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The data storage market is a complex weave of competing
and collaborative technologies and vendors.
And there are many free reports and resources available to help you understand it better.

But there's one kind of market research report which you won't find listed free on the website of any storage market report vendor - and that's a directory of all the key companies they compete with!

During my time as editor of StorageSearch.com I've tracked down every analyst mentioned in tens of thousands of stories and compiled this list.

So let me hand you over to the exalted guild of Storage Clairvoyants (predict the future), Terabyte Talliers (tell you what's just happened) and SoothSayers (make your press release sound more credible)...

storage market analysts list
Aberdeen Group

ABI Research

ACSL - (STORAGEsearch.com)

AMI-Partners

Analysys

BCC

Burton Group

Carmel Group

Coughlin Associates

Customer Respect Group

Databeans

Dell'Oro Group

Demartek

DISK/TREND

Downes Strategic Marketing

DRAMeXchange

Enterprise Strategy Group

Evaluator Group

Forrester Research

Forward Insights

Frost & Sullivan

Gartner

Harris Interactive

Horison

Hurwitz & Associates

IDC

IDEAS International

Illuminata

IMEX Research

Infiniti Research

Infonetics Research

INPUT

InQuest Market Research

In-Stat

iSuppli

ITSMA

King Research

Macarthur Stroud International

Mesabi Group

Millward Brown IntelliQuest

Multimedia Research Group

NPD Group

Objective Analysis

Osterman Research

Parks Associates

Peripheral Concepts

Research and Markets

Ridge Partners

Robert Frances Group

Sageza

Semico Research

Silverton Consulting

Simon Management Group

StorageIO

StorageNewsletter

Storage Strategies NOW

Strategy Analytics

Strategic Research

Synergy Research Group

Taneja Group

Techtel

Techno Systems Research

The451

The Diffusion Group

TheInfoPro

The Linley Group

THINKstrategies

The Yankee Group

TrendFocus

VDC

Web-Feet Research

Westwood Marketing

ZapThink
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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.

Storage 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 - 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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storage history:- see this market research page back in:-

2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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Market research can help you avoid going
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Top Storage Articles & Subjects - January 2010
  1. the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide
  2. the SSD Bookmarks
  3. War of the Disks: Hard Disk Drives vs. Flash SSDs
  4. the Top 10 SSD OEMs
  5. the Fastest SSDs
  6. PCIe SSD Market
  7. SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"
  8. 2.5" SSD Market
  9. Disk to disk backup / virtual tape
  10. SSD news & directory
  11. NAS, DAS or SAN? - Choosing the Technology
  12. Flash Memory vs. Hard Disks - Which Will Win?
  13. 1.8" SSD Market
  14. 3.5" SSD Market
  15. A Storage Architecture Guide
  16. Hard Disk Market news & comment
  17. After SSDs... What Next?
  18. RAM SSDs versus Flash SSDs - which is Best?
  19. SATA SSD Market
  20. Are MLC SSDs Ever Safe in Enterprise Apps?
  21. Notebook SSD Market
  22. 2010 - 1st Fizz in the SSD Bubble?
  23. RAM SSD Market
  24. What's a Solid State Disk?
  25. the Benefits of SAS for External Subsystems
  26. the Problem with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs
  27. Can you trust flash SSD specs & benchmarks?
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The most popular product details page viewed on STORAGEsearch.com in December 2009 was this below from Fusion-io
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world's fastest production PCIe SSD
from Fusion-io
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Datamine 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 - Customers Search Differently. Customers (who want to find suppliers and buy stuff) search differently to marketers (who want to promote their companies and sell stuff). That's why most search marketing misses the best targets.
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Analysts - SSD market

Analysts - storage market

Animal brands in storage

Backup software

Boxes / Enclosures / JBODs

Chips - storage processors etc

Data recovery

Disk to disk backup

Disk sanitizers

Duplicators - optical (DVD etc)

Duplicators - HDD / SSD

Events

ExpressCard SSDs

Fastest SSDs

Fibre-channel HBAs

Fibre-Channel SSDs

FireWire storage

Flash Memory

Flash SSDs

Gone away companies

Hard disk drives

History (of data storage)

Hybrid Drives

Industry trade associations

InfiniBand

iSCSI

Jargon - re RAID

Jargon - re flash SSD

Jukeboxes

Marketing Views

Market research

Military storage

NAS

Notebook SSDs

Online Backup

Optical drives

PCIe SSDs

People

Popular Products

Publications - other storage

Rackmount SSDs

RAID controllers

RAID systems

RAM / RAM-based SSDs

Record breaking storage

Reliability

Removable drives

SAN

SAS storage / SAS SSDs

SATA storage / SATA SSDs

SCSI adapters

Security

Services

Software

SSDs

SSD controller chips & IP

Switches (storage)

Tape drives / Tape libraries

Test Equipment

Training

USB storage

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VARS (storage) - UK

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