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when did this become such a
hot SSD company or topic?
Editor:- November 7, 2011 - at the
weekend I updated the very popular Top 20 SSD Companies
article to include key bullet points from all 17 previous editions.
So
if you're trying to track a particular company or market shift - you can see
when it happened without wading through too many articles. The new narrative is
in the right hand column. ...read the article
SolidFire launches SSD cloud appliances
Editor:-
June 21, 2011 - SolidFire
has announced details of its first product - an
iSCSI SSD appliance
designed for cloud storage
applications which the company says can scale to 1 petabyte capacity (which
takes 100 nodes with current models).
Performance within a SolidFire
system is virtualized separately from capacity, allowing cloud service providers
to prescribe and guarantee performance to every volume within the system.
a new way to kill flash SSD data
Editor:- March 15,
2011 - Pangaea
Media has recently entered the
SSD backup market with a
removable 2.5" SSD
which integrates backup,
encryption and a
completely new (to me) patented
fast purge
technology.
the future of enterprise data storage in the broadcast and online
video market
Editor:- January 23, 2011 -
the
future of data storage is the lofty sounding but aptly chosen title of a
new article published online today in Broadcast Engineering -
written by Zsolt
Kerekes editor of StorageSearch.com
(that's me).
It's a completely new article which synthesizes and
integrates concepts from several futuristic articles which have already
appeared here on the mouse site and wraps them into a cohesive whole. Anyone
who reads it will get a clear idea of where the incremental changes they read
about in storage news pages (like this one) are likely to end up by 2020.
...read
the article
STEC's MLC SSDs used in IBM RAID
Editor:- December
15, 2010 - STEC
announced that MLC versions of its
ZeusIOPS
SSDs are being used in
IBM's
Storwize V7000 (RAID
systems).
One of the advantages of flash SSDs which IBM exploits in
this system is fast data replication.
SSDs accelerating the backup
process was also mentioned in a
recent
interview with Fuion-io's CEO.
2.5" SSDs accelerate disaster recovery
Editor:-
September 24, 2010 - an update to Intel's SSD Bookmarks
- published today on StorageSearch.com
- includes links to a case study in which
RAID rebuild times for a
real-time education server were reduced from 12 hours to 40 minutes, while
response times became 25x faster. ...read the articles
Violin ships 40TB 3U "value" SSDs
Editor:-
September 20, 2010 -
Violin Memory today
announced
availability of the
Violin
3140 - a 3U MLC SSD with 40TB capacity
priced at under $16
per GB and $3 per
IOPS.
Editor's
comments:- Violin
says its
non blocking write architecture "guarantees spike-free latency under load
by making sure there aren't any reads blocked by erases which can be 10ms or
more in MLC Flash."
This architecture 1st appeared in the SLC SSD
it launched in November
2008. From my understanding of how this works (and it was explained to me at
the time) it can deliver data for a read operation immediately following a
write to the same addressable block of flash. But you may still hit a
bottleneck depending how many successive write / reads are done. The latency
will be much less than for most flash SSDs - but still considerably more than
for RAM SSDs.
Violin calls its new product a "capacity flash
array" - although this is not the same market as the "bulk storage SSDs"
described earlier by StorageSearch.com. The best way to think about Violin's
latest offering is "value SSDs". That is - products which don't have
the fastest performance - or ultimate
data integrity -
but which nevertheless provide better performance than
HDD arrays at a cost well
below faster SSDs.
The company's proprietary architecture ensures that
less flash chips are needed to build any given capacity than if you built an
SSD using a RAID array of 2.5"
SSDs (for example). But whether this is reflected in the price you'll have
to decide for yourself. See also:-
Market Trends in
the Rackmount SSD Market.
Can you believe the word "reliability" in a 2.5"
SSD brand?
Editor:- July 29, 2010 - StorageSearch.com today published
a new article -
the cultivation and
nurturing of "reliability" in a 2.5" SSD brand.
Reliability is an
important factor in many applications which use
SSDs. And belief in SSD
reliability is a precondition for the emerging SSD backup market. But can you
trust an SSD brand just because it claims to be reliable?
As we've
seen in recent years - in the rush for the
SSD market bubble -
many design teams which previously had little or no experience of SSDs were
tasked with designing such products - and the result has been successive waves
of flaky SSDs and
SSDs whose specifications
couldn't be relied on to remain stable and in many products quickly
degraded in customer sites.
As part of an education series for SSD
product marketers - this new case study describes how one company - which didn't
have the conventional background to start off with - managed to equate their
brand of SSD with reliability in the minds of designers in the embedded systems
market. ...read
the article
Nimble Storage enters the ASAP market
Editor:- July
15, 2010 - Nimble
Storage announced the release of the
Nimble CS-Series
an iSCSI compatible
SSD ASAP which has
been optimized for backup and compression performance.
The model
CS240 has 18TB of primary storage and 216TB backup. At launch pricing was
under $3/GB (usable) for primary storage and $0.25/GB for backup storage.
survey shows most users think they can't afford zero loss disaster
recovery
Editor:- June 9, 2010 - Axxana today
published
findings from a survey it funded to understand the role that
cost plays in
inhibiting user adoption of zero data loss
disaster recovery
solutions such as its own SSD based solutions.
'This survey has
really shown how today's end users still feel that eliminating data loss though
a disaster recovery strategy is still out of their budget,' said Eli Efrat,
Axxana's CEO. 'Although cost is still an important consideration, the results
support our strategy and I am confident that a year from now solutions such as
our Phoenix System will have a much bigger foothold in the market because they
make zero data loss DR an affordable option.'
