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Coughlin Associates

Tom Coughlin, President, has been working for over 20 years in the data storage field at Ampex, Polaroid, Maxtor, Seagate, 3M and other companies. He has over 40 publications to his credit. Coughlin Associates provides Data Storage Consulting services.

see also:- Coughlin Associates - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

and his book - Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics - The Essential Guide

  • editor's comments:- Tom Coughlin is once again organizing the 9th annual Storage Visions Conference being held at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5 & 6, 2010.
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Podcast on Denali.com
Editor:- March 3, 2009 - Denali.com has posted an interview with Tom Coughlin on the subject of - 'What's Holding up the SSD market?'"
In this 20 minute podcast Coughlin discusses many of the uncertainties and complicating factors that will have to be resolved before flash SSDs can significantly displace magnetic media in the broad range of computing products.

Among the many insights:- many new flash SSD oems aiming at the notebook market just don't know enough about what happens to hard disks in all the many applications they are used in, and this is a multi-year learning curve. - I'd certainly agree with that. In my view there are many hastily designed SSDs in the market which merely represent what the designer could cut and paste from their own IP, sometimes tweaked to look good in benchmarks.

In the server acceleration space (sometimes referred to as tier zero storage) - Coughlin is asked what proportion of this market for hard drives is accessible to SSDs. In line with long established SSD industry thinking Coughlin says that SSDs don't replace hard drives - but that maybe about 1 in 10 drives could usefully be deployed as SSDs. Tom also talks about the importance of Storage Events. ...hear the article, ...Coughlin Associates profile

profile updated June 27, 2009 ..................................................................................................................

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