Serial Attached SCSI (SAS): Revolutionizing Storage Architectures
White Papers This webinar reviews the fundamental elements of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and applications for SAS beyond replacing parallel SCSI. The webinar previews new elements being defined for SAS-2 along with trends driving the definition.
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
A New Technology Hits The Enterprise Market: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
White Papers Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) addresses the technical requirements for performance and availability in these more I/O-intensive, mission-critical environments. Enterprise data access and transfer demands are no longer driven by advances in CPU...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology Transition
White Papers SAS technology encompasses a set of innovations that change the familiar parallel SCSI interconnect between a server and its storage devices. Industry leaders recognize that SAS embraces the best features of other serial storage solutions and...
[October 11, 2004, 0:00]
Serial ATA And Serial Attached SCSI Technologies
White Papers This paper describes the current state of parallel ATA and SCSI technologies and the barriers they face in meeting the requirements of future enterprise technologies. Then it describes the fundamental features of serial I/O technologies that enable...
[May 15, 2004, 0:00]
IBM Plays Down Hard-drive Concerns
News However, the SCSI camp is working to ensure its technology stays ahead through an initiative called Serial Attached SCSI. On laptops, the standard duty is 40 percent, and on servers, which usually use higher-end SCSI (small computer system...
[March 22, 2002, 15:14]
Seagate Sets Out To Shrink Storage
News The enterprise 2.5-inch drives will also have interfaces in all flavours, including the new serial-attached SCSI. In addition, mobile 2.5-inch drives typically feature IDE connection interfaces, while 3.5-inch server drives have SCSI, Fibre Channel...
[May 21, 2003, 8:43]
Maxtor And EqualLogic Ally For ISCSI
News Adding momentum to a new disk-drive interface technology, Maxtor and storage-device maker EqualLogic said on Tuesday that they are teaming up to develop storage products using the serial-attached SCSI interface.
[September 24, 2003, 15:15]
Dual-Port SAS Drives Are A Boon To IT
White Papers The new serial interfaces, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA), have been designed to replace their parallel predecessors. SAS goes beyond SATA by adding dual porting, full duplex, device addressing and it offers higher reliability...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
SAS And SATA Team Up For The Enterprise
White Papers A robust SAS infrastructure, which supports both the new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) drives without any bridging, enables new options for delivering diverse storage solutions. For the first time in the history of enterprise...
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
Converting Smart Array Cluster Storage To A Modular SAN Array For Additional Scalability
White Papers The Smart Array Cluster Storage offers 2-node clustering, Recovery Server, and direct attached shared storage support at SCSI economics, while providing high data availability with redundant controllers and multi-path I/O technology.
[May 18, 2004, 0:00]
SAS Investment Protection
White Papers The new serial interfaces - Serial ATA (SATA) for PCs and workstations and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) for mission-critical computing - have also been designed to improve performance, reliability and scalability.
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Network Appliance And IBM DB2 On Linux Enable Factual Data To Shorten Response Times, Increase Database Availability
White Papers Factual Data was running its database on dedicated servers with direct-attached SCSI disk arrays - an arrangement the company found slow, hard to scale, and unreliable. Factual Data Corp.a subsidiary of global risk consulting company Kroll Inc...
[December 9, 2004, 23:00]
Serial Hard Drive Interface Compatibility
White Papers Components that are based on the aging interface are increasingly being replaced by their evolved serial counterparts - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). Among the most significant benefits is that incompatibility between SCSI and...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Seagate Workload Management For Business-Critical Storage
White Papers Augmenting mission-critical parallel SCSI and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives in dense storage applications, desktop-class SATA drives deliver maximum capacity in external storage or low-cost server environments.
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Scaling Enterprise Storage With SAS Hard Drives
White Papers With the introduction of complementary serial interface technologies, IT managers now have the flexibility to deploy either high performance SAS drives or cost-effective Serial ATA (SATA) drives in a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage environment.
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
HP Cluster Gives Huge Computation Power For University Research
White Papers They are connected to the University's other systems by HP ProCurve switching and the solution also includes 2Tb of locally attached SCSI storage. De Montfort University is a dynamic organisation formed from a diverse range of specialist institutions.
[July 26, 2005, 0:00]
Converting Modular Smart Array 500 To A Modular Smart Array 1000 SAN For Additional Scalability
White Papers The HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 500 (MSA500) offers 2-node clustering, Recovery Server, and up to 4-node shared storage support at SCSI economics, while providing high data availability with redundant controllers and multi-path I/O...
[August 3, 2007, 0:00]
Hard Disk Makers Collaborate For More Speed
News The Serial Attached SCSI Working Group includes several top hard drive makers -- Seagate, Maxtor and IBM -- along with chipmaker LSI Logic and Compaq. For years, there have been two competing standards for plugging disk drives into computers: the...
[November 28, 2001, 9:10]
Where Do You Put All Your Data?
News For example, storage connected to a server's external SCSI channel is also considered direct-attached storage. Direct-attached Storage | Network-attached Storage There are three overall storage options that deserve consideration: direct-attached...
[December 16, 2004, 9:50]
Upstart Could Shake Up Networked Storage
News The biggest disadvantage of ATA over Ethernet is that it's slower than direct-attached storage using SCSI, he said. Customers wanting that technology are likely to favour new storage systems that pack several Serial ATA (SATA) or Serial Attached...
[July 27, 2006, 16:25]

