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Founded in 1967, Dataram is a worldwide leader in the design
and manufacture of reliable, high capacity and innovative memory solutions.
Dataram provides customized memory solutions for OEMs and memory upgrades for
leading brands including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Intel and AMD Opteron.
For more information on all Dataram's offerings, visit www.dataram.com.
see
also:-
Dataram
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- in October 2008 -
Dataram re-entered the
SSD market with the acquisition
of strategic assets from Cenatek
whose CEO has joined Dataram to lead the company's return to solid state
storage, an area they "pioneered 32 years ago.."*
This is a
very significant milestone for the
SSD market because it shows
the strategic value that memory makers place on SSDs.
In the past
companies like Intel have
resold 3rd party SSD cards, STEC
divested itself of its vanilla memory business and
Samsung would like to
own and control MLC patents now in the hands of
SanDisk.
Look
at it from the viewpoint of a memory maker.
Future server systems
will have orders of magnitude more memory in the attached SSDs than installed
as main RAM memory. Who
owns the brand of the SSD boxes will mean a dramatic difference to attainable
revenue. Being locked out of the SSD box - will mean that a memory maker can
only access smaller markets - or supply other SSD oems at commodity proces.
I expect to report many more such
acquisitions during
the next few years.
...Later:- when discussing this story my
wife said this is an example of a marketing
concept called "forward
integration."
* ...Earlier:- in 1976 -
Dataram sold an SSD
called BULK CORE
which attached to minicomputers from
ModComp and emulated hard
disks made by DEC and Data General. Each chassis held
8x 256k x 18
RAM modules and had a capacity of 2 megabytes.
See also:-
SSD Market
History
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| Z's Laws - Predicting
Future Flash SSD Performance |
A a reader asked me a
very good question.
"Is there an industry roadmap for future
flash SSD
performance?"
That prompted other questions like...
- How fast are flash SSDs going to be in 2009?, 2010? or 2012?
- What are the technology factors which relate to flash SSD throughput and
IOPS?
- How close will flash SSDs get to
RAM SSD performance?
There wasn't a simple answer I could give at the time. Clues lay
scattered all across this web site
and in my many one on one discussions with readers about the market... |
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But I agreed there should be
a single place on the web where these answers could be found.
Forget
Moore's
Law. That gives you the wrong answer, and this article explains why. ...read the article | | |
