Drobo and other companies announced that they are including SSDs in their storage products as a caching tier showing that flash-based cache is moving into the SMB market.
This year, regulators have focused on the role high-frequency traders played in the May 6 "flash crash, " when some of the fast-moving firms stepped away from the market during the height of the turmoil.
All of these storage technologies are based on flash memory chips that are more expensive than Iomega's PocketZip disks--but they have no moving parts.