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Setting Your Sights on SSDs: Page 5 of 5

Finally

Flash technology and Flash Drives are not coming… They are here! Moreover, they're here to stay! The balance of 2008 will see many vendors follow EMC’s lead with Flash drives in the enterprise platform; however, I anticipate 2009 to be a year of some user confusion over flash. The smart vendor will educate those confused users.

The Trainer Test results: EMC dared to dip its toe in the water and, yes, they are proving flash drives can have enterprise-class resilience.

— Tom Trainer is founder and president of analyst firm Analytico. Prior to founding Analytico, Trainer was managing senior partner at Evaluator Group, and has also worked at EMC, HDS, Auspex, and Memorex-Telex during his 30-year career in IT.

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  • EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)
  • Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)
  • IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM)
  • LSI Corp. (NYSE: LSI)
  • STEC Inc.
  • Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA)
  • Texas Memory Systems Inc.
  • 3PAR Inc.