Good Enough Storage: SATA RAID Systems in Mid-Range RAID Market
Jerry Hoetger, Director of Product Management, Xyratex

In this session, Mr.Hoetger will describe realistic requirements for a new class of storage in the mid-range storage market that addresses the emerging high-density storage applications coming online today, including surveillance monitoring, digital entertainment, disk-to-disk backup, and secondary storage for high performance computing environments. 

As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to: 

• Make optimal use of limited IT budgets in support of out-of-control demands for increasing storage capacity
• Describe the role of SATA drives and future SAS drive technology in mid-range storage