SCSI  Express:  The  Smart  Path  to  PCIe  Storage  

Ron  Noblett    HP  -­‐  Vice  President,  Infrastructure  &  Storage    Industry-­‐standard  Servers  &  Software,  Hyperscale    

Barry  Luck  IBM  -­‐  Director,  Next  Generation  Platforms,  Ecosystems  

Keeping up in a cloud-enabled world

Respond to increasing demands for data

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The world is changing

The best of the best prevail

SCSI

SCSI EXPRESS

Accelerate and streamline data storage Unlock the full potential of solid state devices

Enterprise server and storage systems Solutions balancing SAS and SCSI Express

SCSI command optimizations PCI Express enhancements

MISSION TARGET METHOD

What is SCSI Express?

SCSI EXPRESS

Unlimited opportunity for SCSI

HDD  HDD  +  Solid  State  Solid  State   Capacity

Bulk    Storage  

High  Frequency  Trading  

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The Future is bright with Express Bay

SCSI Express, 3/6 Gb/s SAS, & 12Gb/s SAS with a single multifunction connector

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