DataDirect
Scales to X00 Gigabytes/ Second
Chatsworth,
Calif - November 14, 2007 - DataDirect Networks Inc. today announced
that the company's 8th generation S2A appliance will enable CFS/SUN's
Lustre I/O to reach several hundred gigabytes / second.
DataDirect Networks manufactures the fastest, highest capacity, most scalable
Lustre-based storage systems on the planet. Lustre, taken from the words "Linux"
and "cluster," is a distributed file system used for large scale
cluster computing. The file system, which was
acquired by
Sun Microsystems in
October, was designed to scale to tens of thousands of nodes that are attached
to petabytes of storage. The main advantage of the file system is that it does
not compromise a storage system's speed or security.
New features
built into the latest S2A appliance include support for
8Gbps Fibre Channel and
20Gbps Infiniband
DDR host connections. The system leverages the
serial attached SCSI
protocol to communicate to the drives it manages, providing a future-proof
roadmap to the latest disk drive technologies, speeds and capacities. ...Data Direct Networks
profile |
|
| Toshiba
Announces 320G 2.5" SATA Drives |
IRVINE,
Calif - August 20, 2007 - Toshiba today announced the world's first
320G 2.5-inch hard disk drive.
The new drives spin at 5,400 RPM
and feature capacity points from 80G to 320G. The company also announced a
7,200 RPM family of 2.5" products offering up to 200GB capacity. All
support the SATA
interface at a 3.0 Gbps data transfer rate, and free-fall sensor options are
available on select models. ...Toshiba
profile, hard disks.
2.5" solid state disks
Maxell Launches World's 1st iVDR Hard Drive
Tokyo - March 20, 2007 -
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. today announced the launch of the world's first
iVDR compatible removable hard disk drive capable of recording copyright
protected High Definition content without quality loss.
The new
drive 5,400 RPM drive fits in the palm of the hand and provides 160G of data
storage and a data transfer rate of 540Mbit/s. Employing
SAFIA copyright
protection technology the new is being launched for use with
Hitachi's
Wooo flat-panel TV, which is the world's first appliance employing
iVDR slots. ...Maxell profile,
Removable Disk Drives,
Storage Industry Trade
Associations
First Terabyte Hard Drive
CES,
LAS VEGAS – January 5, 2007 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
today announced the industry's first terabyte hard drive.
Delivering
superior performance and reliability, as well as capacity, Hitachi's 1TB hard
drive will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a
suggested retail price of $399, or 40 cents per gigabyte. ...Hitachi profile ,
Hard disk drives
Olixir Ships 750GB Ruggedized Removable Hard
Drive
MILPITAS, Calif. -
November 28, 2006 -
Olixir Technologies today announced the launch of the industry's
highest capacity ruggedized removable/external hard drive - the 750GB, 7,200
RPM, Mobile DataVault 3DX.
It incorporates Olixir's patented
shock protection technology which provides up to 1,200 Gs of non-operational
shock protection making it an ideal storage solution for applications which
require the frequent handling and physical transportation of large amounts of
data.
The Mobile DataVault 3DX Transportable External Hard Drive can be
used as a standalone storage device with a Centronics interface that supports
USB 2.0,
Firewire,
Serial ATA, and
PCMCIA cables. For bigger storage requirements, the Mobile DataVault 3DX can
be used as a removable data cartridge with Olixir's 5.25" docking bay,
desktop chassis, or rackmount RAID 5 FastRestore system Available now the
750GB unit costs $819 with USB 2.0 cable. ...Olixir Technologies profile
NetApp Shatters NFS Performance Record
Sunnyvale, CA. -
June 12, 2006 - Network Appliance, Inc. is now shipping its powerful
new Data ONTAP GX operating system for high-performance computing
applications.
Data ONTAP GX, coupled with the new FAS6070, scales
in capacity up to 6PB and achieves more than
1 million
operations per second, based on the SPEC SFS benchmark (3 times faster than
the previous performance record for this NFS benchmark). Data ONTAP GX is the
result of over 2 years of strategic engineering work, combining the global
namespace functionality of SpinOS (which NetApp acquired when it bought
Spinnaker Networks)
with the data management, performance, and high-availability features of Data
ONTAP 7G. ...Network
Appliance profile,
Record Breaking
Storage
Samsung Shows World's First Hard Disk Phone
Seoul,
Korea - March 6, 2006 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd today unveiled the
world's first 8GB Hard Disk embedded smartphone.
The i310
combines a phone, a 2 megapixel digital camera, and an MP3 player. It also
includes a USB interface
which allows the phone to be utilized as a
removable hard disk.
The i310 will be shown to public at CeBIT from March 9 - 16. It will be
introduced in the European market during the second half of this year.
...Samsung profile
DataDirect in Record Breaking Storage System
Los Angeles, CA - November
14, 2005 - Sandia National Laboratories, DataDirect Networks, Cluster
File Systems, Inc. and Voltaire combined solutions to deliver 15 GB
/ second to Sandia's high performance RoSE Visualization Cluster.
The RoSE clusters are designed to visualize, analyze and manage
output from two of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Red Storm and
Thunderbird. These supercomputers enable simulations with extraordinary
precision and fidelity, and the size of the output is enormous. Each output can
be tens of terabytes in size.
The tests used 12 Silicon Storage
Appliances (S2A 8500) from DataDirect Networks to provide high performance
parallel access to 360 terabytes of SATA storage. The Lustre file system,
developed by Cluster File Systems, integrated with the S2A's high speed
capabilities delivered the performance record to the RoSE cluster. An
InfiniBand network
from Voltaire
interconnected the nodes of the RoSE cluster achieving high performance by
providing high bandwidth and low latency with little load on the cluster CPUs.
...Data Direct
Networks profile,
Record Breaking
Storage |
|
iVivity
Does 400,000 IOPS on iSCSI
Atlanta -September 1, 2005 -
iVivity today announced a new high water benchmark for IP Storage Area
Networking.
iVivity used a standard 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric
to demonstrate an unprecedented combination of IOPS and throughput.
