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May 16, 2013
| No CommentsLSI Corporation announced that it has moved into the No. 2 position in the rapidly growing enterprise PCIe flash adapter market segment, according to leading market research firms. Since the introduction of the Nytro™ product portfolio in April 2012, the company has shipped more than 40,000 Nytro flash adapters. Demand reflects the needs of hyper scale web and cloud datacenters, financial [...]
May 15, 2013
| No CommentsSkyera Inc. has announced that it has added 25-year storage veteran Andy Tomlin to its management team as Chief Architect. Tomlin will lead the design, development and execution of the future product roadmap for the company’s skyHawk series of enterprise solid-state storage systems. In addition to his service within the general storage industry, Tomlin has [...]
March 22, 2013
| 3 CommentsMemory cells are one of the most important building blocks utilized in digital electronics. The explosion in growth of mobile devices has fueled the continuing miniaturization of components. Some technologies eventually reach the point of their smallest possible functional versions being achieved. Any further attempts at size reduction run smack up against limitations that often [...]
September 19, 2012
| No CommentsVelobit, a provider of high-performance solid state drive caching software, is marking their second anniversary with two new releases that reflect an amazing two years of growth. One of the few prior drawbacks to utilization of Velobit software was lack of support for Windows-based operating systems. WINDOWS AND HYPER-V OS SUPPORT ADDED VeloBit is pleased [...]
June 26, 2012
| 1 CommentWriting fifty times a solid state drives capacity in one day is a lot. Multiply that by five years, and you have a staggering amount of data written to a drive, somewhere near 91,250x the capacity of said drive. That would be in excess of 17 Petabytes for a 200GB drive. The ability for any [...]
June 26, 2012
| 2 CommentsNew standards take time to design, ratify, and implement. As one standard proliferates, the next version is already in the works. Just as SATA II gave way to SATA III, PCIe Gen 2 devices are being replaced by PCIe Gen 3. LSI has finally lifted the veil on it’s new PCIe 3.0 family of MegaRAID [...]
June 7, 2012
| No CommentsAs a follow up to our initial Computex release detailing SanDisk’s new enterprise PCIe Solid State Accelerator, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to have a sit down with C.T. Chu, SanDisk Sr. Product Marketing Manager, for a more in depth look at SanDisk Lightning. Imagine our surprise when C.T. pulled out the Lightning for [...]
June 4, 2012
| 4 CommentsIf timing is everything, I have to hand it to Sandisk on this one. For some unknown reason, I just woke up at 2:30am just before Day One at Computex in Taipei to find that Sandisk sent out notification of their new Lightning PCI-Express Solid State Accelerator (SSA) Cards. The Lightning PCIe is available in [...]
May 23, 2012
| No CommentsLSI has put together a little something for the Cisco servers of the world. Leveraging EMC VFCache caching software and LSI’s Nytro WarpDrive PCIe solutions, LSI intends to extend PCIe SSD caching to EMC’s storage systems attached to Cisco’s Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. The goal is to reduce latency and service times in storage [...]
