August 9, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—We talked to Dan Jeanette from Toshiba about their newest enterprise-class SSDs. They now have a full family of HDDs and SSDs for data center storage. The enterprise family includes 3.5″ HDDs at 7.5k, 10k, and 15k RPPM. The 2.5″ HDDs run at 10k and 15k. The…
August 9, 2011, flash memory summit, Santa Clara, CA—a small group of experts and pundits looked at the issues, trends, and forecasts for tablets. They also look at the effects that these devices will have on various types of storage. Bob O’Donnell, program vice president for clients and displays at IDC noted the diversity of…
April 4,2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, Ca—Eason Ho from Calypso Systems described the emerging SNIA performance test specifications for solid state storage devices. The emerging market is over due for some standardization as there is no common methodology, terminology, nor test environment for SSDs. Because of the lack of standards, it is difficult to…
April 4, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Dennis Martin from Demartektalk about the state of solid-state storage. In general, capacities are up and costs are dropping, and solid-state storage capabilities high enough to even encroach into the enterprise spaces. An enterprise class HDD needs to perform between 100,000 and 200,000 IOPS while less than…
Combined Company Revenues to Exceed Seagate’s Summary On Monday March 7 Western Digital (WD) announced that the company had reached an agreement to purchase Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) for $4.3 billion in cash and common stock. The deal has already been approved by both companies’ boards and is expected to close in the third…
February 25, 2011-Milpitas, CA-we recently sat down with Doreet Oren, director of product marketing at SanDisk, to talk about trends and industry drivers in the CE space. The major trends for portable computers is towards thinner, lighter, and longer battery life. At the same time, phones are moving up to have larger screens and higher…
February 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – Recently we had a chance to sit down and talk with the folks at Greenliant Systems makers of the NANDrive products. Although the company has been around for a short period of time (2010), their products are the continuation of the NAND flash technology and disk controller experience…
January 4, 2010, Storage Visions Las Vegas-a panel of analysts look at trends in storage for media. Dennis Wade from Peripheral Research moderated the panel, comprised of Matt Bryson of Avian Securities, John Rydning and Jeff Janukowicz of IDC, Jim Handy of Objective Analysis and Surgis Mushell from Gartner. Bryson suggested that hard disk drives…
January 4, 2011, Storage Visions, Las Vegas—an Intel-sponsored panel looked at new storage architectures for mobile devices. Melissa Perenson from PC World was the moderator. The panel consisted of Troy Winslow from Intel, Luke Choi from Hitachi data storage, Kevin silver from NVELO, Conrad Maxwell fro SATA-IO and Silicon Image, and Doreet Oren from SanDisk….