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NVELO, Inc. is a pioneer in innovative
storage software,
bringing new intelligence into storage subsystems to break the I/O bottleneck in
today's computing systems. Formed as a spin-off company during the acquisition
of Denali Software by
Cadence Design Systems, NVELO started with world-class engineering and
management teams from Denali. R&D on its flagship product "Dataplex",
began within Denali in
2007, and is
now in the process of being introduced to the market through Computer OEM's and
SSD vendors. NVELO is a privately held company with company headquarters in
Santa Clara California. For more information, visit www.nvelo.com
see
also:-
NVELO
- editor mentions on StorageSearch.com
- editor's comments: September 2011 -
NVELO entered the SSD
market in in August 2010 and was an early supplier in the market
for SSD specific software.
The company - operates in the consumer part of the
SSD caching / auto
tiering market.
Many other companies now compete in this part of
the market too.The SSD software acceleration market will fragment into several
different parts:- consumer vs enterprise, OS, support for virtual machines etc.
Although some ISVs sell directly to end users - most have business models which
purport to sell to SSD oems - although in reality -
storage history
has shown that most successful new storage software companies get
acquired by hardware
companies.
The type of software sold by NVELO and others could
transform the notebook
SSD market in 2012 - following 6 years of high promises and low
achievements which didn't set the SSD consumer market on fire.
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in August 2010 -
NVELO launched
Dataplex - a software product
aimed at PC oems - which provides
SSD ASAP
functionality inside a
notebook.
Dataplex will begin shipping from select Tier 1 PC OEMs in 2011. NVELO
is currently in discussions with leading
HDD and
SSD vendors to enable
aftermarket sales and bundling options for Dataplex, and has begun development
of an enterprise version of Dataplex for server systems.
In July
2011 - NVELO
announced it had $6.6
million in series A funding to support its business development in the PC
segment of the SSD
caching / SSD ASAP software market. Equity investors include
SSD controller company
- Cadence .
In
September 2011 - OCZ
launched its
Synapse
Cache Series 2.5” SATA SSDs for Windows 7 environments. The new SSDs
(64GB / 128GB, R/W speeds upto 510/550MB/s, 80,000 IOPS) integrate
NVELO's
Dataplex
cache / SSD ASAP
software to dynamically manage the SSD in conjunction with standard
hard disk drives. When
used to support a pre-existing terabyte hard drive - the overall performance for
popular PC benchmar tasks can be 4x to 6x faster - as the
software learns the where the hot data is for that user's PC - according to
benchmarks and data in
OCZ's
related white paper (pdf)
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| don't all PCIe SSDs
look pretty much the same? |
When you look at the
photos and headline specs for high speed PCIe SSDs - it's easy to come away with
the impression that they all look the same and have about the same performance.
After
all - how different can they be?
But don't let the experience of the
2.5" SSD market -
in which clusters of consumer SSD vendors use the
same or similar
controllers and hover
close together inpopular
(consumer) performance rankings - give you the wrong idea about
PCIe SSDs.
In
this market the performance limits and capabilities of the SSD aren't set by an
old hard disk interface
and package limitations.
In the PCIe market the products you get are
limited only by the imagination of the designers - tempered by the guesses of
marketers who are trying to predict the optimum (most salable) features for an
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| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss |
Why should you care
what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?
This important design
feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases
- has a strong impact on
SSD data integrity
and operational
reliability.
This article will help you understand why some
SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in
others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be
negligible. |
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