The company has emerged as a leader in the emerging field of cloud, or Web-based storage.
The result is flash-based performance that rivals DRAM, with data speeds dramatically exceeding even SSD-based storage arrays.
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We did some calculations on what would happen if you redesigned a data center with memory-based storage systems.
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The top-of-the-line Sanshara drives employ synchronous NAND technology and deliver the best speed and performance available in flash-based storage.
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Many of these products are leveraging local file-based storage with object-based cloud storage.
For example, you may do initial backups to disk-based storage elsewhere in the data center, with further backups to tape.
The data is backed up on cloud-based storage and with the proper credentials can be restored to any Jolicloud device.
The service itself, in my early look today, largely resembles a simplified version of Dropbox and other cloud-based storage services.
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Session D1 will be looking at all aspects of PCIe-based storage interfaces.
SkyDrive is an Internet-based storage service, but it can also automatically save copies of all your files on every computer you use.
While DNA-based storage remains a long way from being commercially viable high cost is one major hurdle the scientific barriers are starting to fall.
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The company touted its offerings of cloud-based storage and financial computing services.
As enterprises adopt Flash-based storage arrays, they will have to upgrade their core networking infrastructure to 40 Gbps and servers to 10 Gbps.
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The company, best know for providing online communications services like eFax, last week disclosed a hostile bid for cloud-based storage provider Carbonite.
Session E1, right after the PCIe-based storage interface session will look at the changes expected in software using storage devices with these interfaces.
Consumers will also have access to 5GB of free cloud-based storage for images and videos, accessible through compatible Samsung Smart TVs, PCs and mobile devices.
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With the rise of more flash based storage interfaces there is a need to develop programing capabilities using the unique characteristics of flash storage systems.
"Knowing who is tweeting about their computer crashing is like a goldmine of insight for a rep selling cloud-based storage, " says InsideView CEO Umberto Milletti.
It would take only one shelf of a flash-based storage system.
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Seagate is still under continued pressure from solid state drive manufacturers in the enterprise, where Flash-based storage is cost prohibitive but faster and more chic.
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About six years ago, Fusion-io realized that the traditional disk-based storage approach would not work for the next generation applications, like social networking and the cloud.
Texas Memory (a private company) has provided high end Tier 0 DRAM and more recently Tier 0 and Tier 1 NAND flash-based storage systems since 1978.
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This will also drive the need for faster storage interfaces such as PCIe-based storage and many other storage interfaces that are being built on the PCIe bus.
Next year, the company plans to launch a cloud-based storage service to add personal content to your music collection, including tracks not in the Xbox Music catalog.
Symform claims to be safer than traditional data center-based storage.
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The Desktop SSHD will perform up to 4 times faster than other desktop HDD-based storage alternatives, as measured by PC Mark Vantage benchmark software, regardless of the CPU inside.
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Incremental quantitative advances in bandwidth, video frames per second, cloud based storage and processing and other technologies have reached a tipping point, with qualitatively new opportunities for learning now emerging.
So the company focused on low-cost, silicon-based storage systems.
People may go about selecting a consultant, a cloud based storage system or a box of cereal in a different set of steps, but people buy emotionally and justify their decisions intellectually.
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