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Article: Kmart shines its Blue Light on solid state disks.(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Network World
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- May 7, 2001
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When Kmart relaunched its Blue Light Special this year, the company needed a high-speed storage technology to handle the load of its outbound e-mail and targeted mailing to customers.
Kmart chose solid state disk technology from Imperial Technology, which speeds up mail delivery by caching the large, frequently used files in solid state memory.
Solid state disk technology is used by many Web sites, such as Yahoo and eBay, to store frequently used files such as e-mail message queues, database logs or transactions, which are too large and too slow to read from conventional disk. Data transfer suffers from an imbalance between the speed of the CPU and the ...