STEC may not have been quite ready to reveal their next-generation ZeusRAM solid-state disk (SSD), but they are demonstrating it anyway at EMC World in Boston this week. The ZeusRAM is a fundamentally different animal from the existing ZeusIOPS drive in one critical way: Rather than using flash memory for primary data storage, the ZeusRAM uses DRAM. This improves reliability and longevity and ought to raise the bar on performance as well.
COPAN, EMC/VMware & STEC
March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?
November 5, 2009 By 2 Comments
Have a look at this news report from Barrons.com on their Tech Trader site. STEC shares lost a whopping 36% as quoted in the article and in fact were down almost 39% for the day. So have solid state drives lost their sparkle?
Barrons also wrote the day before on the STEC earnings call. The interesting parts [...]
The Difference Between “Integration” and “Frankenstein”
February 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When is a solution integrated and when is it a Frankenstein-like mashup of tangled tech? Apparently, that line is crossed when it’s your competitor’s offering… In my time in the storage industry, I’ve seen enough franken-storage come and go to make me skeptical whenever a new “integrated” solution is announced. But a lot of this stuff works just fine, so I also know that integrated solutions aren’t always bad!