April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Dennis Martin from Demartek described the evolving storage networks. As data volumes grow, the underlying servers and storage have to grow to accommodate the larger data flows. In general, servers are improving to address the needs for higher bandwidth and more virtualization. The larger number of…
September 16, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Ron Emerick from Oracle spoke on PCIe and its interface to storage architectures. The new devices and specifications have large potential implications on the storage industry and datacenter infrastructure. PCI Express is changing the capabilities of storage and is expected to become a greater consideration in new…
September 16, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Fred Knight described the changes and updated in the main storage protocols. The standards process is fairly long and involved, so some of the changes are still under review. The T10 committee is reviewing over 18,000 comments on SCSI commands, SCSI/ATA translation, SCSI express, and Serial Attach…