Month: October 2015
I’m often asked, “What makes a great Industrial Embedded Flash Storage Supplier?” First, a definition.An Industrial Embedded Flash Storage device is targeted at OEM applications which require something more than an off the shelf consumer flash card from an online or retail outlet. These applications tend to be industrial, medical, automotive, telecom and many others...
Cactus Technologies, Ltd., a leading Industrial Embedded Flash Storage Supplier, celebrates a decade of delivering highly reliable flash storage products to WW OEMs this month. See more in press release section: http://www.cactus-tech.com/en/about-us/press-releases/details/cactus-technologies-ltd-celebrates-its-10-year-anniversary
For many embedded industrial applications, the host system designer desires to limit the usage of connected flash storage to a specific part. Reasons for this range from ensuring only fully-qualified parts are used to limiting the source of the flash card to the host vendor.This is commonly used on Industrial CF cards, Industrial SD Cards and Industrial CFast products. There are...
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) encompasses a large number of applications and can be thought of as the backbone for industry.Diverse applications are considered IIoT, such as control of city parking meters, intelligent power grid, factory automation and city infrastructure automation. Elements IIoT applications have in common are the need for highly reliable electronics,...
We're often asked how do solid state drives work? This article describes Write Amplification which is a fundamental issue SSD controllers must address as part of their design.The more efficient the controller handles write amplification, the longer the life of the SSD. SSD in this case refers to all the Cactus Flash Storage products such as...
