Server-based solid-state storage gets a foothold in the market as more vendors develop PCIe-based solid-state storage. Main reason due to faster connection provided by direct attachment to PCI bus.

LSI has launched its new product to compete with Fusion-Io.

I was watching "2012" last night. As buildings crumbled it dawned on me that all the world's information - including what I am writing now - is stored on technology that is over 20 years old. RAID! And nothing has changed much. Why?

Seagate Technology finally makes its entry into the solid-state drive market with Pulsar enterprise SSD for direct attachment to servers.

Dataram Corp. is entering the solid-state market with its XcelaSAN after three decades of selling main memory.

For decades companies depended on software encryption technology to protect data stored on hard drives. But what about when the drive is taken out of the data center for repair? Everyday 50,000 HDDs leave the data for repair or to be destroyed. Who guarantees no one looks at the data on those HDDs?

When SSDs started to appear on the enterprise array landscape there were observers who predicted the end of HDDs. Robert Chu, vice president for Asia Pacific at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies says there is a very bright future for HDDs and SSDs together.

The new product line from Pliant Technology will include models which are capable of reading up to 180,000 IOPS sustained.