2015 Board of SCSI Trade Association

The SCSI Trade Association (STA) a member-run industry association established to support and promote SCSI technology, announced its newly elected board of directors for 2015.

The entire board roster was reelected.

Returning officers include STA president Martin Czekalski of Seagate Technology and Greg McSorley of Amphenol, who serves as VP. Rick Kutcipal of Avago returns to the board as secretary, and Chet Mercado of HGST was elected treasurer.

“2014 was notable for the robust rollout of 12Gb SAS products in production volumes,” said Czekalski. “STA also hosted its 16th Plugfest in 2014, the fourth that was devoted to 12Gb SAS, further demonstrating that SAS answers the call for ‘no compromise’ system performance, connectivity and scalability in enterprise storage.”

INCITS T10 Committee
Releases Zoned Block Command Feature to Letter Ballot
STA also announced the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Technical Committee T10 is finalizing its work on the Zoned Block Command specification of 12Gb SAS (SAS) and has completed letter ballot. It is expected to be forwarded to INCITS shortly after comments have been resolved.

The new Zoned Block Command feature will enable more efficient use of SMR for increased density in HDDs as well as potential capabilities for more efficient use of SSDs in storage applications.

A letter ballot marks a milestone in the standardization process. In addition to this event in formalizing the specification, it also signals the beginning of the implementation phase during which companies will finalize their designs.

2015 Officers of the STA board of directors:

President: Martin Czekalski, interface architecture initiatives manager, Seagate Technology
VP: Greg McSorley, technical business development manager, Amphenol
Treasurer: Chet Mercado, technical marketing engineer/third party alliance, HGST, a Western Digital
Secretary: Rick Kutcipal, external storage market segment Lead, Avago Technologies

STA Board Members-at-Large:

David Allen, director product marketing, PMC-Sierra
Cameron Brett, director of SSD product marketing, Toshiba America Electronic Components
Mike James, director, engineering, enterprise storage solutions, SanDisk
Gary McCulley, product line manager, storage group, Intel Corporation
Jay Neer, industry standards manager, Molex

STA also welcomed Wieson Technologies as the latest member to join its organization to promote and contribute to the evolution of SCSI.

Current STA Membership roster:
Amphenol
ATTO Technology
Avago Technologies
BizLink Technology
ConnPro Industries
Dell
FCI Electronics
Formerica Optoelectronics
Foxconn Interconnect Technology
Fujikura Ltd./DDK
Hewlett-Packard
Intel Corporation
HGST
JDS Uniphase (JDSU)
Marvell Semiconductor
Molex
NetApp
PMC-Sierra
Samsung Semiconductor
SanDisk
Seagate Technology
SerialTek
TE Connectivity
Teledyne LeCroy
UNH (Honorary)
Toshiba America Electronic Components
Western Digital Technologies
Wieson Technologies