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SolidFire Aims Lower With All-Flash Arrays, Raises Cash

All-flash array upstart SolidFire, which was founded by a team of techies with expertise in online gaming, cloud computing, and enterprise storage, is launching smaller-scale versions of its eponymous ...Full Article

NetApp Gives A Sneak Peek At Future FlashRays

After several years of development, storage array maker NetApp is starting to ship its FlashRay family of all-flash arrays to selected customers and partners and is looking to ramp ...Full Article

Violin Bolts Dedupe, Compression Onto All-Flash Arrays

All-flash array maker Violin Memory has beefed up its all-flash arrays with much-needed inline deduplication and compression features. While both of these features have been around for years with ...Full Article

CacheBox Takes On Incumbents In Server-Side Flash Cache

A bunch of file system experts who worked on the Veritas clustered file system that was a mainstay of Unix deployments and that is now controlled by Symantec have ...Full Article

Flashtec NVRAM Does 15 Million IOPS At Sub-Microsecond Latency

Hyperscale datacenter operators and enterprise storage suppliers just got a new tool from PMC to help them build out zippier storage infrastructure. PMC, a venerable semiconductor maker founded three ...Full Article

HGST Shows Off Zippy PCM Prototype, Updates Flash Cards

HGST, the disk drive and NAND flash storage device maker that is now part of Western Digital and that is based on IBM’s former UltraStar disk business, is using ...Full Article

Toshiba Revs Up SQL Server With Flash Accelerator

Toshiba and SanDisk are partners in the manufacturing of NAND flash memory but in January, Toshiba acquired OCZ Storage Solutions, a maker of flash-based SAS and SATA drives and ...Full Article

SanDisk Rides Flash Wave, Eager For Fusion-io

Over the past several years, key acquisitions and initiatives have transformed SanDisk into an enterprise storage powerhouse with its own flash memory capacity, making it one of the key ...Full Article

Violin Fattens Up Flash Arrays, Adds Data Services

All-flash array maker Violin Memory is striking up the data orchestra with its new Concerto 7000 series, adding a suite of data management software to its arrays and extending ...Full Article

NetApp Shoots High And Low With FAS Hybrid Arrays

Network-attached storage pioneer NetApp is pushing back against the army of upstart makers of hybrid and all-flash storage arrays with upgrades to its FAS line of hybrid devices, extending ...Full Article