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A New Era of Flash: Addressing Hyperscale Architectures
Just recently, we took another giant leap toward ushering in a New Era of Flash as we looked to address the growing trend of custom built hyperscale architectures. We found that many organizations are developing these demanding data center environments on their own because they’re forced to do more with less. In order to build … Continue reading
Executive Thought Leader Series: SMART + Diablo = New Era of Flash Storage
Welcome to the first post in our new thought leader series! We’re bringing SMART Storage Systems news to you, straight from the executive team behind it. To kick off the series, we sat down with the President of SMART Storage Systems, John Scaramuzzo, to gather more details around our recent partnership with Diablo Technologies – … Continue reading
Storage Switzerland Asks – “Is PCIe Dead?”; IBM and SMART Storage Systems Respond
In our recent webinar with Storage Switzerland and IBM, we had a great discussion about the future of PCIe, which may not go away anytime soon, but there are certainly other approaches to take. The webinar provided some insight into questions such as, “Why did the data center decide to go with PCIe?” and “Why … Continue reading
Endurance Is Money
If you keep up with the SMART Thinking blog, you know we love to cover endurance and the benefits of having an SSD that lasts. While reading an interesting article in CIOL entitled, “Big data storage: Five must-haves for enterprises,” my belief that endurance is the key to meeting the needs of the new enterprise … Continue reading
Movin’ On Up: Zsolt’s List of the Top SSD Companies
Zsolt Kerekes of StorageSearch.com produces a quarterly list of the top SSD companies that you absolutely have to check out if you’re in the market for SSDs. Out of approximately 400 companies in the SSD industry today, this mouse-loving editor finds and highlights the best of the best. Since we established ourselves as an independent … Continue reading
Size Matters: Introducing the Storage Industry’s First 1.8” SAS SSD
Today, we announced the industry’s first 1.8” Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD! With the new Optimus 1.8” SAS SSD, we’re enabling the little blade server that could. Until now, enterprise organizations and OEMs were limited to only leveraging the SATA interface and forced to sacrifice performance, capacity or endurance when selecting a 1.8” SSD due to confining … Continue reading
Flash is Ready for Write Traffic
Although we knew it from the start, it is nice to have someone reaffirm it! In George Crump’s latest article in InformationWeek, he delves into the topic of I/O writes, and the need for endurance. If you haven’t read it, George gives a nice overview of what storage vendors are doing today to address write … Continue reading
