Tiered Storage Deployments with 24G SAS

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the only storage interface that embraces both high performance and high reliability, as well as providing native compatibility with low-cost per gigabyte SATA drives. This capability allows SAS to span a variety of storage environments, including tiered storage solutions. Large-scale data infrastructures utilize tens of thousands of HDDs and SSDs, compounded by recent capacity demand via storage-based cryptocurrency initiatives such as the Chia blockchain. Hyperscale companies need to be able to carefully manage their storage infrastructure from a global perspective in a cost-effective way. During this presentation, Jeremiah Tussey, VP of the SCSI Trade Association and Alliance Manager, Product Marketing, Microchip Technology Inc., will review the benefits of tiered storage and how the latest features standardized in 24G SAS storage interface technology is helping enterprises store and move data across a range of storage media with different characteristics, such as performance, cost and capacity.