ATTO XstreamCORE® are intelligent, high-performance devices – bridges – for accelerated protocol conversion. They provide the benefits of shared SAS storage at the speeds of directly attached drives. XstreamCORE provides remote SAS storage access, enabling storage owners to disaggregate storage from server hardware using JBOD, JBOF, RAID, or tape storage. Use cases include mapping one or more individual drives to space-constrained rack or blade servers, remapping attached drives from failed servers to replacement servers, adding shared capabilities to direct attached storage, and remotely locating directly attached drives or tape devices.