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Imperial Technology

Headquartered in Seal Beach, Calif., Imperial Technology, now under new ownership, has a legacy product line which incorporates a decade of experience designing and manufacturing high-performance storage solutions that shatter I/O bottlenecks to supercharge application performance. Imperial's products are installed on Sun, HP, Compaq/Digital, IBM and Unisys systems. They integrate and install seamlessly in environments that run Oracle, Sybase, Brocade, Veritas and EMC products.

  • editor's note:- the original Imperial Technology went out of business, but a scaled down Imperial Technology is back in business under new ownership and able to manufacture and supply solid state disks.
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Solid State Disks:- Pushing the Envelope in Blade Server Design - article by BiTMICRO

"In terms of power consumption, mechanical hard disks typically devour around 500mA while flash SSDs consume a mere 50mA. The difference may seem insignificant in small enterprise apps, but for huge data farms, the cost savings become apparent. This further enhances the blade server's advantage over proprietary systems with regard to operational costs. The reliable performance of mechanical disk drives can only be ensured if these drives operate within specified temperature ranges. As drive manufacturers introduce newer models featuring spindle speeds as high as 15,000 RPM, cooling has emerged as a major issue." ... read the article, ...BiTMICRO profile

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