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RSS ssdEvaluating the SSD Total Cost of Ownership
White Paper This paper explores the benefits of Solid State Drives (SSDs) and how they impact the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) within the mobile PC environment. The technology factors that make SSDs a viable and beneficial option are discussed in... [30 Oct 2009]
Migrating Enterprise Storage to SSDs: Analysis of Tradeoffs
White Paper It analyzes the factors that drive the configuration choice, and computes the price points at which different SSD-based solutions will become cost-effective. Off late, flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have become... [16 Sep 2009]
Dell Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives: Storage Solutions for Select PowerEdge Servers
White Paper Dell recently introduced the industry's fastest Enterprise class storage medium, Solid State Disk Drives (SSDs) in select Power Edge servers. Solid State, the use of NAND Flash as a storage medium versus traditional rotating disks, is... [15 Aug 2009]
Best Practices for Deploying SSDs in an Oracle OLTP Environment Using Dell EqualLogic Storage
White Paper This white paper demonstrates the benefit of SSD arrays with real-world applications; Dell Labs tested the capabilities of SSDs using an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload. The database was implemented in a... [15 Aug 2009]
Improving the Mobile Experience With Solid-State Drives
White Paper Intel IT is evaluating Solid-State Drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. Based on these results and its expectation of improved reliability, it also sees... [05 Aug 2009]
Improving the User Experience and Reducing Customer Care Costs Via Mobile Device Management
White Paper Synapse ported its Active Device Management System (ADMS) application to an Intel architecture-based 64-bit Server platform using Intel High Performance SATA Solid-State Drives (SSD) and running the Sun Solaris operating... [05 Aug 2009]
Sun sets OpenSolaris' enterprise makeover
News In addition, Sun's ZFS file system now has native solid-state drive (SSD) management technology, meant to allow system administrators to fine-tune SSD performance. Sun is set to launch the latest version... [02 Jun 2009]
Datacenter SSDs: Solid Footing for Growth
White Paper The forecast for SSD integration into datacenters is delineated. Finally, challenges that SSD OEMs must address before successfully engaging the datacenter are revealed. This paper explores the... [02 Mar 2009]
Acer: New netbook will have Linux flavour
News The original Aspire One, which had an 8.9-inch screen, comes with a choice of XP or a Linux distribution called Linpus, and the option of a solid-state drive (SSD) or an HDD. On Wednesday, an Acer spokesperson told... [30 Jan 2009]
Gadget Watch: Samsung X360
Photo Lightweight design; excellent battery life; 128GB SSD The X360's lethargic processor and graphics won't appeal to all and we're not huge fans of the keyboard but the laptop benefits from excellent battery life, a 128GB... [23 Jan 2009]
Hitachi and Intel SSD love-in
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Intel are teaming up to develop solid-state drives for servers, workstations and storage systems. The partnership will combine the expertise of Hitachi in enterprise disk drives with Intel's... [02 Dec 2008]
Seagate: We won't do flash, it doesn't pay
News The world's largest hard drive maker Seagate is planning to bring out an enterprise solid state drive (SSD) to market for the first time by mid-2009 - but it has no plans to get into the mobile flash memory business,... [05 Nov 2008]
A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications
White Paper The objective of this work is to understand the applicability and potential impact that flash memory SSD (Solid State Drive) has for certain type of storage spaces of a database server where sequential writes and random... [22 Oct 2008]
Battery tech can't keep up the portable pace
News IDC's Ma Added: "If we assume that battery technology does move a bit more slowly, the other side of that is you can try to optimise what existing battery technology you have today…whether that means using a SSD... [15 Sep 2008]
HP laptop claims 24 hour battery life
News HP said the Illumi-Lite LED display, by itself, boosts battery run-time by up to four hours compared with traditional LCD displays, and the Intel SSD provides up to a seven percent increase in battery life compared with... [11 Sep 2008]