Approximately 400,000 IOPS and 20Gbps (19.926Gbps) of iSCSI
traffic throughput was continuously and directly terminated on a single
iDiSX-2000-10 storage network processor ASIC with dual 10Gbps iSCSI ports. All
iSCSI traffic was terminated by the iVivity iDiSX-2000-10 ASIC without any
external processors.
"These impressive results demonstrate the very real viability of
10Gb iSCSI for storage targets," said Marc Staimer, President and CDS of
Dragon Slayer Consulting. "iVivity has proved that iDiSX technology goes
beyond slideware and is a desirable choice for storage system designs today."
"This powerful display reinforces our commitment to helping drive
forward the storage industry's adoption of iSCSI technology," said Ashu
Joshi, VP Technology.
The setup utilized the Force10 E300 Switch
Router, 19 Intel Xeon based servers, 1 AMD Opteron server (each with 1Gbps
iSCSI), and 64K to 256K packets from Iometer. The 20 iSCSI Gb Initiators
generating the traffic load to the iVivity iSCSI target ran at the maximum
possible output.
...iVivity profile,
iSCSI |
|
Adaptec's
RAID Empowers Industry's First Serial Attached SCSI Servers
MILPITAS,
Calif. - February 23, 2005 - Adaptec, Inc. today announced that IBM's
recently launched X3 architecture and eServer xSeries 366 solution incorporates
Adaptec's Zero Channel Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller.
IBM, with its new x366
announced
yesterday, will be the first major vendor to ship a high-performance server
built on SAS technology and RAID 6 data protection from Adaptec. IBM's new
server, the x366, has set a performance record for 4-way Intel Xeon
processor-based servers using the TPC-C online transaction processing benchmark
and offers RAID 6 for maximum fault tolerance against drive failures.
"We have worked closely with IBM in their transition from
Ultra320 SCSI to faster, more cost-effective SAS technologies, helping them to
achieve the critical time-to-market and feature advantages with the new x366
that the industry has come to expect from IBM," said Ahmet Houssein, VP and
general manager of Adaptec.
...Adaptec profile,
Serial Attached SCSI
See
also:- Adaptec's article:- the
Benefits of SAS for External Subsystems
Editor's comments:-
we're going to see a lot of new servers this year which leverage faster
storage interfaces like SAS and 4Gbps Fibre-channel to crank up their
application performance. Without faster storage - typically upto 50% of the
potential performance in modern server processors is wasted. |
|
Pretec
Launches World's Highest Capacity USB Flash Drive
FREMONT, Calif
- December 7, 2004 - Pretec Electronics Corp. announced the world's
highest capacity and high speed USB flash drive supporting dual channel data
transmission, which can reach the highest average transfer rate of up to 120X.
Equipped with dual channel technology, PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB can
process files transfers concurrently delivers read & write speeds up to
16MB/sec and 12MB/sec respectively. With its designed-in functions of
data encryption, compression and write protection, users can full leverage the
largest memory space of PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB under a data secured environment.
Light weight, compact, and bundled with the FlashMail, MobileLock, SecretZip
software, PRETEC i-Disk II 8GB is a perfect storage solution for active mobile
users traveling around the world. The new drive is sampling now, with mass
production scheduled by next month.
...Pretec Electronics
profile, Flash Memory,
Solid state disks,
Record Breaking
Storage |
New IOPS
Record for 2Gb/s Fibre Channel
MILPITAS,
Calif. - October 20, 2004 - LSI Logic announced today that the
company's LSI7402XP quad port Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter performance
surpassed 250,000 IOPs (I/Os per second).
On tests
conducted on an AMD 4P platform using AMD Opteron processors Model 850, LSI
Logic's 7402XP HBA has delivered performance benchmarks that are more than 40%
faster than any other Fibre Channel HBA product available in the industry
today. LSI Logic's Fusion-MPT architecture has integrated internal processors
that offload the server CPU for automatic linear scalability, providing overall
system performance and more reliable data transfers at a faster rate.
...LSI Logic profile,
Fibre-channel adapters,
Record Breaking
Storage |
|
SimpleTech
Announces World's Thinnest Solid State Drives
SANTA
ANA, Calif. - August 23, 2004 - SimpleTech, Inc. today announced the
immediate availability of Zeus Ultra DMA Solid State Drives, the world's
thinnest, fastest solid state drive.
Ideal for applications
requiring high reliability and high tolerance to shock, vibration, altitude,
humidity and temperature, the drives utilize SimpleTech's patented stacking
technology to measure just 9.5 mm thick and have sustained read/write rates of
up to 60 MB/sec. Zeus SSDs are available in standard 2.5- and 3.5-inch form
factors, as well as custom form factors, and have capacities ranging from 2 to
128 gigabytes.
Zeus SSDs are fully ATA-5 compliant and conform to the same mounting
requirements as traditional hard disk drives, making Zeus SSDs drop-in
replacements for any standard IDE/ATA-compliant hard disk drive. SimpleTech's
Zeus product line is capable of sustained operation in extreme environmental
conditions and complies with military standards, such as MIL-STD-810F. The
product's patent-pending design combines low power consumption with the
highest storage density (GB per cubic centimeter) available in a SSD
solution.
Zeus SSDs offer advanced security features, including secure
erase and destructive purge. The security erase has two options to sanitize the
media. The first minimizes the time taken to complete the operation, and the
second minimizes the power consumed during the operation. SimpleTech's
patent-pending destructive purge option removes the drive's data and then
destroys the media, making the SSD unusable and data retrieval impossible.
Additionally, the destruction is monitored and confirmed. These security
features comply with military standards, including AFSSI 5020, AR 380-19, NAVSO
P-5239-26, NISPOM DoD 5220.22-M, and NSA 130-2.
Zeus SSDs are ideal for a variety of applications. Military
applications include mission data recorders, black boxes, navigation systems and
field computers. Telecommunications applications include switches, routers and
gateways. Industrial computing applications include control systems, embedded
systems, test equipment, point-of-sale systems, transaction servers, and factory
automation.
