Newcomer Nimbus Launches Big-Scale NAND Flash Storage System
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The E-Class system can support up to 500TB of capacity in one logical pool while consuming as little as 5 watts of electricity per terabyte.
Nimbus Data Systems, which makes storage systems that ostensibly are intelligent enough to think for themselves, Jan. 31 launched what it described as the industry's first fully redundant, multiprotocol solid-state storage array. The new E-Class Flash Memory System, loaded exclusively with enterprise-grade NAND flash, features complete redundancy and no single point of failure, Nimbus founder and CEO Tom Isakovich told eWEEK."This is the most scalable and highest-density solid-state storage system yet engineered," Isakovich said. "It has more than three times the density of standard 15K RPM disk arrays."
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