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the Top 10 SSD OEMs
After SSDs... What Next?
3 Easy Ways to Enter
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2009 - Year of SSD
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Overview of the
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Storage Visions Calls for
Sponsors
Editor:- June 24, 2009 - the 9th annual Storage Visions Conference is
now open for presentations,
sponsors and
exhibitors.
It will be held at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center
in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5 & 6, 2010.
According to conference
organizer Tom
Coughlin - "The next decade will give us new tools to capture and
organize our lives, more content created by more people and more ways to
distribute, monetize and make that content useful. From cloud storage to
life-logs, from external direct attached and networked storage to the
increasingly high resolution content that we will surround ourselves with
wherever we go-we live in an age when the personal and collective memory of
humans will reach new levels."
IDC Reports on Changing PC Market
FRAMINGHAM,
Mass. - June 11, 2009 - Worldwide PC shipments fell 6.8% in Q1 20009
- the largest decrease since the 3rd quarter of 2001, according to IDC's
Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.
The growth of Mini Notebook PCs is
playing a dramatic role in the market. Mini Notebook PC shipments of 5.7 million
in 1Q09 were ahead of expectations, but contributed to a decline of 3.1 million
traditional notebooks from a year ago.
The impact on shipment value
was dramatic, with Mini Notebook PCs contributing $2.2 billion in the first
quarter of 2009 while the value of traditional notebook shipments declined by
US$8.4 billion from a year ago.
Mini Notebook pricing is expected to
rise with more robust models, and shipment growth is expected to slow with the
release of low-cost, thin-and-light Intel CULV and AMD Congo-based systems this
fall. However, the growth of Mini Notebooks to 9.5% of total PC shipments (17.3%
of Portables) in 2009 will help drive shipment value down by 17.7% even as
volumes decline just 3.2%.
the Most Popular Storage Products
Editor:- June 8,
2009 - StorageSearch.com
today published a new article -
the Most Popular
Products on StorageSearch.com (2007 to 2009)
What can we learn
about changes in the
storage market and the
changing interests of readers by looking at how the most popular storage
products viewed by our readers have changed in recent years?
I
couldn't remember what these products were. And I didn't know the answer. So I
delved into the log files. That revealed some trends which seem obvious now -
but which I hadn't consciously noticed before. ...read the article
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.
SSD Article Pageviews Grow 98%
Editor:- June 1,
2009 - StorageSearch.com
disclosed today that page views for the popular
SSD Buyers Guide
increased 65% in May 2009 compared to the year ago period.
Average page views of the top 5 SSD articles in May 2009 were 98%
higher than the top 5 SSD articles a year ago.
The #1 incoming
search word to the mouse site was "SSD" which occurred
2.4x as often as a year ago. These metrics indicate continued growth
in reader activity related to the SSD market despite the
recession.
"Nearly every IT publication now has something to say about SSDs"
says StorageSearch.com's editor, Zsolt Kerekes. "The SSD content explosion
includes a lot of froth and inaccurate analysis - but also a lot of good
stuff too. The best of the these get honorable mentions in
the SSD Bookmarks.
It's nice to know that despite the intense competition for SSD readers - we're
still maintaining nearly triple percentage digit growth. Thanks to all our
readers and those who link here for helping to make this happen. There's no
shortage of ideas for new original SSD articles. In the past year nearly 1 in
3 new articles got abandoned mid way through editing because something more
significant swept them away."
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.
IDC Calculates the Cost of Owning Storage
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
- March 16, 2009 - IDC estimates the total annual cost to "manage"
the world's installed base of external storage is about 60% of all
enterprise storage-related spending, including software, power, cooling,
administration personnel, and services.
"As the industry attempts to control IT costs, specifically
related to storage, IDC realizes that power and cooling costs are not
the only costs associated with external storage," said David Reinsel, group
vp for IDC Storage and Semiconductors research. "In fact, in the grand
scheme of things, the cost to power and cool external storage pales in
comparison with the cost to acquire and manage storage, including the costs for
storage software and storage administrators."
While interest
around storage efficiency technologies (e.g.,
deduplication,
compression, and thin provisioning) has intensified, impacting power and cooling
costs in the longer term, penetration of these technologies is very low. ...IDC profile,
storage analysts
Editor's
comments:- in the past 10 years - the relative cost of owning data
(compared to buying it) has only improved by 20% - as you can see by comparing
IDC's ratios for 2009 - with those published in
1999
- in an article written by Overland Data.
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
Marketing Planning – Surviving the 2009 Recession
Editor:-
January 20, 2009 - MarketingSage has published a video for marketers
called - "Marketing Planning – Surviving the 2009 Recession."
I've see countless presentations on this subject, but if you're involved in
sales, marketing or business development, this one is worth a look. Among the
many good ideas and analysis which you'll see in this 8 minute presentation, 3
things stuck in my mind.
- customers will focus on mission critical spending and wherever possible
forestall larger purchases (good for the upgrade market)
- lead generation is a top priority for businesses (and new fresh leads are
more likely to come from the web than mailing lists)
- watch out for your competitors exiting the market (creates opportunities to
woo their customers and channels).
No doubt your own top 3 remembered
ideas will be different. ...view
the presentation, Marketing Views,
PR Agencies which are "Editor
Proven" to be Effective |
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New SSD Market Analysts
Directory
Editor:-
September 3, 2008 -
storagesearch.com today published a new directory - "SSD market
analysts and SSD market research".
It lists analysts and
market research companies which sell high quality reports or marketing
services related to the SSD market.
"As the number of SSD focused
analyst companies starts moving into double digits - defragmenting these
strategic data resources and more clearly signposting what they have to
offer, will become a necessary part of the information services that we deliver
to our readers" - said editor, Zsolt Kerekes.
"Many analysts
I talk to have insights which could help vendors design better products or get
them to market more effectively, but they have difficulty getting the
visibility they need when competing for attention in the
storage news reader
space. Storagesearch.com is the right platform - because it's also read by most
SSD vendors themselves. By moving this specialized content off the main
SSD news pages - we'll
be able to give it more depth." ...read the article | |
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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
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| Are MLC SSDs Ever
Safe in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article (published in March 2008) to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
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| Squeak!
- SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance" |
| Does the
fatal gene of "write endurance" built into
flash
solid state
disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration
applications - such as RAID
systems? |
It was
certainly true as little as a few years ago.
What's the risk with
today's devices?
This article looks at the current generation of
products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried. |
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| RAM based SSDs have been
used alongside RAID for years - but
flash SSDs are
physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 160G in 2.5", 512G in
3.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured
in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single
flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to
look interesting.
...read the
article,
storage reliability
solid state disks | |
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Squeak!
- the Fastest Solid State Disks
Speed isn't everything, and
it comes at a price. |
But if you do
need the speediest SSD
then wading through the web sites of over 100 current
SSD oems to find a suitable
candidate slows you down.
And the SSD search problem will get even
worse. |
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research for you to save you time. And this page is updated daily from
storage news and direct
inputs from oems. ...read
the article, | |
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