...SimpleTech profile,
...Solid state disks,
Military Storage |
|
LSI Logic
Unveils Industry's Highest Speed DDR-2 SDRAM Physical Layer Memory Interface
MILPITAS,
Calif. - June 1, 2004 - LSI Logic Corporation today introduced a
physical layer memory interface that can save customers months of development
time while improving product performance with the industrys highest speed DDR-2
SDRAM technology.
LSI Logics new DDR-2 ASIC core is the first
physical layer interface and I/O buffer to support 333MHz/667Mbps data speeds,
enabling manufacturers of data storage, communications, multi-function printers,
industrial and medical equipment to take advantage of the memory technologys
superior density, bandwidth and lower cost.
"LSI Logic has been highly successful with two generations of
memory interface cores" said Jean Bou-Farhat, vice president, CoreWare
Division, LSI Logic Corporation. "The DDR-2 cores allow our customers to
take advantage of the performance and cost benefits offered by DDR-2 SDRAM
memory products. This new addition to the CoreWare library, combined with
existing connectivity solutions, helps our customers design systems efficiently
and quickly while also reducing risk."
...LSI Logic profile,
RAM,
Record Breaking
Storage, Storage ICs |
|
IBM
Announces World's Fastest Storage Mirroring Technology
ARMONK,
NY - April 20, 2004 - IBM today announced a breakthrough storage
technology that is designed to help clients protect and recover critical data at
global backup locations at some of the fastest speeds available.
Called IBM Global Mirror for Enterprise Storage, the technology
provides global backup and recovery protection at speeds approaching those
achievable at local distances. Beginning in May, clients can employ the
technology as part of disaster recovery solutions designed to help protect them
from regional events such as hurricanes or earthquakes.
IDC anticipates that worldwide spending on information security and
business continuity will grow twice as fast as general IT spending over the next
several years, reaching more than $118 billion by 2007.
"In the
context of outages - planned or unplanned - every second is of critical
importance," said Tom Hawk, general manager of Enterprise Storage, IBM. "The
value of lost - or saved - data is virtually incalculable. Global Mirror is
designed to help customers maintain high availability among business processes
and key business applications in a cost-conscious manner - across the globe and
at some of the fastest speeds available today."
Global Mirror uses breakthrough innovations within asynchronous PPRC
(peer-to-peer remote copy) technology to help speed disk mirroring at distances
more than 300 kilometers with a delay that can be as low as three to five
seconds - outpacing similar EMC offerings. The new solution is designed to move
data great distances at high speeds while maintaining the integrity of the data
in transit. The solution is also designed to allow massive data transfers while
avoiding disruption to IT performance or availability. The exceptional
performance of Global Mirror for ESS requires only two fibre channel links per
storage system where a number of other comparable technologies may require four
links. This performance can help reduce infrastructure costs and lower TCO.
...IBM profile |
|
| The
Smallest Hard Disk Drive |
IRVINE,
Calif. - January 7, 2004 - Toshiba Storage Device Division today
announced the development of a 0.85-inch hard disk drive, the first
drive to deliver multi-gigabyte storage in a sub-one-inch form factor.
Expected
to be available in 2GB and 4GB capacities, Toshiba will start sampling the new
drive in summer 2004, with mass production to begin in late 2004 Measuring
only a quarter of the size of Toshiba's 1.8-inch drive, the 0.85-inch HDD is
expected to boost the functionality of a new generation of products, including
mobile phones, digital audio players, PDAs, digital still cameras, camcorders
and external storage devices. Toshiba initially plans to introduce capacities of
2GB and 4GB, and anticipates achievement of even higher densities in the
0.85-inch form factor. A prototype of the 0.85-inch HDD will be shown at
Toshiba's booth (#12214) on the CES show floor January 8-11.
...Toshiba profile |
|
| The
Highest Capacity 3.5" Hard Disk Drive |
SAN
JOSE, Calif. - March 10, 2004 - Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
today announced the world's highest capacity 3.5-inch ATA hard drive, the 400GB
Deskstar 7K400.
The new drive has been designed for audio video
and ATA nearline environments, where large capacities and a lower per-gigabyte
cost are key requirements. A new industry-standard AV feature set makes the
drive well-suited for use in high-end digital video recorders that are
designed to record substantial amounts of high-quality digital programming. The
Deskstar 7K400 is ideally suited for nearline storage and other low I/O
applications. The drives provide superior capacity, data access times and
transfer rates at a comparable cost to that of tape or optical solutions. The
new drives will ship with Parallel ATA and Serial ATA interfaces.
...Hitachi profile
|
|
| The
Highest Capacity 3.5" FC Solid State Disk |
FREMONT, Calif. - March
2, 2004 - BiTMICRO Networks today introduced the high capacity E-Disk
Fibre Channel SSD at 155GB in a 3.5" form factor.
With
this pronouncement, it becomes the 3.5" solid-state Fibre Channel flash
drive with the highest capacity available in the market today. This high end
SSD supports duplex burst rates of up to 400 MB/s, boasting of sustained read
rates of up to 70 MB/s, sustained write rates of up to 48MB/s and 9,800 IOPS.
The E-Disk Fibre Channel dual ported storage device comes with 40-pin SCA 2
connectors and an MTBF of 2 million hours that make it ideal for "hot swap"
applications.
"Our solid state flash drives are often deployed by
enterprise applications as a performance booster by having them host frequently
accessed or hot files," comments Rudy Bruce, President of BiTMICRO
Networks. "This new breed of higher density 3.5-inch SSDs opens up a lot
more opportunities for data streaming applications such as high-definition video
editing & rendering that simply have to locate larger amounts of data onto
flash memory for improved performance. We are now able to deliver the benefits
of enhanced speed, reliability and low power consumption for these demanding
applications with double the storage capacity, on the same footprint."
...BiTMICRO Networks
profile |
|
| the
Fastest Backup and Restore |
MOUNTAIN
VIEW, Calif. - July 21, 2003 - SGI announced today that it has achieved
an unprecedented benchmark, sustaining a rate of 10.1TB per hour for a
disk-to-tape file backup.
