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SSD/Hard Disk Hybrids Bridge Storage Divide
January 30, 2013 08:03 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
Solid-state is creeping into every nook of the storage ecosystem. The next frontier could be the rebirth of hybrids. Case in point is a startup that combines SSDs and traditional disks to maximize both performance and capacity.
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Seagate Flashes $40 Million for Virident PCIe Cards
January 29, 2013 09:53 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Seagate announced a $40 million investment in Virident, which makes flash-based PCIe cards for servers. The move underlines the broad expansion of flash storage into multiple sectors of the enterprise market.
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Intel, Fusion-io Embrace Open Compute
January 24, 2013 05:05 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Intel announced innovations in optical interconnects at the Open Compute summit, while Fusion-io embraced Open Compute’s spirit by providing the design of its new ioScale flash card to the open source community.
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Violin's $200 Million Acquisition? Don't Buy It
January 22, 2013 11:22 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Violin Memory has acquired GridIron Systems, a maker of SAN cache appliances. Speculators put the acquisition at $200 to $300 million, but the numbers don’t add up.
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Storage Head-Scratchers
January 18, 2013 10:43 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Not every idea that comes out of the storage industry is a good one. Here are three developments in storage encryption, patents and holographic storage that have got me scratching my head.
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Can Hybrid Drives Win the Notebook Market?
January 14, 2013 11:38 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Solid-state hard drives (SSHDs) offer the speed of all-flash drives and the capacity of traditional disk. But increased capacity and falling costs of SSDs may negate those advantages in the notebook market.
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