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Viking Announces SATADIMM Solid State Drive

SATADIMM is an Enterprise Class SATA II Solid State Drive (SSD).
Tags : SSD, SATA, Solid-State Drives, Solid State Storage

Enterprise Flash: MLC or SLC?

Conventional wisdom dictates that SLC technology is the only type of NAND flash suitable for enterprise-class SSDs. However, that line of thought is changing.
Tags : Solid State Storage, Solid-State Drives, Flash

Solid State Drives (SSDs) for Enterprise Storage Networking

Vendors have been quick to offer cache solutions for direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN).
Tags : DAS, SAN, NAS, SSD, Solid-State Drives

FalconStor, Violin Speed Storage Networks with SSDs

FalconStor and Violin Memory have combined storage virtualization with solid state drives to speed storage networking performance.
Tags : storage networking, Storage area network, storage management, storage virtualization, Solid-State Drives

Solid State Drive Reliability and Performance in Storage Networking

There are many reliability and performance issues to consider before adding SSDs to your enterprise storage networking environment.
Tags : storage networking, Solid-State Drives, SSD, solid state drive, data storage

Micron Buys Phase Change Memory Maker Numonyx

Micron's acquisition of Numonyx gives the memory firm a big stake in phase change memory (PCM) and NAND flash, two technologies that could change enterprise data storage.
Tags : phase change memory PCM, Micron, Numonyx, Solid-State Drives, SSD

Phase Change Memory: The Next Big Thing in Data Storage?

Phase change memory could be the technology that moves the data storage industry from HDDs to solid state drives.
Tags : Intel, SSD, Solid-State Drives, Numonyx, phase change memory PCM

Automated SSD Tiering: EMC's FAST Wasn't First

Data storage vendors compete in the emerging market for automated tiered storage.
Tags : 3PAR, BlueArc, Solid-State Drives, Compellent, EMC

I/O Bottlenecks: Biggest Threat to Data Storage

New technologies like phase change memory could make storage networks irrelevant unless the industry bands together to address I/O bottlenecks.
Tags : POSIX, phase change memory PCM, storage networking, data storage, Solid-State Drives

Top Storage Stories of 2009: RAID, Clouds, SSDs and Mergers

2009 was all about dramatic change and mergers for the data storage industry.
Tags : RAID, EMC Cisco VMware alliance, Sun Oracle merger, mergers and acquisitions, Solid-State Drives

The Future of Data Storage: FCoE, SSD Mergers, But No Clouds

Enterprise storage columnist Henry Newman sees FCoE and SSD mergers coming, but there are no clouds in his forecast.
Tags : FCoE, Solid-State Drives, storage networking, data storage, market research

Seagate Unveils First Solid State Drives

The hard drive giant enters the enterprise SSD market and shows off a laptop drive almost the size of a credit card.
Tags : SSD, Solid-State Drives, Seagate

EMC Makes Solid State Drives More Efficient

The data storage giant finally releases its long-awaited SSD tiering technology.
Tags : SSD, EMC, Solid-State Drives, tiered storage, STEC

Symantec Offers Thin Provisioning, SSD Tiering

Symantec unveils new features for making the most of heterogeneous storage environments.
Tags : Solid-State Drives, thin provisioning, Symantec, storage management

Saving Money with Solid State Drives

SSDs may cost a fortune, but used properly, they can actually save money in enterprise storage arrays.
Tags : SSD, EMC, Solid-State Drives, STEC, flash drives

SDSC Turns to Flash Technology for Supercomputing

Spinning media just wasn't up to the job, so the San Diego Supercomputer Center is banking on flash memory to build its dream machine.
Tags : Solid-State Drives, supercomputers, supercomputing, Intel, SSD

SSD Makers Wrestle with Performance Degradation

Solid state drives may be known for blistering performance, but that performance can degrade over time unless the SSD vendor has taken steps to prevent it.
Tags : Solid-State Drives, STEC, SSD, Pliant Technology, Fusion-io

Pliant Hopes to Give STEC Some Competition

The enterprise solid state drive (SSD) market may finally see some competition.
Tags : STEC, Solid-State Drives, SSD, EMC, Pliant Technology

Texas Memory Buys Virtualization Technology from Incipient

The solid state storage vendor could put Incipient's storage virtualization technology to good use.
Tags : tiered storage, SSD, Solid-State Drives, Incipient, Texas Memory Systems

STEC Makes Solid State Strides

The solid state drive maker has found a way to make lower-cost MLC technology ready for enterprise use.
Tags : SSD, STEC, Solid-State Drives, EMC, IBM

STEC Has EMC to Thank for Its Rapid Growth

The most surprising thing about STEC's phenomenal growth is that it's all coming from EMC.
Tags : SSD, STEC, EMC, Solid-State Drives, data storage

Intel Halts SSD Sales Following Data Loss

The data corruption problem only appears under one condition, but it was enough to force Intel to halt solid state drive shipments.
Tags : STEC, Intel, Flash, SSD, Solid-State Drives

Making Money with Data Storage

You've got all that data sitting around collecting dust. Why not find a way to do something useful with it?
Tags : business/IT alignment, business intelligence, Solid-State Drives, virtual I/O, data storage

Fusion-io Lowers the Price of Solid State Storage

Fusion-io says it has combined low-cost MLC flash with the reliability of enterprise-class SLC.
Tags : Solid-State Drives, data storage, Fusion-io, Flash, STEC

Solid State Drive Developers Try to Catch STEC

Plenty of companies are planning enterprise-class SSDs, but it could be a year or more before they catch up to the early market leader.
Tags : flash memory, STEC, Solid-State Drives, Intel, EMC

SGI Returns with New Data Storage Arrays

SGI's new high-density storage device can handle up to 60 drives, both platter and SSD-based, for 90TB of storage.
Tags : Solid-State Drives, SGI, data storage, SSD

Can Solid State Drive Maker STEC Be Stopped?

With no competition on the horizon, the SSD maker's dominance will likely continue into next year.
Tags : EMC, Solid-State Drives, data storage, STEC

Sun Adds Solid State Drive Management to ZFS

The latest version of Sun's open source ZFS file system includes automated management of SSDs. And OpenSolaris gets new networking and virtualization features.
Tags : Solid-State Drives, file systems, Sun Microsystems, open source, data storage

IBM Adds Solid State to High-End Storage

IBM is adding solid state drives and new management software to its DS8000 data storage arrays.
Tags : data storage, EMC, Solid-State Drives, Hitachi, IBM

Could Solid State Spell the End for Hard Drives?

Some analysts say the answer is yes — and perhaps sooner than you think.
Tags : Sun Microsystems, Solid-State Drives, hard drives, EMC, data storage

Ten Ways to Save on Data Storage Costs

There's no end to ideas for saving on data storage costs, but here's a few to get started.
Tags : EMC, Solid-State Drives, deduplication, data storage, cost management

What's Selling In the Data Storage Market?

Storage hardware sales may be suffering, but customers are still opening their wallets for some data storage technologies.
Tags : EMC, deduplication, Quantum, Data Domain, Solid-State Drives


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