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Founded in 1993, Infortrend Corporation (Public TPE:2495) is a
leading provider of high performance networked storage solutions focusing on
quality, reliability, choice and value. Fueled by a depth of technological
expertise and system level knowledge, Infortrend storage solutions have been
widely deployed on a variety of demanding applications by multiple users across
commercial and industrial markets. Its core brands include the ESVA, EonStor DS,
EonStor and EonNAS product families. For more information, please visit
www.infortrend.com.
see also:-
Infortrend
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In March 2010 -
Infortrend joined
the ASAPs market.
In
July 2010 - Infortrend
announced
it will use STEC's
ZeusIOPS (SAS SSDs) in
its ESVA F60 product line (FC
RAID systems).
In
November 2011 - Infortrend
announced automated storage tiering on its mid-range ESVA (Enterprise Scalable
Virtualised Architecture) storage family.
When compared to a
traditional ESVA configuration consisting of one RAID array and one expansion
enclosure equipped with 600GB SAS drives, an ESVA configuration with automated
storage tiering that consists of only one RAID array equipped with four 100GB
SSDs and twelve 2TB nearline drives can offer a performance increase of 25% to
50% and a capacity increase of 5TB, while reducing costs by more than 15%.
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| 3 things that could have
killed the flash SSD market |
The
emerging size of
the flash SSD market as you see it today was by no means inevitable. It owes a
lot to 3 competing storage media competitors which failed to evolve fast enough
in the Darwinian jungle of the storage market in the
past decade.
One of these 3 contenders is definitely on the road to extinction -
but could one of the other 2 still emerge to threaten flash SSDs?
The
article -
SSD's past phantom
demons explores the latent market threats which hovered around the flash SSD
market in the past decade. They seemed real and solid enough at the time. |
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Getting a realistic
perspective of flash SSD's past demons (which seemed very threatening at the
time) may help you better judge the so-called "new" generation of nv
memory contenders - which are also discussed in the article. ...read the article | | | |
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| this way to the Petabyte
SSD |
In 2016 there will be
just 3 types of
SSD in the datacenter.
One
of them doesn't exist yet - the bulk storage SSD.
It will replace the
last remaining strongholds of
hard drives in the
datacenter due to its unique combination of characteristics, low running costs
and operational advantages. |
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The new model of the
datacenter - how we get from here to there - and the technical problems which
will need to be solved - are just some of the ideas explored in this
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| sugaring MLC for the
enterprise |
When flash SSDs started to be used as
enterprise server accelerators in 2004 - competing
RAM SSD makers said
flash wasn't reliable
enough.
RAM SSDs had been used for server speedups
since 1976
- and in 2004 they owned the enterprise market. (Before 2004 - flash SSDs
weren't fast enough and had mostly been used as rugged storage in the
military and
industrial
markets - and in space
constrained civilian products such as smartphones.)
By 2007 it was
clear that the endurance
of SLC flash was more than good enough to survive in high
IOPS server
caches. And in the ensuing years the debate about enterprise flash SSDs shifted
to MLC - because when systems integrators put early cheap consumer grade SSDs
into arrays - guess what happened? They burned out within a few months - exactly
as predicted.
Since 2009 new
controller
technologies and the combined market experience of enterprise MLC pioneers
like Fusion-io and
SandForce have
demonstrated that with the right management - MLC can survive in most (but
still not all) fast SSDs.
Now as we head into 1X nanometer flash
generations new technical challenges are arising and MLC SSD makers disagree
about which is the best way to implement enterprise MLC SSDs.
Which
type of so called "enterprise MLC" is best? Can you believe the
contradictory marketing claims? Can you even understand the arguments? (Probably
not.)
And that's why marketing is going to play a bigger part in the
next round of enterprise SSD wars as SSD companies wave their wands and reveal
more about the magic inside their SSD engines to audiences who don't really
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