Texas Memory Systems nonetheless believes that it's adequately positioned to capitalize on the growth in the industry and provide real alternatives to HDD and other solid state disks.
According to the company, it believes that its own brand of RAM-based technology is pushing the SSD envelope thanks to its ability to work well with higher-level applications such as online transaction processing, data warehousing, and batch processing. Texas Memory Systems's SSDs are already being used in online-gaming industries, finance, the military and government sectors, according to the vendor.
That said, EMC is also fleshing out its own Flash-based SSD strategy, attempting to make its Symmetrix solution a "tier-one" offering that would work in conjunction with HDDs. Shrewdly, this positions as SSD as an increasingly viable option for companies that are looking to save money, but also increase performance.
Regardless, the future looks bright for SSDs.
"IT managers are seeking faster application performance as they store and interact with larger pools of data within their data centers," said Jeff Janukowicz, research manager for solid state drives at IDC, in a statement earlier this week.
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