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ARTICLES AND RESOURCES ON SOLID STATE

This page features news articles highlighting SNIA's Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI), as well as relevant articles on the solid state storage industry. For educational resources developed by the SSSI (white papers, tutorials, etc.), please visit our Education page.

Articles on SSSI

  • Virtualization, SRM and FCoE Are Hot at SNW - Enterprise Storage - October 16, 2009
  • SNIA SSSI Delivers Solid State Storage Enterprise Total Cost Of Ownership Analysis Tool At Storage Networking World Fall 2009 - Network Computing - October 12, 2009
  • The Need for Speed: Sorting Out SSD Strengths & Weaknesses - Storage Networking Times - October, 2009
  • Solid State Storage: Making the skies more friendly - SNS Europe - September 2009
  • Darwin’s Storage:The Evolution of Solid State Storage in the Media and Entertainment Industry - SNS Europe - September 2009
  • SAN management for virtual servers- InfoStor - August 2009
  • Boost Server & System Availability: Solid-State Drives, Defragmentation & Virtualization Can Reduce Downtime - Processor - July 31, 2009
  • SSDs start edging out spinning drives for storage -  IT-director.com - May 27, 2009
  • Solid State Storage and Virtualization - SNS Europe - May 2009
  • 10 Facts About Solid State Disks - SNS Europe - May 2009
  • Analysis: SSD performance -- is a slowdown inevitable? - Computerworld - May 2009
  • Random Cert News April, 09 - IT Knowledge Exchange - April 17, 2009
  • Cloud Computing Poses E-Discovery, Legal Risks - Enterprise Storage Forum - April 10, 2009
  • Enterprise Adoption of SSDs Remains Slow - Byte and Switch - Feb 26, 2009
  • Ten facts on SSDs (Italian) - eWeek Europe - Feb 3, 2009
  • An Introduction to Solid State Storage - Storage Networking Times - Feb 1, 2009
  • SNIA bildet technische Arbeitsgruppe für Solid State Storage (German) - All About Security - Jan 28, 2009
  • Standards für Festspeicher (German) - IT Administrator - Jan 28, 2009
  • SNIA fördert mit neuer Arbeitsgruppe SSD-Entwicklung (German) - InfoWeek Online - Jan 28, 2009
  • Cost-Cutting Storage Strategies for Small Businesses - Small Business Computing - Jan 13, 2009
  • What Are Storage Vendors Doing at CES? - Enterprise Storage Forum - Jan 9, 2009
  • SNIA launches Solid State Storage Initiative - SNS Europe - October 2008
  • SNIA to Push Enterprise Use of Solid State Storage - Computerworld - September 29, 2008
  • SNIA launches SSD initiative - InfoStor - Sep 24, 2008

