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Editor's comments:- re IBM and SSDs - December 2009
It
has taken several years for
IBM's
SSD strategy to materialize into a recognizable shape.
Like many
other server companies IBM has gone for the "safe" option of
remarketing, reselling or
rebadging proven
SSD products from companies like
Fusion-io,
STEC,
SanDisk and others.
Whether
any of IBM's internal semiconductor
research related to
non
volative memory technologies will ever be productized remains to be seen. My
guess is that most of the action in this space from IBM will be in licensing or
litigation related to patents - rather than home grown fully fledged SSD
products.
Recent IBM SSD milestones from
SSD Market
History.
July 2007 -
SanDisk announced that
its SATA 5000 2.5-inch SSD will be offered as an option in IBM's new
BladeCenter HS21 XM.
April 2008 -
IBM Previews Racetrack Solid State Storage
August 2008 -
Fusion-io's SSDs were the secret ingredient in an
IBM
"million IOPS" story.
September 2008
- IBM announced a technology collaboration with
Fusion-io
In
February 2009 - IBM published a well written article -
SSDs
for Enterprise Storage (pdf) which introduces the need for SSD acceleration
and explains IBM's strategy in this market.
In May 2009 -
STEC confirmed that its
SSDs are oemed in several popular
IBM servers and storage
systems.
In December 2009 - Fusion-io
announced
that its ioMemory PCIe
SSD technology has been adapted by IBM who will remarket these
solutions (initially with upto 320GB capacity) as its
High
IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters for use in System x servers. |
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