Headquartered in Monterey, California, Web-Feet Research provides business
consulting and market research services in the memory and storage markets, with
a focus on nonvolatile memory and solid state storage technologies and small
form factor hard disk drives.
see also:-
WFR
- mentions on STORAGEsearch.com,
WFR's reports page
Who's who in SSD? - Web-Feet Research
by
Zsolt Kerekes,
editor - StorageSearch.com
- May 2016
Web-Feet
Research was founded in 2000 by
Alan Niebel
and has been researching the SSD market since 2002. They publish many
quarterly and annual reports which cover various aspects of the NVM and SSD
market with prices typically ranging from $2,500 to $36,000.
For
similar companies in the SSD market data ecosystem take a look at these
directories - SSD
Market Analysts, storage
market research directory. |
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In
November 2009
- Web-Feet Research
published a quarterly update to its annual report ($7,500
annually) on SSD Markets and Applications, (MS300SSD3-29).
This
update encompasses performance acceleration options in enterprise systems that
include DRAM,
PCIe attached, Flash
plus DRAM, rack mount
flash systems and SSDs.
In March 2010 -
Web-Feet
Research published a
quarterly
update to its 7th
annual
report on SSD Markets and Applications (annual price $9,000).
This
update focuses on the SSD
market dynamics for the year ending
2009 covering
the Client, Enterprise, and Commercial markets.
In March 2011 -
Web-Feet Research
said they expect the embedded flash drive market to approach $17 billion
annual revenue in 2015.
In Web-Feet 's usage - "EFDs provide
internal storage functions in mobile, consumer and some compute applications.
They are the non-removable Flash storage positioned between Flash cards, found
in many of these same applications, and SSDs. As the EFD evolves they take on
many controller features found in the low end
SSDs."
In April
2011 -
Web-Feet
Research added a quarterly SSD company
SWOT market analysis
service to its range of SSD reports.
In April 2012 -
Web-Feet
Research published the 2011 Non Volatile Memory Market Shares by Vendor
report ($2,500) includes market shares by vendor for total nv memory (all
types) and includes breakdowns by vendor and forecasts. |
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can you
trust SSD market data?
how fast can your SSD
run backwards?
The
big market impact of SSD dark matter
where are we
heading with memory intensive systems? |
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| "Not since 2000, have
the memory suppliers been in an undersupply situation... NAND vendors are
producing 2D (planar) NAND at full capacity, while concurrently making the
costly shift in production to 3D NAND." |
| Web-Feet Reports on NVM Market
- SSD news - March
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Oh flash - how do I love
thee? Let me count the ways
170 ways for sure. Maybe more
says SSD market report from Web-Feet Research |
Editor:- December 4, 2014 - In the past 5 years
or so - many of you have heard me talking about
"hidden
segments in the enterprise",
"defragmentation
in the industrial market", "application specific SSDs" etc.
My intention in such articles and in comments related to
SSD news - has been to show
you that there are a lot more uses for specialized flash SSDs then you might
think if you started from market models which segment traditional devices such
as hard drives,
CPUs and
DRAM and tried to migrate
that thinking to SSDs.
That's because SSDs are not only creating new
markets - but - being entirely artificial devices - you can adapt their
characteristics (size, power, performance, reliability, cost) in any way choose
to - if you can find enough customers with needs, budgets and risk profiles
which make doing these design trims worthwhile from a business point of view.
You
might ask - has anybody added these application segment up?
I saw a
possible answer in an email this morning from Alan Niebel
at Web-Feet
Research.
Alan lists over 170 end-use applications for
flash memory based devices in a new market report -
Flash Memory
Applications and Markets: 2012-2019 report, CS100FA-2014, (321 pages,
$5.95K) - which also includes many forecasts and projections.
Also in
this report - Web-Feet Research provides a density breakout by revenue, units,
and Mbits for SLC NAND, 2-bits per cell NAND, 3-bits/cell and enterprise
2-bits/cell NAND, SPI NAND, Combo (MCP) NAND and 3D NAND; NOR, MLC NOR, serial
NOR, Combo NOR and serial Combo NOR; and Phase Change Memory.
One
thing you may be sure of is that the 170 figure is just a convenient starting
point to think about the flash market in a way which makes sense in a single
document. But don't be surprised if future editions talk about much bigger
numbers.
If you think that paying around $5K for a market report sounds
like a lot - just think of how much time it would take you to even make a list
of these different flash products and applications. Sounds cheap when you look
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