Moving from Chrome to Quicksilver, IBM reports that they are working on a new solid state storage platform that will be more than 250% faster than a standard disk-drive storage platform. Measurements clock such platforms as being able to handle more than 1 million transactions in and out per second, and response times at less than 1 millisecond, according to an article by Antone Gonsalves.

These types of systems would work well in financial applications, in real time telephony, and in other speed-critical platforms. According to the report, there's no release date planned as of yet, but the article by Gonsalves cites Charlie Andrews from IBM as pointing to a 12 month time horizon. Read the full article here.