments. Link to the presentation.
In this “Ask-the-Expert” short presentation at SNW Europe in Frankfurt, Germany on October 30, 2013, STA Vice President Greg McSorley gave a high level overview of STA’s 24Gb/s SAS marketing requirements. Slide titles: STA’s 24Gb/s SAS MRD What it might take Basic Link Budgets Today’s 12Gb/s HD miniSAS Today’s Drive Connector New Mulitport Drive Connector… Read more »
In this “Ask-the-Expert” short presentation at SNW Europe in Frankfurt, Germany on October 30, 2013, STA President Marty Czekalski gave a high level overview of Express Bay storage options. Slide titles: Express Bay: PCIe, SAS, SATA, SATAe Express Bay Components Refresher: SAS/SATA Compatibility SFF-8639 Dual-port SAS PCIe x4 Connectors SAS Connector Compatibility Power Limit Control… Read more »
In this “Ask-the-Expert” short presentation at SNW Europe in Frankfurt, Germany on October 29, 2013, STA President Marty Czekalski gave a high level overview of PCIe storage and its role in the enterprise. Slide titles: SCSI Express SCSI Express Components Express Bay SCSI Express Devices SCIS Express Roadmap STA SCSI Express Expert Session V2-web.pdf