STA Announces Completion of Serial Attached SCSI Specification; T10 Committee Forwards Specification to INCITS.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2003 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]. (STA), a member-run industry consortium established to support and promote SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. technology, announced today that the Serial Attached SCSI See SAS. 1.0 specification was forwarded on May 8 by the T10 Committee to the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards The International Committee for Information Technology Standards, or INCITS (pronounced "insights" [1]), is an ANSI-accredited forum of IT developers. It was formerly known as the X3 and NCITS. (INCITS INCITS INternational Committee for Information Technology Standards ). The specification will be circulated by INCITS for public review and comment followed by a letter ballot, both key milestones on the path to becoming an international standard. The Serial Attached SCSI specification defines a device-level enterprise storage interface incorporating SCSI backward compatibility, serial point-to-point interconnections, dual porting, increased addressability and the ability to scale to small form factors. Its physical layer has been engineered to be compatible with Serial ATA's physical layer, giving users the choice of populating their systems with Serial Attached SCSI or Serial ATA hard disk drives, or a combination of both. Compatibility of the two specifications will be assured, as T10 had the advantage of working with selected parts of the Serial ATA 2.0 specification provided by the Serial ATA II Working Group. Harry Mason, President of the STA Board of Directors and Director of Industry Marketing at 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, stated, "The Serial Attached SCSI specification continues its predicted development and review schedule. OEMs are working hard on their product designs and early demos. The industry is starting to see Serial Attached SCSI demos and by fall there will be more as companies prepare their products for introduction in 2004." "T10 forwarded Serial Attached SCSI to INCITS at our May 8, 2003 meeting, where it will go through a 45-day public review period," said John Lohmeyer, Chair of the T10 Technical Committee and Principal Engineer, LSI Logic. "If there are no comments, INCITS will issue a letter ballot and barring comments, it then goes to the American National Standards Institute See ANSI. (body, standard) American National Standards Institute - (ANSI) The private, non-profit organisation (501(c)3) responsible for approving US standards in many areas, including computers and communications. ANSI is a member of ISO. (ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. ). "I view Serial Attached SCSI as technically stable and we are on track for ANSI publication of the standard by late summer," he added. Dave Reinsel, Hard Disk Drive Research Manager at IDC, said, "When Serial Attached SCSI enters the enterprise storage market in 2004, it should carry the robust reliability for which SCSI is well known. Its expected compatibility with Serial ATA will be a market advantage for current, as well as new SCSI users, who want the flexibility of both Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA hard drives in a Serial Attached SCSI system." STA will schedule `plugfests' (test labs) in 1Q 2004, in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , to provide STA members with the opportunity to test all newly developed Serial Attached SCSI products for compatibility with Serial ATA and for interoperability. The broad array of products to enter the market in 2004 will come from STA member companies which produce controllers, host bus adaptors, hard disk drives, cables, connectors, systems, software, expanders, converters, switches, I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output and test and verification systems. Enterprise users will be able to confidently continue investing in SCSI technology that delivers a scalable feature set and robust reliability. About the SCSI Trade Association The SCSI Trade Association was established in 1995 to provide a focal point focal point n. See focus. f or members to communicate the benefits of SCSI to the industry. STA promotes the understanding and use of SCSI technology and influences the evolution of SCSI standards to meet future industry needs. The Association has an eight-member Board of Directors, which oversees the Marketing Communications and Technology Committees and all STA activities. For more information, please visit the STA web site at http://www.scsita.org, send an email to info@scsita.org or call the STA office at 415/561-6273. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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