32nd
quarterly edition - based on search metrics in Q1 2015
by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - StorageSearch.com
- June 23, 2015 |
The
Top SSD Companies is
always one of the most
popular articles here on the mouse site.
The usefulness and past
successes of this market tracker - which has now completed 8 years of
publication - has been documented in
past editions of this
article - so I won't repeat any of those points here.
I explained in
a recent popular article about
enterprise
flash consolidation the reasons I expect to see the number of SSD
companies eventually shrink significantly. But in that same article I
also said - that in the coming year or so the opposite will happen.
This final phase of fattening the SSD vendor count (battle of the bulge)
will occur because many of the products needed to enable the transition to
a more user-friendly and competitive consolidated market will come from
new companies and entirely new product types which only exist today in
embryonic forms.
So for that reason - this top SSD companies series
- which has tracked the aggregate online research behavior of millions of SSD
readers on StorageSearch.com - will continue to yield up useful alert signals
from the crowd intelligence which has been at the forefront of the SSD market
during the past 17 years.
I've been later than usual getting this list
to you. And so to avoid any futher delays I'm just publishing it as a list
without any detailed narrative. You can see more info about each company in
the usual ways. Here's the list you've been waiting for. |
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the Top 25 SSD Companies - 2015 Q1based on SSD search volume in the
first quarter 2015 |
1 - Diablo Technologies -
same as before
This was the 3rd consecutive quarter at #1 for Diablo.
Interest in Diablo continued to be at an intensely high level - being almost as
much as the sum of the #2 and #3 companies combined and about 9x the
level of the #20 ranked company. (These relative ratios of reader interest
have been similar for other #1 ranked companies in many past editions of this
list.)
see also:-
memory channel
SSDs
2 - SanDisk
- same as before
see also:-
PCIe SSDs,
SSD software,
SAS SSDs
3 - HGST
- same as before
see also:-
SAS SSDs,
cloud SSDs,
acquisitions
4 - OCZ -
up 1 place
see also:-
PCIe SSDs,
2.5" NVMe SSDs,
auto-caching software
5 - Cisco
- up 9 places
rackmount
SSDs
6 - Seagate
- up 2 places
see also:-
SSD controllers,
PCIe SSDs,
SAS SSDs
7 - IBM -
down 3 places
see also:-
fastest SSDs,
rackmount SSDs
8 - Virtium
- up 3 places
see also:-
industrial SSDs,
M.2 embedded SSDs
9 - Violin
Memory - up 2 places
see also:-
rackmount SSDs,
segmentational
problems in the enterprise flash market
10 - Tegile
Systems - down 1 place
see also:-
new
pricing models for flash arrays,
hybrid arrays
11 - Microsemi
- up 5 places
see also:-
military SSDs,
capacitor-less
holdup in SSDs
12 - A3CUBE
- down 1 place
see also:-
PCIe
fabrics
13 - Micron
- down 7 places
see also:-
flash and other nvm,
14 - Pure
Storage - up 4 places
see also:-
VCs, IPOs and SSDs,
15 - Kaminario
- up 5 places
see also:-
consolidation
trends in enterprise flash
16 - (tied place) - Samsung - up 3 places
see
also:- consumer SSDs,
NVMe
SSDs
16 - (tied place) - PLX Technology / Avago -
down 2 places
see also:-
storage glue chips
18 - PLDA
- up 3 places
see also:-
SSD controllers
19 - Cactus
Technologies - 1st appearance in this series
see also:-
mSATA SSDs,
industrial SSDs
20 - Intel
- up 1 place
21 - Foremay
- down 4 places
see also:-
SSD security
22 - EMC
- up 3 places
see also:-
unreal AFA
startup comparisons with EMC
23 - Nimbus
Data Systems - reappearance in this list
see also:-
rackmount SSDs,
market research
24 - InnoDisk
- down 14 places
see also:-
industrial SSDs,
adaptive ECC
25 - Marvell
- reappearance in this list
see also:-
SSD controllers
And which companies were just outside the list in Q1 2015?
They
all come with their own stories - about about themselves and what their ranking
tells us about emerging changes in the SSD market.
So - here for you
to think about - are the next 10 companies (listed in ranking order):-
Digesting
the implications from the above will keep you busy.
That's it from
me for now. I'm sorry for being so late with this edition of this list.
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