2012年12月16日星期日

Samsung Acquires SSD Caching Company NVELO


This came unfashionable of the blue. Samsung announced their intent to get hold of NVELO, accepted in support of their Dataplex SSD caching software. Value or else detailed timeframe of the acquisition give birth to not been revealed yet, but the acquisition does include all NVELO expertise and personnel.

NVELO having the status of a company possibly will be present a new to the job acquaintance in support of many having the status of it was founded solitary two years before having the status of a spin-off from Denali Software, which was acquired by Cadence in the sphere of June 2010. While NVELO has not been around in support of lingering, the company is gorged of experience having the status of the largest part of the employees worked in excess of a decade in support of Denali otherwise the acquisition. In the sphere of piece of evidence, Dataplex development began in the sphere of 2007 once Denali was still a standalone company.

Near are several products in the sphere of the marketplace with the aim of benefit NVELO's Dataplex software such having the status of OCZ's Synapse, Corsair's Accelerator and Crucial's Adrenaline SSDs. Dataplex is in essence an alternative to Intel's Smart Response expertise (SRT) but with fewer limitations. In support of case in point, Dataplex is not attached to at all detailed chipsets, making it a viable option in support of AMD based setups and grown-up systems with no Intel's SRT support. Near is besides rebuff 64GB store size limitation like in the sphere of Intel's SRT, although the largest part of the SSDs with the aim of are bundled with Dataplex are 64GB or else less significant. Whether it's worth it to benefit an SSD better than 64GB in support of caching is a unusual question, but by smallest amount near is an option in support of with the aim of. We give birth to played around with NVELO's Dataplex in the sphere of our labs but we haven't exhaustively reviewed it (yet).

While by smallest amount I didn't expect this acquisition, it does succeed a group of gist. SSD prices give birth to approach down significantly in the sphere of the only remaining a small amount of years but we still aren't by a line of reasoning someplace SSDs can supplant problematical drives in the sphere of mainstream products. However, the difference an SSD makes is simply so large with the aim of near is rebuff brains not to require an SSD. The pro of caching is with the aim of you can give birth to SSD-like performance with sufficient of storage space with no contravention the level. Samsung doesn't give birth to at all consumer-grade SSD caching products, so with the acquisition it seems with the aim of Samsung is interested in the sphere of entering with the aim of marketplace. Why Samsung chose to get hold of NVELO as a replacement for of simply licensing the Dataplex software is a useful question, but it's on the cards with the aim of Samsung wants to develop something in the sphere of the igloo as a replacement for of using a commercially obtainable solution (given the large vertical integration already in attendance in the sphere of their SSDs, this wouldn't be present a surprise). The acquisition possibly will besides be present a way to eliminate competition for the reason that Samsung can force the competitors to search out unfashionable of the SSD caching marketplace or else to benefit an extra solution (assuming Samsung makes Dataplex proprietary).



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