Micron Technology has launched the Micron 5200 series of SATA solid state drives (SSD). Built on Micron's new 64-layer 3D NAND technology, the Micron 5200 series of SSDs offers a SATA platform for virtualized workloads. The Micron 5200 series is engineered to deliver an enterprise storage solution to replace existing hard drives and legacy SSDs. Micron 5200 SSDs deliver better total cost of ownership and improve data center efficiency through server and storage platform consolidation, reducing IT costs and simplifying infrastructure and maintenance, Micron said. Micron 5200 SSDs are available now for OEM qualification and for purchase through distributors, such as ASI, Avnet, CDW, Ingram, Microland, WPG-Americas, Synnex and others.

Micron Technology's new 32GB NVDIMM-N offers twice the capacity of existing NVDIMMs, providing system designers with new flexibility to work with larger data sets in fast persistent memory. According to the vendor, the solution is designed to support the increasing performance, energy efficiency and uptime requirements of data analytics and online transaction processing applications. Compared to server configurations using traditional far storage, deploying NVDIMMs can deliver up to 400% performance benefits, Micron claimed.The new innovation in persistent memory offers a solution for near-memory data analysis and addresses rising bandwidth demands of data-rich applications in markets such as finance, medicine, retail, and oil and gas exploration. VMware and Dell are collaborating with Micron to increase the performance for virtualized applications. With virtual persistent memory, customers can now run multiple operating systems in a virtualized environment while reducing overall network traffic.

Micron Technology has introduced the 9200 Series of NVMe SSDs, the company's latest flagship solid-state storage family. The new Micron 9200 SSD combines the capacity of 3D NAND with the NVM Express (NVMe) protocol. Built from the ground up to remove legacy layers of hard drive interfaces, Micron's second generation of NVMe drives offers the speed of solid state nonvolatile memory to maximize data center efficiency for optimal total cost of ownership (TCO), according to Micron. The capacity and performance of Micron 9200 SSDs combine NVMe protocols on a PCIe connection to enable the fast enterprise flash performance - up to 10X faster than the typical SATA SSDs on the market - while conserving power and rack space with its 3D NAND high-density storage, according to the vendor. The 9200 is one of the first NVMe SSDs on the market with a capacity exceeding 10TB.