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Solid-state Drive Adoption Will Continue to Grow and It Will Be More Than 10 Years
Aug 28, 2013Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced by a new memory technology, experts said. SSDs are getting more attractive as NAND flash gets faster and cheaper, as it ...
Tags: Solid-state drive, Memory
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NetApp Is Selling Software That Uses NAND Flash in Its Arrays to Increase The Performance
Aug 22, 2013NetApp is now selling software that uses NAND flash in its arrays to increase the performance of servers,the company has announced.It also unveiled a deal with Fusion-io to use that company's PCIe flash cards for arrays running its ONTAP ...
Tags: software, NetApp, operating system, Flash Accel
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Apple Has Done The Most Obvious Thing to Increase The Battery Life
Jun 27, 2013TWELVE hours, 15 minutes. That's the video playback time the new MacBook Air delivered in our tests - conducted at 75 per cent screen brightness on a 13-inch model. Last week, we pitted the 2013 MacBook Air against its predecessor, the ...
Tags: Apple, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics, MacBook
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Fusion-Io President David Flynn Has Resigned and Will Be Replaced by Shane Robison
May 10, 2013Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard. Flynn resigned effective immediately "to pursue entrepreneurial investing activities," according to a news ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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IBM Invests $1b in Research and Development to Design and Integrate Flash-Based Products
Apr 16, 2013Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last fall, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
Tags: IBM, Computer Products
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IBM Plans to Make a $1 Billion Investment in Flash Development
Apr 14, 2013Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last autumn, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
Tags: IBM, Flash-Based R&D
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QLogic's Technology for Clustered Cache Storage on SAN Adapters Will Hit The Market
Mar 21, 2013QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards. The company announced the technology last year and called it Mt. Rainier. ...
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Hardware Manufacturers to Continue Drafting Open Standards for Data Centres and Servers
Jan 22, 2013Hardware manufacturers met in Silicon Valley last week to continue drafting new open standards for data centres and servers with components that can be put together like Lego. The Facebook-sponsored Open Compute Project summit in Santa ...
Tags: data centre, data service, hardware
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NADA Flash Boards Are Becoming a Building Block of Modern Data Centres
Jan 22, 2013UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres. ...
Tags: Fusion-io, flash boards, company news
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Facebook Has Proposed a New Model for Designing Servers
Jan 21, 2013Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
Tags: Facebook, Buying Servers, upgrade system
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It's Been Making for Its Biggest Customers and Turned Them Into Products
Jan 16, 2013Fusion-io has taken the flash storage cards it's been making for its biggest customers and turned them into products that almost any company can buy. The new product, called Fusion ioScale, is based on the same design that Fusion-io makes ...
Tags: Flash Cards, Computer Products, software
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ST-Ericsson Unveiled Mobile Device Chipset to Add 5 Hours to Battery Life of Smartphone
Jan 10, 2013Semi-conductors supplier ST-Ericsson last night unveiled a mobile device chipset that it says will add five hours to the battery life of smartphones once adopted by industry. The Swiss based company, which supplies chipsets and ...
Tags: ST Ericsson, mobile device chipset, smartphone, battery life
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Hewlett-Packard Is Extending Its 3PAR Enterprise Storage Offerings
Dec 28, 2012Hewlett-Packard is extending its 3PAR enterprise storage offerings with an all-SSD version of the P10000 array. The all-SSD (solid-state disk) version, announced on Monday and available immediately starting at US$350,000, is designed to ...
Tags: HP, 3PAR enterprise storage, SSD version, P10000 array
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EMC Plans to Sell Flash Storage for Use Across Data Centers
Dec 25, 2012EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together. The company is using technology it gained through its acquisition of XtremIO earlier this year to build an ...
Tags: EMC, flash storage, data centers, software
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Fusion-io Today Unveiled Software Than Can Combine NAND Flash Storage Capacity
Dec 24, 2012PCIe flash module maker Fusion-io today unveiled software than can combine NAND flash storage capacity in industry-standard servers into a single pool of high-performance network storage. The company's new Fusion ION acceleration software ...
Tags: PCIe flash module, software, flash storage capacity, servers