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• 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).

• Flash can eliminate imbalance between server and storage performance

  The rise of flash memory in the enterprise data center will help eliminate a fundamental imbalance between the performance of servers and storage, Sun storage chief John Fowler told attendees at Storage Networking World.

• IBM hikes virtualized storage performance with SSDs

  IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.

• Supercomputer uses flash storage drives

  The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center says could help solve science problems faster than systems with traditional hard drives.

• Intel, Micron team to get more data into flash drives

  What's better than 2-bits per cell? 3 bits of course. IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture between Intel and Micron, has announced that they have developed a 3-bit-per-cell NAND device that Micron will begin producing for commercial consumption this fall. The technology, dubbed 3bpc (tricky acronym for 3-bits-per-cell), stores more bits per cell than current technology and allows the development of higher density flash memory so it can store more data in less space.

• The cloud, brought to you by flash storage

  Cloud computing and flash-based storage, two of the fastest-growing technologies in IT, may drive each other forward as Internet-based service providers demand faster access to large amounts of data.

• Toshiba plans faster SD cards for early 2010

  SD memory cards capable of reading and writing data at speeds faster than current cards should be available in less than a year, Toshiba said on Tuesday.

• Kingston launches 256GB USB flash drive

  Kingston today released the world's largest capacity USB memory stick: a flash drive with 256GB worth of storage.

• Faster SD cards could reach devices next year

  Memory cards based on a new specification will boost storage of consumer electronics to as much as 2TB, the SD Association said Thursday.

• Texas Memory Systems shows less expensive, faster flash

  Texas Memory Systems has added a less expensive, faster and smaller form-factor flash storage array to its line of solid-state products.

• Fusion-io lands $47 million to develop flash storage

  Flash storage start-up Fusion-io has had a big start to 2009, remaking its management team with former Apple guru Steve Wozniak and just this week landing a US$47.5 million funding round.