How are high performance SSDs impacting the
Enterprise, Client and Commercial applications?
Who is pushing the edge of SSD and Controllers:
intelligent processing of NVMe storage, compression and Object storage?
MONTEREY,
CA., January 16, 2017 – As
the SSD market enters 2017, the long-anticipated rollout of All Flash Arrays
featuring NVMe is finally finding traction at the high end of the enterprise
market. Making the transition from SATA and SAS to PCIe and NVMe has been fraught
with delays in standardizing the NVMe protocols and the development of an
Ethernet- type fabric based on the NVMe protocol (NVMf). Overall, the SSD market has grown
significantly in all three markets: enterprise, client and commercial reaching
a market volume of $41 billion by 2021. With the adoption of new interfaces
like NVMe and the Memory Channel, and embracing emerging media like 3D NAND and
Persistent Memory (ReRAM / XPoint) the industry is undergoing a transformation.
The old computing storage model is unable to keep up with the amount of data
needed to be stored. It needs to merge storage into memory in order to process
in real time more complex data, diverse data types and much higher volume of
data anticipated through 2021.
Even though
NAND-Flash based solid-state-disk drives perform at several orders of magnitude
higher than hard-disk-drives they suffer from the same non-deterministic
inadequacies as compared to solutions based on XPoint memory. Flash memory
based SSDs suffer the indeterminate delay inserted by the Flash Translation
Layer in its production of the of physical block addresses. This is one reason
that All-Flash-Array architects like Pure Storage desire additional physical
control at the Flash Translation Layer. Additional storage system functions
such as deduplication, compression, error coding, power-on fill, data recovery ops,
checkpointing, and scrubbing are further accelerated by this approach.
WebFeet
Research, Inc., an industry leading Non Volatile Memory and Storage market
research firm, released the twelfth annual report Solid State Drives (SSD)
Markets and Applications 2017 report, SS300SSD-2017. This report concentrates
on the enterprise market with the emergence of PCIe, NVMe (U.2 and M.2) and NVDIMM
SSDs as well as quantifying the client and commercial markets. It addresses the difficulty of migrating from
HDD to SSD and to Hybrid and All Flash storage systems while advancing the
‘intelligent processing’ of memory and storage.
For the executive, marketing, or finance
professional this report is vital. When combined with the SSD and Controller
SWOT report, SS350SWOT-2016, the reader will have a comprehensive view of
the SSD market from the forecast to knowing which companies are providing the
latest in SSD and controller offerings.
About WebFeet Research
Headquartered in
Monterey, California, WebFeet Research provides business consulting and market
research services in the memory and storage markets, with a focus on
nonvolatile memory and solid state storage technologies. For further
information, please contact:
Alan Niebel
WebFeet Research,
Inc
w3.webfeetresearch.com
alan.niebel@web-feetresearch.com
