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GreenBytes, Inc. is a provider of high-performance,
energy-efficient inline deduplication storage appliances. Featuring the world's
fastest, most efficient next-generation storage architecture, GreenBytes' GB-X
Series storage appliances combine highly innovative software technology and
advanced power management design with a world-class server platform to address
the storage and energy efficiency crises facing today's IT operations. The GB-X
Series features solid state technology for tunable IO performance, as well as
the industry's highest levels of scalability and reliability in an easy-to-use,
cost-effective package purpose-built to bring the efficiencies of data
deduplication beyond data protection and into the primary storage market.
GreenBytes was founded in 2007 and is based in Ashaway, Rhode Island. For more
information, visit: www.getgreenbytes.com.
GreenBytes
/ green storage - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- March 2010 - GreenBytes emerged from stealth
mode in September
2008. The company markets a range of
SSD ASAPs which
have been optimized for
dedupe.
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| Are MLC SSDs Safe
in Enterprise Apps? |
Are MLC SSDs Safe? - is a very
popular article which looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which
- having hatched from their breeeding ground as
chip modules in
cellphones - have in the past 4 years morphed and crept into many (but
not all) enterprise SSDs.
In a
notebook
(where you aren't exactly expecting a 5 nines uptime quality data
experience) MLC SSDs can be a good thing from the
reliability and
cost point of view.
But how about in the
datacenter?
Some leading vendors support MLC in enterprise and
industrial grade
SSDs - others don't. Ever wondered why? There's a lot more to the MLC vs SLC
in SSDs debate than simply endurance. |
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This classic article explains the technical
differences. It also includes recent updates and comments from industry leaders
to show you why in some cases MLC is a viable solution - but in other cases
it's still not. (No matter how clever the
controller.) ...read the article | | | |
| reaching for the
petabyte SSD............................... |
Editor:- March 29, 2010 -
the recently published article -
SSDs - reaching for
the Petabyte - has been updated with a list of other notable
Petabyte milestones from storage history.
Non technical readers may ask
- what's the big deal with a PB SSD?
Isn't it possible to construct
a Petabyte SSD already using an array of 1,000 or so terabyte
2.5 SSDs?
My
answer is - you could (in your imagination) - but in real life such a solution
would be nuts - because it would
cost too much, it
would get too hot
and it wouldn't solve any problems economically.
In contrast the true
Petabyte SSD will usher in an entirely new class of datacenter storage
products - with unique characteristics that will make it the most affordable
choice for those who already own and manage similar size storage sets based on
tape and hard disks. |
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A lot of technical problems
have to be solved first. The semiconductor problems are evolutionary. But the
storage architecture problems are revolutionary. ...read the article | | | |
