by John Chen | Sep 9, 2021 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
On August 25, The Wall Street Journal broke news of a potential merger between Western Digital and Kioxia Holdings. Both companies are long-time partners in the Flash Ventures JV, dating back to the SanDisk and Toshiba Memory days. The article suggested that the deal...
by John Chen | Dec 5, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
TRENDFOCUS reported that CQ3 ’17 enterprise storage device shipments of HDDs and SSDs posted solid exabyte growth as major cloud and hyperscale customers continue the current cycle of expansion. Capacity enterprise, or nearline, HDDs that provide cost-effective bulk...
by Jason Lervold | Nov 15, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
TRENDFOCUS has just released its CQ3 ’17 Quarterly Update for the NAND/SSD market. Only one segment, enterprise PCIe, saw unit growth where every other segment – client drive format factor, client modules, enterprise SATA and enterprise SAS, all declined from the...
by Mark Geenen | Nov 10, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
This week TRENDFOCUS co-sponsored The Enterprise Storage Conference in Beijing. Other sponsors included Dell, VMWare, Lenovo, Nutanix, Huawei, HGST, Kaminario, Alibaba, Intel, Tencent and more than 40 other Chinese and global data storage companies. Approximately 400...
by Mark Geenen | Aug 21, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
With the two first quarters of sub-100 million sales, some people in the HDD industry may be feeling that the “sky is falling” again. It’s easy to understand this sentiment, especially with SSDs making steady inroads in the client PC space. However, HDD demand...
by John Chen | Jul 21, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
The short answer is, “I don’t know”, but consider where the modern smartphone is today, what it does, and what may it become, results in a few very important points to consider when trying to predict what will come next. The screen is still the most important user...
