Avnet to Distribute WEDC
Editor:-
June 17, 2009 - Avnet
has
become
a distributor for White
Electronic Designs
"WEDC products offer
defense and aerospace
customers unique package solutions with extended environmental performance,"
said Bryan Brady, vp of defense/aerospace for Avnet Electronics Marketing
Americas. "This strengthens our ability to offer distinct product size,
weight and performance advantages for
high reliability
applications."
Trident Space & Defense Shows SSDs at Military & Aerospace
Electronics Forum
Editor:- June 1, 2009 - Trident Space & Defense
is exhibiting its
Triton Series
of ruggedized SSDs this week at the Military & Aerospace
Electronics Forum in San Diego.
Beyond its rugged storage
design, the Triton FSE SSD has the ability to quickly clear and purge your data
and sanitize
your information with agency defined algorithms allowing for complete media
de-classification.
See also:-
Storage Events
WEDC Launches Rugged Miniature SSD
Editor:- May
26, 2009 - today White
Electronic Designs introduced a surface mount miniature
PATA SLC SSD (22mm x
27mm PBGA) with 1, 2 and 4GB densities for use in high reliability
embedded applications such as aircraft, communications and missiles.
"These
products were engineered specifically for the defense market, with features
designed to ensure data reliability in mission critical rugged and mobile
systems. As a natural extension of our MCP and SiP technologies, these devices
bring big features in a miniaturized package," stated Mark Downey, Director
of Defense Technology. "This is really just the beginning of more to come
from us in the storage area. We are listening to what our defense customers want
from a solid state storage provider and plan to deliver on those requirements
with commitment and focus." Military & Rugged
Storage, 1.0" SSDs
SoleraTec Lightens the Load for Searching Streaming Surveillance
Camera Storage
Editor:- April 27, 2009 - SoleraTec has
incorporated support for the
Real Time Streaming
Protocol that allows for the direct video feed capture of IP-based video
surveillance cameras in version 5.2 of its
digital surveillance manager
software (SVM).
SoleraTec says its software is unique in its
ability to provide a file-based search and retrieval interface that enables the
user to actually play video surveillance files without first needing to retrieve
original hi-res assets from storage.
When its SVM ingests files, it
automatically creates low-resolution proxy files for fast search and view. Once
a desired video asset has been selected, clipped, and marked for export, the
new, user-configurable "extended export" functionality enables the
user to export needed data in a variety of ways, such as FTP, email, and local
file systems. Pricing for Phoenix 5.2 starts at $996.
MemoRight Aims at MIL-STD-810F SSD Market
Shenzhen, China - March
18, 2009 -
MemoRight says it will ship new industrial grade 2.5" flash
SSDs in May.
The new MemoRight rSSD is designed to operate from -40 to 85
degrees C and the company says its testing processes satisfy
MIL-STD-810F. MemoRight
expects the military,
defense, aviation & astronautics industries to be early adopters and key
users of their new SSD.
The rSSD also features MemoRight's "In-Drive" UPS, which
ensures 100% data integrity at all times. The capacitor simply flushes the cache
upon experiencing any power-off or voltage changes and writes this data to the
flash.
The new rSSD performs at 120MB/s read & 120MB/s write speeds,
with 0.1ms access time. It will be available in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB & 128GB
capacities, with a choice of
SATA II or IDE
interfaces. Like the MemoRight GT Series eSSD, the new model will be
manufactured in a 2.5"
form factor, with an optional
3.5" casing.
...Memoright profile
Olixir Announces DataVault Support for FIPS 140-2
Washington, D.C. - March 9, 2009 -
Olixir Technologies announced it will add new security features to
its family of DataVault hard drives in Q2 2009.
This will make them
fully-compliant with the requirements outlined in the Federal Information
Processing Standards
FIPS 140-2.
Incorporating an advanced set of security features including anti-virus,
anti-malware and encryption agents, which have already been approved by the DOD
DARTT Team, Olixir's external drives will meet all criteria to be connected via
USB cables to U.S.
