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Interest in solid-state storage gains traction
Storage vendors are committed to solid-state drives, although they remain split on how to best deliver SSDs to address cost and reliability issues. Article
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Podcast: Solid-state drives entering enterprise storage environments
What should a storage administrator be doing today in terms of planning for solid-state drives entering the storage environment? Jeff Janukowicz, research manager at IDC for solid-state drives and hard drive components, discusses the impact SSDs are ... Podcast
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Storage vendors debate where SSDs go in storage infrastructure
Tier 1 storage will eventually consist of solid-state disk (SSD) technology. But there's not much solid-state disk in today's enterprise storage infrastructure. Special Report
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Product Roundup: Solid-state drives in enterprise arrays and servers
Most storage vendors have announced support for solid-state drives, but only EMC is shipping, and every vendor has a different approach. No wonder storage administrators are confused. Special Report
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Intel to ship enterprise SSD with increased reliability by year-end
Intel claims its SSD for the enterprise offers higher reliabiilty, more I/O channels, and better write endurance than other enterprise-class SSDs. Article
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Fusion-io brings RAID to solid-state storage
Fusion-io brings RAID to SSDs; Western Digital ships backplane-compatible VelociRaptor; Intel shrinks PATA SSD; Fantom GreenDrives cuts back on power Article
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EMC brings thin provisioning, MAID and SSD to Clariion CX4
Along with support for solid-state disk, EMC's next-gen Clariion includes thin provisioning and MAID, and a new architecture for mixing Fibre Channel and iSCSI. Article
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Enterprise systems may need redesign to benefit from solid state drives
Lab tests lead IDC to conclude that enterprise systems will need to be redesigned to get the full benefit from flash. Systems will need the intelligence to recognize when they're dealing with SSDs, which write slower than they read, and feed them dat... Article
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Exploring the solid-state storage advantage
Solid-state storage sips power, stays cool and runs rings around traditional magnetic media. Also in this issue, read about blade server storage on the cutting edge, and how medical records can cause storage headaches. E-Zine
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Storage administrators wary of SSD deployment
Don't expect hard drives to disappear from enterprise storage just yet. Users say they will take a wait-and-see approach before implementing any new storage medium, and vendors are split whether to put the SSDs in servers or disk arrays. Article