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 John Chen | Apr 26, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Intel made several Optane product announcements over the past couple of weeks, including high-end NVMe-based add-in-cards targeting enterprise servers. Optane is the commercial product name for 3D XPoint (pronounced “cross point”), next generation non-volatile storage...
by Mark Geenen | Jan 12, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
CQ4 is history, and preliminary results have starting rolling in. All the data suggests that PC sales were better than expected, and unit shipments were up sequentially in CQ4. This fueled ODM builds and HDD shipments, as both segments posted flat to higher results,...
by John Chen | Dec 20, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog, Uncategorized
2.5” CE HDDs for game consoles hit a record high unit shipment level in CQ3 ’16, ramping up for what appears to be another strong holiday season for console system sales. With mid-cycle upgrades by Microsoft and Sony, along with price cuts to modified original systems...
by Mark Geenen | Nov 28, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
The strong rebound in HDD demand in CQ3 was great relief for the HDD industry. It has been seven long years, since the HDD industry had a Q-Q growth of this magnitude. More importantly, the strength of the nearline market is what resulted in improved gross margins and...
