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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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Imation Acquires Nexsan; Steps Toward Full-Service Storage Provider
January 02, 2013 06:49 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Imation continues to broaden its product portfolio and strengthen its hand in SMB and SME data centers with the purchase of Nexsan.
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Flash Vendors Acquire the Cache
December 19, 2012 11:08 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Samsung’s acquisition of caching vendor NVELO hints that SDD caching may be moving from servers to desktops.
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Hot Flash: Researchers Use Heat to Counter NAND Flash Wear-n-Tear
December 10, 2012 11:40 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Engineers have announced a new technique using heat to extend flash write/erase cycles from 10,000 to 100 million or more. But while tech breakthroughs are great, prudent management may be a better solution to flash’s lack of endurance.
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