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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

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  • editor's comments:- March 20, 2009 - in the past 6 quarters - EMC has never appeared in the the Top 10 SSD Companies - which tracks reader search volume on SSD vendors.

    Its highest ranking was #11 in Q1 2008 when after a 20 year absence - EMC re-entered the SSD market with the launch of its Symmetrix DMX-4 networked storage systems populated with flash SSDs from STEC.

    You may not realise that EMC was an SSD pioneer way back in 1987. EMC's early SSDs were 20x faster than the then available hard disks. But market forces and losses led to EMC exiting the "memory enhancement" business soon after.

    Will this relaunch be any more successful?

    I think so. The server market has always been hungry for more performance.

    Back in 1987 - when EMC's original SSD came to market - the performance issue was clouded by a spate of new RISC processor announcements (such as SPARC, MIPS, and PA) - which gave 3x CPU speedups compared to CISC offerings from Intel, Motorola and DEC's VAX while using conventional hard disk storage.

    I predict within a few years there will be hundreds of rackmount SSD array vendors joining the EMC bandwaggon.

    This part of the SSD revolution is not about replacing hard disks. It never was. It's about getting more application performance from less servers by using storage accelerators.

    In March 2009 - EMC announced it has qualified higher capacity 400GB flash SSDs for use in its storage systems.
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  4. War of the Disks: Hard Disk Drives vs. Flash SSDs
  5. the Fastest SSDs

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