Global Data Storage Market Analysis 2017 By Prime Players – Microsoft Corporation, VMware, IBM Corporation, NetApp, Sandisk Corporation, Hitachi Data System Corporation, Nexenta Systems Inc. etc.

The research study, titled “Global Data Storage Market Report 2017,” presents a detailed assessment of the historical and the current performance of this market, taking the key trends, driving factors, limitations, and significant opportunities into consideration. The global Data Storage market research report will assist you take well-versed decisions, understand opportunities, plan effective business strategies, plan new projects, analyze drivers and restraints and give you a vision on the industry forecast. Take a look to the Sample Pages @ https://www.researchnreports.com/request_sample.php?id=192129 Data Storage Market Data storage is the account (putting away) of (data) in a storage medium. Recording is expert by for all intents and purposes any type of vitality. DNA and RNA, penmanship, phonographic recording, attractive tape, and optical plates are on the whole cases of storage media. Electronic data storage requires electrical energy to store and recover data. Data storage in an advanced, machine-decipherable medium is now and again called computerized data. PC data storage is one of the center elements of a universally useful PC. Electronic archives can be put away in a significantly less space than paper records. Market Segments: The research report not only offers readers a broad overview of the international industry but also provides a granular assessment of the regional market in several countries and regions. Aspects such as the history of market development, the major development trends in the global Data Storage market, the development of products and technologies, the vendor landscape, and the promising countries and regions such as United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea and China have been included in this report, in addition to a comparative analytical assessment of the various regional segments. Any Queries? Ask to Our Industry Experts @ https://www.researchnreports.com/enquiry_before_buying.php?id=192129 Market Drivers: The global Data Storage market report profiles the key market players such as @Microsoft Corporation, @VMware, @IBM Corporation, @NetApp, @Sandisk Corporation, @Hitachi Data System Corporation, @Nexenta Systems etc. which are dominant in the market. It also provides essential information about leading companies, such as product specification, financial overview, business overview, contact information, and recent developments. The challenges faced by the companies, the factors helping them to reach the top level in the global Data Storage market, and the strategies implemented by each of the market players to market their products have been given. With the help of such data, a stakeholder or an emerging player in the market is armed to make strategic decisions leading to their benefit or profit. Key Deliverables: Market analysis, with region specific assessments and competition analysis. Market definition along with the identification of key drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges Extensively researched competitive landscape section with company profiles of the key players, with the analysis of their current strategic interests and key financial information Identification and analysis of the macro and micro factors that affect the market Insights of the market in the regions that have the highest potential for growth and also identify the markets that are still untapped

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NAND Flash Shortage is over; SSDs at $0.29/GB and dropping!

According to price trackers, the pricing of #NAND Supplier-based SSDs has begun to decline; In fact, the decline began in August 2017! Let's dig in..

Today, the pricing of PC-based 1TB SSDs is already at $0.29/GB. This is for all major NAND providers: @WD/ @Sandisk, @Samsung, and @Micron/@Crucial. If you don't believe me, just look at Amazon.com. ($299 divided by 1,024GB = $0.29/GB)

Extrapolating the Enterprise-class pricing (section on this below), we should be looking at today's Enterprise-based SSDs at $0.31/GB. However, the market and the perceived on-going shortage may command higher prices.

By the end of 2018, I expect SSD pricing to be between $0.21/GB and $0.23/GB.

Read on for more details..

Comparing $/GB to Supply/Demand Ratios

I wanted to map today's SSD pricing, as well as the historical pricing of SSDs to the supply/demand ratio of NAND Flash to see whether there is a correlation, whether we are in fact out of a shortage, and predict where future pricing is going.

To do this, I needed to pick a Flash supplier that wouldn't just be dumping Flash at a low price in the channel/retail (I want some visibility on all SSD market segment pricing trends) and find an actual SSD model that had some good historical pricing data to analyze. Based on some recent Analyst reports, Samsung had a ~40% M/S of a roughly $4B channel/retail SSD market and the next biggest competitor was at ~10% M/S. From a market share perspective (in the retail segment, and all other segments), Samsung seems like the only supplier to safely assume they wouldn't lower pricing here unless the Flash market had loosened up in general. Furthermore, it would be safe to assume that in a shortage, any Flash supplier would not be selling their channel/retail SSDs at a lower price than they could command in other segments they serve. For Samsung, that would be a lot of Flash to have lower pricing than they could command elsewhere, with the large market share they have in every segment. Looking at Samsung's SSD models, the 850 EVO 1TB drive has been in the market for a while so the price tracking data is pretty solid. Hence, I picked the Samsung 850 EVO 1TB drive. So, let's take a look..

