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the Top 10 SSD oems in the
2nd quarter of 2010
Editor:- July 6, 2010 - StorageSearch.com today
published the 13th quarterly edition of the
Top 10 SSD OEMs -
with new commentaries and analysis.
Tracking the search volume of
millions of SSD readers - the series can simplify your process of
shortlisting potential partners and suppliers. ...read the article
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.
$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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World's Fastest RAM
SSD uses flash SSD backup
Editor:- July 22, 2008 - Texas Memory Systems
today launched
the world's fastest SSD - the RamSan-440,
The
RamSan-440 is a 4U
rackmount
fibre-channel connected
RAM SSD with upto 512GB of storage capacity. It can sustain up to 600,000
random IOPS and over 4GB/second of random read or write bandwidth, with
latency of less than 15 microseconds.
It's the first
RAM SSD to use RAIDed
flash memory
modules for data backup
(instead of
hard disk) and the
first system to incorporate Texas Memory Systems' patented IO2 (Instant-On
Input-Output) technology.
In Active Backup mode, the RamSan-440 continuously backs up data to
the internal flash array without impacting system performance. The RamSan-440
can back up or restore the entire 512GB of data in just 6 minutes.
(That's a process which could take over an hour with
HDD backed SSDs of this
capacity.)
TMS's patented IO2 technology further improves system
availability by making user or application-requested data instantly accessible
after the system is powered on.
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for a definitely new storage market................ |
S3B is a new acronym
for Solid State Storage Backup - coined by
StorageSearch.com.
It
follows the thinking behind "D2d" - which was what disk to disk
backup pioneers called their market
a decade ago -
before spawning further acronyms like VTL.
Why S3B?
In the early phases of this new market - (2010 to 2013) most of the
S3B backup will be from hard
disk based systems to SSD
based backups. But as the storage market progresses (from about
2015 onwards) we'll
start to see a significant proportion of the S3B market change its shape to
look more like - online-SSD-bulk-storage backing up to
nearline-SSD-archive-storage.
That will be SSD to SSD backup.
As it's the next big thing in backup after D2d and as there are a lot
of S's in all that solid state storage - and as backup SSDs are going to be
different in their nature to existing types of SSDs - I thought "S3B"
would be a good way to signal what this new market is really about and the
direction it will be heading.
The "B" in S3B is important
too! - These new types of SSD based backup solutions will have SSDs which
are optimized for different characteristics than the traditional 4 main
application types described in our
2005 SSD
market penetration model. (Although in the early days of the market the
backup SSDs will be cherry picked from what is available for other markets -
and will therefore be more expensive.)
StorageSearch.com has been
tracking the SSD market
longer
than any other publication or
market research
company. And I'm excited that the time now looks right (in February 2010)
to maintain the tradition of starting a new directory page for another new
subject.
Although these are still early days for the S3B market - this
news page will help you filter out the messages from the S3B pioneers which
otherwise would get drowned out in the babble of the
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