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August 30, 2012  7:09 AM

Solid state requires storage re-design



Posted by: Randy Kerns
ibm, solid state drives, solid state storage; PCIe flash, Storage

IBM’s acquisition of Texas Memory Systems is the latest salvo in the battle of heavyweights as companies position themselves to offer primary storage based on...

August 7, 2012  4:10 PM

SolidFire gains its first cloud customer



Posted by: Dave Raffo
solid state drives, solid state storage, Storage

SolidFire, which sells all-solid state storage arrays to cloud service providers, revealed its first customer...


May 18, 2012  2:25 PM

HP gives EVA SSDs, 3 TB SATA



Posted by: Dave Raffo
hp eva, solid state drives, vmware vaai

Hewlett-Packard keeps upgrading its EVA line, although 3PAR is its high-growth midrange and high end storage platform. HP this week rolled out two new EVAs, the P6350 and...


March 9, 2012  8:33 AM

Western Digital, Hitachi GST make it official



Posted by: Dave Raffo
enterprise hard drives, solid state drives

Western Digital’s $4 billion-plus acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) officially closed today – a year and two days after the hard drive vendors first declared their intention...

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December 20, 2011  8:47 AM

Seagate-Samsung close hard drive deal eight months later



Posted by: Dave Raffo
hard drives, Hitachi GST, samsung, seagate, solid state drives, Western Digital

One of two pending multibillion dollar hard drive vendor acquisitions closed today when Seagate Technology wrapped up its $1.4 billion transaction with Samsung Electronics.

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July 26, 2011  12:13 PM

Automated tiering: Enabler for storage consolidation



Posted by: Randy Kerns
solid state drives, storage consolidation, storage tiering

Storage tiering, where data is automatically placed and migrated between different storage media, improves the performance of a system by exploiting the access...


April 19, 2011  1:35 PM

Seagate pushes deeper into SSDs with Samsung acquisition



Posted by: Dave Raffo
hard drives, samsung, seagate, solid state drives

Seagate’s $1.375 billion acquisition of Samsung’s hard drive business today also strengthens Seagate’s solid state drive (SSD) hand by extending the NAND flash partnership...


October 15, 2010  3:19 PM

Iomega plans SSDs for NAS



Posted by: Dave Raffo
emc, iomega, NAS, solid state drives

Iomega is getting into high-performance Flash. The first step is a portable drive for consumers and SMBs it will begin shipping next month. The next step is adding solid state drives (SSDs) to its


April 16, 2010  8:36 PM

SNW wrap-up



Posted by: Dave Raffo
cloud backup, data deduplication, solid state drives, storage networking, storage vendors

While product news was slim at spring SNW this week, there were vendors and other groups on hand to share roadmap details and discuss industry trends. Some tidbits of those conversations: Fibre Channel Industry Association Despite the rise of iSCSI and the emergence of...


February 1, 2010  9:39 PM

Intel and Micron unveil denser Flash components



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
solid state drives

Intel and Micron unveiled a new 25 nanometer lithography process for NAND wafers which are used to build Flash devices on Friday, saying the process will yield denser, cheaper Flash devices for consumers and commercial use. The announcement comes less than a year after Intel and Micron first...