SGI has also established an image
restore record of 7.9TB/hour. The benchmark nearly triples the previous record
of 3.6TB per hour for backup and is more than three times faster than the
previous restore record of 2.2TB per hour. ...SGI profile |
|
Spectra
Logic Ships 10,000th Spectra 2K tape library
BOULDER,
Colo. - March 29, 2004 - Spectra Logic Corporation achieved a milestone
mark today as the company has sold its 10,000th Spectra 2K tape library.
Originally introduced in October 1997, the Spectra 2K tape library is
known for its cost effectiveness, ease of use and reliability. The library
takes four toggle switches to configure and is field proven with five million
hour mean time between robotics failures. Now 10,000 customers are using the
tape library worldwide.
With AIT-3, the Spectra 2K library backs up to 225 GB in an hour and
stores up to 7.8 TB in 5U of rack space. Spectra Logic offers the user options
to add drives and slots, move to a faster drive or upgrade to a SAN interface.
Each generation of AIT is backward compatible with and double the capacity and
performance of the previous generation. The entire installed base of Spectra 2K
libraries will be eligible for upgrade to AIT-4 in Q3, 2004 increasing maximum
throughput to 450GB/hour and capacity to 15.6TB.
...Spectra Logic
profile | |
TMS Sets
New Storage IOPS Records
Houston, Texas - January 28, 2008
- Texas Memory Systems, Inc. today announced that it has broken the
world data storage performance record and price-performance record again.
The new records were achieved using standard server and storage network hardware
and the TMS
RamSan-400
solid state disk. Based on audited results submitted to the vendor-neutral
Storage Performance Council
the RamSan-400 SSD delivered a record 291,208.58 SPC-1 IOPS with a record
average response time of just 0.86 milliseconds. It also set a new SPC-1
Price-Performance record by delivering that performance at just $0.67 per SPC-1
IOPS.
...Texas Memory
Systems profile
Memoright Launches Fastest 2.5" Drive
Shenzhen, China - October 18,
2007 - Memoright today launched its 2.5" 64GB PATA / SATA flash
SSDs on the international market.
The new products were
demonstrated recently to enterprise partners at the company's headquaters in
China.
Memoright's patented technology enables their SSD to deliver 100M
Bytes/sec sustained read and write transfer rates - which is the fastest
throughput in a currently available
2.5" flash SSD.
Memoright says its random access performance is typically 5x faster than a
hard disk.
The company is looking for sales agents worldwide and says it will launch 1.8"
and 3.5" models soon.
...Memoright profile
QLogic's InfiniBand HCAs outSPEC the Rest
ALISO
VIEJO, Calif - July 17, 2007 - QLogic Corp today announced that its
InfiniBand adapters are the fastest based on a new benchmark suite just
released by SPEC.
The
SPEC MPI2007 suite measures the
performance of message-passing interface applications and can be used to
compare different hardware architectures, inter-connects, processors, memory
hierarchy, compilers, and MPI implementations.
...QLogic profile
0.5 Terabyte 3.5" SSD Aims at Video on
Demand
SANTA
ANA, Calif - April 18, 2007 - STEC, Inc. today announced an
extension to its Zeus-IOPS Solid State Drive family with the addition of 512GB
and 256GB versions offering enterprise systems the performance equivalent of up
to 200 hard drives in just one drive.
The company also announced
that an agreement has been put in place with a worldwide leader of on-demand
and real-time media delivery technology systems, wherein the Zeus-IOPS SSD was
thoroughly analyzed and successfully deployed. This customer views STEC's SSD
technology as a vital means to enabling video-on-demand services at speeds that
were unattainable using traditional rotating hard drive solutions.
STEC
believes that solid-state Flash drives with high-IOPS performance will address
the growing needs of the enterprise-class drive market. With NAND Flash prices
declining on a continued rapid pace, prices for
FC,
SAS and
SATAII-based
SSDs are expected to drop
below $2 per GB by 2012 which implies 512GB of high-performance storage for less
than $1,000. Based upon these capacity and pricing dynamics, STEC expects that
the high-IOPS SSD will make up a significant percentage of the $5 billion
high-performance hard-drive
market. This will make the comparative performance gains of SSD over HDD even
more compelling.
...STEC profile
See
also:- Squeak!
- SSD Market Adoption Model
article:-the
Future of High Speed HDDs Doesn't Lie in 20K RPM
DATAllegro Supplies 120T Data Warehouse
Fairfax, VA - February 12, 2007 –
TEOCO today announced that it has acquired a data warehouse appliance
from DATAllegro.
The new appliance will be housed in
TEOCO's data center in Sterling, Virginia and will provide 120T of storage
space, expandable to 200T, making it one of the largest capacity data warehouse
appliances ever sold. The new appliance will provide the cornerstone for growth
of TEOCO's analytics and business intelligence activities. ...DATAllegro profile,
Record Breaking
Storage
Editor's comments:- DATAllegro has an interesting
overview
which summarises the gap between processor and disk performance. Although we've
discussed how to solve this gap many times before in the context of
SSDs - DATAllegro says
their architecture delivers fast performance
without using tuning.
Toshiba Launches 100G 1.8" HDD
IRVINE,
Calif. - December 5, 2006 - Toshiba today launched the world's
highest-capacity 1.8-inch hard disk drive.
Toshiba's
MK1011GAH
1.8-inch HDD is ATA-7 compatible, spins at 4,200 RPM, has 4 heads, 2 platters
and transfers data upto 100MB/s. It will ship to OEMs for integration into
mobile PCs next month. ...Toshiba
profile, Hard disk
drives
M-Systems Wins Award at Flash Summit
Flash
Memory Summit, San Jose, Calif. - August 10, 2006 - M-Systems today
announced that its x4 NAND flash technology was recognized as the "Most
Innovative Flash Memory Technology" of 2006 by a panel of industry experts
at the Flash Memory Summit.
