The company is offering flash memory for servers and as flash appliances and all flash memory storage arrays.
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In addition, the Solidarity array carries out compression and in-line deduplication (a common theme in the new generation of flash memory storage).
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Apple announced that it was providing a Retina Display iPad with flash memory storage capacities up to 128 GB of storage capacity.
This need, plus caching of frequently accessed content will drive the requirements for flash memory storage as an important tier in enterprise storage infrastructures.
Other companies that have been cited as possible Apple acquisition targets include Fusion-IO (FIO), another flash memory storage company, Twitter , and perhaps Wolfram Alpha .
The Solidarity array has three tiers of flash memory storage.
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The increased use of flash memory storage has lead to new storage interfaces that can take advantage of the higher data rates that NAND flash based digital storage can provide.
The increase in flash memory storage capacity fills a need in every facet of the storage industry for fast rugged lower cost storage to meet the needs of multiple markets.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, from research and development, product design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for OEM and retail channels.
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"We knew we needed to offer an outstanding SanDisk flash memory storage solution to match up to NVIDIA's impressive Tegra 4 processor, " said Drew Henry, senior vice president, OEM marketing, SanDisk.
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PCIe is becoming popular for flash memory storage devices since it offers much faster data rates than traditional SATA , SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces, which flash memory storage devices can make use of.
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SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that it is developing flash memory cards based on the new CFast2.0 specification introduced today by the CompactFlash Association (CFA).
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Some of these interfaces are based upon historical storage interfaces developed for hard disk drives (SATA and SAS) while some are being developed, more or less from the ground up, for flash memory storage devices.
Flash memory with higher endurance will increase their performance and may also allow higher flash memory storage capacities by reducing one of the draw-backs in finer lithography flash memory chips endurance declines with narrower lithography flash cells.
At the recent Storage Developers Conference (SNW) in Santa Clara, CA several companies participating in the SNIA SSSI (Solid State Storage Initiative) gave a vision of future flash memory storage interfaces, based upon the PCIe computer interface.
Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.
In addition, as useful amounts of flash memory storage are now affordable, the ruggedness of flash memory and the ability to stack chips to provide slim package designs have made NAND flash the choice non-volatile storage technology for mobile devices.
Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory and storage system technologies have provided customers with new and transformational digital experiences.
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There are a number of big improvements over the PSP, namely the OLED screen, built-in Wi-fi and 3G, front and back facing cameras, flash memory game storage, touch control on the back panel and at last, dual analog sticks.
Skyera is also offering compression and deduplication to lower the total cost to storage content on a flash memory based enterprise storage system.
FORBES: Explosive Growth in Flash Memory Enterprise Applications
This model is driving the growth of digital storage in data centers and thus the sale of hard disk drives, tape storage and flash memory used in enterprise storage tiers for these data centers.
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Such a dual storage system combines the advantages of higher speed flash memory with lower storage cost hard disk drives.
By combining HDD storage capacity with the higher performance of flash memory, a total system performance close to flash memory can be achieved with storage costs close to those of HDDs.
Flush on the heels of the Flash Memory Summit, VM World in San Francisco was the haven of a great many storage system companies, many of who demonstrated flash memory as part of their storage architecture.
Established companies such as EMC, NetApp, Oracle and HDS are adding flash memory to their storage systems.
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In addition the higher costs of flash memory versus magnetic storage will probably limit the use of these storage devices to acceleration applications for some time to come.
In a recent report by research firm IHS iSuppli, the sale of solid-state NAND flash drives are projected to increase by 400% in 2011 driven by increasing adoption of tablets which primarily use flash memory for data storage.
Flash memory is of course the main focus of the Flash Memory Summit but other storage technologies are playing a growing role in the storage ecosystem.
Also intelligent storage layering with flash memory used for high performance content delivery can result in HDD storage used more for content storage rather than high performance, and thus providing a relative cost savings.
Finally storage tiering and the combinations of storage and memory are undergoing a revolution as flash memory and perhaps other solid state storage technology such as MRAM find niches in more and more devices.
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