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all enterprise backup will be solid state by 2020 by Zsolt Kerekes,
editor
There are profiles for over 500 backup companies on
StorageSearch.com - and thousands of related news stories, case studies and
articles.
I used to try and list the vendors into sensible categories
(but those lists got too long and cumbersome). I used to write summaries for
the most popular backup articles (but that too got out of hand). So I've given
up on long lists and you can use
site
search instead to find what you want. |
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If you're planning ahead
- and as you've arrived at a web page with "backup" in the title
then you obviously do think ahead - I expect all enterprise backup to be solid
state by 2020 - because SSD backup will have lower cost of ownership and more
desirable characteristics than hard disk, tape or optical. The technology
arguments and roadmap to
bulk storage petabyte
SSDs are explained in this article. The business arguments for heavyweight
content owners
are
outlined here.
The importan thing to realize is that even if hard
disks are free - they become obsolete in the enterprise - because users have
to leverage and make money out of their data (by processing it in a timely
manner). And enterprises will face increased pressure from physical space and
electrical costs - which only solid state storage will be able to deliver.
So
everything that most of you do now with respect to backup - all the processes
and all the technologies - should be regarded as temporary. Sometime in the next
5 years everything you do to protect and archive data will start to change
dramatically. Sooner in industries which are more data centric. You can keep up
to date with the transition to solid state storage in
SSD news.
A lot of
you might say - I'm not sure it's going to happen - or it doesn't affect me now.
That's
OK. And you may still find our archived content on traditional backup useful for
many years. But the mission statement for StorageSearch.com (since 1998) has
been - "leading the way to the new storage frontier". That's what we
do. Other storage
publications have always followed years behind - and often do that old
stuff better.
If you want to read about old storage stuff on this site
- take a look at
SSD market
history or how the
backup market moved from tape to disk and VTLs. |
| See also:-
data recovery,
disk to disk backup,
online backup,
SSD backup,
tape drives |
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Megabyte's uncle Spellerbyte was a wizard
when it came to backup software. He'd
given Megabyte a magic potion
for
copying critical stuff. |
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| SSD Data Recovery
Concepts |
It's hard enough understanding the design
of any single SSD. And there are so
many different designs
in the market.
Have you ever wondered what it looks like at the
other end of the SSD supply chain - when a user has a damaged SSD which
contains priceless data with no usable backup? |
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| this way to the Petabyte
SSD |
In 2016 there will be
just 3 types of
SSD in the datacenter.
One
of them doesn't exist yet - the bulk storage SSD.
It will replace the
last remaining strongholds of
hard drives in the
datacenter due to its unique combination of characteristics, low running costs
and operational advantages. |
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The new model of the
datacenter - how we get from here to there - and the technical problems which
will need to be solved - are just some of the ideas explored in this
visionary article. | | | |
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| Can you believe the
word "reliability" in a 2.5" SSD ad? |
Editor:-
Reliability is an
important factor in many applications which use
SSDs.... but can you trust
an SSD brand just because it claims to be reliable?
As we've seen in
recent years - in the rush for the
SSD market bubble -
many design teams which previously had little or no experience of SSDs were
tasked with designing such products - and the result has been successive waves
of flaky SSDs and
SSDs whose specifications
couldn't be relied on to remain stable and in many products quickly
degraded in customer sites. |
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As part of an education
series for SSD product marketers - this case study describes how one company -
which didn't have the conventional background to start off with - managed to
equate their brand of SSD with reliability in the minds of designers in the
embedded systems market. ...read the article | | | |
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| SSD Pricing -
where does all the money go? |
SSDs are among the most
expensive computer hardware products you will ever buy.
Understanding
the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating
process... |
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...not made any easier when
market prices for identical capacity SSDs can vary more than 100x to 1!
Why is that? ...read
the article | | | |
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