Pricing Tracker Data for Samsung EVO 1TB SSD (uses 48-layer TLC 3D-NAND according to the SSD Review):

The price increases on the 850 EVO 1TB SSD happens to coincide with the Flash shortage. This is of no surprise and should be expected. But take a look at the price declines since the August time frame. Why would any supplier lower their pricing when they can command higher pricing in a tight market? If the market is tight, I would rather be selling that Flash at a higher ASP; why keep lowering the price since August? Interesting.

Taking the price tracking data above, converting it to raw $/GB, and mapping against the supply/demand curve (I looked at a few analysts predictions and blended and used a "Meritage"), you can start to see an inverse correlation between the supply/demand ratio and the $/GB of PC-based SSDs. As a side note (and something I didn't look into), you would likely want to take the percentage above a balanced market and correlate that to the price % decline; this is because when you are oversupply, you should expect a continual price decline.

Actually, let me reverse (flip) the $/GB (see below chart) since there is an inverse relationship between the supply/demand ratio and the $/GB. This makes it easier for you to see the correlation. Just keep in mind that when you see the price moving up in the below chart, it's actually declining; I put the $/GB on the line to make it easier to keep your head around that. The below chart is the same as the chart above but with the inverse $/GB.

Ahhh, that's much easier to see the correlation. Based on the Q3'17 (last quarter) Supply/Demand Ratio, pricing and supply is improving. And that maps nicely to the actual price decline we saw on the EVO in Q3'17. Furthermore, November (Q4'17; this month) pricing of the EVO shows further actual declines to $0.29/GB and this matches the predicted S/D ratio improvement that is currently projected for Q4'17. Coincidence?

Based on the chart above, the corresponding correlations, and the analysts' predictions of supply/demand, I am expecting pricing of PC-based SSDs to approach $0.21/GB by the end of 2018, based on the expected 2018 YoY $/GB decline of 27%.

Enterprise SSD Pricing vs. Supply/Demand

Next, let's look at the Enterprise world. I'm going to do a similar chart below for the commonly provided 7% over-provisioned drives I am seeing in the Enterprise space today (e.g., 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB). To do this, I simply take the PC-based SSDs and adjust the capacities by 7% (see another section below for more details on how/why). Keep in mind that this pricing is extrapolated off of the PC-equivalent drive and may not reflect whatever the market thinks it should be paying for the drive. Based on this, Enterprise SATA drives should be around $0.31/GB today. The trend will be the same as the PC-based trend but with an elevated $/GB.

Extrapolated Enterprise SSD Pricing vs Supply/Demand Ratio:

In summary

Today's SSD pricing: PC SSDs: $0.29/GB / Enterprise: $0.31/GB (extrapolated)

2018 (End) SSD pricing: PC SSDs: $0.21/GB / Enterprise: $0.23/GB (predicted)

SSD Vendors are lowering their SSD pricing in the channel/retail market as indicated by publicly-available pricing trackers; this has been going on for two to three months now. Mapping NAND Flash supply/demand ratios to these price declines shows a correlation between the two. Even though Q4'17 S/D ratios aren't historical yet, the current prediction maps closely to the actual Q4 pricing already being seen today. Based on predictions of where the Flash market supply/demand is heading, you should expect the price declines to continue and if your segment (non-channel/retail) hasn't seen these price declines, expect it soon after customers realize the shortage has already ended.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nand-flash-shortage-over-ssds-029gb-dropping-ryan-smith/?trackingId=gUeKOT6aZ55WiOh6MxuP1Q%3D%3D

Storage breakthrough: World's biggest microSD card crams in a massive 400GB of data

#WesternDigital has unveiled what it says is the world's highest-capacity #microSD card -- one that crams 400GB of storage into your smartphone.

The company says its 400GB #SanDisk Ultra #microSDXC #UHSI card is the highest-capacity microSD card for use in mobile devices.

The card can hold up to 40 hours of Full HD video and can transfer data at up to 100MBps: at that speed, users could move 1,200 3.5MB photos per minute over USB 3.0. The card, which Western Digital is aiming at Android smartphone and tablet users, comes with a ten-year warranty and a US retail price of $249.99.

