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Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers
innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its
direct business model, Dell sells more systems globally than any other computer
company, placing it No. 25 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit
www.dell.com.
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Dell
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's notes:- STORAGEsearch.com
was the first publication to predict that Dell would become a storage giant, in
an article
published in January 2001.
In those days most people didn't even
think of Dell as a storage vendor - and I got a lot of reader emails from other
vendors asking if I'd gone nuts. Dell's ambush when it came - was only
unexpected by those storage product managers who were navigating the market
with eyes tightly closed.
In March 2009 -
Dell announced
SSD
options for its iSCSI
compatible EqualLogic PS6000 storage arrays. Pricing starts at $25,000. This
brings the number of rackmount
SSD oems to 34. That number is expected to reach 300 in 2010.
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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
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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.
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