the Top 10 SSD Companies - Q3 2018based on StorageSearch.com reader
interest in this period) |
| 1 |
NGD
Systems - same as before.
In this quarter NGD Systems received a
Best of Show Innovation Award at Flash Memory Summit 2018 for its In-Situ
Processing technology aka "Computational Storage". Also in this
quarter SNIA announced it
was interested in discussing how standards could be usefully established for
this SSD type - in effect reacting to the pioneering work done by NGD Systems.
Best known for shipping SSDs with in-situ processing / computational storage
- comment from Q2 2018 |
| 2 |
Foremay - up 3 places.
In
this quarter Foremay didn't announce any new products.Best known for military
SSDs - comment from Q2 2018 |
| 3 |
Pure Storage - same
as before.
In this quarter Pure Storage (which had already been the
#1 SSD Company in the Top SSD Companies on StorageSearch.com for 3 consecutive
quarters from Q2 2016) announced it had improved its position within the
Leaders quadrant of the July 2018 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays by
Gartner, Inc.Best
known for marketing AFAs as lower cost enterprise storage systems compared to
traditional HDD arrays - comment from Q2 2018 |
| 4 |
NVMdurance - re-entry
to the list.
In the quarter after this it became publicly known
that NVMdurance's IP and assets had been acquired and that the company was going
back into stealth mode |
| 5 |
BiTMICRO - up 4 places.
Just
before the start of tthis quarter BiTMICRO published an educational blog about
data security and military sanitization standards at
https://www.bitmicro.com/data-security-and-military-sanitization-standards/
Best known as one of the few pioneers of flash SSDs from the 1990s - which has
survived without being acquired - and which has been active in both military and
enterprise embedded markets - comment from Q2 2018 |
| 6 |
Micron - down 2 places.
In
this quarter Intel and Micron agreed to a parting of the ways on future 3DXPoint
development.Best known for being one of the world's largest manufacturers of
memory and history of collaboration with Intel on architectural roadmaps.
(Including its recent ailing venture on 3DXPoint.) - comment from Q2 2018 |
| 7 |
Toshiba Memory - same as
before.
In this quarter Toshiba announced that it had developed a
native NVMe over Fabrics SSD for direct Ethernet access using
Marvell's newly
announced NVMe-oF SSD Converter Controller.Best known as leading manufacturer
of flash memory and recent spin-off from its parent company of the same name -
comment from Q2 2018 |
| 8 |
Intel
- re-entry to the list.
In this quarter Intel announced details of
early customer deployments of its QLC PCIe 3D NAND SSDs in the M.2 form factor
for datacenter use. Intel also announced the acquisition of
eASIC. |
| 9 |
Kaminario - re-entry to
the list.
In this quarter ending September. 30 Kaminario (later)
disclosed it had been operating with positive cash flow. This being an
indication by the company of the success of its switch to a software business
model. |
| 10 (tied) |
Seagate - down 8 places.
In
this quarter Seagate a new range of
cloud targeted (read
mostly) SATA SSDs (Nytro 1000 family) using lossless compression - carrying on
a tradition of using compression for reliability and performance which had been
pioneered in its classic SandForce controllers.
Best known as one of the 2 leading hard drive manufacturers which
successfully crossed the chasm to SSD market prominence - in Seagate's case (so
far) without owning memory fabs - comment from Q2 2018 |
IBM
- re-entry to the list.
In this quarter IBM announced details of the
new heir in the long running family saga of the world's fastest storage
(RamSan) family it had acquired from
Texas Memory Systems
in 2012.
The FlashSystem 9100 is a 2U box with NVMe SSDs inside which
provides 403TB usable uncompressed - and GbE, FC or SAS host connectivity. In a
departure from previous designs the new The FlashSystem 9100 model used MRAM
from Everspin to
guarantee the integrity of transient data in "RAM" instead of using
traditional volatile RAM held up by supercaps. |
