Over at GigaOm, David Meyer writes that European IaaS provider CloudSigma has abandoned magnetic disks for solid-state storage. After a pilot test of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage system, CloudSigma now feels confident enough to offer a service-level agreement for performance, as well as uptime. According to CloudSigma COO Bernino Lind, the shift to SSD is a […]
Search Results for: SSDs
Slidecast: Texas Memory Systems Steps Up with 10-Year RAID SSDs
August 27, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9T_gTHHRc In this slidecast, Jamon Bowen and Erik Eyberg from Texas Memory Systems discuss their new SSD storage solutions. Using eMLC in a RAID configuration, the new RamSam-810 product has lifetime rated at 10 years of continuous writing at 600 MB/s. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * Subscribe on other podcast players
Slidecast: Texas Memory Systems Steps Up with 10-Year RAID SSDs
August 23, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9T_gTHHRc In this slidecast, Jamon Bowen and Erik Eyberg from Texas Memory Systems discuss their new SSD storage solutions. Using eMLC in a RAID configuration, the new RamSam-810 product has lifetime rated at 10 years of continuous writing at 600 MB/s. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * Subscribe on other podcast players
Intel Unveils Tiny SSDs
December 30, 2010 by
By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco • Get more from this author Intel announced on Wednesday a new line of tiny solid-state drives, the SSD 310 series, that have performance specs comparable to those of their 2.5-inch X-25 and 1.8-inch X-18 SSD brethren – and at least one manufacturer is already on board to put […]
Dealing with performance degradation in SSDs
October 2, 2009 by
Herman Mehling at EnterpriseStorageForum.com writes this week about one of the big challenges SSD faces in IO-intensive (especially write-intensive) environments: performance degradation over time. Solid state drives (SSD) are known for performance that is many times that of hard disk drives (HDDs), but what’s not so well known is that SSD performance tends to degrade […]
Intel stops shipping SSDs following discovery of data loss
August 6, 2009 by
EnterpriseStorageForum.com reported on Monday that Intel has stopped shipping its new solid state storage devices, which have been on the market for less than a month. The latest crop of flash-based SSDs have been the subject of a lot of discussion in HPC, but not too much implementation Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has halted shipments of […]
IBM drops flash SSDs onto POWER lineup
May 26, 2009 by
Late last week IBM announced it is adding flash-based SSDs to it POWER line of servers; IBM’s System x and BladeCenter servers and System Storage DS8000 line got their SSD injection some time ago. The company joins many other hardware OEMs taking this step. IBM’s release doesn’t have many details, but Timothy Prickett Morgan at […]
Today's flash-based SSDs and their potential in HPC
March 30, 2009 by
I wrote a feature last week for HPCwire on solid state drives. I had two goals: first, to provide a little background for those wondering exactly what an SSD is and just why everyone is talking about them now. My second goal was to talk a little about the potential — and problems — of […]
DDN Introduces AI Data Architecture, Addresses NAND Shortages
December 5, 2025 by
Chatsworth, CA — AI data platform provider DDN announced new capabilities across its EXA and Infinia product lines desitned to enable organizations to enhance AI performance and GPU utilization even as global NAND shortages drive SSD prices up by 75–125 percent. These advancements uniquely position DDN as the only vendor capable of maintaining AI factory […]
HPE Cray Announces Expanded Supercomputing Portfolio for AI and HPC
November 13, 2025 by
HPE today announced additions to its supercomputing portfolio feaguring higher compute density[1], three multi-partner, multi-workload compute blades, unified management software and high-performance interconnect support for converged AI and HPC workloads.
