Samsung mass produces 128GB smartphone memory with 2X-plus performance

	Flash drives in mobile devices set for speed boost with new standard | Box woos financial services firms with a tailored cloud offering
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	Samsung mass produces 128GB smartphone memory with 2X-plus performance Samsung is mass producing the industry's first 128GB embedded flash memory based on the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0 standard.The memory will be targeted for use in next-generation flagship smartphones and will offer 2.7 times the performance of today's embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC) flash memory.Samsung is touting the new memory's ability to offer smoother ultra-high definition video streaming, more efficient multitasking and reduced power use.The UFS 2.0 specification, released in 2013, offers a multi-lane, serial bus versus the single-lane, parallel bus used in today's eMMC flash.The UFS 2.0 specification boasts up to 600MBps (megabytes per second) of throughput, but because it can use two serial lanes, it has a total of 1,200MBps, or 12Gbps, Samsung stated. That compares with the eMMC 5.0 spec, which has a 400MBps maximum performance over a single parallel bus.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Efficient, Affordable Data Management Together, Microsoft and CommVault deliver a flexible, secure and cost-effective solution for data management both on premises and in the cloud. More and more organizations are looking to leverage the cloud for operational, financial and strategic reasons. View Now In this Issue Flash drives in mobile devices set for speed boost with new standard Box woos financial services firms with a tailored cloud offering Gemalto now says spies didn't get mobile phone encryption keys NSA director wants gov't access to encrypted communications WHITE PAPER: CDW The Most Complete Hyper-V Data Protection CommVault Simpana 10 software's Virtual Server Agent (VSA) helps you gain new efficiency out of your Hyper-V virtual infrastructure with the most advanced Hyper-V backup/recovery and management solutions available today. View Now Flash drives in mobile devices set for speed boost with new standard Flash drives in mobile devices are set to become faster and secure with a new standard approved by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association. The new standard, eMMC version 5.1, will lay the groundwork for new mobile storage that will provide faster access to data. Flash drives based on eMMC 5.1 will be able to handle 4K streaming and more data-intensive tasks. Users are storing more multimedia and data files locally, and the need for faster storage has also increased with mobile devices handling more resource-heavy applications. Smartphones and tablets in some cases are replacing PCs as people's main computing devices. Samsung has started making 64GB, 32GB and 16GB drives based on the new standard. The company is already shipping units to customers, but has not said whether those drives will be used in the Galaxy S6 smartphone, which will be announced early next month at the Mobile World Congress trade show.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Box woos financial services firms with a tailored cloud offering It was just about two weeks ago that Box set out to remove a major barrier to the cloud for security-minded organizations with its Encryption Key Management capability. Now, it's taken that focus a step further with a full-fledged cloud storage service aimed squarely at financial services firms. The aim behind Box's EKM, now in beta, is to give businesses in highly regulated industries such as finance the ability to maintain exclusive control over the digital keys used to encrypt their data. Historically, the lack of that kind of control is a big part of what has kept many companies in such industries off the cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Simpana 10 Data Management for VMware vCloud Director CommVault Simpana software offers a completely fresh approach to data management for shared services and private cloud infrastructure that is tuned to the needs of the emerging data center. View Now Gemalto now says spies didn't get mobile phone encryption keys SIM card maker Gemalto has dismissed recent reports that U.K. and U.S. spies obtained encryption keys protecting millions of mobile phones. Read More NSA director wants gov't access to encrypted communications Read More
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