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Nimbus Flash Storage Targets Data Center Energy Requirements

Nimbus Data Systems has announced its latest enterprise flash storage system. As reported on ZDNet, it can provide up to 10 terabytes per shelf or up to 250 terabytes in a single file system -- and Nimbus claims that its platform carries 90 percent lower energy, cooling and rackspace costs than traditional 15,000-rpm disk arrays that would normally be used for high-performance computing applications.

"As you might imagine, the company is targeting some pretty heavy-duty applications with both of these products. The intended applications included high-performance computing applications such as data mining or data warehousing, seismic data processing or medical imaging. Service providers with aspirations in cloud infrastructure are also a target."