the Top SSD Companies in Q3 2013

• The SSD market was going to grow from a small base of easy to follow companies into many hundreds of companies that few people - apart from market specialists - would have the time to analyze and follow.
  
  SSDs would change from being a niche topic to become the most significant business leveraging assets in the enterprise IT infrastructure - therefore it would be useful to identify future leaders as early as possible.

• Financial data was backwards looking, was available too late to provide visibility in fast growing discontinuous markets, and was not available for the significant companies in the market - which at that time were still mostly privately owned.

• Market research data was also backwards looking. At that time the SSD market was too small to merit the attention of many dedicated SSD analysts. Also traditional market research techniques would entirely miss the early adoption signals from disruptive startups who wouldn't be on the radar of storage market research companies at all.

• Who really decides the future winners in the SSD market?
  
  It's the early adopters and the movers and shakers who make markets happen.
  
  In the years leading up to the start of this new series - that had always been exclusively (at first) and then heavily represented by the readers of StorageSearch.com.
  
  And although there are now thousands of web sites which cover the SSD market - our readership still includes most of the significant people who will decide the shape of the future SSD market including the people who start and manage the most significant SSD companies and their biggest and most trend setting customers.