Will SSD be the hottest storage topic in 2009?
November 17th, 2008
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Solid state disk (SSD) technology started showing up on the enterprise storage radar earlier this year and the topic has really gained momentum in the last few weeks. This is a very interesting topic that I have been keeping my eye on. One of the key debates to monitor is the “Is it disk or is it cache?” question.
EMC, IBM, and HDS announced support for SSD as primary storage earlier in the year. Most of the other major vendors have made some type of announcement at this point as well.
http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/us/2008/011408-1.htm
http://www.hds.com/corporate/press-analyst-center/press-releases/2008/gl080519.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24996.wss
And in the last couple weeks…
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