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Who's who in SSD? - Cisco
by Zsolt Kerekes -
editor - StorageSearch.com
- July 2015
Cisco began quietly using SSDs inside some of its fabric
systems to boost their performance in around 2000 to my knowledge - and maybe
even earlier.
In
September 2013
Cisco entered the rackmount
SSD market with the acquisition of
WhipTail. But within a
year of that announcement Cisco told customers it was EOLing the product line.
In
July 2015 a report in
CRN
- that Cisco was laying off nearly everyone associated with its SSD storage
business was later
confirmed.
Does
that mean Cisco is out of the SSD business?
As a supplier - this short
lived experiment failed.
But I think that for Cisco - as for everyone
use who uses servers and memories in its product lines - some kind of
significant SSD presence will remain essential to be competitive - even if it's
only in the form of modules such as
hybrid DIMMs or
memory channel
SSDs from 3rd parties on its servers.
So I think that Cisco will
inevitably continue to be a major consumer of
industrial SSDs
and various SSD-like server enhancement products. And it will
have to
engage in future acquisitions
in this market - most likely in the
SSD software and SDS
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| Smaller nuances of user
behavior (which are easier to discern as patterns in a stable market) easily get
lost under the noise created by headline technology changes and the market's
apparent willingness to slaughter and discard once loved past industry leaders.
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| Decloaking
hidden SSD segments in the enterprise | | |
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| "...Application-unaware
design of memory controllers, and in particular memory scheduling algorithms,
leads to uncontrolled interference of applications in the memory system" |
| Are you ready to
rethink RAM? | | | |
