Flash memory from IBM

Who knew that at the time SSD will make quite a serious competition to conventional hard drives. Judging by the sea of ​​announcements at major international exhibitions and new players in the market, the future of solid state drives is obvious. And to manage this process, in the end, will only a few leading manufacturers. One of those who will be able to survive in a competitive environment, the company is positioning itself and IBM, fasten the other day my good intentions to the official announcement of the next strategic initiative in terms of market penetration of flash memory.

Company aimed at corporate decisions always loved research and innovation. And now in the R & D segment is going to send a solid money. In IBM believe - all came together today so that the flash memory is capable of revolutionary influence on the business. And it is mainly concerned with applications that process transactions rapidly. Due to the intersection of mobile technology, social, cloud and so-called Applications Big Data, formed an environment in which companies need for faster and more effective solutions, because of flash technology will fully satisfy those needs.

The company plans to invest in research and development company a billion dollars, to open in the world as part of its strategy for the so-called 12 Centers of excellence, where customers will see on the real capabilities of the IBM and ihpreimuschestva. In parallel, the company announced the release to market its product line FlashSystem, including a solid-state solutions using information stores. By the way, they are based mostly on technologies Texas Memory Systems, IBM absorbed not so long ago.

The new lineup, we see the presence of network storage FlashSystem 720 and 820.

 As to the first model, it is targeted to those applications that require a large number of write operations, and modules used by SLC-chips. A second option is designed based on MLC NAND-module is designed for applications with intensive operations of reading the information. Both options have a capacity of over 500,000 IOPS read operations, and their capacity - 5 GB / s.

FlashSystem 820, if necessary, you can arrange a rack with 42 odnoyunitovymi storage. This system capacity of up to 840 TB of capacity. 20 million IOPS - to such marks can be reached at a specified RAID-configuration.

Source: 3dnews