Analysts Speak Out

IDC White Paper
From 3Gb/s SAS to 6Gb/ s SAS: It Takes a Standard and an Ecosystem, May 6, 2008
Enterprise IT professionals will face their next business-critical technology decision as the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage interface transitions from today’s 3 gigabit per second (3Gb/s) standard to the 6Gb/s standard. Achieving success through a properly timed, interoperable, highly performing, and cost-effective 6Gb/s SAS enterprise solution depends upon understanding factors such as how the transition will occur, when the ecosystem will evolve, and what the best-practice usage models are.

6Gb/s SAS Quotes
  • Six Industry Leaders to Support 6Gb/s SAS Technology as Market Readies for 2009 Adoption, Oct. 22, 2008
    "Server manufacturers face constant pressure to engineer increases in performance and scalability across increasingly diverse applications – from retail to real-time business analytics to delivery of content-on-demand. To succeed, underlying technologies must be robust and highly reliable. Technology alignment paves the way for a smooth transition to the 6Gb/s SAS generation" - Dave Reinsel, vice president of storage and semiconductor research, IDC
  • LSI, Dell and Seagate First to Demonstrate End-to-End 6Gb/s SAS Server Interoperability, May 6, 2008
    "A successful demonstration of 6Gb/s SAS interoperability by three storage industry leaders will be a clear indication that product engineering, validation and interoperability testing is progressing well, and paves the way for production volumes in late 2009." - Dave Reinsel, vice president of storage and semiconductor research, IDC
  • LSI First to Sample 6Gb/s SAS Expanders to OEMs, March 5, 2008
    "Enterprises need storage solutions that deliver new levels of performance, reliability and scalability across increasingly diverse applications ranging from retail transactions, to real-time business analytics, to delivery of content-on-demand. Technologies, such as 6 Gb/s SAS, will play an important role in meeting these emerging enterprise storage requirements. Leading storage solutions providers such as LSI that are making 6 Gb/s SAS products available for interoperability and validation testing will help speed the transition to more powerful storage solutions." - Richard Villars, vice president of storage systems research, IDC
  • LSI SAS Technology Powers 100-plus Dual-core; Intel Xeon Server Models, May 30, 2006
    “As IT managers look to leverage the cost benefits of SAS, the technology is rapidly moving into the mainstream as server OEMs bring server platforms to market. To that degree, companies such as LSI that have aligned and can deliver SAS solutions to top tier server manufacturers such as HP and IBM, and regional OEMs such as FSC, Lenovo and NEC, are in prime position to capitalize as SAS volumes ramp." - Vernon Turner, group VP and general manager, Enterprise Computing, IDC