Global Storage uses Enterprise class SAN, server and virtualisation infrastructure making enterprise class technology available to SMEs.

The company's existing customer base will initially be offered pilots before it is available generally in 2007. Meanwhile, Texas Memory Systems has produced what it claims is the fastest storage in the world, working at more than 600 times the speed of your normal disk drive.

The RamSan solid state disk has been designed to work with InfiniBand clustering technology and provides faster access to data for those working in high-performance computing environments, the company explained.

The low latency and high speed of InfiniBand make it the fastest storage in the world, it claims, and the US government appears to agree, using RamSan for its Echelon spying system.

RamSan data can now be accessed across a 10Gbit/s Infiniband link in both pure Infiniband and mixed Infiniband /Fibre Channel environments. Clustered high performance computing (HPC) environments can now boost I/O speed by replacing hard drives with SSDs which work at near-main memory speed.