Samsung promoted the use of its green memory and solid state storage solutions in virtualized environments.
One market that is doing particularly well is solid state storage for the enterprise.
With the Grandis purchase Samsung is strengthening its options for next generation solid state storage.
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Other computer makers are now following suit with slim devices that forgo economical and capacious hard drives for slim solid state storage.
Flash as a form of solid state storage is much faster for reading and writing data than the spinning disks in traditional disk drives.
Apple is offering Macbook Air computers with only flash memory and there is talk of moving the Macbook Pro to only solid state storage.
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The SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative is working on workload testing and identifying what applications and use cases can most benefit from solid state storage.
Grandis makes a non-NAND flash solid state storage technology called spin-transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) that stores information via the direction of magnetization in a spin-polarized electron current.
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The announcement today that IBM is acquiring high end enterprise SSD supplier, Texas Memory makes Big Blue the latest storage company to acquire a solid state storage supplier.
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Solid state storage has become a permanent part of the storage hierarchy, improving the overall performance and reducing energy use in a growing number of storage-intensive applications and systems.
Caching and buffering using solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming wide-spread in many enterprise applications with some primary storage systems using only solid state storage vying for some applications.
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.
Control of power utilization in these data centers will drive new tiered storage approaches with solid state storage combined with HDDs and with new non-volatile memory using either flash memory or new approaches such as MRAM.
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.
There was an all day program on their plans to develop open source programming tools and general standards to make use of the high speed, low latency and other special characteristics of current and future generations of non-volatile solid state storage.
The company will relabel and sell Virident PCIe solid state storage devices and is using its investment and board seat with the company to leverage work to develop the next generation of PCIe and SOP storage solutions including hardware as well as software components.
Those interested in digital storage and the development of consumer, computer and enterprise technology will want to keep their eyes peeled for development next week and in the future as very useful solid state storage devices assumes greater importance in the overall digital storage hierarchy.
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The development of new technology solutions, channels and open standards to support operating system and other programing that takes advantage of the use of solid state storage for traditional storage as well as non-volatile memory will change the face of our technical culture for many years to come.
Intended to support both the enterprise and rugged markets, these products are expected to deliver more than 400, 000 random write transactions per second, scale up to more than 5TB of pure solid state storage capacity, ensure enterprise-class drive life endurance, and offered in SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and PCIe interfaces.
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These transactions and related strategic agreements will enable both companies to better align their current and future product development efforts and roadmaps, accelerate time-to-market for new products and position the companies to better address rapidly evolving opportunities in markets including, but not limited to, mobile computing, cloud computing and solid state storage.
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Solid-state storage and memory technologies in general use less power than hard disk drives when they are active, and thus there can be power savings if some solid-state storage and memory can be used in a mixed storage technology environment in a way that reduces the spinning time of hard disk drives and thus decreases the power needs of a storage system.
Regardless of which one you choose, eight gigs of RAM and 256GB of solid-state storage are standard.
"Solid state" storage systems, like flash memory, offer some clear advantages over the spinning-disk drives of the past.
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The move could set an important precedent and stall the solid-state storage industry.
It seems clear that solid-state storage will have a growing role in personal computer architectures, although users needing more storage may find flash memory a bit expensive.
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Configuration options include your usual array of Core i3, i5 and i7 processors (vPro optional), with up to 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of solid-state storage.
Increased adoption of low-power processors and solid-state storage devices.
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Inside, it has pretty much the exact specs you'd expect to find on any new Ultrabook: up to 256GB of solid-state storage and your choice of Core i3, i5 and i7 CPUs.
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