Category: Disk Arrays
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SanDisk Eyes The Connected Car With New Flash Storage Line
Having already supplied flash storage solutions for the consumer electronics, PC and the data center markets, SanDisk is now setting its sights on automakers. The Milpitas, Calif.-based provider of flash chips and solid-state storage devices today announced a new line of automotive-grade (NAND) storage products that are geared toward infotainment systems and other car-based implementations.…
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Western Digital Previews Its Flash-First Future
Western Digital unveiled new flash-based storage hardware today and just one new hard disk drive (HDD) during its Investor Day today. Delivering a strategic update to shareholders, the company said its transition to 3D NAND is on track. In fact, the company is demoing its 3D NAND-based, “commercial grade” SanDisk Edge microSD card that can…
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Storage Class Memory: The Revolution Has Begun
When Microsoft’ s Windows Server 2016 was launched in October it started a quiet revolution in storage. That’s because it introduced support for NVDIMM-N, a type of storage class memory. Just to be clear, storage class memory is a type of storage which is persistent (so it doesn’t lose data if power is lost) like…
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The Many Variations Of RAID Storage
In part one of this two part series, we revisited where RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks) had its roots, as well as reviewing where it is today. In this article, we’ll look more at where RAID and its many variations are today, and forecast future directions. This includes traditional implementations and new enhanced extended…
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Disk Arrays: NetApp, HP Duke It Out For #3 Spot
In more good news for the rebounding storage industry, revenues from external disk systems grew 19% in Q3 2010 vs. Q3 2009, topping the $5 billion mark, according to a report from IDC. Revenues for the total (external and internal) disk systems market grew to almost $7 billion, representing an 18.5% year-over-year growth rate. Total…
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Flash A Bright Spot In Declining Storage Market
In a repeat of the previous two quarters, vendors sold $8.8 billion worth of enterprise storage systems in the third quarter (Q3) of 2016, reveals IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker data. On a year-over-year basis, however, that figure represents a 3.2 percent decline. On the plus side, the all-flash storage array segment…
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Diablo Takes DIMM View Of Server-Side Flash
To date, PCIe solid state drives (SSDs) have been the closest, most direct path that flash storage vendors use to quickly shuttle data to server processors. Today, Ottawa, Canada-based Diablo Technologies has paved its own shortcut to faster enterprise applications performance. Flash add-on cards deliver fast performance by leveraging the PCIe bus, circumventing a server’s…
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Nexenta Previews NexentaStor 4.0 Updates
Nexenta’s storage software platform is gearing up for a major new release of the company’s software defined storage (SDS) platform, NexentaStor. During the second quarter of 2014, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based tech firm will launch the latest edition of its “commercial-grade SDS implementation,” NexentaStor 4.0. The company’s virtualization-friendly software operates on commodity hardware, enabling businesses…
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Sweet Sixteen Solid State Storage Products
There are a great many solid state storage products on the market today. Many vendors have taken flash and added their own secret sauce or their own take on the best architectural design. So which is best? There is no easy answer and perhaps no single answer as product value is often dependent on the…
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Flash Storage Is Mainstream At HPC Organizations
Most HPC data centers use at least some form of flash storage to accelerate their workloads, finds a recent survey from DataDirect Networks. Solid-state drives (SSDs) and other forms of flash storage have cemented their place in high performance computing (HPC) scene. Flash is present in just over 90 percent of the HPC data centers…
