MindShare, Inc. Announces Publication Of SAS Storage Architecture: Serial Attached SCSI.MONUMENT, Colo. -- MindShare, Inc., a leading provider of technical training and reference books, today announced the publication of SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Storage Architecture: Serial Attached SCSI See SAS. , the newest of MindShare's widely distributed technical reference publications. The 630-page book provides software developers, chipset, board and system designers with a comprehensive understanding of SAS and its supported drive types, including SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. (Serial ATA) drives. Written by Mike Jackson, a MindShare senior staff engineer, SAS Storage Architecture is organized with relevant issues cross-referenced to key topics, and contains nearly 300 illustrations. The book is structured in an easy-to-read format while providing detailed explanations of the concepts and several implementation examples. Mr. Jackson received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and has been involved in high-speed digital design work for several years. While working at Compaq Computer, he helped design several Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), and received three U.S. patents and one international patent award for that work. Over the past four years, Mike has been an instructor and author for MindShare, and has trained thousands of engineers in the U.S, Europe, and Asia. Acclaim for SAS Storage Architecture "STA is delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to the MindShare SAS book. SAS technology is a significant inflection point Inflection Point An event that changes the way we think and act. -Andy Grove, Founder of Intel. Notes: For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall was an inflection point in global politics and the commercialization of the Internet was an inflection point in technology. in the evolution of data storage and MindShare has done an admirable job in explaining the technology. The content of the MindShare book will be very beneficial to SAS system designers and integrators and also provide a valuable resource for engineering students," said Harry Mason, President of the SCSI Trade Association The SCSI Trade Association, or SCSITA, is an industry trade group which exists to promote the use SCSI technology. It was formed in 1996 [1]. As of 2006, major members include Adaptec, HP, Intel, LSI Logic, Seagate, and IBM [1]. and Director, Industry Marketing, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic. "We've found that our customers much prefer the immediate drill-down and comprehensive coverage provided by the MindShare books, as opposed to searching through mountains of specifications. The SAS System Architecture book from MindShare is sure to be a well-worn reference in any lab," said Paul Mutschler, Storage Division Director, Catalyst Enterprises SAS Storage Architecture is published by MindShare Press and available now through www.njstorefront.com and other bookstores, as well as electronically via ebooks.com. Basis of MindShare Technical Training As with other MindShare technical publications, SAS Storage Architecture serves as the course material for MindShare's in-depth SAS technical training seminars, provided to design engineers around the world. These courses provide a detailed understanding of the Serial SCSI interface from a hardware perspective, and include some software concepts as well. A description of the course and a detailed list of topics covered may be found at: http://mindshare.com/courses/?section=SAS&sub_section=Full%20Length%20 Course . (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) About MindShare, Inc. MindShare, Inc. (www.mindshare.com) delivers innovative technical training courses to scores of companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Advanced Micro Devices, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Sun Microsystems. MindShare course topics include IA32 processors, Opteron processors, PCI Express, InfiniBand, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , HyperTransport, SAS, SATA, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, High-Speed Design, EMI/EMC EMI/EMC Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility and Windows Device Drivers. MindShare also writes and publishes technical reference books on a variety of these topics. |
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