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After SSDs... What Next?
3 Easy Ways to Enter
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Overview of the
Notebook SSD Market
Storage Market Outlook:-
2010 to 2015
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The SSD Backup Roadmap -
new article coming soon
Editor:- February 1, 2010 - in the next 7
days StorageSearch.com will
publish a new article which describes the roadmap for the barely nascent
SSD Backup Market to replace the enterprise
hard disk backup market by
the close of this decade.
There will be many technology and
marketing challenges along the way. It will require entirely new types
of SSD products and new ways of thinking about what the purpose of
backup really is. You
may be thinking - "SSD backup... This can't be serious! Is it April 1st
already? " You too will be serious - and may add it to your own roadmap -
after you read the new article.
IDC Comments on SSD Market
Editor:- January 20, 2010
- IDC
says that
SSD shipments in
2009 exceeded
11 million units, an increase of 14% year over year.
Looking forward, IDC says it expects SSD adoption will continue to experience
tangible growth in 2010 and beyond, with shipments expected to achieve a
compound annual growth rate of 54% over the 2008-2013 forecast period.
Solid State
Drives - market research & analysts
2010 - 1st Fizz in the SSD Market Bubble
Editor:-
January 12, 2010 - StorageSearch.com
today published a new article -
2010 - 1st Fizz in the
SSD Bubble.
I think
SSD analysts will
look back on 2010 as - "Year 1 of the SSD Market Bubble." Greed
will play as big a part as technology in shaping the
SSD year ahead. Wonder
why? ...read the
article
2.5" SSD Market Fights Back
Editor:- January 4,
2010 - StorageSearch.com disclosed today that the gap in search volume
between
PCIe SSDs (most
popular form factor) and 2.5"
SSDs (#2 form factor) narrowed in December 2009 - rather than widened.
The
imminent availability of consumer priced 6Gbps SATA SSDs coupled with growing
competition in the 2.5" SAS SSD market has boosted the acceleration ceiling
in traditional disk form factors. That provides more reasons for customers to
look again at the 2.5" form factor. Reader pageviews for PCIe SSDs were
nearly 4x higher than a year ago.
Solid State Drives -
market research & analysts
New Update of Quarterly SSD Report by Web-Feet Research
Editor:-
November 30, 2009 -
Web-Feet Research
today published a quarterly update to its annual report ($9,000
annually) on SSD Markets and Applications, (MS300SSD3-29).
This
update encompasses performance acceleration options in enterprise systems that
include DRAM,
PCIe attached, Flash
plus DRAM, rack mount
flash systems and SSDs.
This report (available as a single report or
part of the quarterly series subscription) explores where in the enterprise
architecture these systems and devices can be deployed and the attributes and
limitations of each. SSDs in client applications are examined in detail in 7
categories: Desktop, Nettop, Traditional Notebook, Ultra Low Power Notebook,
Netbook, Smartbook, and Mobile Internet Device with forecasts and SSD adoption
rates for each of these platforms.
Also examined are SSD and HDD
storage options for these platforms, with
SSD and
HDD pricing by capacity
and forecasts by quarter to 4Q 2010 and by year to 2015. In addition, Web-Feet
Research compiles aggregate SSD shipments and revenue by form factor and
application markets covering 1Q 2009 to 3Q 2009. SSD supplier profiles are
provided for vendors supplying products to the market place. |
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Market Outlook 2010 to 2015 - from StorageSearch.com |
Editor:- November 9, 2009 -
this is a time of year when many readers are thinking about their storage
marketing plans for 2010.
This planning process takes place against a
background of long range assumptions which are more confusing than at any
time since September 11, 2001.
I've collected together a few
ideas which you might find helpful. If you know what's going to happen in the
next 5 years - it's so much easier to prioritize your plans for 2010. ...read the article
New Report on MLC in the Enterprise
Editor:- November
2, 2009 -
Forward
Insights publishes a new market report this month -
SSDs: Enabling MLC
Technology in the Enterprise (price is $6,499).
The report's author
- Gregory Wong
- says "Due to demanding performance workloads, SLC technology has been the
technology of choice for SSDs in enterprise computing environments. Therefore,
it came as a surprise when in August of this year,
STEC, a leading
enterprise SSD vendor, announced that it will offer MLC based enterprise SSDs."
Are
these products aimed at niche applications or do they suggest the beginnings of
broader adoption of MLC technology in SSDs in the enterprise space? This report
provides analysis of SSD usage models and what applications could conceivably
be addressed by MLC technology. ...more
info (pdf)
See also:-
SSDs - market
analysts , Are
MLC SSDs Safe in Enterprise Apps?,
Hybrid Storage
Drives
SSD Guide Popularity Grows 127%
Editor:- November 2,
2009 - StorageSearch.com
disclosed that pageviews of the
Solid State Disks
Buyers Guide increased 127% in September 2009 compared to a year
ago.
The SSD Guide - the #1 most popular article with our readers - is
a useful digest of the
SSD market - especially for
readers who don't have time to read the hundreds of other in-depth articles and
analysis here on the mouse site.
Pageviews for the top 5 articles
(all on the theme of SSDs) increased an average of 73%.
PCIe SSDs Snatch #1 Storage Search Crown
Editor:-
September 24, 2009 - StorageSearch.com
disclosed today that search volumes for
PCIe form factor SSDs
have surpassed that for
2.5" SSDs for
the 1st time.
"This is a tsunami warning event for SSD vendors
addressing the enterprise server acceleration market" said Zsolt Kerekes,
editor of StorageSearch.com.
"In the 25 years that I've been
involved in the enterprise storage - there were just 3 great waves of user
mass adoption for new disk form factors - starting with 8.5", moving
onto 5.25", then 3.5" and finally 2.5".