Department of Defense networked computers. This comprehensive security
capability will be resident on the Mobile DataVault products and run
independently of the host computer to proactively protect the drive and the
network from malware and virus infections.
...Olixir Technologies
profile, Storage
Security
Winchester Systems Unveils Rugged Rackmount SSD RAID
Editor:-
March 5, 2009 - Winchester
Systems says its will launch a range of rugged rackmount SSDs next week
at FOSE
.
Among the new products is a 1U RAID 5 / 6 protected rugged
SSD array - the RX-1300
FlashDisk - which houses 12x
2.5" SSDs.
Interface options for the array include
SAS,
FC and
PCIe.
"Customers
find that they need field deployable storage and servers that exceed standard
commercial capabilities but not full military rugged specifications or prices,"
explained Mr. Joel Leider, the company's CEO. "Our rugged storage and
servers provide extra security and protection against dust, rain, shock and
vibration at COTS prices which are about half of full military standard costs."
The US Army has approved these units for field use. They are deployed
in harsh environments worldwide in HUMVEEs and stationary shelters.
AFN Manages Video Content with Front Porch Digital
LOUISVILLE, Colo. - March
2, 2009 - Front Porch Digital today announced that the American
Forces Network broadcast center has implemented the company's systems to
support management, retrieval, and long-term preservation of video content.
"AFN's mandate is to provide 'a taste of home' to U.S.
personnel and dependents the world over," said Mike Knaisch, president of
Front Porch Digital. "Front Porch Digital's content storage management
solutions constitute a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective way to manage
video programming content in support of that important mission."
...Front Porch Digital
profile, Storage
Services, Military &
Rugged Storage
SMART Extends Product Lives with 128GB Secure u160 SCSI SSDs
FREMONT, CA
- February 24, 2009 - SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. today
announced extensions to its Xceed family of industrial-grade 2.5" and 3.5"
SSDs.
New PATA-based SSDs have been added to the
XceedUltraX
and XceedSecure
product lines, and the company also announced Version 2.5 of its EraSure data
security software, which adds a new security protocol and improves overall SSD
declassification performance.
Of particular interest to systems integrators with long life-cycle
products - the SMART 3.5" XceedUltra2 and XceedSecure2 parallel SCSI
SSDs deliver sustained performance of up to 55MB/s read and 50MB/s write. The
drives come with either the 68- or 80-pin SCA
SCSI interface in
capacities ranging from 8GB to 128GB
...SMART profile
ASI Announces Smallest Mil Temp 4.8Gb DDR2
Austin,
Texas - January 19, 2009 - Austin Semiconductor, Inc. announced
volume availability of a new mil temp DDR2 memory device.
Packaged
in a 16mm x 23mm, 208 ball BGA with a ball pitch of 1.00mm, the 4.8Gb device is
organized as 64M x 72 and offers performance benchmarks up to 667Mbps data rate
while operating within the Mil-Temperature range of -55 to +125 degrees C,
which makes it ideal for hi-reliability applications. The 208 PBGA offers 61%
space savings, 55% I/O reduction, reduced part count and reduced trace lengths
for lower parasitic capacitance.
"With 208 PBGA we continue to
expand our product line of high performance highly integrated iPEMs (Integrated
Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits). The AS4DDR264M72PBG1 is our smallest device
in the 4.8Gb product offering and will continue to drive towards smaller, lower
power and more reliable memory products using our integration process" says
Frank Muscolino, VP of Business Development. ...Austin Semiconductor
profile, storage chips,
Military & Rugged
Storage
Curtiss-Wright Ships Faster XMC / PMC SSDs
Leesburg, VA -
November 5, 2008 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has
announced 2 new rugged flash SSDs in XMC and PMC form factors with upto 32GB
capacity.
Each card contains 2 independent SATA SSDs with upto 30MB/s
throughput. For maximum throughput (50MB/s) the 2 drives can be run in RAID 0
mode. Pricing starts at $2,495, and it's available in various air /
conduction cooled variants and consumes between less than 6W.
