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managed petabyte SSDs may waken new market for SLC |
Editor:- March 16, 2010 - in
recent years flash memory
makers have made much more MLC than SLC flash memory to feed the demand for
consumer storage devices.
You'd be forgiven for getting the impression
that SLC is an endangered species - as
SSD controller
designers devize cunning ways to make the cheaper consumer flash live longer in
acceleration apps.
But in a new article published today -
SSDs - reaching for
the petabyte - I explain why SLC may see a resurgence in an entirely new
type of SSD device which may appear in the market in the future. And there are
no design tricks which can make MLC work
reliably in this
type of architecture.
StorageIO apologizes for the late delivery of this new
newsletter...
Editor:- February 25, 2010 - after 5 years being in
business - StorageIO
recently published the inaugural issue of their
Server and StorageIO
newsletter.
Marcoms guru, Carey Hedges founder of (UK
based)
H-N Marketing cautioned me when
I launched an ezine called MarketingViews
(in 1996) that most company newsletters rarely get past the 3rd issue due to
lack of commitment and resources by the original sponsors. I've observed the
core truth in that rule of thumb many times now.
But StorageIO's
newsletter should get past that milestone easily - because their founder - Greg Schulz - is a prolific
blogger, author of real printed books, and oft quoted
storage market savant /
soothsayer.
In Greg's introductory apologia - for not having done
this newsletter thingie sooner (I'm surprised he found the time anyway) - he
says - "In an age of social media including facebook, twitter, blogs and
video, some might ask the question of why a news letter?" ...read the article
to see how he answers that rhetorical question.
And if you're still
interested in that type of question - take a look too at this article -
Getting
the Message - by InfoCommerce Group - which wryly analyzes this dilemma in
the following vein:- "Email, Blogging, Linked-In etc. It seems that once
a popular messaging channel becomes too clogged with extraneous messages, a new
message channel emerges."
PCIe SSDs Dominate Storage Product Views
Editor:-
February 24, 2010 - 3 out of the top 5 most popular featured SSDs here
on StorageSearch.com are
now
PCIe SSDs.
Rankings
are now listed and updated daily in the
SSD buyers guide
- just below the news digest for the current month.
Unlike
the top 10 SSDs
(quarterly feature which is based on editorial search volume and excludes
ad pageviews ) - the new "products popularity" indicator is
based on ads.
In
previous years
we only listed the #1 product ad in each month.
It provides an
alternative useful way of seeing what people are looking at, and maintains a
tradition which I started in my online directories back in 1996.
Ever
wondered why the editor can spot
forward looking
trends? - Our web stats have historically predicted market behavior upto 3
years in advance in high value markets. (Keeping the dust off the
crystal ball helps too.)
DRAM market may reach $32 billion this year
Editor:-
February 18, 2010 - iSuppli
announced today it expects global
DRAM revenue in 2010 to
grow
40% to approx $32 billion - compared to 2009.
Solid State Storage Backup - new directory for a new market
Editor:-
February 16, 2010 - StorageSearch.com
launched a new directory for -
Solid State Storage Backup.
Although
these are still early days for the S3B market - the new page will help you
filter out news, articles and messages from the S3B pioneers which otherwise
might get lost in the clamor of the
SSD market bubble.
"In
the early days of the
disk to disk backup market the old
tape vendors scoffed the
idea that hard disks
might one day steal their market. Now most of those old tape dinosaurs are gone
and the hard disk backup market reigns supreme" said editor, Zsolt Kerekes.
"Despite that - I expect that most vendors in the
D2d / VTL market today
will not even be dreaming about the possibility that
SSDs will one day
transform their own cozy market too. But they urgently need to start having
fresh ideas about what backup and recovery are really for? The
S3B page will chronicle the
news from the nascent Solid State Storage Backup market - and help to accelerate
those changes."
SSD Market Projections - from Denali & Gartner
Editor:-
February 9, 2010 - Denali
Software published an article -
the
Evolving Enterprise SSD - which comments on detailed SSD market size
predictions from Gartner
related to SSD form factors and interfaces.
If you look at the curves
related to form factors - you can infer that StorageSearch.com's readers are
about 3 to 4 years ahead of the market in their search volume.
Another
way of looking at it is that our readers have always been ahead of the SSD
market adoption curve - and have been
historically
and statistically significant in shaping the SSD market penetration curves by
their actions in either designing SSDs or buying them.
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
-
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 -
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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. | |
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