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see also:-
Objective
Analysis - mentions on StorageSearch.com and
Objective Analysis's
reports page
Who's who in SSD? - Objective Analysis
by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - StorageSearch.com
- May 2016
In recent years there has been a bubble of SSD market
reports followed a drastic reduction in companies which still provide such
services.
Jim Handy,
founder of Objective Analysis was there before the bubble. And he's still there
now.
If you're going to spend money on an SSD market analyst, opinion
or report - you'd be nuts not to include his company in your shortlist. |
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In September 2007 -
Objective Analysis published a 110 page report called -
the
Solid State Disk Market: A Rigorous Look to their offering. (This was the
company's 1st major SSD report - but not the 1st by the author.)
In
August 2008
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Objective
Analysis published a new report (price $5,000) called - "Solid State
Drives in the Enterprise".
In September 2008 -
at
DISKCON
USA
Jim
Handy founder of Objective Analysis presented a paper called
Why and
How SSDs are Economical (pdf)
In April 2010 -
Objective
Analysis published a new 104 page market report -
Data
Centers Drive Major SSD Growth (
$5,000)
which concludes that "the stunning growth of
SSDs in enterprise servers
and storage systems is only going to get stronger."
Objective
Analysis finds that the enterprise SSD market is likely to approach $4 billion
in revenues by 2015, nearly 17x times that of 2009, while unit shipments
will increase by 50x during that period to over 4 million units. |
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| "In the late 90’s
everyone was trying to figure out how to shift commerce over to the Internet. ..
That became the “dot-com” bubble... Today everybody is chasing the
Internet of Things." |
| Tom Starnes and Jim Handy, Objective Analysis - in
2015
reflections and 2016 outlook (pdf) (January 2016) | | |
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| Jim Handy discusses the
paradox of multiple different claims to the same flash array leadership |
Editor:- May 29, 2015 - A new blog -
Who's #1 in Flash
Arrays? - by Jim Handy
- founder Objective Analysis
- discusses a "puzzling set of claims" by various competing
rackmount SSD
companies - who all claim to be #1 in the flash array market. ...read the blog
Editor's
comments:- Jim's observations provides fresh examples and confirmation of 2
things I warned you about in earlier articles:-
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| Results from SSD IOPS needs
survey |
Editor:- November 28, 2012 -
How
Many IOPS Do You Really Need? - is a new 80 page SSD market report
($5,000) by Objective
Analysis and Coughlin Associates.
It dissects the results of a months-long on-line survey of IT managers
which collected their inputs on the IOPS, capacity, and latency needs for a
number of key enterprise applications. | | |
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Hi, I work at a financial
institution which has started to cover the storage market - and in particular
enterprise SSDs. I'm trying to estimate:-
- how big will the SSD market will be when SSDs replace hard drives?
- what will be the revenue of the SSD market at that time
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enterprise SSD software event horizon | | |
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