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new to SSD? - new report
from Forward Insights
Editor:- January 31, 2012 - Forward Insights
has recently published a new report -
SSD Technology and
Applications: A Primer (88 pages $1,499).
Author Gregory Wong says - "It's
an ideal guide for novices interested in acquiring a basic understanding of SSD
technology and applications as well as a handy reference for more experienced
professionals."
Editor's comments:- Among other things
(see contents
pdf for more details) Greg says the report also provides an overview of the
competitive landscape for SSDs.
See also:- SSD
market analysts.
the top SSD companies in Q4 2011
Editor:- January
20, 2012 - StorageSearch.com
today published the new 19th quarterly edition of -
the Top 20 SSD Companies
List.
As I said to a couple of people yesterday - "In an
uncertain and disruptive market like SSDs - if you're looking to shortlist
partners, suppliers and investments - there's safety in numbers."
It's a good initial filter and starting point. I've always found it
very useful and that's why I decided to share the list with readers back in
2007 when
there were only 55 companies in the SSD market. Today I talk to over 300 SSD
companies. You probably have better things to do with your time.
...read the article
notebook SSD ASAP shipments may grow 100x
Editor:-
January 12, 2012 - iSuppli
says that the use of SSD as cache in ultrabooks (SSD notebook ASAPs)
will grow from just under a million units in
2011 to
nearly 26 million in 2012
and then may
continue
growing to 120 million units by 2015. See also:-
notebook SSDs
how can all these SSD companies keep growing?
Editor:-
November 21, 2011 - I'm often asked this question...
Will the
enterprise SSD market be big enough for all these companies [list] to grow?
So
today I've published a new article - which summarizes what I've been saying to
the readers I talk to. But I've redacted the actual company names from [list] -
because everyone's got their own little list of SSD companies for which my
answer may hold true. ...click to read
article
new DRAM market report
Editor:- July 27, 2011 -
Databeans has
published a new edition of its
Memory
Market Tracker ($2,800 quarterly / $6,450 annually) which provides the
latest market trends in both DRAM and Flash as well as other memory markets
including SRAM, PROM/EPROM, IC Card, Contactless IC Card, and Other Memory.
Among other things - Databeans says - "Certain
DRAM suppliers, such as
Nanya, Taiwan's biggest computer DRAM chipmaker, expects prices to grow by a
double-digit percentage during 3rd quarter of 2011, boosted by back-to-school
demand and corporate PC replacement demand, as well as limited supply thanks to
a rush of tablets that have hit the market in the middle of 2011 and have
gobbled up available DRAM supplies".
See also:- storage
market research, storage
chips.
tales from the enterprise storage sales trench
Editor:-
June 22, 2011 -
tales from the
enterprise SSD sales trench is the topic of a new blog by
Woody Hutsell
.
It's tempting to think that there's an idealistic "right
way" for big bucks storage users to go about the process of deciding
how to get more performance out of their increasingly virtualized systems. In
real life big money gets spent - but big performance doesn't always
follow.
So what are the challenges for the SSD industry selling the
airy fairy concept of better storage performance? - when most enterprise
users don't have a good grasp of how their existing systems work - and when -
as Woody says - "Some high percentage of IT buying is done without any
real research. " ...read the article
Web-Feet launches top 30 SSD oems SWOT service
Editor:-
April 14, 2011 - Web-Feet
Research has added a quarterly SSD company SWOT market analysis
service to its range of SSD reports.
Web-Feet says that given
the large number of players in the SSD market, it is not an easy task profiling
each company from a competitive position. Their new publication covers 30
notable companies with SWOT analysis along with product summaries and other
information to help compare companies with each other.
The tool
utilizes the Excel " Filter" feature to select specific companies
and/or market segment to assist users in their company analysis and provide
additional insights on their competitors.
The full SSD SWOT package subscription for 4 quarters costs $7.5K,
or individually the cost for the first quarter edition is $3.5K and $2.5K for
each quarter thereafter. Alternatively for customers who buy the SSD Markets
and Applications series (which costs $9K) the SWOT is bundled at no
charge.
New companies will be added each quarter with SWOT analysis and
pertinent data. For more info phone
Alan Niebel +1
831.373.1985 or email Alan.Niebel@web-feetresearch.com See also:-
SSD market analysts
SSD Innovators Group
Editor:- February 9, 2011 -
new to me (although it started 2 years ago) is the
SSD
Innovators Group - on Linkedin.
If you want to hear a more voices
about SSD's future direction - that seems to be a place worth you investing
the next few minutes of your time.
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content on this website.
the future of data storage
Editor:- January 23, 2011
-
the
future of data storage is the lofty sounding but aptly chosen title of a
new article published online today in Broadcast Engineering -
written by Zsolt
Kerekes editor of StorageSearch.com
(that's me).
It's a completely new article which synthesizes and
integrates concepts from several futuristic articles which have already
appeared here on the mouse site and wraps them into a cohesive whole. Anyone
who reads it will get a clear idea of where the incremental changes they read
about in storage news pages (like this one) are likely to end up. ...read
the article
Jim Handy says hybrids will replace HDDs in PCs
Editor:-
October 25, 2010 - Objective Analysis
has published a new market report
Are
Hybrid Drives Finally Coming of Age? - ($5,000 54 pages).
It
explains hybrid drive technical principals, the technology's potential market,
competing technologies, and how the NAND, PC,
SSD, and
HDD markets will all be
impacted by this new twist on an old technology.
The report tells
why the technology failed in the past, and forecasts its anticipated growth.
Objective Analysis says this technology was well conceived but poorly
implemented in its first generation. Now that working versions have been
implemented the hybrid drive promises to sweep the PC hard drive market.
"We expect the
hybrid drive
market to nearly double every year for the 5 years following its initial
adoption, reaching 600 million units by 2016," said the report's author
Jim Handy. "This
blazing growth will result from hybrid drives replacing standard HDDs in
mainstream PCs."
Editor's comments:- this is the scenario which
Seagate is hoping will
come true - according to their recent statements.
In contrast
StorageSearch.com's view is that instead of hybrids - users will do better using
vanilla SSDs in light weight notebooks and in higher capacity notebooks
using a combination of vanilla SSD (on the motherboard) working with vanilla
HDDs tuned by SSD ASAP
techniques (controller or software).
The market will decide which
approach they prefer. For more differences of opinion about how solid state
storage should fit in with computer architecture see
the SSD Heresies. | |
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