HDDs, SSDs, and Other Storage System Components
If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes:
Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks
Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon)
There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and ...
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Both Seagate and Western Digital announced Q2 results last week perhaps signalling a return of confidence in the disk drive channel. Component manufacturers in the enterprise IT channel are an interesting bellwether of market confidence as orders need to be placed in advance of shipments of ...
Well, Happy New Year. It’s 2010, yes? I check, simply because it’s that time of whatever-the-year-is for all the retrospectives and prognostications. There’s nothing wrong with all these sorts of things – indeed I’m nearly finished with an ESG Brief that will try to take an objective view at ...
Symantec announced several enhancements to its Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster File System products aimed at delivering higher levels of storage optimization and availability. A critical part of transforming a data center into a more efficient and dynamic environment is ensuring the storage domain can keep pace with the ...
Mark Peters, an analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group, said some organizations find Flash-as-disk effective despite the theoretical limitations cited by Reichman.
via Dataram enters solid-state storage market with XcelaSAN.
This week we have had two announcements about extreme (and I mean extreme) high performance storage arrays that follow the same basic approach. What they have in common is that they both use solid state (Flash) memory with a twist.
Oracle announces the Exadata Storage Server v2 their new Sun built ...
Mark Peters, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, added that he expects MLC to remain as an alternative rather than a replacement for enterprise-grade SLC SSDs.
via Cheap, large multi-level cell SSDs taking flash drives mainstream :: SearchStorage.com.au.
If Pillar is the first to ship a 2TB enterprise SATA drive, its rivals are sure to follow soon, said analyst Steve Duplessie of Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Pillar Brings 2TB SATA Drives to Enterprise - Business Center - PC World.
I spent a good chunk of last week in San Jose at the Flash Memory Summit....which might pretty soon have to change its name to the Solid State Summit, since that was what a great deal of the discussions were actually about. I think I may previously have admitted my ...
