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As an important part of the announcement, STA is promoting a converged
Mini-SAS High-Density (HD) standard connector to create a vibrant and
consistent infrastructure to expand SAS usability and scalability.  The
STA objectives include a consistent connectivity management scheme in
addition to the active copper and optical cable extensions supported by
the new Mini-SAS HD connector....

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"As the SMI specification continues to evolve and become integrated
into an increasing number of storage products, SMI has focused on
increasing the functionality of CTP for end users," said Paul von
Behren, chair of the Storage Management Initiative. "Version 1.4 now
assists end users to better evaluate their storage purchase options by
helping them determine whether a product simply provides basic
discovery and monitoring or whether it allows for configuration
management via SMI-S."

CTP for SMI-S 1.4 features:
·    Easy-to-understand CTP reports
·    Delivery of event notifications
·    Identification of tested management tasks using business-oriented terms

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LSI has announced availability of a new family of high-performance
SATA+SAS host bus adapters (HBAs) based on 6Gb/s SAStechnology. The
LSI™ SAS 9200 series HBAs, based on the LSISAS2008 6Gb/s SAS controller
IC, offer new levels of performance and scalability for internal and
external direct-attached storage deployments using SATA and SAS disk
drives.

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Sun Microsystems has announced a significant leap forward in the
industry with the introduction of new Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array
that extends Sun's flash portfolio with the latest innovation that
offers customers the best way to scale storage performance. The first
enterprise server and storage company to bring fully-integrated
Flash-based storage with Flash-optimised software to the enterprise,
Sun's new flash array is designed to accelerate Oracle and MySQL
database workloads and optimize storage architectures for higher
performance at lower cost.

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Emulex is expanding the performance and versatility of its
market-leading InSpeed® Bridging technology through the addition of
enterprise storage system support for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) to
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) bridging in SAS
environments, support for SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in Fibre Channel
environments, and support for ultra-high performance Solid State Drives
(SSDs) in both SAS and Fibre Channel environments.  

source SNS Europe