December 11, 2009 9:21 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Data storage management,
disk arrays,
solid state drivesIt's that time of year again, the time when we take stock of the past 12 months and look ahead to what's coming in the New Year. This week, a topic on many minds was automated tiered storage in the wake of EMC's shipment of version 1 of its long-awaited
December 10, 2009 3:30 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
solid state drivesWeeks after rolling out solid-state drive (SSD) support in its SAN Volume Controller (SVC) based on SSDs from STEC, IBM has confirmed official support for Fusion-io -- the partner it first worked with to...
November 10, 2009 9:21 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
solid state drives,
Strategic storage vendors SSD supplier STEC's stock price has taken a dive since the vendor reported last Tuesday that EMC will carry over its 2009 inventory of Flash drives into 2010. Shares have fallen almost $9.00 to $13.18 at today's close. According to a report from
September 18, 2009 3:42 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
solid state drivesHewlett-Packard Co. (HP) continues to play both the server and array sides of the SSD fence, today announcing Samsung SSDs will be supported in its ProLiant servers.
According to a Samsung press...
September 17, 2009 9:44 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
disk arrays,
solid state drives,
storage vendorsA Pillar executive responding to a Computerworld report that the vendor is "kicking Intel's SSD to the curb" says Pillar is still considering Intel as an SSD supplier...
August 26, 2009 8:33 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
solid state drivesThe Holy Grail for SSDs is to make SLC performance cost as much as MLC, or, even better, as much as hard disk drives. The CTO of SSD manufacturer STEC says it won't happen, pointing out that every...
August 26, 2009 2:01 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
solid state drivesWhile there was a “flash” of NetApp’s solid state strategy evident in its product launch this week, a big part of it was missing in all the talk of Data Ontap 8 and the vendor’s cloud strategy....
July 9, 2009 9:07 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
solid state drivesWhipTail Technologies, a spinoff from IT solutions provider TheAdmins, launched a 6 TB SSD appliance this week for a cost of $122,500.
Compared to other offerings currently on the market, the system comes in at a higher capacity (the next-biggest...
April 22, 2009 6:00 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
NAS,
solid state drives
Parallel clustered NAS vendor Panasas is the latest vendor to put solid state drives (SSDs) in it storage...
