by John Chen | Apr 25, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
During the week of April 11, 2016, three notable enterprise system-related announcements were made by three storage device companies. Micron held an analyst day at its recently opened Storage Solutions Center in Austin, Texas, while HGST unveiled a new addition to its...
by John Chen | Mar 31, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
If anyone has been in the storage industry for a number of years, we can all agree that there was so much hype about PCIe taking over the SSD world! Since around 2012 you couldn’t be at a trade show or meeting without having to hear ‘isn’t PCIe going to kill off SATA...
by John Chen | Mar 28, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
SSDs in traditional storage systems, either as hybrid arrays or all flash arrays (AFAs) have been in the news for a number of years now, becoming mainstream solutions options to improve storage performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) for many IT datacenter...
by Mark Geenen | Mar 21, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Just recently, there was a white paper authored by Google staff titled “Disks for Data Centers”. In it, the authors called for a new HDD form factor that meets five key criteria. In summary, the paper questions the current HDD form factor and how changing some key...
by Jason Lervold | Mar 7, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog, Uncategorized
TRENDFOCUS just recently published its CQ4 ’15 report, which included details for all SSD types and interfaces shipped in the final quarter of 2015. One thing that continues to be clear is the staying power of SAS SSDs. SAS SSDs have continued to show growth virtually...
by Mark Geenen | Feb 23, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
HDD unit shipments dipped below 115 million in the fourth calendar quarter of 2015 due to weak PC sales and impact of SSD incursion in notebook computers. For the year, HDD sales were down 16.9% to 469 million units according to TRENDFOCUS’ CQ4 HDD Market Update....
