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Pliant Technology

Pliant Technology is developing Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs), a new class of solid state storage devices that integrate seamlessly into enterprise information systems and dramatically improve performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and TCO. Delivering breakthrough improvements over today's highest performing hard drive and SSD storage solutions for a range of data I/O intensive enterprise applications, Pliant's solution is expected to be available to OEM and datacenter customers in the fourth quarter of 2008. The company was founded by a team of successful storage executives and engineers from Fujitsu, IBM, Maxtor, Quantum, and Seagate. Pliant is based in Milpitas, Calif. More information is available at www.plianttechnology.com.

see also:- Pliant Technology - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

  • editor's comments:- Pliant Technology is an advocate of "skinny" flash SSDs. To see what I mean by this - and how this approach compares to the rest of the market take a look at the article - RAM Cache Ratios in flash SSDs.

    In March 2009 - Pliant Technology's VP of Marketing, Greg Goelz shared his SSD Bookmarks in the opening episode of StorageSearch.com's new classic series.

    Also in March 2009 - Pliant Technology announced it has received $15 million in Series C funding. This will be used as working capital to support volume production of its SAS compatible flash SSDs.

    In September 2009 - Pliant Technology started sampling its Lightning family of 2.5" (150GB) and 3.5" (300GB) skinny flash SAS SSDs. The SLC drives deliver R/W rates upto 525/340MB/s and 160,000 IOPS (for a 90% R, 10% W mix).


    The realistically addressable market for native SAS SSDs in disk form factors looks a lot smaller today than 3 years ago when Pliant was founded. That's because SAS SSD opportunities have been shunted aside by PCIe SSDs and squeezed from below by fast SATA SSDs.

    The result has been that SSD vendors have been reluctant to enter this part of market. But the good news for the handful of companies actually shipping such products is they don't have to worry about dozens of competitors going for every design slot. That means higher margins for the forseeable future.
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  5. the Fastest SSDs
  6. the Top 10 SSD OEMs
  7. the Benefits of SAS for External Subsystems
  8. NAS, DAS or SAN? - Choosing the Technology
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  15. 2009 - Year of SSD Market Confusion
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