Here’s some disappointing news in the green storage world. G3 solid-state drives featuring 25-nanometer (nm) flash chips developed by Intel and Micron under a joint venture called IM Flash Technologies, won’t ship until February 2011, according to this post at Tom’s Hardware. The company originally planned to ship the more energy efficient and cheaper-to-manufacture SSDs […]
Pliant goes MLC for enterprise drives
Are cheaper solid-0state storage arrays finally here? Pliant Technologies says yes. The company is currently shipping its 2.5-inch, Serial Attached SCSI, MLC-based Lightning LB 200M (200 GB) and Lightning LB 400M (400 GB) enterprise solid-state drives (SSD) to OEMs for evaluation purposes. General availability is scheduled for October 2010. Pliant figures that energy-conscious IT shops […]
WhipTail: SSDs for effective and efficient VDI
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) makes a lot of sense on paper. Centralize management and maintenance by servers handle the brunt of the heavy lifting and let your employees interact with technologically lean, energy-efficient thin clients. In reality — and despite the claims of VDI vendors — companies have a couple of concerns, performance being chief […]
Fusio-io expands product line, signs Dell as OEM
Fusion-io has added new hardware to its PCI Express based storage card lineup, giving servers a lot more high-performance solid-state storage to make short work of all those transactions. The company’s new ioMemory Module doubles the storage capacity of their existing PCIe card lineup, up to 1.28TB and boosting sustained IOPS to 285,000. Not too […]
