SAS Access Control Zoning Tutorial

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What to Expect

Storage innovations, such as SAS Expanders, increased capacity and increased accessibility have introduced risks that can threaten the availability, integrity and confidentiality of today's storage infrastructures. SAS expanders are high-speed switches that enable a single SAS domain to contain over 16,000 storage drives (SAS and/or SATA). It is important to have an access control mechanism in place for the SAS expander to ensure security among the devices.

This webinar will:

• Summarize the growing importance of storage security
• Explain the need for SAS expanders to support Access Control Zoning
• Detail PMC-Sierra's Access Control Zoning implementation and its benefits
• Provide a concluding live Q & A

About the Presenter

Heng Liao, Principal Engineer, Product Research, PMC-Sierra

Heng Liao is a Principal Engineer and the chief architect for PMC's SAS Expander Products in the Enterprise Storage Product Division (ESD).

Prior to joining PMC-Sierra, Dr. Liao was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Princeton University and studied various parallel processor architecture and compiler techniques.

Dr Liao has over 8 years of experience in the storage and communication IC industry and has worked in various design roles. Dr. Liao holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Computer Engineering from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Dr. Liao has over 18 US and international patents pending or awarded in the field of communication systems, switching techniques, micro-architectures, and storage systems.

Who Should Attend

Design engineers, system architects, product line managers, engineering management and marketing managers of data storage systems and equipment.

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