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• Article | 25/02/2010 CompactFlash 5.0 cards could reach 144 petabytes of storage

  That 64GB SDXC card is yesterday's news (figuratively and literally). The new CompactFlash 5.0 standard promises a ridiculous 144-petabyte theoretical...
• Article | 9/02/2010 SSD storage fixes data center bottlenecks for a price

  As a new decade opens, more and more data centre operators find themselves struggling with an enterprise bottleneck not of their own making.
• Article | 6/01/2010 Slots that support SDXC flash storage reaching devices

  Slots that support faster SDXC flash storage cards are reaching consumer electronics devices, which could boost the performance of devices like camcor...
• Article | 12/11/2009 OCZ set to use SandForce controllers in new SSDs

  Flash storage vendor OCZ Technology Group Inc. this week announced that it plans to use controllers from SandForce Inc. in its next generation of cons...
• Article | 15/10/2009 Flash can eliminate imbalance between server and storage performance

  The rise of flash memory in the enterprise data center will help eliminate a fundamental imbalance between the performance of servers and storage, Sun...
• Article | 15/10/2009 IBM hikes virtualized storage performance with SSDs

  IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.
• Article | 3/09/2009 Supercomputer uses flash storage drives

  The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center says could help solve science probl...
• Article | 12/08/2009 Intel, Micron team to get more data into flash drives

  What's better than 2-bits per cell? 3 bits of course. IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture between Intel and Micron, has announced that they have de...
• Article | 11/08/2009 The cloud, brought to you by flash storage

  Cloud computing and flash-based storage, two of the fastest-growing technologies in IT, may drive each other forward as Internet-based service provide...
• Article | 4/08/2009 Toshiba plans faster SD cards for early 2010

  SD memory cards capable of reading and writing data at speeds faster than current cards should be available in less than a year, Toshiba said on Tuesd...
• Article | 22/07/2009 Kingston launches 256GB USB flash drive

  Kingston today released the world's largest capacity USB memory stick: a flash drive with 256GB worth of storage.
• Article | 12/06/2009 Faster SD cards could reach devices next year

  Memory cards based on a new specification will boost storage of consumer electronics to as much as 2TB, the SD Association said Thursday.
• Article | 28/04/2009 Texas Memory Systems shows less expensive, faster flash

  Texas Memory Systems has added a less expensive, faster and smaller form-factor flash storage array to its line of solid-state products.
• Article | 27/03/2009 Solid-state flash products hit market en masse

  Solid-state drives based on flash memory are turning up in products from seemingly every hardware vendor these days, signaling that the technology may...
• Article | 12/01/2009 Memory card standard could provide up to 2TB on SD cards

  The SD Association unveiled a new SD card specification last week at the 2009 International CES that it said can support data storage capacities of up...