It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me, with two lots of travelling in different directions. Last week I was in Barcelona at the HP Converged Infrastructure (CI)Event and the week previously at HDS’s launch of the new VSP (Virtual Storage Platform). Both HP and HDS released their new platform at the same time [...]
Yesterday Nimbus Data Systems announced the release of their S-Class storage array. What’s different about this storage device is that it uses purely NAND memory rather than traditional spinning disk. With it’s arrival, we’re seeing another nail in the coffin of the traditional hard drive.
OK, so the S-Class isn’t going [...]
Over the last week there have been a few stories catching my eye. Here’s a brief paragraph on them.
SGI Acquires COPAN Systems
In fact to be more precise, SGI have acquired some of the assets of COPAN and left the liabilities behind for a mere $2 million in cash (press release). The [...]
Have a look at this news report from Barrons.com on their Tech Trader site. STEC shares lost a whopping 36% as quoted in the article and in fact were down almost 39% for the day. So have solid state drives lost their sparkle?
Barrons also wrote the day before on the STEC [...]
Sun recently announced that they will be putting solid state disks into all of their server and storage range of hardware. EMC already have solid state drives for DMX-4, which was announced in January this year. EMC have also stated that they think SSDs will reach a price parity [...]
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