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Solid State Technology from the desktop to the data center

The topic of solid state technology has been oft covered here and by others in the storage industry.  I'd like to point out a few things from the last few days for your consideration and reading pleasure:

Jieming Zhu works for the HP StorageWorks office of the CTO.  He was at Storage Networking World last week and talked to several press people.  There are a number of articles that have appeared.  Several of these articles got the point that we've been making for a while: solid state technology is not just a disk array technology.  This is in stark contrast to a storage only vendor that is hyping the technology early in the life cycle to get some perceived advantage.  Customers know better.  Here are a few of the articles:

I saw a fair treatment of solid state technology by Stephen Foskett, an independent storage consultant who is a frequent blogger.  His post is titled "Is Flash a Disk or Cache?".   The URL for his blog is http://blog.fosketts.net/

Ray Lucchesi is the president of Silverton Consulting and has given me permission to point to a paper he's written about solid state technology.  It also appeared in InfoStor magazine. The paper is titled "SSD flash drives enter the enterprise".  Thanks Ray!

Opinions welcome!

Posted 10-23-2008 10:22 PM by CalvinZ
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Jieming Zhu wrote re: Solid State Technology from the desktop to the data center
on 10-24-2008 5:43 PM

It's exciting to see the high level of energy around enterprise Solid State Storage adoption at SNW. End users were clear interested. Solid State related tracks were pacted. Beyond better understanding the use cases and configurations, they continue to worry about the cost and the reliability.

I am also encouraged by the concerted efforts of the whole industry. Every player in this space recognized the opportunity and the need to work togather to address the market needs and customer concerns. The fast track of Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI www.snia.org/sssi) in SNIA is the indicator. Also at SNIA's meeting in Dallas, the Technical Working Group of SSSI was approved unanimously. This working group promises to address many of the system level reliability, performance and management issues for Solid State Storage. Couldn't be more timely!

CalvinZ wrote re: Solid State Technology from the desktop to the data center
on 10-29-2008 4:55 AM

Jim Handy from Objective Analysis posted a comment on a previous post on the solid state topic.  Basically he said that research he's done validates our views on solid state.  You can see his comment on this entry: www.communities.hp.com/.../enterprise-solid-state-technology-today-hype-or-reality-part-1.aspx

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