SanDisk has had a very busy few days, flexing its muscle and letting the world know its intent to power into the consumer and client OEM SSD market in a big way. After the announcement of the Extreme SATA 3 SSD and the X100 series, they have announced today a strategic partnership with Diskeeper to exclusively license their SSD caching software …

It’s no surprise that SSD- based caching solutions are popular. Both for consumers and enterprise customers, flash based caching offers the ability to accelerate storage performance at lower price points. Needless to say, companies specializing in caching are hot commodities in the storage world. Today, SanDisk announced the purchase of FlashSoft, a provider of flash caching software for Windows, Linux, and VMWare. …

We were right there to introduce Sandisk as being the first consumer available SSD in 2007 which, I guess you could say, made us one of the first to review SSDs as well.  We have come a long way since! Here we are once again announcing Sandisks latest consumer release, the Extreme SATA 3 SSD, along with a new OEM …

There are many companies marketing solid state storage products today. The landscape is broadening, yet we continue to see consolidation. Who are the players today and who will be around in ten years? Stay tuned in upcoming days as our follow up articles shed a bit of light on today’s SSD companies, focus on the business models of some, and maybe even …

High performance solid state storage devices for enterprise and data center use are getting faster everyday it seems. Today, OCZ announced the release of their a new product, the OCZ Z-Drive R4 CloudServ PCIe SSD. While the name is impressive, the specifications are decidedly more so. To start things off, the CloudServ is availability in several configurations up to an …

Starboard Storage Systems, a company that was apparently just launched today, has announced the release of their AC72 mixed storage system. Facilitating what Starboard is calling “Application Crafted Storage”, the new unit should allow administrators to employ a “set it and forget it” attitude when it comes to managing storage. This will allow the focus to be exclusively on maintaining …

ATP Electronics, well known for their high performance memory products, has released their new Velocity SI Pro industrial grade SSD. The newly released LSI Sandforce based drives will offer up to 500MB/s read and write speeds, not to mention 60,000 4k random read IOPS. The SI Pro will utilize SLC flash and has gone through extra validation for things like shock …

EMC, well known for their various enterprise storage products, has announced the release of their VFCache SSD caching solution for servers. According to EMC, VFCache utilizes PCIe SSDs in order to accelerate I/O performance by at least 3 times while reducing latency by 60%. EMC is touting the new product as a perfect complement to their VMAX, VMAXe, VNX and …

Lite-On IT is expecting to see a huge growth in SSD sales in 2012, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. Taiwan-based Lite-On is a maker of optical disc drives that ventured in to SSD production three years ago.  They are expected to increase their SSD revenue from a little over $34 million US in 2011 to over $200 million …

Nimbus Data, well known for their enterprise storage systems, has unveiled their new E-Series storage array. The E-Class products will offer software support for iSCSI, FibreChannel, Infiniband, 1Gbe and 10 Gbe interfaces. In addition, they will be compatible with both NFS (network file system) and CIFS (common internet file system). The new product can also function as a giant RAID device, and includes RAID …