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Storspeed accelerates NAS with caching appliance

October 29, 2009 -- Storspeed, a new player in the storage market, emerged from stealth mode earlier this month ...

Dataram accelerates FC SANs

September 29, 2009 -- Dataram this week entered the broader storage market with the introduction of the XcelaSAN appliance for accelerating application performance in Fibre Channel SAN environments.

Engenio arrays support SSDs, iSCSI
September 28, 2009 -- LSI has upgraded its Engenio 7900 disk arrays with support for SSD drives and iSCSI host interfaces, adding to support for Fibre Channel and SATA drives and 4Gbps/8Gbps Fibre Channel host connections.

Pliant delivers EFD SSD drives
September 14, 2009 -- Startup Pliant Technology today announced its entry into the solid-state disk (SSD) fray with the introduction of its Lightning line of Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs). The drives are designed for OEMs and integrators building hybrid arrays consisting of SSDs and traditional hard disk drives (HDDs).

Adaptec enables SSD + HDD RAID
September 10, 2009 -- As part of a partnership with Intel, Adaptec this week introduced software for its RAID controllers that will enable its OEM and channel partners to combine the controllers and software with solid-state disk (SSD) drives and traditional hard disk drives in what the company refers to as High-Performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs).

Product highlights from the Flash Memory Summit
August 14, 2009 -- A handful of vendors used this week's Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA to make new product announcements, or pre-announcements.

SSD product news wrap-up
July 10, 2009 -- A number of vendors made announcements related to solid-state disk (SSD) drives this week, including Compellent and STEC, Fusion-io, WhipTail Technologies, Texas Memory Systems, and LSI.

SSDs require new array architectures
June 5, 2009 -- Users with unusual performance demands have been forced to seek out alternatives to traditional disk drives, and have often found that solutions built on solid-state technology - whether DRAM-based storage arrays or database caches - could be an answer to their problems.

Sun ships flash-based disk array
May 27, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems today announced the Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage system, a flash-powered disk array that uses Hybrid Storage Pool technology to take advantage of solid-state disk (SSD) drives.

IBM debuts management software for SSDs
May 21, 2009 -- IBM is now offering nine different data management software tools for managing and moving data in tiered storage environments with solid-state disk (SSD) drives.

Sun adds SSDs to enterprise servers
March 12, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems is continuing on its quest to put flash drives everywhere. The company revealed the latest step in its solid-state disk SSD) drive strategy when it announced availability of SSDs for its Sun x64 servers, chip multi-threaded (CMT) servers, and blade server systems.

Texas Memory launches PCIe SSD
March 10, 2009 -- Texas Memory Systems is shipping to OEMs the RamSan-20 solid-state disk (SSD) drive, which packs 450GB of flash memory on a PCIe card. End-user shipments are expected in the next month or two.

Pillar puts SSDs in Axiom arrays
March 9, 2009 -- Pillar Data Systems has joined the ranks of vendors now offering support for solid-state disk (SSD) drives across its line of enterprise storage arrays.

Samsung, Imation launch SSD drives
January 7, 2009 -- At the Storage Visions Conference in Las Vegas this week, Samsung and Imation introduced enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives.

HDS puts SSDs in disk arrays
December 17, 2008 -- Hitachi Data Systems this week became the latest vendor to add support for flash-based solid-state disk drives to its enterprise and midrange storage arrays.

Sun ships arrays with SSDs
Sun Microsystems made good on its promise to ship new storage arrays designed to take advantage of high-performance solid-state disk (SSDs) drives last month with the launch of the first three systems in its Open Storage portfolio -- the Sun Storage 7000 family.

Sun's SSD arrays hit the streets
November 12, 2008 -- Sun Microsystems made good on its promise to ship new storage arrays designed to take advantage of high-performance solid-state disk (SSDs) drives this week

SSDs poised for the enterprise
Shipments of solid-state disk (SSD) drives are expected to hit 1.7 million units in 2013, an average annual growth rate of nearly 150%.

SNIA launches SSD initiative
September 24, 2008 -- The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is stepping into the solid-state disk (SSD) fray by announcing the formation of the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI),

SSD flash drives enter the enterprise
Solid-state disk (SSD) drive manufacturers have solved most of the problems associated with flash memory technology, paving the way for use in enterprise-level storage systems.

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