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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.
see also:-
EMC
- editor mentions in STORAGEsearch.com
- 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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