IDEMA launches new
initiative
Editor:- August 13, 2010 - IDEMA plans to launch a
new grouping called - Storage Technology Alliance.
STA will aim to
co-ordinate efforts in university research and development of storage industry
roadmaps.
Editor's comments:- all
industry ORGs start out
with the idea of accelerating the adoption of particular standards - then
after industry adoption - they lose focus and become talking shops rather than
initiators of change.
When it comes to guidance about the future
directions of solid state storage and related architectures - publications like
StorageSearch.com and other
SSD market analysts
have been more effective at setting agendas for the industry than traditional
storage organizations. Standards organizations are needed to co-ordinate
implementation detail - but they are too slow to be effective at initiating new
architectural trends.
Samsung and Seagate to develop SSD SoCs
Editor:-
August 13, 2010 - Samsung
and Seagate -
recently
announced
they will jointly develop
SSD controller
technologies to operate with Samsung's 30nm-class MLC NAND.
The
jointly developed controller will be utilized in
Seagate's
enterprise-class SSDs.
Editor's comments:- despite being a keen advocate for solid
state storage since 2005 - Samsung has never had the IP it takes to develop
best in breed enterprise SSDs. Seagate, a relative newbie in the SSD market,
doesn't have SSD IP either - but it does have
hard disk interface
experience.
Developing (or
acquiring) its
own SSD IP has always been desirable for Seagate. The new agreement also helps
to explain why the company was not happy to confirm industry reports that its
1st SSD actually used SoCs from
SandForce.
Will
the 2 companies be able to develop world beating SSD controller technology?
In my long experience of talking to people in companies which do have
strong and unique SSD architectures - I have got the impression that a
successful enterprise SSD design needs:- unity of purpose, very strong
technical leadership, good sense of market direction, and years of fine tuning
design iterations.
I don't think that an inter company collaboration
like Samsung and Seagate can achieve the NO-COMPROMISE design
decisions which are needed to develop world beating enterprise SSD
architectures - no matter how talented individuals in the engineering pool may
be.
Micron samples SATA 3 SLC SSD
Editor:- August 12,
2010 - Micron Technology
today announced
it is sampling the
RealSSD
P300 - a 200GB 2.5"
SATA 3 SLC flash SSD with R/W
IOPS of
44,000 and 16,000 respectively.
Editor's comments:- Micron's
new P300 SSD sounds almost exactly the same as the
C300
SSD the company said it was sampling in
December 2009.
The main differences are:- the newer product has lower R/W IOPS, and is
SLC instead of
MLC - which is better for most mission critical apps.
Virident signs supercomputing channel partner
Editor:-
August 10, 2010 - Virident
Systems today announced
the signing of a reseller
agreement with Appro
for Virident's tachIOn
drive - a fast PCIe flash
SSD.
"As the leading supplier of hardware and software
solutions for the High Performance Computing Market, we are very familiar with
the I/O bottleneck and the need for solutions that address concurrent,
multi-core processor demands while providing maximum storage throughput,"
said Anthony Kenisky, VP of Sales for Appro. "We are very impressed with
the potential of the Virident tachIOn SSD solution to deliver leading,
predictable, high-performance
IOPS for
data intensive workloads. In addition, the expandable capacity and ease of
integration into existing environments makes this a very attractive solution for
our customers. We are pleased to be working with Virident as a certified
solutions partner."
Anobit inside new Hynix SSD
Editor:- August 9, 2010
- Hynix Semiconductor
announced
it has selected Anobit's
SSD controller
technology to operate with its own 20nm class NAND Flash chips for use in a new
SSD design.
See also:-
adaptive R/W
flash IP
OCZ will demo 3.5" PCIe SSD
Editor:- August 5,
2010 - At the Flash
Memory Summit later this month OCZ says it will
demonstrate a new 3.5"
SSD with what it calls a
High Speed Data
Link interface - which is
PCIe physically
connected via a SAS
connector.
See also:-
2.5" PCIe SSDs
animal brands in the SSD market
Editor:- August 4,
2010 - StorageSearch.com
today published a new article -
animal brands in
the SSD market.
Examples discussed in the article range from
cute and cuddly animals through a menagerie of fast rugged and best friend
rugged SSDs, a regional curio and some real monsters. This is the 3rd in a 6
part series - Branding Strategies in the SSD Market. ...read the article
EMC has cleared STEC shelfware
Editor:- August 3,
2010 - STEC
reported
$61
million for the 2nd quarter ended June 30 - a decrease of 29%
year on year but significantly up on the previous quarter.
The company indicated that inventory issues at
EMC (whose worse than
expected SSD sales in
2009 had
created a glut of STEC shelfware) had been resolved.
Pliant nabs Dot Hill's VP software engineering
Editor:-
August 3, 2010 - Pliant
Technology today
announced
the appointment of Mark
Delsman as VP of engineering.
Prior to joining Pliant, Delsman was VP of software engineering for
Dot Hill. Before
that, he was the senior director of software engineering for
NetApp and the CTO
and VP of engineering at Adaptec.
Additional storage industry experience includes
Seagate,
Conner Peripherals
and Maxtor.
In his new role, Delsman will manage the software, hardware and
ASIC development
organizations to expand Pliant's position in the enterprise storage market for
solid state based
technologies. See also:-
Storage People
Popular storage searches in July
Editor:- August 2,
2010 - StorageSearch.com
disclosed that overall SSD searches in July 2010 were 20% higher than
a year ago.
Pageviews of the SSD Buyers Guide
grew 14%.
PCIe
SSDs retained their #1 popularity slot for the 11th consecutive month.
3.5" SSDs rebounded
in popularity - with pageviews overtaking those of
1.8" SSDs.
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