"An Introduction to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)"
Presentation Description
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the next generation of business-class storage technology, the successor to UltraSCSI (Small Computer System Interface) and the top contender to the dominance of Fibre Channel in high performance storage. SAS enables a new generation of storage products that exploit its innovative scalability, bandwidth and performance architectures. This presentation overviews the SAS architecture, the technology, host adapters, hard drives and storage appliances. (In the last nine months, this presentation was voted as "Best in Show" at both the Storage Decisions conference in London and at the Storage Networking World - Europe show in Frankfurt.)
Speaker Biography
Bob Farkaly travels extensively speaking about Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology, the evolution of disk-based backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning, D2D2T data protection, iSCSI/IP storage and computer networking. Bob has addressed over 5,000 end-users and Overland partners in 32 countries since joining Overland Storage in June 2003 following the acquisition of Okapi Software.
Bob is the architect and co-inventor of Overland's REO SERIES of disk-based backup and recovery appliances. The REO SERIES is the industry's most widely adopted product in its class with over 5,000 units and 30 petabytes of storage capacity installed worldwide. REO has been honored with almost 100 product awards including the "Best New I/O Technology", "Best New Enterprise Storage Product", "Backup & Storage Product of the Year", "Best of the Best" new storage product as well as "Best New Storage Product".
Bob is a founding member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.
