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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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