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you trust SSD market data? Are we
there yet? - 2017 and 40 years of SSDs storage market research -
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box gander - Nimbus enters SAS SSD controller market |
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who's who in SSD? - IDC
by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - StorageSearch.com
- February 2011
Storage history
indicates that IDC is better as a Terabyte Tallier (counting what has happened
in recently past quarters) than it is as a Storage Clairvoyant (predicting what
will happen next).
IDC publishes many
reports
about the storage market. They are useful for product marketers who need
ballpark market size estimates - such as how many drives of a certain type
were shipped in a recent quarter.
The summary description for
IDC's 2010
to 2014 SSD market forecast (updated Dec 2010) indicated that it
tracked 14 out of the more than 200 SSD companies in the market - and their list
excludes key companies listed in
StorageSearch.com's own
top 20 SSD companies list.
That's a problem with this type of list
- which is part of a historic shipments tracking series. It's something I
commented on many years ago in the context of similar market size numbers for
the NAS and
RAID markets - which at
that time was weighted toward a small number of the usual suspects - and seemed
to ignore the long tail of the market.
What these types of reports can
do is understate the market size of fast growing markets - because of sampling
errors (such as excluding key players - who may not wish to participate in the
data collection process) and also because of financial reporting time lags
(which may provide indicators several quarters behind search-volume based
reports).
In the growth phase of a market - any type of consistently
collated info is more useful than none. But perfect information about markets
only exists when the markets are dead or have reached a steady state. Marketers
who use these types of reports have to be aware that all market reports from
all vendors have in-built flaws and biases. |
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hyperscale is nearly 1/4 of all enterprise storage revenue |
Editor:- September 14, 2017 - A new
report
from IDC confirms
the growing size of the enterprise storage systems market related to
hyperscale datacenters. Sales by ODMs to the hyperscale segment grew 73.5%
year over year to $2.5 billion in in the 2nd quarter 2017 to reach nearly a
quarter of the entire $10.8 billion in all segments. | | |
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