M-Systems
x4
technology was developed in collaboration with Tel Aviv University's School
of Electrical Engineering and exclusively licensed to M-Systems, for use in
flash memory products, by
Ramot, the university's technology transfer company. ...M-Systems profile,
Record Breaking
Storage
StorCase Introduces First Removable Enclosures
for Serial Attached SCSI Drives
Fountain Valley, CA - January
24, 2006 - StorCase Technology today released its Data Express Profile
DX115 removable drive enclosures for Serial Attached SCSI or SATA 3Gbps drives.
StorCase's enclosures are the first removable
SAS drive products
in the industry.
...StorCase profile,
Storage Boxes,
Removable Storage |
|
World's
Smallest Removable Storage Card
Diamond Bar, CA - October 6,
2005 - Advanced Media, Inc. has introduced a Micro SD card to its
popular RIDATA brand of flash memory products.
Approximately one
quarter of the size of conventional memory cards, it is the smallest
removable storage card available. The RIDATA Micro SD" card provides full
compatibility and interoperability with current Secure Digital devices, when
used with an adapter. The new cards will be on display at
Mobile Business Expo Booth#
617 in Chicago October 9-12.
Industry sources predict demand for the
new card to grow by over 200% over the next three years. The RIDATA Micro SD"
card supports mobile devices currently sold by I-mate, Motorola, O2, Orange,
Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, T-mobile, Kyocera, LG, Amor, Segam, and other leading
marketers found around the world.
The new Advanced Media memory card is compatible with any full-size
SD device through the use of an adapter. It also provides support for mobile
devices featuring a TransFlash slot. CPRM encryption is in affect when it is
used with an adapter. It is available in 64MB, 128MB, and 256MB capacity sizes.
The RIDATA Micro SD" card is available now. ...Advanced Media
profile, Flash,
Removable Storage,
Storage Events,
Record Breaking
Storage |
|
EMC
Announces World's Largest Storage Array
Hopkinton,
Mass. - July 25, 2005 - EMC Corp today announced the largest, fastest
and most scalable high-end storage array in the world, capable of providing
leading functionality while scaling to one petabyte (1,024 terabytes) of
capacity.
The new storage array supports up to 960 disk drives today, and will
be qualified to support up to 1,920 disk drives in the first half of 2006 and
more than 2,000 by the end of next year. ...EMC profile,
Record Breaking
Storage |
|
New World
Record Set for iSCSI Throughput
MILPITAS and CUPERTINO, CA. -
March 29, 2005 - Neterion Inc. and PyX Technologies Inc. have
announced a new benchmark for IP Storage Area Networking.
Working
together, the companies used a standard 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric to
demonstrate the scalability and interoperability of their technologies. They
accomplished a world-record peak throughput of 7.5 Gb/s (937.5 MBytes/s)
that included network headers and full featured iSCSI with Error Recovery Level
Two using three iSCSI initiators and one iSCSI target. The record-breaking
performance transported the data over a heterogeneous 10 Gigabit Ethernet
network infrastructure. The results were achieved using a TeraScale E-Series
Terabit switch/router from Force10
Networks interoperating with Neterion's Xframe 10 GbE network adapters and
running Full Error Recovery iSCSI software from PyX Technologies.
Featuring the same quality of service and system robustness at a
fraction of the total cost of ownership and maintenance of Fibre Channel
architectures, iSCSI with Full Error Recovery is also free of the distance
limitations of Fibre Channel, enabling a truly global SAN.
"From a software perspective, the throughput we observed is only
possible because our iSCSI implementation supports multiple connections per
session," said Nicholas Bellinger, Chief Software Architect for PyX
Technologies, "and this is unique within the storage industry."
...Neterion profile,
...PyX Technologies profile,
Record Breaking
Storage |
|
InPhase
Demos Prototype Holographic Storage Drive
LONGMONT,
CO - January 4, 2005 - InPhase Technologies today announced a
breakthrough in data storage with the world's first prototype of a holographic
storage drive.
The prototype is the foundation for InPhase's
family of Tapestry holographic drives, with data capacities that range from 200
GB to 1.6 TB on a single disk. The completion of the prototype was enabled by
InPhase's development of key recording techniques and holographic media, the
commercial availability of critical components, strong partnerships with leading
storage innovators, and government funding.
...InPhase Technologies
profile |
|
DataDirect's
Storage Technology Powers the World's Fastest Computer
Los
Angeles, CA - October 14, 2004 - DataDirect Networks has delivered a
storage networking system to the Department of Energy's Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, enabling the U.S. national lab to build the
next-generation scientific simulation environment for its BlueGene/L
massively-parallel computer.
The BlueGene/L massively-parallel computer has already supplanted
Japan's Earth Simulator machine, the world's former fastest computer, and has
brought the lead in world class computing back to the United States. BlueGene/L,
when fully assembled at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will scale to
360 teraFLOP/s peak: nine times larger than the Earth Simulator. More
importantly, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration
laboratories will use BlueGene/L for solving a wide range of scientific problems
of interest to the Stockpile Stewardship Program, including: molecular modeling;
quantum molecular dynamics; the dynamics of turbulent fluid flow and material
modeling.
Once BlueGene/L is fully assembled, DataDirect will be delivering a
sustained parallel I/O aggregate Write bandwidth of 112.5 GigaBytes/s to
Livermore's scientific applications!
...DataDirect
Networks profile |
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Infineon
Samples World´s First DDR-Micro-DIMM
Munich,
Germany - July 27, 2004 - Infineon Technologies AG today announced the
world's first DDR-Micro-DIMM (Dual In-line Memory Module) Module for
Sub-Notebooks.
Infineon's Jedec compliant Micro-DIMMs, which are
only 65% of the size of equal capacity SO-DIMMs (Small Outline DIMMs) used for
notebooks, will further accelerate the manufacturing of lighter and smaller
sub-notebooks with enhanced functionalities and battery lifetime. Micro-DIMMs
have the smallest area footprint of all memory modules at the same densities,
and are an ideal solution for sub-notebooks.
