BiTMICRO and NextCom Move Forward With Flash

January 12, 2006: Storage provider BiTMICRO has announced that it has completed certification on NextCom’s next-generation mobile servers and workstations.

NextCom’s workstations are built with BiTMICRO’s E-Disk solid state flash disk technology, and are capable of random I/O rates of up to 11,700 IOPS, and duplex burst read/write rates of up to 400 MB/s.

BiTMICRO and NextCom have a history developing hardware for high end storage markets such as the military, aerospace, gaming (e.g. casino gaming with high transaction turnover), graphics development and telecommunications. “Certified interoperability is one thing we always aim for as it assures end users of the highest quality standards that NextCom and BiTMICRO deliver," says Rudy Bruce, VP of marketing and sales, BiTMICRO Networks.

As price-per-megabyte for solid state memory drops, it is increasingly becoming a business and consumer tool. Aside from ubiquitous devices such as USB keys, companies like Samsung are already tinkering with dedicated solid state hard disks for notebooks, promising significant increases in performance, lower power consumption and increased reliability.

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