"In
contrast, after
3 decades of
sleepy stealth mode development the SSD market is now streaming ahead on
SSD time. Users have woken up to what the SSD market can do for their servers -
and for new systems they don't want to plow through their data fields dragged
down by the clutter and dead weight baggage of the
rotating disk peddlers.
A year ago interest in 2.5" SSDs was an order of magnitude higher than
PCIe SSDs. Both have grown in search volume - but PCIe SSDs seem to have
captured the imagination of this market to a degree which only its most
optimistic supporters would have predicted."
Will Flash Torch Hard Disk Market? - Reprise
Editor:-
September 21, 2009 - 2 years ago StorageSearch.com
published an article -
How Solid is
Hard Disk's Future? - in which I looked at - what impact would the fast
growing solid state disk
market have on the overall
hard disk market?
Readers
had asked - "Is SSDs' gain really HDDs' loss?" - My analysis
concluded - "In some segments yes. But it's not a zero sum game."
This
theme is revisited in a new article published today by - Coughlin Associates
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Flash
& HDD - Symbiosis, or Survival of the Fittest? (pdf).
The new
white paper, written by esteemed
storage analysts -
Tom Coughlin, Jim Handy
and Roger
F. Hoyt shows how many hard disk drives are sold because of digital
storage required to support flash
memory consumer electronics applications such as digital cameras,
camcorders, and music and video players. The paper makes the case that there
is more symbiosis than competition between hard disk drives and flash memory for
consumer electronics applications.
...read
the article (pdf)
Chip Market Poised for Recovery - Says Databeans
Editor:-
September 3, 2009 -
Databeans has
revised its worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast in its
newsletter
published today.
Databeans says - "Now 8 months into the year, the
"sound of momentum" can clearly be heard. Some scoffed at a "V"
shaped recovery... but it appears that this is the case. Further, we are not
expecting a double-dip scenario in the chip industry." ...read
the article (pdf),
Report on Intel's Motherboard SSD Strategy
Editor:-
September 1, 2009 - Objective Analysis
has published a new 50 page report about the SSD market -
Intel's
Braidwood: Death to SSDs? - (price $5,000).
Jim Handy, the
report's author says "Although this isn't the first time that Intel has
tried to bring NAND into the PC, the earlier Turbo Memory product failed for a
number of reasons."
PC purchasers who were considering an SSD upgrade will find NAND on
the motherboard to be a cheaper alternative with nearly all the same benefits.
The report projects how the move to NAND in PCs will boost the NAND market,
soften the SSD and DRAM markets, and pose problems for those NAND makers who are
not poised to produce ONFi NAND flash. Solid State Drives -
market research & analysts
VoD Server Revenue to Triple by 2013
Editor:- July
8, 2009 - Infonetics
Research announced a
new
edition of its IPTV market report.
"All eyes are focused
on video on-demand and streaming content servers as more and more programming
moves to on-demand. ...Revenue for VoD and streaming content servers (are
expected) to triple between 2008 and 2013," said Jeff Heynen, directing
analyst for broadband and video at Infonetics Research.
Infonetics predicts that by 2013, telco service providers are expected
to derive about $56 billion worldwide from IPTV services offered (not including
mobile IPTV services). storage
market research & analysts
Editor's comments:-
the IPTV industry may be good for
SSD sales too. IPTV
server designers have asked me many probing questions about the characteristics
of different SSD technologies for use in such systems.
Systemic Risk with "Cloud Think"
Editor:-
June 4, 2009 - Burton
Group today published an article called -
Clouds
and Systemic Risk.
The author Jack Santos
says he thinks "clouds" are at a peak hype stage and ready for a big
disillusionment phase.
OEMs Race to Design Their Own SSDs
Editor:- May
27, 2009 - StorageSearch.com
disclosed today that search volume for
SSD SoCs (systems on a
chip and controllers) has overtaken
1" SSDs (includes
miniature SSD modules) this month for the first time.
Guess that
confirms my sneaking suspicion that a lot of oems want to
design their own
SSDs.
New Home Page for the SSD Bookmarks
Editor:- May
8, 2009 - I've created a new home page for the
SSD Bookmarks
series and made some overdue formating changes.
New Guide for SSD Wannabies
Editor:- May 1, 2009 -
StorageSearch.com
published a new article this week called -
"3 Easy Ways to
Enter the SSD Market."
Nowadays it seems like everyone wants
to get into the SSD market. This tells you how to do it. And gives real
examples.
new home page for - SSD SoCs
Editor:- April 7, 2009 -
StorageSearch.com today
launched a new directory of merchant market
SSD SoC vendors. |
How 3D Memory Stacks Up -
New Market Report
Editor:- April 1, 2009 - Forward Insights
has released a new 70+ page report (price $5,499) called -
How 3D Memory Stacks
Up.
3D memory technologies offer the promise of continued increases
in storage capacities and lower cost per bit necessary to enable emerging
applications such as solid
state drives. Among the candidates: stacked NAND technologies employing
charge trapping technology, vertical memory cells etched in a pillar and
stackable cross-point memory arrays. This report explores the feasibility of
each of these alternatives as a candidate to replace NAND
flash memories within the
next 4 years.
After SSDs? - Predicting the Storage Market's Next Obsession
Editor:-
March 12, 2009 -StorageSearch.com
has published a new article -
After SSDs... What
Next?
It looks beyond the next 3 years of hoopla in the
SSD market and predicts
what will be the next "big thing" in storage after that. ...read the article | |
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the deep content here on StorageSearch.com using the site search appliance
from Google.
Marketers and sales
people use search more than end-users. Our typical readers are more likely to
click on a banner ad than a site search form.
Less than 1/3 of readers
come to StorageSearch.com from an external search-engine.
Most get here
from a bookmark or external web page which links to this site.
Take a
look at the article -
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