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Fusion-io Buys Hybrid Startup NexGen

April 25, 2013 02:17 PM
Fusion-io, a maker of PCIe flash cards, announced it was acquiring hybrid storage array startup NexGen, which sells a flash-optimized system. Fusion-io will sell NexGen’s software directly to integrators.

IBM Makes Economic Case for All-Flash Arrays

April 22, 2013 11:53 AM
IBM claims all-flash arrays are now more economical than traditional hard disks for Tier-1 storage. Is it time to ditch spinning disks?

In IT, Everything Old Is New Again

March 27, 2013 03:42 PM
Software-defined storage? Old news. Non-volatile memory? Same deal. Rogue business units that get around IT with a credit card and outside resources? I was doing it long before SaaS showed up.

Storage Vendors, Flash Manufacturers, Buy Into Startups

March 15, 2013 02:18 PM
Storage startups are getting interest—and money—from storage vendors and flash manufacturers. But investment doesn’t always mean the promise of viability.

Don't Trade High Availability for Flash Performance

March 05, 2013 01:58 PM
The rise of SSDs has also resurrected the single-controller architecture--along with its single point of failure. IT shouldn't gamble on high availability just for flash's amped-up performance.

Seagate Flashes $40 Million for Virident PCIe Cards

January 29, 2013 09:53 AM
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.

Can Hybrid Drives Win the Notebook Market?

January 14, 2013 11:38 AM
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.

EMC's Storage Strategy

December 27, 2012 01:06 PM
The rise of non-structured data and the demand for flash-based storage have rattled the storage market. I’ll look at how EMC has responded to these trends.

SSDs In the Data Center: SLC Out, MLC In

December 03, 2012 01:00 PM
A new generation of flash controllers means less-expensive MLC-based SSD drives are coming to the data center market.

NetApp Quietly Absorbs CacheIQ

November 20, 2012 05:42 PM
NetApp has acquired flash-memory caching startup CacheIQ and says it will discontinue CacheIQ's product line, but it isn't saying much about why.

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