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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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