Infineon has already secured its first design wins for the Micro-DIMM
products, and was chosen as a preferred supplier by Asus, the world's largest
manufacturer of computer motherboards. ...Infineon profile,
RAM,
SPARC Notebooks |
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Maxell
Launches World's First 5X DVD-RAM Media
FAIR LAWN,
NJ - May 25, 2004 - Maxell Corporation of America today introduced the
world's first 5X DVD-RAM disc - the fastest rewritable, high-capacity DVD media
currently available.
Maxell's latest DVD-RAM media is based on its newly developed Bismuth
Coupling Material recording layer, which improves signal to noise ratio for
higher reliability during high-speed recording. The new media has a capacity of
4.7GB, which equates to up to six hours of video in extended play mode. It is
also backward compatible, supporting recording at 2X and 3X in addition to its
5X speed. The single-sided disc is compatible with all DVD-RAM drives and
recorders and RAM readable DVD-ROM devices and DVD players. The 5X DVD RAM
media will be available in June. ...Maxell profile |
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World's
Highest Capacity 2.5" Hard Drive
IRVINE,
Calif. - April 22, 2004 - Toshiba Corporation today confirmed its
leadership in the fast growing market for 2.5-inch hard disk drives with the
announcement of the MK1031GAS, the highest capacity drive yet achieved in this
increasingly important form factor.
The new HDD delivers 100GB of
storage capacity and does so in a drive only 9.5mm high. The MK1031GAS is
ideally suited for integration into portable PCs, especially those with advanced
audio-visual capabilities that need the capacity to handle large video sources.
"We are delighted to announce the world's highest capacity
2.5-inch HDD," said Amy Dalphy, manager, HDD business unit, Toshiba SDD. "We
made improvements to push the capacity, increase shock resistance and lower
power consumption and noise. The resulting drive is perfect for integration in
high spec portable PCs and other portable devices. Our strategy is to create the
technologies and products that make a reality of ubiquitous computing and we are
sure the MK1031GAS makes a valuable contribution to that."
...Toshiba profile |
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| The
Highest Capacity Tape Drive |
| SAN FRANCISCO - February 20,
2003 - Sony Electronics is now shipping production units of its
first-generation SAIT drives and media to tape library automation OEMs. |
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| With the
ability to store up to 1.3TB of compressed data (500 gigabytes native)
on a half-inch tape cartridge, SAIT-1 is staking its claim as the industry's
highest capacity tape drive and the first available product to break the 1TB
capacity barrier. The enterprise-class drive also features a sustained transfer
rate of up to 78MB per second (30 MB/sec native) for efficient data recording
and fast data recovery.
...Sony profile |
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| The Most
Rackmount Network Storage for $10K |
Santa Fe Springs,
California - February 10, 2004 - Aberdeen LLC today unveiled the
AberNAS NAS solution which packs 3 terabytes in a standard 2U format
at an amazing price under $10,000.
Packed with feature-rich
server management, security and mission-critical features, the AberNAS by
Aberdeen offers high-performance network attached storage without the high cost
of ownership.
"As the old adage goes, everyone wants more for less and I
managers are no different." states Aberdeen President, Moshe Ovadya. "This
was the impetus behind the creation of the AberNAS by Aberdeen. Our NAS device
not only provides the highest storage capacity density of up to 3.0TB per 2U
chassis, but it also provides enterprise-class performance at the most
competitive value in the marketplace. It is not only is backed by the
reliability of the Aberdeen 5-Year Warranty, but with our CARES program it can
be evaluated for free for 30 days."
...Aberdeen profile |
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Mellanox
Scores World's First 10Gb/s Landed on Motherboard Design Win
SANTA CLARA, CA and
YOKNEAM, ISRAEL - June 28, 2004 - Mellanox Technologies Ltd. today
announced that IWILL has selected Mellanox's InfiniHost host channel
adapter to provide 10Gb/s Landed on Motherboard connections for the DK8S2-IB
server platform.
This platform represents the world's first server
that provides 10Gb/s network connectivity as a feature that ships standard with
every system. IWILL selected Mellanox's solution based on the rapid adoption
rate of InfiniBand in clustered server applications as well as price/performance
advantages over all other 10Gb/s technologies. InfiniBand, the only industry
standard I/O technology that natively supports 10Gb/s performance to each node
with remote direct memory access and hardware transport offload capabilities,
offers a single converged network for communications, clustering and storage.
...Mellanox profile,
Record Breaking
Storage
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Most Scalable Network Storage System |
SAN
JOSE, Calif. - January 26, 2004 - BlueArc Corporation today announced
the new Titan SiliconServer.
Titan allows a single file system to
grow up to 256 terabytes and delivers throughput up to 20 Gigabits per
second - providing the best performance and return on investment in the storage
industry. BlueArc's unique SiliconServer Architecture a llows customers to scale
a single Titan far beyond any other product available today, adapting to
changing application or capacity needs, simplifying management, accelerating
productivity and protecting long-term investment.
...BlueArc profile |
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Marvell
Announces World's Lowest Power Gigabit Transceiver
Sunnyvale,
California - May 17, 2004 - Marvell today announced that it has
achieved an industry milestone with the introduction of the world's lowest power
and most advanced Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) copper PHY technology.
The new Alaska GbE PHY family is also further enhanced with advanced proprietary
Mixed-Signal, DSP and power management techniques, which enables the highest
density and most compact form-factor Gigabit switches on the market today. The
new family includes single, quad and octal port products, which are optimized
for next-generation infrastructure and client applications.
The Alaska family has broken through a significant technology barrier
by achieving under 0.5 watt per port power dissipation in actual, real world,
full-duplex Gigabit operating conditions. This new level of ultra-low power
consumption provides substantial system benefits by eliminating the need for
fans and other cooling mechanisms such as heat sinks.
...Marvell profile | |
QLogic
Samples 8Gbs Fibre Channel
ALISO
VIEJO, Calif - July 8, 2007 - QLogic Corp. today revealed that it has
begun testing its complete portfolio of 8Gbs Fibre Channel switches and
host bus adapters and is readying samples for major OEMs to qualify.