Industry Articles

  • SandForce gets another $21m funding - The Register - November 11, 2009
  • Sony Selects SanDisk's pSSD Gen2 SSD for VAIO X Ultraportable - Softpedia - November 3, 2009
  • Unigen plans enterprise flash by the bucket - Channel and Register - November 2, 2009
  • Four considerations for SSD deployment - NetworkWorld - November 2, 2009
  • Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk - Arstechnica - November 1, 2009
  • Agility EX is a high-end SSD for the masses - ComputerWorld - October 28, 2009
  • Intel touts NAND-killer breakthrough - The Register - October 28, 2009
  • Dell chief stuffs data center into suitcase - The Register - October 27, 2009
  • The Future Has No Moving Parts (Or Hard Disks or Keyboards…) - Datamation - October 27, 2009
  • SSD Buyer's Guide - Storagesearch.com - October 27, 2009
  • Balancing act for servers that flash the cache - Computer World - October 26, 2009
  • SanDisk: Not All SSDs Are Reliable… But We Are Working on That - Xbit - October 22, 2009
  • IBM revs up enterprise-class disk storage arrays - InfoWorld - October 22, 2009
  • Samsung buys into Fusion-io - The Register - October 21, 2009
  • No domination for SSDs, yet - Tech Pro – October 19, 2009
  • IBM adds flash to storage virtualization - ZDNet UK - October 19, 2009
  • Micron boosts NAND flash endurance six-fold - Computer World - October 19, 2009
  • Teradata claims fastest data warehousing appliance - v3.co.uk - October 19, 2009
  • Latest migrations show SSD is ready for some datacenters - Arstechnica - October 19, 2009
  • MySpace replaces disks with flash - The Register - October 14, 2009
  • Enterprise market driving SSD sales in 2009, says iSuppli - October 14, 2009
  • MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives - Computer World - October 13, 2009
  • Solid state drives: all you need to know - Tech Radar – October 13, 2009
  • Avere bets filers are crying out for more tiers - The Register - October 5, 2009
  • Flash & HDD – Symbiosis or Survival of the Fittest? - Coughlin Associates - October 2009
  • Balancing act for servers that flash the cache - The Register - September 25, 2009
  • Hybrid PCs, will they make a difference? - Gerson Lehrman Group - September 21, 2009
  • Pliant Technology Unveils Enterprise Flash Drive Family:  Industry’s Highest Performance and Most Reliable Flash Storage Devices - SNS Europe - September 17, 2009
  • Oracle, Sun Launch High-End OLTP Server - The New York Times - September 15, 2009
  • Start - up releases uber - fast , efficient enterprise - class SSDs - Computerworld - September 14, 2009
  • Texas Memory Systems expands its technology portfolio with the acquisition of patents and source code from Incipient - SNS Europe - September 11, 2009
  • Intel's new flash tech to bring back Turbo Memory, for real - ars tecnica - September 8, 2009
  • SSDs Ready For The Enterprise - InformationWeek - September 5, 2009
  • Solid-State Drives Go Mainstream - Washington Post - September 2, 2009
  • Solid-state storage update - SearchStorage - September 2009
  • Solid-State Drives Go Mainstream - PC World - August 28, 2009
  • Making money from enterprise-class SSDs - CRN - August 24, 2009
  • The cloud could be a boon for flash storage - Computerworld - August 24, 2009
  • Analysts, execs tackle NAND, SSD issues - EE Times India - August 21, 2009
  • A Contrarian Viewpoint on SSDs - EDN - August 18, 2009
  • STEC Inc. CTO looks at the future of flash and solid-state drives - SearchStorage.com - August 17, 2009
  • SSD Performance Variability, Wearout Failure, and Help With Specifying SSDs - EDN - August 14, 2009
  • SSDs Take Over The World, Bit by Bit - EDN - August 13, 2009
  • The Quantifiable Benefits of SSDs - EDN - August 13, 2009
  • Flash prices won't support investments, SanDisk chief says -The Industry Standard - August 12, 2009
  • Product highlights from the Flash Memory Summit- InfoStor - August 2009
  • The Cloud, Brought to You by Flash Storage - PC World - August 10, 2009
  • Enterprises begin to embrace SSD - IT Pro - August 10, 2009
  • TPC-C: comparing SSD & disk - Storage Mojo - August 7, 2009
