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Vendors take different approaches to automated tiered storage software for solid-state drives
Compellent says real-time automated tiered storage is stymied by disk drive transfer rates, but EMC and Avere say their software can overcome that limitation. Article
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Seagate's Pulsar enters solid-state drive market for servers
Seagate Technology, the world's largest hard drive manufacturer, releases its Pulsar enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) product for servers, and claims SSDs for external storage will follow. Article
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Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation V5.1 has solid-state drive auto-discovery, thin volume reclaim
Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation V5.1 includes solid-state drive auto-discovery, thin provisioning auto-reclamation, Hyper-V integration and accelerated application recovery with Veritas Cluster File System. Article
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How to add solid-state storage to your enterprise data storage systems
Learn four ways to complement your enterprise storage systems with solid-state storage, including adding solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of disk drives, two ways to effectively use NAND flash and the benefits of using standalone SSD arrays. Tip
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IBM chief engineer Barrera talks EMC-Cisco, XIV and solid-state drives
Clod Barrera, chief technical strategist for IBM storage, discusses IBM's plans for a pre-integrated virtual stack, the future of the high-end disk array product line, and Flash. Article
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Panasas delivers clustered NAS with SSD
Panasas ships NAS with solid state and cache for performance; Emulex and IBM hook up for encryption; Dot Hill delivers disk backup; and Mimosa Systems adds SharePoint support. Article
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IBM adds STEC SSDs to its SAN Volume Controller (SVC) storage virtualization device
IBM's SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization device adds support for solid-state drives (SSDs), 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and three times the cache available in previous models. Article
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LSI adds solid-state drive, iSCSI support to denser Engenio 7900 disk array
The latest generation of the Engenio 7900 sold by OEM partners IBM and Sun packs the same capacity into half the size, with new support for STEC SSDs and iSCSI host connections. Article
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Dataram enters solid-state storage market with XcelaSAN
Memory controller vendor Dataram wades into the current Flash-as-cache vs. Flash-as-disk debate with its new XcelaSAN storage acceleration device. Article
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Low-cost MLC NAND flash gains in enterprise solid-state storage
New specialty NAND flash devices from Fusion-io and enterprise MLC from STEC are seen as solid-state storage alternatives to higher cost SLC, but wide performance gulf remains. Article