8Gb Fibre Channel doubles the performance of today's 4Gb Fibre Channel products
while maintaining full backward compatibility with the large installed base of
4Gb and 2Gb solutions. ...QLogic
profile,
SAN,
Fibre-channel adapters
Freecom Wins Design Awards
Berlin - May 8, 2007 - Freecom
announced today it has received the red dot award for product design
for its USBCard and ToughDrive Pro.
The
USBCard
is a credit card format USB
storage card with integral cable. The
ToughDrive
Pro is an impact-resistant mobile 2.5"
hard disk. Axel
Lucassen, VP Marketing & Sales at Freecom Technologies, was overjoyed. "To
be awarded two major international design prizes within only a few months has
exceeded even our most optimistic expectations, and represents something
completely new for a storage manufacturer."...Freecom profile,
...red dot award,
Record Breaking
Storage
Seagate Ships Record Breaking 2.5" SAS HDDs
SCOTTS
VALLEY, Calif - January 16, 2007 - Seagate Technology today introduced
the world's fastest hard drive - the Savvio 15K - a 15K RPM 2.5" SAS
drive.
The new SAS drives are currently shipping in 36GB and
73GB capacities
...Seagate profile
Micron Samples World's First Gigabit DD3 RAM
Boise,
Idaho - September 25, 2006 - Micron Technology, Inc. today introduced
the world's first gigabit capacity DDR3 RAM.
Micron's DDR3
products will support data rates of 800 megatransfers per second to 1,600 MT/s
with clock frequencies of 400MHz to 800MHz respectively, doubling the speed
from DDR2. The DDR3 supply voltage has been reduced from 1.8V to 1.5V,
reducing power consumption by up to 30%. The device is manufactured on Micron's
78nm process technology. Evaluation samples are available with production
expected to begin early next year.
...Micron Technology
profile. RAM,
Record Breaking
Storage
QLogic Claims Fastest Fibre-channel Adapters
ALISO
VIEJO, Calif. - January 17, 2006 - QLogic Corp. today announced the
industry's highest Fibre-channel performance with its new SANblade Pro 2440 and
2460 families of enterprise 4Gb HBAs.
Based on independent
side-by-side testing, the SANblade Pro 2440 Series HBA achieved 202,000 I/Os per
second read performance and 150% faster write performance than the
enterprise-class HBA tested from the primary competitor. The high-end SANblade
Pro 2460 Series HBA achieved even higher performance with a dramatic 304,000
I/Os per second.
...QLogic profile,
Fibre-channel adapters,
Record Breaking
Storage |
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World's
Densest Flash Chip will Kill Low End HDDs
Seoul, Korea -
September 12, 2005 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it
has developed the world's highest density NAND flash.
The 16Gb
device, which holds 16.4 billion functional transistors, was achieved with the
industry's first production use of 50nm technology and by using Samsung's
proprietary 3D-transistor architecture. The new 16Gb memory device should
accelerate further expansion of the NAND flash market (expected to reach
$9.4billion this year) across portable digital applications as an alternative
to mini- hard disk drives and even HDDs for laptops. Samsung's 16Gb flash chip
will allow application designers to use memory cards with densities up to 32GBs
by combining up to 16 such devices on a single card. Samsung plans to begin
mass producing its 16Gb NAND flash in the second half of 2006.
At a press conference today - Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, president and CEO
of Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Business - compared the growing embrace
of NAND technology for data storage applications to that of the Gold Rush of
1849, which permanently transformed the value and importance of gold around the
word almost overnight.
"NAND flash will eventually replace other storage mediums,
especially those used in mobile products, creating a "Flash Rush," as
NAND continues to register an unprecedented surge in demand as the backbone of
the mobile electronics era." ...Samsung profile,
Flash Memory,
Solid State Disks,
article:- Flash Memory
vs. Hard Disk Drives - Which Will Win?,
Record Breaking
Storage |
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SimpleTech
Releases Thinnest and Fastest SATA Solid State Drive
Sea-Air-Space
Expo, Washington - March 21, 2005 - SimpleTech, Inc. today announced
an extension to its Zeus Solid State Drive product line with the introduction
of a Serial ATA version.
Zeus SSDs, available in capacities up
to 128 GBs, have sustained read/write rates of 20, 30, 40 or 60 MBytes/sec and
utilize the company's patented stacking technology to measure just 9.5 mm in
height - making Zeus SSDs the world's thinnest, fastest SATA solid state drives.
Zeus SSDs are fully ATA-compliant and conform to the same mounting
requirements as traditional hard disk drives, making Zeus SSDs drop-in
replacements for any standard IDE/ATA-compliant hard disk drive. The product's
patent-pending design combines low power consumption with the highest storage
density (GB per cubic centimeter) available in a SSD solution.
SimpleTech
Zeus SATA SSDs incorporate cutting-edge security features that comply with the
most rigorous security standards issued by the Department of Defense (DoD
5220.22-M), National Security Agency (NSA 130-2), Air Force (AFSSI 5020), Army
(AR 380-19), and Navy (Navso 5239). Zeus SSDs offer advanced security
features, including secure erase and Intelligent Destructive Purge. The security
erase has two options to sanitize the media. The first minimizes the time
required to complete the operation, and the second minimizes the power consumed
during the operation.
SimpleTech's Zeus SATA SSDs are currently
shipping. Both SATA and Ultra DMA SSDs are available in standard 2.5- and
3.5-inch form factors, as well as custom form factors, and ranging in capacity
from 2 to 128 gigabytes.
...SimpleTech profile,
Military Storage,
Solid state disks,
SATA
Editor's
comments:- SATA was named the most suitable interface for current/future SSD
applications (53% of respondants) - source -
the Solid State Disk
Survey |
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1st
Microsoft Qualified Serial Attached SCSI Adapter
MILPITAS,
Calif. - February 16, 2005 - LSI Logic is the first to qualify a
Serial Attached SCSI component for Microsoft's "Designed for
Windows Server 2003" logo.
