This paper describes the current state of parallel ATA and SCSI technologies and the barriers they face in meeting the requirements of future enterprise technologies. Then it describes the fundamental features of serial I/O technologies that enable them to overcome the limitations of these parallel I/O technologies. Subsequent sections describe SATA and SAS technologies and the applications in which they will be deployed.
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