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 Jason Lervold | Aug 30, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
With all SSD companies (finally) reporting results for CQ2 ’16, one thing is clear – SSDs are ahead of schedule! It is now very clear that client SSDs going into Notebook PC’s are tracking fantastically, with expected attach rates to be around 34% for 2016, or over...
by Jason Lervold | Aug 2, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
As we stated in a recent blog, NAND is, in fact, in short supply these days. But let’s be honest, is it really going to effect the supply going to SSDs? Will our options for buying an SSD-base notebook PC dry up over the next few quarters? Or will notebook PCs with...
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 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....
