DoSTOR analysis of the store on August 18: at the end of this year to the beginning of 2006 the market will set off a new war, SAS vendors have tried to before the war began seeking a foothold in the market.
in the past two weeks, we have seen not only in support of the SAS blade server release, and combined with SATA and SAS's cabinet, the two products are to promote the development of SAS storage. Although, at present mainly for the SAS server.
In addition, the new release also includes chips, hard disk, controller, as well as other related products. Press the main points are as follows:
chip
PMC-Sierra Inc. this week released a blade server for 24 ports and 36 ports to expand the exchange of chips, including Hewlett-Packard to develop specifications for the district to provide zoning, security policy and strategic management functions, and With SAS controllers, host bus adapter (HBA) and RAID-compatible.
PMC-Sierra enterprise storage division marketing director, said TravisKarr than their competitors LSI Logic Corporation and Vitesse Semiconductor chip product launch for six months in advance, even though he was not sure whether its OEM customers in the second quarter of 2006 before the Shipping.
However, PMC-Sierra in the field of servers to catch up with or belonging to the company LSILogic. PMC-Sierra has not announced any information SASdesignwins, although Hewlett-Packard on PMC-Sierra is a good candidate, and recently with LSI and Fujitsu HP OEM agreement was signed. In anticipation of SAS in SAN in the prevalence, LSI also earlier this month in its MyStorageHBA management software adds support for SAS. Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. announced that although there is no any information designwins, but they are expected to be around October through OEM customers SAS products.
hard
Hitachi, Fujitsu, Maxtor and Seagate have launched a SAS drive is mainly used to DAS (direct attached storage) server. However, Seagate is expected to have an array of network storage systems will be integrated SAS and SATA drives, it also started to launch a series of SATA hard disk Nearline35. Seagate previously only sold through OEM customers NL35 hard disk.
Seagate Technology's director of marketing for PeteSeege said: Nearline35 bright spot is that the SAS architecture, we are far ahead of many other manufacturers, they rushed the production of SAS one of the reasons is that in the same cabinet, SAS is compatible with SATA.
RAID controller
Ario data network at the same time the company last week released a support SAS and SATA drives 4-Gbit/sRAID controller – SanarioFS. At the same time, the company said its OEM customers at the end of this year, is expected to be on the market. SanarioFS will allow SAN system vendors to create and support an array of SATA and SAS. The most important thing is, it is clear that SAS products, strong development momentum. LSI products DavidSteele program director, said: Now is the time to display the real SAS products are emerging. Brbrbr now due to the SAS or mainly used for servers, Steele said he expects SAS networked storage products will start in six months to replace DAS products. According to Taneja Group analyst ArunTaneja introduced, SAS will be in the field of network storage play an important role. BrbrbrTaneja that SAS will win a place in the field of network storage, and SATA and co-existence; so users can be mixed in the same system the main storage And the backup disk. Although the serial SCSI is better than parallel SCSI, Taneja do not think that SAS will replace the light to become the main channel of choice for storage, nor do we believe that SAS will become cheaper than SATA secondary storage of choice. BrbrbrTaneja said: SAS supply Manufacturing companies with the same SATA interface is great, and if they do not do this, SAS will certainly disappear. I think as long as they are now using the SCSI users will be using SAS. However, fiber channel will have its own piece of heaven and earth, especially after the decline in prices. Brbrbr