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Squeak! - the Fastest SSDs Squeak! - the 2.5" SSD Guide Squeak! - How Solid is Hard Disk's Future? Squeak! - the Top 10 Solid State Disk OEMs Squeak! - the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide Squeak! - RAM versus Flash SSDs - which is Best? Squeak! - SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance" | |||||
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| Taipei, Taiwan -
January 21, 2008 - QNAP Systems, Inc. today unveiled its 4-bay TS-409
Pro Turbo NAS for business users. The TS-409 is a hot-swappable HDD
design with RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 5+spare disk redundancy and remote replication
functions. According to QNAP's VP Shawn Shu, "The hot swap design and the advanced RAID are the dominant features of TS-409 Pro that are rarely provided by other entry-level NAS suppliers. The RAID 5 and RAID 6 support, Online RAID Level Migration and Capacity Expansion features are an important breakthrough in NAS for business and SOHO users." ...QNAP Systems profile Editor:- January 18, 2008 - STORAGEsearch.com today published a new edition of - "the Top 10 Solid State Disk OEMs." Covering the quarter ending December 31, 2007 - there's a new #1, and a newcomer to the list. The article also looks at market milestones and changes since the previous quarters. If you're choosing SSD suppliers or strategic partners - this is the must-see predictive list of the top companies that matter - based on hundreds of thousands of readers searching for SSD content on the site rated most highly by SSD companies themselves. ...read the article SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-January 17, 2008- Seagate Technology today reported 14% year on year revenue growth for the quarter ended December 28, 2007. Seagate shipped approximately 50 million disk drives in the quarter. Revenue was $3.4 billion and GAAP net income was $403 million. "During the quarter, Seagate achieved record shipments and experienced some capacity constraints..." said CEO Bill Watkins. "...We entered the March quarter in a position of strength. The storage industry remains one of the world's most important and exciting industries. We are confident Seagate's vision, technology, and operational excellence will drive us to continued strong financial and operating performance in the March quarter and double-digit year-over-year growth." ...Seagate profile TOKYO, JAPAN - January 16, 2008 - Elpida Memory, Inc. announced the release of a new x64-bit wide I/O 256-megabit Mobile RAM dubbed the "ECK2664JACN." It achieves twice the bandwidth of existing 32-bit products while operating at an ultra-low voltage of 1.2V I/O (VDDQ). It features Elpida's unique product characteristics: enabling the highest possible performance for mobile phones and other mobile products and low-power consumption. In recent years, mobile phones have gone beyond music downloads and Internet connections to offer video recording, video output and a number of other high-performance multimedia functions. Since HD video will be widely adopted soon, the need now exists for solutions that support the processing of high-resolution graphics and other high-density data in digital video cameras and other home electronic products. ...Elpida Memory profile Westborough, Mass - January 16, 2008 - ExaGrid Systems, Inc today announced record sales for the 4th quarter ending December 31, 2007. 4th quarter sales for the company increased 30% compared to the previous quarter. ExaGrid is targeting a 30% or higher quarter-over-quarter sales growth rate going forward. ...ExaGrid profile IRVINE, Calif - January 16, 2008 - iStor Networks, Inc. today announced that Jim Wayda, a 20 year veteran in the data storage industry, has assumed the role of VP of Software Engineering. Prior to joining iStor, Jim (who has 12 patents pending in the areas of snapshot and data replication) held positions as Chief Software Architect and VP of Software Engineering with Dot Hill Systems. There, he was responsible for the architecture of high performance Snapshot, Volume Copy, Data Replication and Disaster Recovery services. In this role, he managed the delivery of embedded and host-based storage subsystem software to OEM customers such as Sun Microsystems. Wayda was also responsible for the delivery of SVApath multi-path fail-over software to StorageTek. Jim's experience also includes senior level positions for the architecture of storage products for DEC, Distributed Logic Corp, Plessey Peripheral Systems, and Transitional Technology. "I'm excited and honored to be joining iStor as the company is well recognized in the industry as one of the leading iSCSI storage vendors," said Jim Wayda. "IT managers