Product highlights from NAB April 24, 2009 -- Among the 1,500+ exhibitors at this week's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas, a number of storage vendors introduced or showcased products optimized for the entertainment industry. Here's a quick rundown.
Nexsan combines SAS, AutoMAID January 22, 2009 -- Nexsan Technologies has once again combined its energy-saving AutoMAID (massive array of idle disks) technology with high-performance, SAS-based RAID storage to create the new SASBeast disk array.
LSI enhances SAS/SATA adapters December 10, 2008 -- The 3.5 release of LSI's MegaRAID software, which works with the company's MegaRAID SAS 8700 and 8800 family of 3Gbps SAS/SATA adapters, includes a number of enhancements – most notably, multipathing and load balancing.
SAS product roundup Recent product releases for OEMs, integrators/VARs and end users range from 6Gbps SAS components and test/analysis equipment to 3Gbps SAS RAID arrays.
HP adds DAS SAS to BladeSystem November 18, 2008 -- Hewlett-Packard is taking a direct approach toward storage for blade servers. The company introduced a new storage expansion bundle this week
Get ready for next-gen 6Gbps SAS Components have been shipping for more than a year, and 6Gbps SAS systems for end users are due next year.
IBM ships SAS-based SAN for blades October 1, 2008 -- IBM today announced a blade system chassis that includes blade servers, networking gear, management software, and a new SAN based on a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) fabric.
Product Roundup: What's new with SAS? In a recent online poll of InfoStor readers (including end users, VARs, and systems/storage integrators), 43% said that SATA drives will account for the majority of their disk drive purchases over the next six months, and 28% cited Fibre Channel drives. Somewhat surprisingly, 25% said that SAS drives will account for the majority of their drive purchases. Not bad for an interface that has only been around for about two years.
Dell puts 2.5-inch SAS drives in PowerVault arrays June 16, 2008—Dell today introduced the PowerVault MD1120 disk array, which features 2.5-inch small-form-factor (SFF) disk drives. Although Dell has been offering both 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives in its PowerEdge servers for some time, the MD1120 marks the first time the company is integrating 2.5-inch SAS drives in its storage subsystems.
Nexsan ships SAS array with MAID June 3, 2008—This week, Nexsan Technologies introduced the SASBoy RAID array, which features the company's AutoMAID (massive array of idle disks) technology. The introduction marks Nexsan's first foray into the SAS market.
SAS product update: Xyratex, Promise, Arena April 3, 2008—Xyratex this week announced the OneStor SP1224s, a new member of the company's OneStor Extensible Storage Platform (ESP) family
AMCC enters SAS space October 2, 2007—Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) this week became the last of the major RAID controller vendors to enter the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) market with the introduction of the 3ware 9690SA controller.
NetApp midrange arrays support SAS September 13, 2007—Network Appliance redoubled its efforts in the midrange market this week with the announcement of a pair of new "unified storage" appliances, an expansion of its partnership with IBM, and new services.
SAS case study: Nonlinear editing July 12, 2007—The Gartner Dataquest market research firm estimates that disk drive manufacturers shipped slightly more than four million Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives last year
Infortrend ships SAS-SAS RAID array June 20, 2007—According to a recent report from the Gartner Dataquest market research firm, drive manufacturers shipped 4.15 million Serial Attached SCSI SAS) drives in 2006,
Adaptec launches SAS/SATA controllers March 13, 2007—Adaptec announced today six new PCIe-interface products—five "unified" Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controllers and one Ultra320 SCSI host bus adapter (HBA).
Atto RAID adapters support SAS March 13, 2007—Claiming performance advantages over some of its more well-known competitors, Atto Technology this week entered the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) adapter market with the ExpressSAS R348 (internal) and R380 (external) RAID adapters.
LSI brings SAS to the channel February 21, 2007—LSI Logic this week announced a new pricing and product strategy to help the company penetrate the Serial ATA (SATA)-oriented channel market with its Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) products.
Seagate launches 2.5-inch, 15K SAS drives January 16, 2007—Seagate announced this week that it has begun shipping the next generation of its fastest hard drive—the 2.5-inch, 15,000rpm Savvio 15K—which is based on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.
LSI ships SAS-SAS RAID arrays December 8, 2006—In a further sign that the new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface is gaining momentum, at least at the OEM level, LSI Logic's Engenio division this week began shipments of SAS-SAS (host and drive connections) external RAID arrays