Curtiss-Wright,
Military & Rugged
Storage
pureSilicon Samples MIL SSDs
Editor:- October 28, 2008 - pureSilicon
emerged from stealth mode today and said it is sampling the Renegade SSD - a
rugged MIL-STD-810F compliant 128GB SATA flash SSD with integrated encryption.
To
protect the SSD from harsh physical environments, the Renegade features a
hard-anodized unibody enclosure, carved from a single piece of aluminum and the
internal PCBs are conformally coated. Volume shipments commence in Q1 2009.
...pureSilicon profile,
Military & Rugged
Storage
VMETRO Ships High Capacity VPX Buffer Memory Board
Houston, TX - September 24,
2008 - VMETRO today announced the availability of the industry's
largest capacity 6U VPX buffer memory board.
The
MFC700 is a 6U
VPX-REDI
(VITA 48)
buffer memory node with support for up to 16GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory on the
baseboard, dual XMC
mezzanine sites and support for
Serial RapidIO
fabric. Designed for applications that buffer large amount of high-speed data,
the MFC700 can be utilized in signal and image processing applications, as well
as data recording subsystems. The MFC700 supports VxWorks and Linux.
...VMETRO profile
ProStor InfiniVault now Available to Government Entities on SEWP
BOULDER, Colo. -
July 8, 2008 - ProStor Systems today announced that its InfiniVault
family is now available on the NASA SEWP/GWAC contract through its partner, Alvarez
& Associates.
Alvarez & Associates is 1
of only 6 Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small businesses who have been selected
by NASA in the SEWP (Scientific Engineering Workstation Procurement) program.
...ProStor profile,
Disk to disk backup
First Terabyte SSD in Space - from Mtron
SEOUL,
South Korea - May 20, 2008 - Mtron announced today that a terabyte of
their SSD storage will be used in a NASA funded project (flying over the
South Pole) to research high-energy cosmic rays.
Neutrino events are rare and hard to detect on Earth. But the
Antarctic ice sheet provides a large nature-made detector with a million square
kilometer "lens" (when viewed from the balloon's 35km mission
height).
ANITA
is a radio telescope attached to NASA's stratospheric balloon to detect
Cherenkov pulses created when neutrinos from space hit the ice sheet which
is "remarkably transparent to radio waves."
ANITA's 2nd
month long experiment will start in December and will include 8x 3.5"
SATA SSDs from Mtron making up the data logging storage.
...Mtron profile
Editor's
comments:- balloons are a rugged environment for data storage, because
apart from the expected extremes of altitude and temperature - the way these
flights finish is often with a crash. So the ability to survive impact shocks
is also importanct.
Previously mentioned SSD balloon flights on
these pages include:- a 42 day flight by a 43GB
BiTMICRO SSD (2005) and before
that - an SSD from Memtech
plunged 127,000 feet as part of a NASA weather balloon that crashed onto a
Virginia highway, where it was promptly run over by a truck. Despite being "totally
bent out of shape" the data was still accessible.
Before being
acquired by STEC in 2005
- Memtech made the most
rugged
SSDs in the Solar System. One of their drives was onboard the
2004 Mars Rover.
Toshiba Announces Bigger Car Drive
IRVINE,
Calif - May 13, 2008 - Toshiba Storage Device Division today said it
will sample a (higher capacity) 60GB 2.5" 4,200 RPM automotive hard
drive later this year - with an improved altitude spec of 5,500 meters and
operating temperature range of -30° to +85° C.
"Automotive electronics designers are seeking robust storage
solutions to address the next generation of infotainment in the digital car,"
said Scott Wright, product manager, Toshiba SDD. "The new 60GB model comes
in response to our customers' storage requirements and provides greater
flexibility for OEM and aftermarket designers to integrate high-capacity
solutions for sophisticated in-car infotainment systems." ...Toshiba profile,
Toshiba
automotive HDDs
High Speed Data Recorder Uses 3.5" Drives
LONGMONT, Colorado
- May 12, 2008 - Conduant Corp announced today the introduction of its
Big River LTX2-35 data recorder.