With this certification, LSI
Logic's 4-port SAS host bus adapter will also be listed in the Windows Server
Catalog, designed to help customers easily identify products that are built for
the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family.
...LSI Logic profile,
Serial Attached SCSI |
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HP Notches
Up 100,000 Disk Arrays Sold into SANs
PALO ALTO,
Calif - November 10, 2004 - HP today announced that it is the first
vendor to ship more than 100,000 disk arrays into storage area network
environments.
HP helped pioneer the concept of open SANs in 1997
and this milestone highlights the company's continued success in driving broad
industry adoption of SANs with both enterprise-class and small and mid-size
business customers.
...HP profile,
SAN
See also:-
article:- Fibre-Channel SAN
History - the First Decade |
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Worlds'
First 4Gb/s SAN Compatible Solid State Disks
Houston, TX - July 11, 2005 - Texas
Memory Systems announced the availability of the RamSan-400 – the
industry's first solid state disk with 4-gigabit Fibre Channel interfaces.
The RamSan-400 is currently the only storage device that can sustain 3
gigabytes/second of random data transfers or 500,000 random I/Os per second.
Its exceptional performance makes it ideal for accelerating I/O-intensive
databases, online transaction processing, modeling, content streaming and high
volume data acquisition environments. Capacities for the new 3U RamSan-400
currently range upto 128GB of RAM.
"In our experience with
I/O-bound databases, RamSan technology has delivered amazing results with up to
300X performance improvements," said Donald Burleson, President of the
Burleson Consulting Group and author of several books on database tuning. "Our
experts thought it unlikely that this cutting-edge technology could be even
faster, but the engineers at Texas Memory Systems have amazed us again. We
expect this new solid state disk to be the fastest high-speed I/O device for
Oracle databases, anywhere on the planet."
The RamSan-400 is
immediately available. Existing customers can upgrade their RamSan systems to
include 4Gb/s Fibre Channel controllers. Texas Memory Systems' solid state
disks are used worldwide alongside enterprise RAID systems from EMC, Hitachi
Data Systems, IBM, Sun and others.
...Texas Memory
Systems profile, Solid
State Disks, SAN,
Storage Firsts |
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Nexsan
Claims World's Fastest SATA Storage
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. - October
12, 2004 - Nexsan Technologies announced the release of its SATAblade
storage system based on 10,000 RPM SATA drives in 1U modules.
Nexsan is offering a bundled SATAblade solution consisting of three
SATAblades with 24 high-capacity drives to deliver 9.6 terabytes in a 3U
footprint. This SATAblade configuration delivers sustained throughput speeds of
1,048 MB/sec and 125,000 IOPS, making the Nexsan product the world's fastest
Serial ATA solution.
...Nexsan profile,
Disk to disk backup,
Serial ATA (SATA),
Record Breaking
Storage |
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The
World's Largest DRAM Production Facility
Taoyuan/Taiwan - June
30, 2004 - Inotera Memories, Inc. announces the inauguration of its
300mm semiconductor production facility today.
The first DRAM
chips using 110nm trench technology are already rolling off the new production
site located at HwaYa Technology Park, Taiwan. Inotera's major production volume
of memory products will contribute to
Infineon Technologies
and Nanya Technology and
help each partner to expand its position in the DRAM market.
The
300mm semiconductor facility will be equipped in two stages aligned with the
growth and development of the world semiconductor market. The first stage has
been completed according to schedule and the ramp up of DRAM products has
already started in April 2004. By the end of calendar year 2004, more than
20,000 wafer starts per month are planned. The initial production of memory
products at Inotera is based on the 110nm process technology; the transition to
90nm is expected to start in 2005. Completion of the second stage is currently
anticipated by the end of 2005. The total capacity will then be increased to
more than 50,000 wafer starts per month, making Inotera the world's largest
DRAM production facility.
...Inotera profile,
RAM |
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EZQuest
Launches World's Smallest USB Flash Drive
YORBA LINDA, CA - May 10,
2004 - EZQuest now offers the world's smallest USB flash drive for Macs
and PCs. |
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The EZ-Disk
USB 2.0 drive is the length and thickness of two quarters. It measures
1.88-inches by .75-inch by .13-inch, and weighs just four grams. Designed for
people who want a fast way to copy, transport and transfer small files, it is
very easy to use. You plug it in, an icon pops up on your computer screen, and
you drag-and-drop the files you need at speeds up to 950KB/sec. Then, you slip
EZ-Disk into your pocket or wallet.
The drive is completely
bus-powered, is backward compatible with USB 1.1, and is compatible with both
Macs and PCs. It comes in three models/capacities: 128MB, 256MB and 512MB.
"This rugged little drive is ideal for people on the go," said Ebrahim
Zmehrir, EZQuest president. "When you want to take a few files with you,
you just plug EZ-Disk in and get them. It's faster than burning a CD, it's
inexpensive and it fits just about anywhere. I carry mine on my keychain."
EZ-Disk flash drives are compatible with Mac OS 9.0 and Mac OS 10.1 or later,
and Win 98SE, Win 2000, Win ME and Win XP. (A driver is needed only for Win 98SE
and is included.) EZ-Disk flash drives are available now and MSRPs are: $49 for
128MB; $79 for 256MB capacity; and $149 for 512MB capacity.
...EZQuest profile | |
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| The
Largest Capacity Backup Appliance |
Colorado
Springs, CO - March 9, 2004 - STORServer, Inc. announced today that it
is shipping its latest line of backup recovery solutions.
The new
K-Series models utilize the latest in tape technology from Qualstar to provide
the largest capacity backup appliances in the world.
The SAIT K5000, at 132 to 262 slots of 500 Gbytes of data per slot,
translates to a 131 Tbyte library at uncompressed capacity in the STORServer's
on-line storage pool. With compression, the pool can reach 343 Tbytes of
storage space in one 3-foot by 5-foot cabinet. Based on retention options, this
large appliance can handle from 10-62 terabytes of live customer data.
STORServer also provides disaster recovery copies of both backups and archives
in remote vault locations.
...STORServer profile | |
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