SCSI Standards and Technology Update

SCSI continues to be the backbone of enterprise storage deployments and has rapidly evolved by adding new features, capabilities, and performance enhancements. This talk will include an up-to-the-minute recap of the latest additions to the SAS standard and roadmaps. It will focus on the status of 12Gb/s SAS staging, advanced connectivity solutions such as MultiLink SAS™ and cover SCSI Express, a new transport of SOP (SCSI over PCIe). Presenters will also provide updates on new SCSI feature such as atomic writes and remote copy.

Learning Objectives

Attendees will learn how SAS will grow and thrive, in part, because of the Advanced Connectivity Roadmap, which offers a solid connectivity scheme based on the versatile Mini-SAS HD connector in addition to SAS Connectivity Management support.
Attendees will learn Express Bay improves how slot-oriented Solid State Drive (SSD) devices can be configured to boost I/O performance.
The latest development status and design guidelines for 12Gb/s SAS will be discussed as well as plans for extending SAS to 24Gb/s.
Attendees will learn the details of the standardization activity and architecture for SCSI over PCIe (SOP and PQI).