SSD Backup
new article - the SSD Heresies
Editor:- June 8, 2010
- more than 10 key areas of fundamental disagreement within the SSD industry
are listed and discussed in a new expanded article published here on StorageSearch.com -
the SSD Heresies.
Why can't SSD's true believers agree about a single coherent vision for the
future of solid state storage? ...read the article
Nimbus launches remotely replicatable iSCSI SSD rackmount
Editor:-
April 26, 2010 - Nimbus
Data Systems today
launched
its S-class
storage system - a 2U 10GbE rackmount SSD with 24 hot swappable
internal 6Gbps SAS
flash SSD blades in an 80W power footprint offering 5TB protected capacity for
$39,995.
Powered by Nimbus' HALO storage OS the systems support
iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS
protocols and provide inline
deduplication
(typically 10 to 1), continuous local and remote replication capability
in-the-box at no additional cost. Data protection inside the box ensures that no
data is lost even with 2 simultaneous blade faults.
reaching for the petabyte SSD
Editor:- March 16,
2010 - previewing the final chapters in the long running
SSD vs HDD wars -
StorageSearch.com today
published an industry changing new article -
SSDs - reaching for
the Petabyte.
What will the PB SSD look like? When will it appear?
What technology problems do
SSD designers have to
solve to get there? What about the
storage architecture
that the PB SSD fits into? How much electrical power will it consume? And...
you may be curious - how much will it cost?
All these questions and
more - are discussed and answered in this article which - I anticipate -
will inspire product managers and company founders to create completely new
types of SSDs. ...read
the article
Solid State Storage Backup - new directory for a new market
Editor:-
February 16, 2010 - StorageSearch.com
launched a new directory today for -
Solid State Storage Backup.
Although
these are still early days for the S3B market - the new page will help you
filter out news, articles and messages from the S3B pioneers which otherwise
might get lost in the clamor of the
SSD market bubble.
"In
the early days of the
disk to disk backup market the old
tape vendors scoffed at
the idea that hard disks
might one day steal their market. Now most of those old tape dinosaurs are gone
and the hard disk backup market reigns supreme" said editor, Zsolt Kerekes.
"Despite that - I expect that most vendors in the
D2d / VTL market today
will not even be dreaming about the possibility that
SSDs will one day
transform their own cozy market too. But they urgently need to start having
fresh ideas about what backup and recovery are really for? The
S3B page will chronicle the
news from the nascent Solid State Storage Backup market - and help to accelerate
those changes."
ioSafe Launches Disaster Proof Backup SSD
Editor:-
January 5, 2010 - ioSafe
launched the
ioSafe Solo SSD - an ultra rugged
USB /
eSATA
external
flash SSD with
upto 256GB capacity ($1,250) designed to provide data protection against
disasters such as fire, flood, and building collapse.
ioSafe offers
a "no questions asked"
Data Recovery policy
to help customers recover from any data disaster including accidental deletion,
virus or physical disaster.
"The new ioSafe Solo SSD is the world's most rugged and versatile
desktop external hard drive. It can be used alone or in conjunction with any
offsite or online backup
strategy to add real time, zero data loss, synchronous disaster protection to
any data that sits vulnerable," said ioSafe CEO, Robb Moore.
Tape library maker discusses future backup technologies
Editor:-
December 7, 2009 - Spectra Logic
published a
blog
article - which discusses the prospects of
HDD backup versus
tape and it also talks
about
tape
backup versus SSD backup.
$9 million Funding Round for flash SSD Enabled SAN Backup
Editor:-
November 18, 2009 - Axxana
announced it has
secured $9 million Series B
investment led by Carmel Ventures.
Axxana's existing investors, Gemini
Israel Funds and the serial entrepreneur
Moshe Yanai,
also participated in the round.
The funds will be used to accelerate
the adoption of The Phoenix System - the first "Black Box" Enterprise
Data Recorder which was demonstrated at EMC
World in May 2009.
"Axxana's EDR brings a disruptive solution that is well poised
to transform the entire storage replication market and create a whole new
category within it," said Ronen Nir, Partner at Carmel Ventures. "We
are impressed with Axxana's strong founding team and their achievements so far,
including impressive endorsement by leading storage vendors worldwide."
Editor's comments:- Axxana's solution is a lossless data
recovery system which sits on the
SAN and records data into a
rugged flash
SSD-enabled, locally situated, data survival box. Although Axxana talks
about it "complementing" other types of data protection - such as
offsite / online backup
my gut feel is that if the product shows itself to be usable and
reliable in a wide
range of environments - it will set a new standard for
backup which will
supercede anything possible with rotating
disk backup systems or
tape.
The
clearest explanation is in
Axxana's datasheet
(pf).
Dedupe Makes SSD Affordable - says WhipTail's CTO
Editor:-
October 12, 2009 -
WhipTail Technologies
became the 1st SSD appliance company to market integrated in-line
deduplication.
At
SNW WhipTail
announced
it will ship its newly renamed Racerunner (6TB) NAS SSDs with
Exar's Hifn
BitWackr
deduplication and compression solution in Q4 2009. Racerunner has demonstrated
deduplication performance in excess of 1Gbps.
James Candelaria, CTO of
WhipTail Technologies said "Once again, we're proving
Tier 0 storage
doesn't have to be expensive. By providing in-line de-duplication, customers can
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