Start-Up Builds Solid-State Flash Drives For Enterprise
Pliant targets high-end storage market dubbed "tier zero" by EMC
Pliant is combining commodity chips along with proprietary controllers that will let enterprises obtain high rates of input/output operations per second, bandwidth and reliability levels, while avoiding overprovisioning of storage, according to Ahola.
Enterprises taking advantage of this storage would likely use it in combination with hard drives, which cost less and would be used for data that's not as frequently accessed, Pliant executives say. Pliant did not release pricing details for its upcoming product.
"The banking and financial industries are really pushing [for flash-based storage] because they have some of the most highly I/O bound applications almost anywhere," Ahola says. "Those I/O-intensive applications are the ones screaming for solutions like this."
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