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Storage Strategies Now SSD Flash Reports

Below is a list of our current SSD Flash Reports

  • The SSD Flash — May 2010

    The first month of the second calendar quarter of 2010 produced so much solid state drive (SSD) news that we were stressed to cover the briefings. A year ago it was hard to find a purpose-built appliance that used SSDs in any way. Today, it’s hard to find a new appliance that doesn’t have SSD as a critical, integrated component. In this issue we include a recap of the April Storage Networking World (SNW) conference, which was heavily attended by end-users who were there to learn the latest information about SSDs and cloud storage. Indicative of the rebound in storage purchasing, most Q1 2010 financial reporting from publicly traded companies have shown dramatic year-to-year performance as well as good sequential earnings. While several companies have been punished for being conservative about futures, we are very encouraged by the overall performance during calendar Q1. Published on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | Deni Connor

  • SSD Flash – February 2010

    As predicted, the first quarter of 2010 is shaping up to be a major milestone in the solid state business. The big surprise was Intel-Micron’s 25 nanometer foundry demonstration. Readers of The SSD-FLASH know that we must use acronyms and code words for the various interfaces (Serial ATA [SATA], Serial Attached SCSI [SAS], iSCSI, Fibre Channel, PCIe, et al.) to describe and classify the many end products being developed using solid state memory technology. So we have included a brief description, along with some historic trivia and trade-offs, about each of these interfaces in this issue. In order to keep the information concise, we are just using the acronyms, so please refer to the article describing them in this and future issues. Published on Monday, February 1st, 2010 | Jim Bagley

  • SSD Flash – January 2010

    Happy New Year is more than a greeting in the solid state business. Many products that have been in the ‘promised’ stage are going to hatch during the next quarter or two. In this issue, we will discuss the most significant advancements expected in 2010 as well as take a retrospective view of the ups and downs of the SSD business during 2009. Published on Friday, January 1st, 2010 | Jim Bagley

  • SSD Flash – October 2009

    After the poorly executed and poorly attended Orlando (Spring 2009) Storage Networking World, there was great concern that the ultimate showcase for storage technology was going the way of Scan-Tech, the trade show of all things mobile, bar-coded and Wi-Fi’d. Published on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | Jim Bagley

  • SSD Flash – August 2009

    In recent briefings with solid state drive (SSD) component and appliance manufacturers, there remains a significant divide between strategies aimed at dealing with the problem, within NAND flash, generally referred to as ‘write amplification.’ NAND devices require an entire block to be erased and re-written, even if only one byte is updated. Since this is a time-consuming process, and SSD’s are built for speed, two basic strategies exist in order to deal with the problem. Published on Saturday, August 1st, 2009 | Jim Bagley

  • SSD Flash – July 2009

    When EMC became the first storage vendor to announce support for solid state drives over a year ago, the company didn’t say what software they had that would migrate business-critical data into and out of the newest Tier 0 cache. It wasn’t until April of this year, that EMC introduced its Fully Automated Storage Tiering Tool (FAST), which automatically moves data among storage tiers based on policies, predictive analysis and access patterns. The company’s only problem – FAST won’t be available until sometime in the second half of this year and full FAST implementation won’t be available until 2010. Published on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | Jim Bagley

  • SSD Flash – June 2009

    By our latest count we find 112 companies involved in the SSD supply side, including 4+ silicon fab operations, 70+ manufacturers of controllers and systems and 12+ providers of branded SSD products, with new suppliers entering the lucrative field on a frequent basis. We will be tracking the entrants and providing profile information as we engage these companies via briefings. Published on Monday, June 1st, 2009 | Jim Bagley