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SeaChange International, Inc. is the leading provider of end-to-end and best-of-breed solutions for the world’s television industry. Its powerful video-on-demand and advertising software and scalable hardware enable broadband and broadcast television operators to provide new on-demand services and to gain greater efficiencies in advertising and content delivery. SeaChange customers are increasing their revenues and reducing churn based on the value-added video services from SeaChange's Emmy Award-winning and patented technology. Headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, SeaChange has product development, support and sales offices around the world. Visit www.schange.com.

editor's notes:- in March 2008 SeaChange announced the FML200, a flash SSD based ingest and play-to-air solution.

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Are MLC SSDs Ever Safe in Enterprise Apps?

This is a follow up article to the popular SSD Myths and Legends which, in early 2007, demolished the myth that flash memory wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many RAM SSD makers) precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.

This new article, published in Feb 2008, looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed into hard disk form factors.

which technology to choose? - read the article

It starts down a familiar lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email this morning) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities. ...read the article

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