Storage Soup:

solid state storage


March 21, 2011  1:20 PM

Storage tiering draws interest, with good reason



Posted by: Randy Kerns
autotated storage tiering, solid state storage

Storage tiering has generated a good amount of interest lately, largely because of the performance improvements it can bring to organizations using

December 15, 2010  6:24 PM

IBM, STEC seek to make MLC solid state an enterprise play



Posted by: Dave Raffo
ibm, multi-level cell, solid state storage, stec

IBM is bringing STEC multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives into the enterprise, and the word from STEC is that others will follow soon. SSD supplier STEC today said IBM is using its ZeusIOPS MLC flash...


June 16, 2010  1:55 PM

Gear6 caches out; Violin Memory scoops up assets



Posted by: Dave Raffo
NAS, solid state storage, storage vendors

Flash memory appliance vendor Violin Memory today said it acquired the assets of failed caching startup Gear6 for an undisclosed price, and plans to add Gear6’s NAS and Memcached software to Violin arrays. Gear6 sold its