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  • editor's comments:- May 2009 - watching IBM's recent reentry in the SSD market has been like watching a garden landscaping project in very slow motion. Initially we see isolated plants emerging - in a seemingly disconnected fashion. It is only after a few years it takes shape.

    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.
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suggested by - Tomas Havrda, President Solid Access Technologies
Here's an article written by or about Solid Access

Instant Hardware Acceleration Reduces Metadata Latency and Increases Productivity (pdf)

Tomas Havrda says he chose this article because readers can see on one page how powerful, straightforward and economical a DRAM SSD solution is.

Other SSD article suggestions...

Tomas Havrda says - "Recently a blogger who experienced a USSD live benchmark presentation at the recent FOSE 2009 Conference seized on the proper way to evaluate DRAM SSD as follows..."

KeyCruncher.com - Best of FOSE 2009 - My picks

Other SSD bookmark suggestions...

Tier Matching - by George Crump on InformationWeek

Tomas Havrda says "I enjoy pragmatic SSD voices, as well as storage tiering articles and blogs by George Crump (founder of Storage Switzerland), like the one above. At Solid Access we are not yet convinced of the viability of Flash SSDs and believe that pairing ultra fast DRAM SSDs with traditional Tier 1 or Tier 2 storage systems is the most economical way to achieve definitive and predictable performance as well as the highest degree of reliability."

Editor:- thanks Tomas for sharing your SSD links.

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