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| ACSL - (publisher of storagesearch.com) | Notebook SSD Market Overview - is not pretty Editor:- June 15, 2009 - StorageSearch.com published a new article today called - Overview of the Notebook SSD Market. This is a troubled and complex segment of the SSD market - which has earned a justifiably bad reputation. Nevertheless SSD vendors continue to throw products at the notebook market in many shapes and sizes - hoping that something will stick before their cash runs out. ...read the article | |
| Coughlin Associates | What's Holding up the SSD market? - Podcast
on Denali.com Editor:- March 3, 2009 - Denali.com has posted an interview with Tom Coughlin on the subject of - 'What's Holding up the SSD market?'" In this 20 minute podcast Coughlin discusses many of the uncertainties and complicating factors that will have to be resolved before flash SSDs can significantly displace magnetic media in the broad range of computing products. Among the many insights:- many new flash SSD oems aiming at the notebook market just don't know enough about what happens to hard disks in all the many applications they are used in, and this is a multi-year learning curve. - I'd certainly agree with that. In my view there are many hastily designed SSDs in the market which merely represent what the designer could cut and paste from their own IP, sometimes tweaked to look good in benchmarks. In the server acceleration space (sometimes referred to as tier zero storage) - Coughlin is asked what proportion of this market for hard drives is accessible to SSDs. In line with long established SSD industry thinking Coughlin says that SSDs don't replace hard drives - but that maybe about 1 in 10 drives could usefully be deployed as SSDs. Tom also talks about the importance of Storage Events. | |
| Forward Insights | Forward Insights Unveils SSD Market Reports
Planned for 2009 Editor:- December 15, 2008 - Forward Insights has published a new list of planned market reports in 2009.
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| Gerson Lehrman Group | Flash Memory Experts - Another Directory Editor's comments:- April 16, 2009 - GLG has a Flash Memory Experts - Study Group This directory lists over 100 people in various companies - including many experts on the flash market. | |
| IDC | IDC Publishes New SSD Market Report FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - June 24, 2008 - IDC has published a 42 page market report - "Worldwide SSD 2007-2012 Forecast and Analysis" (price $4,500). IDC says the SSD market generated nearly $400 million in revenues in 2007 and will grow at a 70% CAGR until 2012. | |
| In-Stat | In-Stat Says SSDs will be in 50% of Mobile Computers by 2013 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - July 17, 2006 - hard disk drives face competition in the mobile computer mass storage market as flash-based solid state drives stand ready in the wings according to a new report (price $2,995 ) published by In-Stat. In fact, SSDs have the potential to dethrone HDD as the top laptop storage choice within 10 years, the high-tech market research firm says. The research leads In-Stat to believe that the SSD market share in mobile computers could reach 50% by 2013. | |
| iSuppli | SSD Controllers Report In the 2nd half of 2008 iSuppli published a report called - SSD Controllers: Enhance SSD Future Growth. See also:- the SSD Controllers / IP directory here on storagesearch.com. | |
| Objective Analysis | SSDs in the Enterprise - New Market Report Los Gatos, CA - August 18, 2008 - Objective Analysis has published a new report (price $5,000) called - "Solid State Drives in the Enterprise". The 60-page report not only explains why and how flash SSDs are gaining traction in the enterprise server market, but is backed up with detailed unit shipment forecasts for SSDs into each of the major enterprise markets. This study exhaustively examines several enterprise server applications and explains the appeal of SSDs in each. The report contains a compilation of opinions on enterprise SSDs that Objective Analysis has learned from interviews with numerous server manufacturers and users. Some findings from the report:-
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| TrendFocus | TRENDFOCUS Reports on SSDs LOS ALTOS, Calif. - July 9, 2008 - SSDs, long touted as an HDD replacement, are too costly today and have not yet posed a real threat to HDDs, according to a TrendFOCUS report - "FOCUS ON: Solid State Drives." According to the report (price $799) over 50 million HDDs could be replaced by SSDs within a few years. Two HDD market segments are exposed to future SSD incursion – enterprise and mobile PCs. SSDs in enterprise systems and servers achieve high IOPS at low power consumption. Due to the high displacement ratio of one SSD to multiple HDDs, a modest penetration of SSDs as forecasted may cause enterprise HDD growth to peak within four years. HDDs will not be completely displaced from enterprise systems as higher capacity, cheaper HDDs will still be needed. | |
| Web-Feet Research | Web-Feet Research Launches Inaugural
Quarterly SSD Report Monterey, CA - April 7, 2008 - Web-Feet Research, Inc. announces the availability of the SSD Markets and Applications Quarterly Series for 1Q 2008. This is the inaugural edition of the quarterly update series for this annual report. Due to the changing nature of the Solid State Storage market, and in keeping with Web-Feet Research' mission to keep our clients informed with forward looking industry specific information, we are excited to provide this valuable quarterly series. The Quarterly Series (price $9,000) provides an in-depth analysis of the market and applications for Solid State Storage, including competing and complementing technologies. Overall SSD revenue growth is expected to reach $11.7 billion in 2012. SSD unit and revenue growth will be driven heavily by low cost PCs from OLPC, Asus's Eee PC, Intel's Classmate and others along with the rapid adoption of SSDs in notebook PCs. MLC technology for SSDs will eventually be adopted as the standard design-in for these platforms due to MLC technologies' better value proposition. Enterprise unit and revenue growth will continue to be healthy as SSD unit prices continue to decline over the forecast period. SSD revenue growth is expected to be 34.4% year over year. Although SSD adoption and growth is healthy in enterprise applications, its total contribution compared to the overall HDD enterprise storage continues to be a fraction of the total storage market for the forecast period. | |
| Westwood Marketing | Flash Metrics Reports Westwood Marketing's monthly Flash Metrics Executive Report includes industry analysis and forecasting. It also provides subscribers with extensive analysis of flash memory cards, USB Flash Drives, portable media players, and SSDs from leading retailers, e-commerce sellers, and OEM's. The Flash Metrics Executive Report also includes news briefs, new product overviews and weekly promotional advertising data that help subscribers to stay at the forefront of the industry. With its focus on finished products, Flash Metrics provides subscribers throughout the Flash Memory food chain with timely, accurate data, and sophisticated analytical tools. Component Metrics focus is on contract and spot market memory pricing data and its analysis. Combined, the reports help subscribers enhance their competitive position, increase profit margins, and reduce financial risk. Our top-down/bottom-up tool allows subscribers to quickly and accurately determine finished good pricing and competitive positioning. Data for both reports is collected from reliable sources in North America, Europe and Asia on a weekly basis |
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