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IT Brand Pulse

IT Brand Pulse, founded in 2009 and heaquartered in San Diego, CA, is a trusted source of data and analysis about IT infrastructure, including servers, storage and networking.

see also:- IT Brand Pulse's SSD reports page

editor's comments:- December 2012 - among other things IT Brand Pulse offers market research services and reports related to the SSD market.

The company first came to my attention in June 2010 in a story about the SAN market. At that time it didn't look to me like they offered any specific reports about SSDs so I didn't visit their site again for a few years.

But they popped into my radar again recently with an announcement launching their SSD Brand Reports and a related paper at the Flash Memory Summit.

Frank Berry, CEO of IT Brand Pulse - told me a few months ago - "We do 3 types of surveys related to SSD: Annual SSD brand surveys (which we just did in August), a quarterly technology survey, and ad hoc custom research."

Since then - I've seen one or two SSD related reports and company specific observations coming from Frank every month. So it looks like SSDs have moved up towards the top of his agenda too - just as they have for the people he's writing about.

Recent IT Brand Pulse Milestones from SSD Market History

In August 2012 IT Brand Pulse launched its SSD Brand Leader Survey Report based on datacenter surveys. The scope ranges from controllers, drives and PCIe SSD cards through to various types of SSD systems.

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Datacenter SSD capacity may grow 8x in the next 2 years - says IT Brand Pulse

Editor:- August 31, 2012 - Frank Berry, CEO at IT Brand Pulse gave a presentation at the Flash Memory Summit - SSD Buyer Behavior (pdf) - which lists perceptions of who are the SSD brand leaders based on datacenter surveys.

Among the many findings in this presentation is that datacenter SSD users expect their SSD capacity will grow nearly 8x in the next 2 years.

Among the many brand classifications - Whiptail was ranked #2 in unified SAN/NAS rackmount flash SSDs, after the #1 ranked Nimbus.

A more detailed report - Flash Unified SSD System Brand Leaders - is available ($3,950, 19 pages).

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SSDs are hottest topic in enterprise IT - says IT Brand Pulse

Editor:- December 12, 2012 - IT Brand Pulse has published results of its Q4 mini survey of hot topics in enterprise IT (pdf) - which includes - among other things:-

the hottest IT company in 2012?

#1 - Amazon
#2 - Fusion-io

the most game changing IT technology of 2012?

#1 - SSD
#2 - CloudStack

For the other lists - such as the individuals who have contributed most to enterprise IT in the past 20 years - click on the link to the free report.

Editor's comments:- one of the signs of the SSD market growing into a seriously big business has been the growing number and diversity of market data services which analyze different aspects of this market. SSDs are getting into a lot of conversations - even when the original topic - as in this case - starts out being something else.

Although IT Brand Pulse hasn't been focused on SSDs for very long - Frank Berry and his team have done a lot of SSD related surveys and business reports in the past few quarters.

Their style of report can help its users have more confidence when making difficult decisions in a chaotic market where perfect information doesn't exist or would be obsolete by the time it's collected. See also:- market research, vintage SSD analysts

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