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Intel is announcing the DC P4501 data center SSD, a power-efficient and high-performance SSD for cloud storage.  The P4501 Series, featuring 2nd generation Intel 3D NAND technology, combines a new controller (Intel-developed), unique firmware and the density of 3D NAND to create an efficient, low power, high-performance small form factor design. The P4501 Series are optimized to meet the needs …

Intel is announcing its latest enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs) for data centers and cloud computing. The DC P4500 and DC P4600 Series pair a newly-developed Intel controller and unique firmware with Intel 3D NAND to create an all-PCIe solution that provides highly efficient storage and caching.  This allows data centers to do more per server, minimize service disruptions and manage …

SK Hynix is announcing development of the industry’s first 72-layer 3D TLC NAND in 256Gb density.  Each 256Gb NAND flash chip represents 32GB of storage.  SK Hynix launched their 36-layer (128Gb) NAND chips in April of 2016, followed by mass production of 48-layer (256Gb) 3D NAND chips beginning in November of 2016.  A mere 5 months later, SK Hynix is …

Nimbus Data is announcing their revolutionary new all-flash platform for cloud and big data, virtualization and massive digital content.  The ExaFlash™ is the result of nearly three years of top-secret development, and has infinite scalability, record-setting efficiency and at a breakthrough cost point. The ExaFlash Platform is a historic development that will reshape the data center and storage industries.  Offering …

We are back in Las Vegas this week for CES 2016, which for us starts the day before with Storage Visions 2016.  CES, as the name implies, is the Consumer Electronics Show, while Storage Visions focuses on the Enterprise (non-consumer) side of  the storage industry.  Storage Visions’ main focus is on various forms of collaboration on storage initiatives and emerging technologies, …

Western Digital Corporation and SanDisk Corporation have announced that they have reached a definitive agreement that will see Western Digital acquire all of SanDisk’s outstanding shares for a combination of stock and cash. This offer places a value of $86.50 on each share of SanDisk common stock, resulting in a total equity valuation of approximately $19 billion (based on a …

Lite-On Technology Corp., a world-leading producer of enterprise Solid-State Drives (SSDs), is announcing its low-latency EP1 series for I/O intensive workloads.  The EP1 series was recently chosen by one of the largest cloud service providers for use in their storage deployments.  Lite-On’s in-house firmware development allows it to maximize the EP1’s performance for read-intensive and mixed-usage scenarios, and deliver SSDs with …

PMC, a leading semiconductor and software solutions innovator, is announcing a new ultra-fast storage class memory tier that accelerates critical applications in all-flash arrays and scale-out storage used in data centers and enterprise deployments.  PMC’s new Flashtec(TM) NVRAM drives are able to combine the endurance and speed of DRAM with the persistency of NAND flash memory to deliver performance that …