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Cost Optimizing for Performance: Page 2 of 2

Like any emerging technology, SSDs have been "emerging" for a long time, and there are different ways to implement them. There are the specialized systems from suppliers like Texas Memory and Solid Access; there is the EMC and, soon, many others' method of adding drives to an existing storage solution; and there are the PCI-E attached systems by companies like Violin and Fusion-io.

Stay tuned for a deeper dive into each of these methods.

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George Crump is founder of Storage Switzerland , which provides strategic consulting and analysis to storage users, suppliers, and integrators. Prior to Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest integrators.