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Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a leader in the development of
storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. The company's diverse
product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller,
wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications
infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As
used in this release, the terms "company" and "Marvell"
refer to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more
information, visit http://www.marvell.com.
see also:-
Marvell
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com, see also:-
Marvell's SSD page
- editor's comments:- January 2012 - Marvell is just one of nearly
30 SSD I/P SoC companies
listed here on StorageSearch.com. According to their main
SSD
page "Marvell's high performance transceivers support SATA, SAS, USB,
PCIe, and Fibre Channel SSD interfaces."
Marvell's aspirations in
the PCIe SSD market
became public in April 2011 - when the company uveiled its first product (see
below). More recently Marvell has collaborated on the design of a new PCIe SSD
chipset used in OCZ's
enterprise range.
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In June
2008 -
Marvell
announced
its entry into the SSD controller market with the introduction of the
ultra-slim Marvell 88NV8120 PCIe based NAND flash controller, the first Marvell
product in a planned range of solid state storage controllers.
The
Marvell 88NV8120 is compatible with both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating
systems, and offers comprehensive platform support for PC motherboards.
"Marvell is leveraging more than 10 years experience in the disk drive
controller market as we enter the solid state storage segment," said Sehat
Sutardja, Marvell Chairman and Chief Executive. "Marvell is uniquely
positioned to bring the performance advantages of solid state storage to a broad
range of applications. With the introduction of this product we are unveiling
our strategy to address the entire solid state storage market with exceptional
controller devices."
In June
2009 -
SMART Modular
Technologies disclosed it had used
Marvell's SSD
controller in SMART's new
XceedIOPS
PCIe SSD which offers
upto 400GB capacity and 140,000 random IOPS performance.
In April
2011 - Marvell
unveiled a
PCIe compatible
SSD ASAP. Marvell
claims 10x speedups can be realized using its new
DragonFly
Virtual Storage Accelerator - which is designed to reduce
write amplification
to external storage arrays and acts as an OS agnostic multiprotocol storage
cache for NAS,
SAN or
DAS storage arrays.
The product - is expected to sample in Q3.
In January
2012 - OCZ
announced is
now demonstrating at the Storage
Visions 2012 Conference new
PCIe SSDs - which use
SSD controllers
jointly developed with Marvell
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| the 3
fastest PCIe SSDs? |
Are you trying to shortlist flash SSD accelerators according to
comparative benchmark tests?
If so a new article -
the 3 fastest PCIe
SSDs list (or is it really lists?) may help to take some of the
pressure off you. Hmm... you may be thinking that StorageSearch's editor never
gives easy answers to SSD questions if more complicated ones are available.
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But in this case you'd be
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| Marvell
flies a kite for DragonFly ASAP |
Editor:- April 4, 2011 - Marvell today
unveiled a PCIe
compatible SSD ASAP.
Marvell claims 10x speedups can be realized using its new
DragonFly
Virtual Storage Accelerator - which is designed to reduce
write amplification
to external storage arrays and acts as an OS agnostic multiprotocol storage
cache for NAS,
SAN or
DAS storage arrays.
The product - is expected to sample in Q3.
"The Marvell DragonFly
VSA is a revolutionary product for enterprise-class cloud computing, offering
powerful host server I/O cache acceleration to solve worsening storage I/O
bottlenecks," said Pantas Sutardja, CTO at Marvell. "The HyperScale
caching technology embedded in the DragonFly VSA is the product of leveraging
our leadership in HDD, SSD storage technologies, and extending our
advanced-integration capabilities. The DragonFly VSA presents itself as a
powerful tool for data center architects in optimizing the costs of the
server/storage infrastructure. We look forward to collaborating with visionary
Cloud storage architects to achieve a leapfrog improvement in virtualization
scalability."
Editor's comments:- more than 20 companies
have launched similarly impressive sounding accelerators in the past 2 years in
form factors ranging from cards to racks. |
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Based on the track record of
the SSD industry in this particular segment I think it would be realistic for
users to think about a timescale which is more like another year than
another quarter before application software issues are resolved in this new
product - and the speedup ratio quoted may or may not be sustainable too. | | | |
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