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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:- In Q108 EMC just failed to get into our quarterly
feature - the Top
10 Solid State Disk Companies. EMC would have been listed #11 (out of
more than 71 SSD oems)
based on reader search volume.
In January 2008 - 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.
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Megabyte's
ancestor, Sir Squeaks-a-Bit
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William
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| Are MLC SSDs Ever
Safe in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article (published in March 2008) 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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