  • Solid-state rivalry sizzles: Toshiba ships 512GB SSD - CNET - August 5, 2009
  • Intel confirms data corruption bug in new SSDs, halts shipments - Computerworld - August 3, 2009
  • Digital Storage Technology Newsletter (PDF) - July 2009
  • Intel's first 34nm SSDs hit by Bios flaw - ZDnet - July 28, 2009
  • High-Speed SSD Round-up - Laptop Magazine - July 28, 2009
  • The ten best ways to use solid state disk - Search Storage - ‎Jul 21, 2009‎
  • Flash price rise to hit SSD, says report - IT Pro - July 9, 2009
  • Higher Flash-Memory Prices Hurt Solid-State Drives -ISuppli - Wall Street Journal - ‎Jul 8, 2009‎
  • Solid State Storage Can Trump Traditional Drives on Cost - Channel Insider - ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
  • Controllers become the focal point for solid-state disk - CNET News - Jul 15, 2009‎
  • Hard disk or solid-state? Think again - CNET News - ‎Jul 2, 2009‎
  • The bottom line on solid state drives - Government Computer News, June 29, 2009
  • The end of battery-backed cache? - CNET- June 26, 2009 
  • Seagate says SSD products are on their way - IT Pro - June 24, 2009
  • Samsung Electronics And Numonyx Join Forces On Phase Change Memory - Newswireytn - June 24, 2009
  • SSD penetration rate in  standard NB PC to be about  1.5% in 2009 - DRAMeXchange - June 23, 2009
  • PCs New Turn On - Forbes - June 23, 2009 
  • Reinvented Hard Drive May Be Faster Than Solid-State - Fast Company - June 22, 2009
  • Making Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Flash Practical for Enterprise Solid State Storage - CTR - ‎June 11, 2009‎ 
  • Guide: The difference between SSDs and HDDs - Tech Digest - ‎Jun 5, 2009‎
  • SSDs: the future of enterprise storage - Express Computers - ‎Jun 4, 2009‎
  • How solid state disk is used by business today - Search Storage - ‎June 3, 2009‎ 
  • 2009 Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics Report - by Thomas Coughlin and Jim Handy - May 18, 2009
  • SandForce claims new drive will speed up SSD adoption - IT Pro - April 15, 2009
  • Performance Test: SSD (Solid State Disk) Evaluation List of 1H2009 - DRAMeXchange - April 22, 2009
  • 5 Technologies in Search of a Data Center - Storage Mojo
  • Hard Disk is Dead - Long Live Solid State - Motley Fool - Oct 7, 2008
  • Businesses Weigh Benefits of Solid State Storage - Computerworld - Sept 24, 2008
  • SiliconSystems Joins SNIA and SSSI - Sacramento Business Journal - September 23, 2008
  • Intel X25-M Solid State Drive - The Tech Report - September 8, 2008
  • Will Solid State Drives Go Beyond Enterprise? - InternetNews - August 22, 2008
  • Standards Essential for Solid State Storage - Ars Technica - August 5, 2008
  • JEDEC presentation - July 23, 2008
  • BladeSystem view of SSDs - HP presentation - July 23, 2008
  • Memory in the Data Center - gear6 presentation - July 2008
  • System Level Reliability - Dell presentation - July 2008
  • Changing Gears with SSDs - Sun Microsystems presentation - 2008
  • SSDA - presentation - June 2008
  • Sun Touts 2008 as the Year of Enterprise SSD - Ars Technica - June 4, 2008
  • SSD is Still the Future - Ars Technica - May 29, 2008
  • Solid-state drives: HDD replacements? Huge disappointments? Neither. - EDN - May 1, 2008
  • Performance Boosting and Workload Isolation in Storage Area Networks with SANCache - HP Labs Research - May 2008
  • Intel Set to Take Leap in Solid State Drives - CNET - March 7, 2008
  • Increase Application Performance with SSDs - TMS presentation - Feb 2008
  • Solid State Technology - the Wave of the Future - Yale Daily News - Feb 13, 2008
  • Solid State Disk in the Enterprise - TMS presentation
  • Toward Hybrid Enterprise Storage Systems - Univ. of Virginia presentation
  • Storage Class Memory - IBM presentation - 2008
  • Challenges in High Volume SATA-PATA testing - International Microsystems presentation
  • Raising the Standard on Enterprise Persistent Memory Initiative - Fusion-io presentation - 2008
  • Achieving Energy Efficiency with SSD - StorageIO - December 10, 2007
  • Solid State Storage - Feasible Plan or Flash in the Pan - EDN - Sept 27, 2007
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