Whiptail Technologies scales flash array down to SMB

Whiptail Technologies Inc. today added a smaller version of its all-flash array platform for small and medium-sized businesses and branch offices. The WT-1100 is a 1U box that runs on the same Racerunner operating system as Whiptail's midrange Accela and enterprise-level Invicta arrays.

The WT-1100 will be available with 2 TB or 4 TB of multi-level cell, or MLC, flash supplied by Whiptail investor SanDisk Corp.

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Skyera releases all-flash array for $3 per gigabyte

Startup Skyera Inc. entered the all-flash enterprise storage market today with a series of iSCSI arrays that use consumer-grade multi-level cell (MLC) NAND to bring the price to less than $3 per gigabyte. And that price is before deduplication and compression.

CEO and founder Radoslav Danilak said the vendor dropped the price to about one-third or less than most enterprise flash storage systems by improving the life of the consumer-grade MLC instead of using more expensive single-level cell (SLC) flash. He said Skyera employed techniques such as lower write amplification and adaptive error correction codes (ECCs) to improve the life expectancy of the consumer-grade flash to five years of enterprise use.

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iSCSI storage system implemented by University of Alaska Fairbanks

After confronting scalability problems with NFS, the Bioinformatics Core at the University of Alaska Fairbanks adopted an iSCSI storage system and has some lessons to share from its implementation.

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