are faced with real challenges in managing their storage environments and I am looking forward to building the next generation of network and storage management capabilities for iStor's integraStor product family." ...iStor profile, Storage People January 15, 2008 - LaCie and Samsung announced today the end results of their collaboration in implementing 1.3 inch hard disk format for LaCie micro storage devices. Available in 30GB or 40GB USB versions, LaCie will be offering its smallest Little Disk yet. The devices come preloaded with LaCie's '1-Click' Backup Software for PC and Mac and SilverKeeper Backup Software for Mac to regularly back up data. ...LaCie profile, ...Samsung profile San Francisco, Calif - January 15, 2008 - FirmTek, LLC announced availability of the SeriTek/5PM SATA enclosure with port multiplier technology. Housing up to 5 hot-swappable 3.5" drives in a $539.95 desktop aluminum enclosure it can deliver aggregate hard drive performance beyond 220MBps with just one cable. When configured with 3 additional SeriTek/5PM enclosures (for a total of 20 drives), RAID 0 performance can exceed 700Bps. An interesting feature is a front-panel power switch that carries a multi-second delay to prevent accidental power-down. The enclosure is system independent, and will work with any Mac or Windows PC with a controller that correctly follows the eSATA II specifications for Port Multiplication. ...FirmTek profile SUNNYVALE, Calif - January 14, 2008 - AMCC is showcasing support for Mac OS X Leopard at this week's Macworld. An in-booth product demo will feature Apple's Time Machine automatically backing up data to a 3ware Sidecar desktop RAID. ...AMCC profile SANTA ANA, Calif - January 14, 2008 - STEC, Inc. today announced that EMC Corp has selected STEC's Zeus-IOPS line of SSDs for deployment in its Symmetrix DMX-4 high-end networked storage systems. "We believe that flash-based solid state storage is a game changing technology and that STEC is at the forefront of the SSD market," said Brian Gallagher, senior VP and general manager, EMC Storage Division. "Over the past year, EMC and STEC have collaborated to ensure that the Zeus-IOPS Fibre Channel drive meets the stringent quality, availability and reliability requirements of the enterprise storage market. The resulting integration of enterprise-class SSDs with the full breadth of Symmetrix DMX-4 features, capabilities and traditional disk drives will provide our customers with unprecedented levels of performance and energy efficiency for their most demanding applications." "This is strong validation of our leadership position in providing SSDs to the Enterprise storage market, and we are delighted to partner with EMC in delivering the highest performance enterprise storage solutions," said STEC's CEO Manouch Moshayedi. ...EMC profile, ...STEC profile Editor's comments:- You may not realise that EMC was an SSD pioneer 20 years ago (in 1987) but got burned at that time. In today's market EMC's introduction of an SSD option in its product line fills an important gap. Without this step - I doubt if the company could maintain its market position - as solid state storage will become a bigger part of server spending in the next 5 years. In a separate communication about this today EMC said that flash SSDs use 38% less energy than traditional mechanical disk drives and that a single (high speed) F-SSD could replace 30x 15,000 RPM Fibre Channel hard disks in transaction intensive applications. None of this is news for STORAGEsearch.com readers who have been following the SSD market's progress in recent years. But what is news is that it's EMC saying it. BEAVERTON, Ore - January 14, 2008 - SATA-IO today announced its Power Over eSATA initiative. The new specification will provide power to external SATA (eSATA) devices without the need for a separate power connection. Led by the organization's Cable and Connector group, the specification is targeted for completion in the second half of 2008. ...SATA-IO Macworld Expo, San Francisco, CA - January 14, 2008 - ATTO Technology, Inc. today announced the general availability of its new line of FastStream storage controller appliances. These deliver up to 1,200 Megabytes per second access to data with parity RAID protection and are suited for applications in DVA and IT infrastructures including 4K and 2K digital film production, high-definition video post-production, digital prepress, disk-to-disk backup, audio production and transaction-based environments. The FastStream SC 7500 uses a 4Gbps Fibre Channel interface for the host connection and a SAS interface for drive connectivity. The FastStream SC 7700 uses Fibre Channel for both the host and drive connections. ...ATTO Technology profile Vancouver, WA - January 14, 2008 - CRU-DataPort has purchased WiebeTech. James Wiebe, CEO of WiebeTech has joined CRU-DataPort as VP of product development. Operations for the WiebeTech brand of products will remain in Wichita , Kansas. "We are pleased to add WiebeTech employees and their highly respected product line to our organization. WiebeTech will become a fully supported brand of CRU-DataPort," said CRU-DataPort's president & CEO Randal Barber. ...CRU-DataPort profile, ...WiebeTech profile Oslo Norway - January 14, 2008 - Tandberg Data today introduced the StorageLibrary T40+ 4U rackmount tape library The StorageLibrary T40+ allows users to stack up to 5x T40+ libraries together, offering from 24 to 188 slots, with capacities ranging from 9.6TB to 150TB (native). Avaialble interfaces include LVD SCSI, Fibre Channel and SAS. MSRP starts at $10,495. "The 20 to 100 slot LTO tape library segment is the growing segment in the tape automation market," says Hamish Macarthur from Macarthur Stroud International. ...Tandberg Data profile IRVINE, Calif - January 10, 2008 - Sonnet Technologies' desktop Fusion D800RAID has been adopted by design and post-production house Mad Media. It provides Mad Media with reliable storage of its unique high definition video not only for use in Web content, but also for national television ad campaigns, feature-length film projects, and new mobile technology platforms like the iPhone. The dual GbE Fusion D800RAID system replaced the company's "sneakernet" storage scheme that was comprised of a series of 1TB external drives from various manufacturers. "I have very closely monitored the progression of 'low-cost' data solutions for professional video applications for the past few years, and Sonnet's Fusion D800RAID product was the first to offer RAID 5 redundancy with a storage capacity of more than 6TB and throughput exceeding 500 MB/sec," said Joshua Martelli, director of TV/film at Mad Media. "...We've been thrilled with the result. The Fusion system gives us a central repository from which our editors can access the same data simultaneously, and it's allowed us to organize footage more effectively, safeguarding content from future loss while increasing our productivity." ...Sonnet Technologies profile SANTA CLARA, CA - January 10, 2008 - P.A. Semi, Inc. today announced that the System Storage Products Division of NEC has selected P.A. Semi's processor for use in its storage-array products. "We are very pleased with the results of our evaluation of the P.A. Semi 1682M processor," said Mr. Tsuyoshi Kishino, First Engineering Dept, System Storage Products Division, NEC. "In our application, we found that the 1682M delivers the highest application performance at very low power dissipation." ...NEC profile, ...P.A. Semi, storage chips HOPKINTON, Mass - January 8, 2008 - EMC Corp today introduced the new CLARiiON AX4 networked storage system for SMBs. It scales to 60TB and supports either iSCSI or Fibre Channel SAN connectivity. With built-in advanced information management and protection features, it can store, manage and protect data from up to 64 Windows, Linux, Unix, NetWare and VMware Infrastructure hosts simultaneously. Starting price is $8,599. ...EMC profile REDMOND, Wash - January 8, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions based in Norway. The offer values the fully diluted equity of FAST at approximately $1.2 billion. FAST's board of directors has unanimously recommended that its shareholders accept the offer which is expected to be completed in the 2nd quarter of 2008. "Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people find, use and share critical business information quickly," said Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division. "Until now organizations have been forced to choose between powerful, high-end search technologies or more mainstream, infrastructure solutions. The combination of Microsoft and FAST gives customers a new choice: a single vendor with solutions that span the full range of customer needs." ...Microsoft profile, Storage Software, 453 Acquired, renamed etc storage companies Editor's comments:- when you think of searching the web - the #1 brand which comes to mind is Google. But even though Google has been marketing storage search appliances for over 5 years only 10,000 or so companies were actually using them as recently as last October. Microsoft's acquisition in this market at 42% above the closing price of the shares last Friday - signals that Microsoft regards this as a much bigger potential market than it has been until now. Or - if you are feeling cynical - maybe it's just a move that will slow down and kill off the whole segment for a couple of years. 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