Solid-State Market Continues Slow and Steady Pace

The solid-state market has gone through its share of growing pains—pains that show no signs of letting up.

The technology has a long and varied history, starting life in the mainframe world led by vendors such as Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek), EMC Corp. and what is now Hitachi Data Systems. But over time, solid-state technology in the mainframe world became obsolete, replaced by storage systems with more intelligent cache that could manage that cache via the operating system.

The technology then migrated to the open-systems world, where it resides today, helmed by niche vendors like Texas Memory Systems Inc., Solid Data Systems and BitMicro Networks.

Read the rest of this story: "Solid-State Market Continues Slow and Steady Pace".

Copyright © 2005 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. Originally appearing in ExtremeTech.