Peripheral Concepts
PERIPHERAL CONCEPTS, INC. the founder of the
Network Storage Conference
was formed in 1991 and specializes in market research and consulting in
industries related to computer mass storage and storage management, with
emphasis on systems, applications and end user requirements. Peripheral Concepts
services include market research and analysis, strategic marketing and business
planning, product and market development, and competitive analysis.
see also:-
Peripheral
Concepts - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- February 4, 2009 - I think
Farid Neema, President, Peripheral Concepts - may have retired. His web site is
no longer in existance.
But you can still obtain the complete set of
reports (Peripheral Concepts - 1988 through 2004) which cover hard disk drives,
heads, media and other components, SSDs, Tape, RAID Systems and other topics
from
Coughlin Associates
whose founder co-authored some of them. |
| Navigating to SSD's
future....... |
The main reason that
people come to visit StorageSearch.com is to learn more about the SSD market. It
wasn't always so
- but that's the way it is now.
"Leading the way to the new
storage frontier" - the tagline for this publication since 1998 - has
covered many past industry transitions - but the only one it's covering now is
the transition of all enterprise data storage towards being solid state by
2020. It's complicated. And there's a lot going on. So I rarely have time
to think or write about anything else.
The easiest SSD questions to
answer are those of the "who does what?" variety. SSDs do a lot -
and there are lots of different kinds of SSDs. These can be reduced to lists
and themed articles. A good starting point answering the who does what?
(or the who else does that?) questions - is the
SSD buyers guide.
The
hardest questions to answer are those which ask - "where is this going?"
Speculating
about future avenues for the SSD market - and its multifarious strands - is
something I've enjoyed doing for over 10 years. The most interesting
discussions about SSD futures I've had have been with people in a position
to change the future. That's often been company founders and business thinkers
in the SSD vendor community. But it's surprising how many insightful questions I
get asked by investors too. And superusers (early adopters in strategic
user organizations) ask open ended questions which don't seem to have any
good answers on the web. If I have the answer my email replies trigger off
new articles...
Like anyone who's been immersed in a market for a
long time - I don't know what I know - until someone asks a question and
realize that something which I've assumed that everyone knew - isn't really as
obvious as I assumed it was.
I don't charge money for my time. Instead
the carefully filtered dialogs I engage in help me to understand the market
better and infuse my content with a sense of proportion and direction. High
quality content attracts high quality readers. And high quality readers
attract high quality advertisers. It's a virtuous circle.
It's rare
that a Eureka moment occurs from each of the many daily 1 on 1 dialogs I
engage in. Instead - like matter in deep space - these microscopic "what-if?"
thought experiments coalesce slowly into recognizable lumps of matter - which
can be analyzed and tested by the sanity checks of experience and online
search trends. Something which may start as a comment appended to a news story
or article - may eventually grow to become an SSD planetoid - an article or new
SSD directory. This forward perspective on the SSD market is what makes
StorageSearch unique - even if it's the prosaic what's happening now lists -
which are the daily bread and butter.
As a result of these processes
I'm confident about discussing nuances of markets and technologies which most
people won't even be thinking about for several years. That content attracts new
likeminded storage visionaries to become readers and so the brew goes on.
For
those of you who like to navigate to the future - rather than crash blindly
into it - here are some links you might find helpful to start.
SSD market analysts -
is my pick of the best SSD clairvoyants who sell reports and market data
services. (As opposed to the SSD clairvoyants who are busy running their own SSD
product companies.
SSDs - the big
market picture - explains - what's all the fuss about SSDs?
This way to the Petabyte
SSD - gives you a dense picture of SSD datacenter components in 2016. |
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