Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/66e3ae/solid_state_drives) has announced the addition of the "Solid State Drives in the Enterprise" report to their offering.
This report covers the market for flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) in enterprise servers and SANs (storage area networks). Through a months-long series of interviews with participants in all sides of this new market report has developed models for acceptance in several key markets.
Key findings are:
1. The market for enterprise SSDs will grow by two orders of magnitude, from 17,000 units in 2008 to over 1.7 million units in 2013, representing an average annual growth of 148%.
2. Enterprise SSD revenues, which should reach $90 million in 2008, will grow at a 65% average annual rate to exceed $1 billion by 2013.
3. A significant portion of this growth will be driven by a steep price decline in the SSD market driven by NAND price declines, a move from SLC to MLC flash, and other important price declines driven by a maturing of the technology.
4. Enterprise HDDs are threatened by this new technology, which will initially replace enterprise HDDs at a 10:1 ratio, dropping to 3:1 by the end of the forecast period. This means that the Enterprise HDD market will shrink faster than the enterprise SSD market can grow.
The enterprise SSD market will see rapid adoption in transaction processing systems in the near term, but over the long run even stronger growth will occur in large Internet systems.
The earliest and most stunning successes for flash SSDs are occurring in the enterprise server sector. Why is this? What is unique about enterprise applications that warrants the use of a drive that is deemed to be far too costly in many other business-related computer applications? This report not only explains why and how SSDs are gaining traction in the enterprise server market, but we back this up with detailed unit shipment forecasts for SSDs into each of the major enterprise markets.
This study exhaustively examines several enterprise server applications and explains the appeal of SSDs in each. The report contains a compilation of opinions on enterprise SSDs from interviews with numerous server manufacturers and users. Each server type is modeled with a unit shipment forecast which is used to derive disk drive consumption forecasts. These disk drive forecasts are further broken out into forecasts of SSD penetration into each server type. The total is rolled up into a single unit shipment and revenue forecast for SSDs in the enterprise by SSD type.
Key Topics Covered:
- SSDs in the Enterprise
- Enterprise Server Types and what They Need
- Transaction Processing Systems
- Charge Card Processing
- Reservations Systems
- Algorithmic Trading
- Currency Exchange and Arbitrage
- Real Time Transaction Processing Systems
- Media Servers
- Video on Demand (VOD)
- Special Needs of HDTV
- Broadcast Video
- Video Production and Modeling
- Large Internet Servers
- Caching Requirements for Internet Servers
- Other Virtualized Machines
- Science & Engineering
- Data Modeling
- Weather/Life Sciences
- Aerospace Design
- Nuclear Fission Models
- Software Development
- Reduced Power Consumption
- Lower Cost of Storage
- Reduction in Server Count
- Power/Cooling Savings
- Reliability Concerns
- The Impact of Price Reductions
- Transaction Processing Systems
- Media Servers
- Forecasts
- Methodology
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
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