Capacity requirements and power consumption are becoming increasingly challenging for hyperscale deployments. Technology standards bodies have been developing specific features within Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) to address these problems and offer developers real solutions. This presentation will address multiple emerging features within SAS, the technology around these features, and how they will help developers optimize their current storage infrastructure.

Hyperscale deployments are using Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) today, to solve capacity and cost challenges within their large-scale storage infrastructure. Specific features within SAS address these problems and offer developers real solutions. This presentation will discuss how SAS addresses the scaling, reliability, cost and flexibility requirements of modern hyperscale architectures and show how this maps to Meta's Grand Canyon architecture.

BoF to discuss Why STA is Now Part of SNIA, and to let conference attendees know about and discuss the upcoming SAS plugfests in 2024.