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28 November 2007 |
| Micron Technology plunged headfirst into the nascent solid state drive marketplace Wednesday with the unveiling of its RealSSD family of storage devices.The RealSSD portfolio features serial ATA II-enabled 1.8-in. and 2.5-in. solid state drives in 32GB and 64GB capacities. Early next year, the company will start mass producing the drives, which are currently being "sampled," said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Boise, Idaho-based Micron.Micron's RealSSD drives, noted Klein, require less than 2 watts of power during active mode and are about 50 percent lighter than hard disk drives of similar capacities. The devices do not require a SATA bridge chip but rather rely on a single-chip controller (optimized for four-channel control of NAND flash) directly targeting the solid state drive application, he added.The new RealSSD line also includes the Embedded USB and Module products. The RealSSD Embedded USB can be plugged into a PC or blade server system to provide operating system storage and boot capabilities via a USB 2.0 interface. The RealSSD Module is a SATA-enabled solid state drive for server-based applications that measures 25mm high by 133.5mm long and less than 4mm thick.Klein acknowledged that adoption of solid state drives for corporate users has been very slow, mostly because of the technology's high price tag. However, he predicted that declining prices of NAND flash technology and the inevitable development of applications for solid state systems will accelerate demand."Technology is going to make [solid state] real. The cost of the NAND components will be a large determining factor in terms of acceptance," said Klein. "Even if we could bring speed of light performance to these devices, there's a lot of applications that still won't take them because the cost is too high or the density isn't high enough."Of the many first-generation solid state drive devices currently available, Klein remarked, "benchmarks have proven them to be fairly lame in terms of performance." Going a step further, he panned BitMicro Networks' 1.6TB solid state drive unveiled this month as a "pricey piece of art." Samsung Electronics and SanDisk are considered two established leaders currently providing solid state drive offerings, analysts noted.Although initially focused on providing solid state drives for the notebook audience -- a natural fit, said Klein, because solid state is lightweight, and offers power savings and a small size -- Micron does have interest in examining larger-capacity solid state products for the desktop and enterprise industry.Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst at IDC, said his IT research firm has forecast that demand for solid state technology will "substantially" increase over the next few years. An IDC report released in July predicted that sales of solid state drives will grow from $373 million in 2006 to a total of $5.4 billion in 2011.While notebook computing will fuel solid state adoption, Janukowicz said he expects the need for improved performance and specialized applications in servers, blade servers, and enterprise storage systems to attract growing solid state interest over time.Janukowicz said Micron's decision to debut an entire family of solid state products with RealSSD and its established NAND and flash memory expertise could prove to be a key differentiator with OEMs. But much work still needs to be done, he noted."Micron needs to work well with PC OEMs that deliver solutions acceptable for the PC market," he said. "The challenge there is [a traditional] usage model of using hard disks in notebook PCs. There is a bit of education process in terms of using solid state disks as primary storage in network computing that needs to take place."Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate |
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| Ball Corporation Case Study |
28 November 2007 |
| (Source: Sterling Commerce) Learn how Ball Corporation streamlined their supply chain processes while integrating several acquisitions, replaced legacy EDI platforms, and extended B2B solutions and strategies to their trading community. |
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| Niche SEO : Image & Video, Local Search & Social Media Optimization |
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| There’s more than one way to get organic search traffic. That’s the message that you should be hearing from your search engine (SEO) optimizer these days. With the advent of Universal Search, the traditional organic search result is getting pushed further and further down the page and this effect will only get more [...] |
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| SEO Campaign Management - How To Find The Right Company To Handle Your SEO Needs |
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| If you want to hire an SEO campaign management company for your website, be very careful about who you go with. Very simply, the wrong company can harm your website not only for the short term, but possibly permanently. |
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| The Skinny On Good SEO |
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| One of the many things that people find out when they begin to explore the Internet with the intention of generating some income is that websites have to be promoted. Simply launching a website and then sitting back waiting for it to become successful is not the way to go, because its like standing on the side of a road with everyone whizzing right by you. The Internet is a highly competitive place to do business and if you don't have a good grasp of the fundamentals of SEO then everyone who does is going to be whizzing right by you. |
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| Some Brief Information On SEO |
28 November 2007 |
| More and more people are now having websites designed and launched on the Internet but not everyone is aware of how to properly promote their website, which is very important to know. SEO stands for "search engine optimization" and what is refers to is the positioning of a website when it appears in search engine results. The best place to have your website listed is at the top of the first page that appears when a keyword or key phrase is typed into a search engine, because this is where people are most likely to start when they begin to brows through websites. |
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| Search Engine Optimization Guide for Webmasters (Senior HS Paper) |
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| The common webmaster is oblivious to the power behind SEO, which grants an unnecessary advantage to competition. Through the web guide produced for this exhibition, SEO can be independently achieved by these common webmasters with little need for prominent developer skills. Note: This is a senior high school "masters of technology" paper. |
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| Find Affordable SEO |
28 November 2007 |
| SEO forms a very important part of the success of a website. After all you want as much visitors as possible to your site in order to increase your sales. Like the law of supply and demand, once professionally done SEO is growing in importance, the price asked by most companies for a good SEO job will increase too. |
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