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Introduction
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Solid-state Storage: Growing Opportunity
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History and Opportunity
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The Challenges of Spinning Media
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Economics of Specialization
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Market Situation: Technologies, Challenges, Opportunities
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SSS Market Segmentation
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SSS Applications: Opportunities
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Alleviating I/O Issues in Virtualized Server Environments
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Making an Educated Investment
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Performance
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Endurance and Reliability
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System Approaches and Methodologies
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Ease of Use
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Pricing/Cost Evaluation
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The Bigger Truth
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ESG Solid-state Storage Coverage and Research
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Vendor “Capsules”
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ESG Market Landscape Report: 2014 Solid-state Storage: The Case for, Types of, and Purchasing Considerations
ESG Market Landscape Report
Oct 16, 2014
The solid-state industry—its players, offerings, and technologies—has undergone considerable evolution in just the past few years. The most recent era of solid-state storage has seen the rise of multiple new vendors with all-flash arrays, and hybrid solutions, along with PCIe offerings and even software-only solutions. The traditional storage players, such as EMC, NetApp, etc., responded quickly by acquiring one or more of these new entrants, by developing their own offerings, or both. With more product options available, those organizations with the greatest demand for high-performance low-latency technology quickly and happily adopted these initial solutions. These were invariably applications where a latency reduction could translate directly into visible and tangible economic benefits: good early examples were high-frequency trading, and high-performance databases.
Now solid-state storage is entering a new era where those organizations with low-latency demands have often already deployed [at least some] solid-state and are reaping the benefits. In this new era, solid-state is finding its way into the mainstream. Much of this movement into both “regular apps” and also the midrange market is derived from solid-state having become (and continuing to be) more affordable. Whether through software innovations such as deduplication and compression, or hybrid deployments with tiering and caching, or even through the integration of lower endurance solid-state technologies such as cMLC or TLC, storage vendors are finding ways to make solid-state more cost-effective and more applicable to the mainstream market. Indeed, spurred by this, multiple vendors are pushing the “flash at the price of disk” message. Beyond making solid-state more affordable, the industry has attained a greater familiarity with solid-state technologies and their wrinkles, deployment optimization, and realistic benefits. This comfort level enables the ROI messages of vendors to resonate more with potential customers, leading to more deployments and even more familiarity.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Solid-state Storage: Growing Opportunity
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History and Opportunity
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The Challenges of Spinning Media
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Economics of Specialization
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Market Situation: Technologies, Challenges, Opportunities
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SSS Market Segmentation
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SSS Applications: Opportunities
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Alleviating I/O Issues in Virtualized Server Environments
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Making an Educated Investment
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Performance
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Endurance and Reliability
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System Approaches and Methodologies
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Ease of Use
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Pricing/Cost Evaluation
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The Bigger Truth
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ESG Solid-state Storage Coverage and Research
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Vendor “Capsules”
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