Aleratec Names New VP Sales
and Marketing
Editor:- May 5, 2009 - Aleratec today named
Howard Wing to lead the company's sales and marketing activities.
Howard Wing's recent experience includes VP of Sales and Marketing at
Plextor where he was
actively involved in industry initiatives to bring
USB 2.0 and
SATA interfaces to
the optical disc markets.
new home page for - SSD SoCs
Editor:- April 7, 2009 -
StorageSearch.com today
launched a new directory of merchant market
SSD SoC vendors.
What's
a "merchant market SSD SoC vendor?"
In this context - it's a
chip company which sells
SSD controller (System on a Chip) technology on the open market.
Traditionally
in the SSD market - oems designed their own proprietary controllers to manage
the RAM or
flash media in their SSD
products. That was partly due to necessity - because the market was small and
there were no established standards. And also to protect the many
secret ways they
dealt with reliability
and performance
issues.
In recent years, however, as the
size of the
SSD market opportunity has become clearer, the supply of IP related to
designing flash SSDs
has, itself, become an attractive market.
In datamining our online
content I discovered that the number of companies which market SSD SoCs,
already listed on these pages, has nearly reached double digits. And - for
growing markets - that's always been the trigger point to create a new
directory. It will make them easier to find, defragment related news and
provide a home page for articles.
Product marketers who are in such
companies, and who are not already listed, should contact me
by email - with the subject line "SSD
SoCs".
RoboRacer Flips a Disk
London, UK - October 8, 2008
- Aleratec Inc. announced today its 1st DVD/CD publisher that
automatically copies data, flips the disc over and LightScribe labels each disc.
The Aleratec DVD/CD RoboRacer LS Duplex automatically records
data and LightScribe labels up to 100 discs completely unattended at a low ESP
of $1,049.
Since the introduction of LightScribe, publishing complete
discs meant that the discs had to be manually flipped over after burning data or
LightScribe labeling. Cost effectively making the disc flipping process truly
automatic was the technological challenge, stated Perry Solomon, Aleratec
President and CEO. With the DVD/CD RoboRacer LS Duplex, Aleratec innovation
completes the disc loading, unloading, and flipping process automatically with
only 6 moving parts completely enclosed in a low cost and attractive desktop
unit. Now true unattended LightScribe publishing is affordable...
...Aleratec profile,
optical disk duplicators | |
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| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs? |
Editor:- I've noticed is that
the published specs of
flash SSDs change
a lot -from the time a product they are first announced, then when they're
being sampled, and later again when they are in volume production.
Sometimes
the headline numbers get better, sometimes they get worse. There are many good
reasons for this.
The product which you carefully qualified may
not be identical to the one that's going into your production line for a
variety of reasons... ...read the article | |
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| Are MLC SSDs Safe
in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
...read the
article | | | |
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Nibble
Re: CD & DVD duplication equipment
If you've ever tried
backing up data onto a CD, using a single
CD-RW drive on your PC,
you'll realise, that even with the fastest drives, this is not an economic route
for producing CD's if you should decide to go into the software publishing
business.
Dedicated duplicators work faster, because they require less
set-up time, and because they write to many disks in parallel. So if you're
planning on being the next Bill Gates, or just publishing your company catalog
for the next mailshot, take a look at the advantages that a dedicated system can
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the Impact
of Compliance on Archival Storage Strategies - article by Plasmon
It's
difficult enough protecting and archiving your data so that it's available to
the right people at the right time (and cost). But now that's only part of the
problem. With so many new rules and regulations which prescribe how you should
destroy data records at the appropriate time - how do you guarantee that they
stay deleted?
Archiving data on the wrong kind of media could mean you
run the risk of breaking the law. Advances in the
data recovery
industry, and the future cohabitation of storage search-engines both mean that
Compliance Officers have to pay much more attention to the ways in which data is
dispersed and disposed of in different types of media.
This article
summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of currently available market
technologies. ...
read the article,
...Plasmon profile,
Optical Libraries | | |
