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Vembu Aims at
US Online Backup Market
Editor:- May 28, 2009 - Vembu Technologies
today announced the appointment of Randy J. Whitehead as VP of Strategic
Business Development.
Reporting to Vembu's President,
Lakshmanan Narayan, Randy will
primarily be responsible for growing Vembu's business in the US and Canada,
with a focus on channel partnerships.
"Our StoreGrid software
solution powers the
online backup services
business of more than 1,250 service providers worldwide, and more than 850 of
these service providers are based in North America," said Sekar Vembu, CEO
of Vembu Technologies. "Randy's deep experience in operations and sales,
coupled with his years of experience in the online backup market, will help to
further catalyze our rapid growth in the service provider market."
Prior to Vembu, Randy was co-founder and COO of
Arsenal Digital Solutions.
Randy has more than 20 years experience in outsourcing solutions and operations,
system integration and business development. He was also at
StorageTek, where he
was responsible for the industry's first implementation of a storage utility
solution and the structuring of large outsourcing/utility deals, as well as the
operation and delivery of managed storage services. He has also held senior
positions with IBM, BT, Data General and AT&T. Storage People
Sun Responds to User Needs for More SSD Capacity
Editor:-
May 27, 2009 - Sun
Microsystems announced today it has
improved
its hybrid rackmount storage systems to support an additional 600GB of
flash SSD cache (compared to the current 64GB internal limit) for enhanced
application performance.
The Sun Storage
7310
is available today and starts at a price of $40,165.
Editor's
comments:- terabyte SSDs become commercially available in
2002 - so
Sun's initial product offering last November - which supported a mere 36GB per
4U rack - was a sure sign that the company either didn't know what it was doing
- or was being overly cautious.
There are plenty of
rackmount SSD
vendors in the market - and soon there will be hundreds more. There's wide
diversity in product architectures (open versus proprietary) and applications
experience in this part of the SSD market (ranging from months in the case of
Sun - to more than a decade for companies like
Solid Data Systems and
Texas Memory Systems).
If
you are thinking of buying an SSD from Sun - timing the purchase is a something
to think about. In recent years Sun used to steeply discount towards the end of
its quarter. I'm not sure how being part of
Oracle will
affect that. See also:-
Hybrid Storage
Drives
CoreVault Advises Disaster Recovery Planning for Tornado States
Editor:- May 27, 2009 - as the Tornado season approaches
CoreVault is
advising DR planning with a 5 point check list.
1) - Develop a written
disaster recovery plan that identifies systems and assets critical to business
continuity;
2) - Establish a disaster recovery team with assignments and training
that leverages employee strengths in order to address the difficult and
stressful task of rebuilding operations after a disaster;
3) - Identify a physical recovery location to restore business
operations should the organization's physical location become unusable;
4) - Update and test disaster recovery plan processes on a regular
basis like performing recovery drills to assure reinstatement of both physical
and digital assets. In addition, testing the functionality of IT systems is also
critical.
5) - Protect business database, email and all important
Electronically Stored Information off-site at a trusted
managed backup and recovery
provider's information vault.
CoreVault warns that the US experiences more tornadoes each year than
any other country in the world. In 2008 alone, there were 1,691 confirmed
tornadoes reported. They cost roughly $2 billion in damages and 125 lives lost
each year. According to a classic book on
Disaster
Recovery Planning companies that experience a computer outage for more than
10 days will never fully recover financially.
OEMs Race to Design Their Own SSDs
Editor:- May
27, 2009 - StorageSearch.com
disclosed today that search volume for
SSD SoCs (systems on a
chip and controllers) has overtaken
1" SSDs (includes
miniature SSD modules) this month for the first time.
Guess that
confirms my sneaking suspicion that a lot of oems want to
design their own
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| PhotoFast Announces Faster
1.8" Notebook SSDs |
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Editor:- May 27, 2009 - PhotoFast launched
its G-Monster 1.8"
SATA SSD with
internal 64MB DRAM cache
and upto 128GB capacity.
It supports R/W speeds upto 230MB/s and
160MB/s respectively. The company says - what's important in this type of
notebook product is not just sequential R/W throughput for large blocks - but
also write performance for small random blocks. It claims its 12MB/s (for 4KB
blocks) is best in class. |
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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 |
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| Rambus
Unveils Technologies for Next Generation Fast RAMs |
Editor:- May 26,
2009 - Rambus
today unveiled a set of innovations that can advance computing
main memory beyond current
DDR3 data rate limits to
3,200Mbps.
Through this collection of licensable innovations, designers can
achieve higher memory data rates, higher effective throughput, better power
efficiency and the increased capacity necessary for future computing
applications.
storage chips
AGIGA Tech Samples High Density Non Volatile RAM Chips
Editor:-
May 26, 2009 - AGIGA
Tech started sampling
its new AGIGARAM non-volatile system ( technology which delivers densities
between 4 megabytes (32 megabits) and 2 gigabytes (16 gigabits) and peak
transfer rates equivalent to DRAMs.
"Today's memory technologies all have a problem. DRAM is
volatile, flash is slow, SRAM with batteries is unreliable, and alternative
technologies are too costly to use in large densities," said Jim Handy,
Director of Objective
Analysis. "Products like AgigA Tech's that combine the best attributes
of DRAM and
NAND are likely to meet
with broad acceptance."
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| SSD Pricing -
where does all the money go? |
SSDs are among the most
expensive computer hardware products you will ever buy.
Understanding
the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating
process... |
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...not made any easier when
market prices for identical capacity SSDs can vary more than 100x to 1!
Why is that? ...read
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| What's the
best / cheapest - PC SSD? |
Editor:- I often get emails
from readers which ask the above question.
An article on
StorageSearch.com - called
What's the best
/ cheapest PC SSD? - is my attempt to create a simple FAQs page - which
answers the question... |
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...of why I can't answer
your question - and follows on to pose some probing questions which you
can ask yourself. ...read the article | | | |
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What's the
best way to design a flash SSD?
and other questions which split SSD
opinion |
| More than 10 key areas of
fundamental disagreement within the SSD industry are discussed in an article
here on StorageSearch.com called
the
the SSD Heresies. |
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Why can't SSD's true believers agree upon
a single coherent vision for the future of solid state storage? ...read the article | | | |
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