The new recorder is ruggedized
for portable applications and accommodates upto 16 3.5"
hard drives or
SSDs in a 2U high
chassis. It can provide more than 500MB/s recording and playback performance
Base pricing starts at around $34,000 for a 4TB system.
...Conduant profile
Aleratec's Disk Sanitizer gets Military Citation
Chatsworth, CA - March
3, 2008 - Military Embedded Systems magazine has commended Aleratec Inc.
for its new stand alone HDD Cruiser - a hard disk drive sanitizer and
duplicator all in one unit.
The
HDD Cruiser will
simultaneously sanitize
up to 4 hard drives to
assure that all confidential data is unreadable. It can also
duplicate up to 3 HDDs
simultaneously.
"We are very proud to be recognized for our developments by
Military Embedded Systems Magazine"
said Perry Solomon, President and CEO of Aleratec. "...We made the HDD
Cruiser the complete tool, it can also make exact duplicate copies of hard
drives to expedite setting up new PCs or recycling old drives with new site
licensed operating systems and standard applications which is particularly
useful when drives have already been used and need to be set up for a new
project." ...Aleratec
profile
Ramtron Releases 125°C Automotive
F-RAM
COLORADO
SPRINGS, CO - December 4, 2007 - Ramtron International Corp today added
another 4 kilobit F-RAM memory device to its automotive product line.
The
FM25040A-GA
is now specified to operate at +125C and is guaranteed to retain data for
9,000 hours at that extreme temperature. Ideal for advanced powertrain systems,
the FM25040A-GA offers fast writes, virtually unlimited endurance, and low
power. It's a direct hardware replacement for equivalent EEPROMs but offers No
Delay writes. The FM25040A-GA is guaranteed to retain data for 17 years at +55
degrees C.
...Ramtron profile
Formation Launches 320GB 3.5" SATA
ToughDisk
MOORESTOWN, NJ -
September 12, 2007 - Formation, Inc. announced today introduction of
its ToughDisk 3500 SATA 320GB 3.3" rugged hard disk.
ToughDisk
is a rugged data storage solution used by all branches of the US military and
many commercial organizations because of its ability to perform
reliably in
temperature, altitude, shock, vibration, humidity, and dust conditions that
would destroy conventional hard
disks, at a fraction of the cost of
solid-state storage.
"The TD3500 SATA can be used with high-end
SAS controllers as
well as any of the ubiquitous embedded
SATA ports" says
Sam Carswell, Formation's chief technology officer. "They provide the
performance of SAS enterprise-class disks without the heat and mechanical
limitations of those 15K RPM disks. Using the same principle that gives
dual-core processors high performance with fewer watts of power dissipation,
this 3.5" SATA disk contains 4x 2.5" inch platters bonded together
with RAID. The independent
actuator arms and read/write heads double the media transfer rate normally
available from rugged disks."
...Formation profile
Data Domain Provides D2d for U.S. Army
Data
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. - May 29, 2007 - Data Domain today announced that the U.S.
Army has deployed Data Domain's DDX Arrays to protect a major military
communications portal that serves 1.8 million globally dispersed users.
The client's communication portal supports more than 400,000 unique
log-ins and 700,000 log-ins daily. The implementation provides both backup and
disaster recovery capabilities, with network-based replication via satellite
network from a Data Domain
DDX Array located
in Southwest Asia to a DDX Array located in the United States.
In this
challenging and unusual Data Domain system implementation, the sandy
environmental conditions of the desert in close proximity to deployed troops
prohibited the use of tape
media for data protection.
The Chief of Architecture for the U.S.
Army client explains, "The U.S. Army has a very low tolerance for loss of
data and we knew, given the physical environment and the network type we were
dealing with, that this project would not be an easy one. Data Domain's support
was both exceptional and critical to the process. Our mission was to deliver
more reliable and responsive communications services to soldiers in-theatre on
the other side of the world. Data Domain helped us make it happen."
...Data Domain
profile, Military
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