24Gb SAS Standard Advanced by SCSI Trade Association

In a move that will result in enhanced performance of enterprise storage deployments, the SCSI Trade Association (STA) announced that the SAS Protocol Layer (SPL-4) of the upcoming 24Gb/s specification has completed letter ballot resolution and will be forwarded to the International Committee for Technology Standards (INCITS) for processing towards public review.

Completion of letter ballot resolution marks a milestone in the standardization process where the developers of the standard considered it to be logically complete. In addition to the significance of this event in formalizing the specification, it also signals the beginning of the implementation phase during which companies will finalize their designs.

“24Gb SAS technology will double the effective bandwidth over the current 12Gb SAS, continuing SAS’s per lane performance over NVMe,” said Rick Kutcipal, president, SCSI Trade Association, and product planning and architecture, Broadcom Limited. “In addition to the performance increase over current 12Gb SAS technology, the significant advantages of SAS will continue to be its inherent scalability, manageability and serviceability.“

STA spoke at Storage Developer conference
Reinforcing the role of SAS as the backbone of nearly every enterprise storage deployment, Cameron Brett, director, SSD product marketing, SSD business unit, Toshiba America Electronic Components, and STA board member presented ‘SAS: Today’s Fast and Flexible Storage Fabric‘ at the 2016 SNIA Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA, on September 18, 2016.

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During the presentation, Brett covered the features of SAS such as zoned block commands, shingled magnetic recording, persistent connections and storage intelligence. He also educated attendees on how the versatility, reliability and scalability of SAS have made it the connectivity standard of choice for creating new storage architectures, allowing data center managers to create sustainable storage solutions that scale well into next-generation 24Gb SAS solutions and beyond.

New members Join STA
STA welcomed Astek Corporation, a provider of off-the-shelf products and services for storage products, test and measurement systems, and IoT security products, and Tektronix, Inc., a provider in test and measurement solutions, as the latest members to join its organization to promote and contribute to the evolution of SCSI.