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A New Technology Hits the Enterprise Market: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

Overview Enterprise data access and transfer demands are no longer driven by advances in CPU processing power alone. Beyond the sheer volume of data, information routinely consists of rich content that increases the need for capacity. High-speed networks have increased the velocity of data center activity. Networked applications have increased the rate of transactions. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) addresses the technical requirements for performance and availability in these more I/O-intensive, mission-critical environments.

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Publisher	Fujitsu	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Hard Drives

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