LAS VEGAS — Memory architectures, SSDs, and flash technology were well represented at this year’s Storage Visions conference, including the show’s awards that highlighted visionary companies and products.
Among the award winners was Samsung, which nabbed the Professional Storage Company award for its introduction of 3D Vertical NAND Flash Technology. Read my full article in EE Times.
TORONTO — SanDisk has officially started shipping its anticipated ULLtraDIMM Solid State Drive (SSD) with select enterprise servers, describing the ultra-low latency drive as an industry first. The ULLtraDIMM SSD leverages Diablo Technologies’ memory channel storage (MCS) architecture. SanDisk’s ULLtraDIMM can be integrated into an existing DIMM slot, and additional SSDs can also be added to available DIMM slots. Read my full article on EE Times.
I rarely find use for my accumulated USB thumb drives thanks to cloud services and ubiquitous networking, but a few companies still see potential in a form factor that’s seen declining growth in recent years. Read my full blog post on EE Times.
LAS VEGAS – Samsung has added new security features to its self-encrypting drive (SED), the 840 EVO SSD, making it compatible with professional security software employed by enterprise organizations, and positioning the company for what it expects is a market where encrypted SSDs are standard. Read my full article on EE Times.
Depending on who you talk to, DDR4 memory may be available now, this spring, or not until the end of the 2014. Companies such as Samsung and SK Hynix began manufacturing their first DDR4 chips in early 2011, prior to the release of the JEDEC DDR4 DRAM standard in September 2012, and there are offerings out on the market available to design engineers. Micron-owned memory maker Crucial, for example, initially announced plans to sell DDR4 as early as December, but now commercial availability of its new DDR4 modules is not expected until the spring. Read my full article on EE Times.
SALT LAKE CITY – Fusion-io has released a new version of its ioTurbine caching software that better integrates server-side flash with storage array networks (SANs). New features include one-click application caching, updated caching algorithms, and common management across physical and virtual servers. Read the complete article on EE Times.
Increased data center virtualization will drive enterprises to develop software-defined networking pilot projects in 2014, and network security will remain a priority as organizations grapple with the BYOD trend, experts said.
Infonetics Research’s “2013 Data Center and SDN Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey” found that respondents expect more than half of the servers in their data centers will be virtualized by 2015, and this uptake of virtual servers as well as switches will pave the way for SDN. Read my full article on Network Computing.
TORONTO – Just as its predecessors did, the LPDDR4 specification is aiming to double its data rates while slashing power consumption in half, and first publication of the spec by JEDEC will occur in 2014. And even though LPDDR3 is still working to gain traction, most mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) are still equipped with LPDDR2. Read my complete article on EE Times.
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