• CompactFlash 5.0 cards could reach 144 petabytes of storage

  That 64GB SDXC card is yesterday's news (figuratively and literally). The new CompactFlash 5.0 standard promises a ridiculous 144-petabyte theoretical maximum storage capacity for newer CF cards. Finally, you'll be able to store your media library and the libraries of your closest 70,000 friends in your pocket!

• SSD storage fixes data center bottlenecks for a price

  As a new decade opens, more and more data centre operators find themselves struggling with an enterprise bottleneck not of their own making.

• Slots that support SDXC flash storage reaching devices

  Slots that support faster SDXC flash storage cards are reaching consumer electronics devices, which could boost the performance of devices like camcorders and digital cameras, multiple companies said on Tuesday.

• Flash storage should be among top data center priorities: Gartner

  Flash-based storage will quickly become one of the most important technologies in the data center, according to Gartner.

• OCZ set to use SandForce controllers in new SSDs

  Flash storage vendor OCZ Technology Group Inc. this week announced that it plans to use controllers from SandForce Inc. in its next generation of consumer and enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs).

• Storage wrinkle: 4,500 flash drives left at the cleaners

  Lost a thumb drive with important data on it? Check with your dry cleaner. A survey by a U.K.-based company shows that in the last year, 4,500 USB flash drives were forgotten in pockets of clothes left at the dry cleaners, and thousands more handheld devices were left in the backseats of taxis.

Whitepapers about flash storage

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  Two May Be Better Than One: Why Hard Disk Drives and Flash Belong Together

  This white paper will explore the need for a caching and buffering technology between DRAM and HDDs and why Flash memory can be used to fill this need. We will go on to look at various ways that Flash and HDDs can be combined in a computer storage hierarchy. These technologies to combine Flash memory and HDDs include hybrid HDDs, Flash on the computer motherboard, and a combination of Flash and HDD storage devices in the same computer – paired storage systems.