Western Digital said its memory technology, design, and production processes allowed for more bits per die, enabling it to push the microSD card capacity up again.

The capacity of microSD cards had grown rapidly: only two years ago, Western Digital's biggest microSD card stood at 200GB, which cost $399 at launch. The year before that, the state of the art for SanDisk was a 128GB card for $199. When the microSD card format was first launched in 2004, it had 128MB of capacity.

"We anticipate that storage needs will only continue to grow as people continue to expect more sophisticated features on their devices and desire higher quality content," Jeff Janukowicz, research vice president at IDC said. "We estimate mobile device users worldwide will install over 150 billion applications alone this year, which require a ton of memory on all of our favorite devices."

http://www.zdnet.com/article/storage-breakthrough-worlds-biggest-microsd-card-crams-in-a-massive-400gb-of-data/

Micron's new storage division lead is third former SanDisk recruit

#Micron has replaced its storage business unit VP, @DarrenThomas, with a former #SanDisk exec, @AnandJayapalan. Micron's recently appointed CEO @SanjayMehrotra, who arrived in April, was SanDisk's CEO when it was acquired by #WesternDigital, staying on at WD for a time and then joining Micron to succeed @MarkDurkan, who retired. Mehrotra appointed former SanDisk SVP of corporate engineering Jeff VerHeul to be SVP of Non-Volatile Engineering in June. Sumit Sadana was hired as EVP and chief business officer also in June and he is a SanDisk alumnus too, having been EVP, chief strategy officer and general manager for Enterprise Solutions. Now Jayapalan makes three ex-SanDisk hires by Mehrotra. Jayapalan was SanDisk's VP marketing for Enterprise Storage Solutions, joining in 2013 from Blackberry. At Micron his remit is leading and growing Micron's solid-state storage business, and addressing opportunities in large market segments like cloud, enterprise and client compute. He reports to Sadana. Micron's announcement makes no mention of Darren Thomas, who joined to run the storage unit in 2014. Does the Jayapalan hiring signal a new direction for Micron's storage division? Mehrotra is selling off all or part of the Lexar consumer products unit at Micron. The storage business unit has a deal with Excelero to use its NVMesh software with its SolidScale flash arrays and has invested in that startup. What has piqued our curiosity for severtal months is Micron's relative quietness and slowness in bringing its QuantX 3D XPoint products to market; a strong contrast with Intel, which is pushing ahead with Optane-branded 3D XPoint gear. Micron and Intel jointly developed 3D XPoint, the faster-than-NAND but slower-than-DRAM solid-state non-volatile memory tech. We should expect renewed vigour from Micron in developing and marketing enterprise SSD products, possibly featuring additional 3D layers and QLC (4bits/cell) technology as well as a QuantX push. Let's watch and wait to see what Mehrotra's men do next

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/22/micron_changes_one_storage_bu_top_gun_for_another/

Global Semiconductor Capital Equipment Market 2017-2021: Industry Analysis and Forecasts by Technavio

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global semiconductor capital equipment market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 6% during the forecast period. Global semiconductor capital equipment market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 6% through 2021. Tweet this This research report titled ‘Global Semiconductor Capital Equipment Market 2017-2021’ provides an in-depth analysis of the market in terms of revenue and emerging market trends. This report also includes an up to date analysis and forecasts for various market segments and all geographical regions. This report is available at a USD 1,000 discount for a limited time only: View market snapshot before purchasing Buy 1 Technavio report and get the second for 50% off. Buy 2 Technavio reports and get the third for free. The market research analysis categorizes the global semiconductor capital equipment market into three major end-user segments. They are: Foundries Memory manufacturers IDMs Looking for more information on this market? Request a free sample report Technavio’s sample reports are free of charge and contain multiple sections of the report including the market size and forecast, drivers, challenges, trends, and more. Foundries The foundries segment dominated the global semiconductor capital equipment market in 2016, with a share of more than 63%. The changing business environment in the semiconductor industry is the major driving factor behind this migration to fabless model. Thus, the semiconductor market will witness a considerable demand for devices such as logic, analog, memory, discrete, opto, sensor, and other semiconductor devices during the forecast period. To meet this demand, foundries need to upgrade their manufacturing and inspection equipment as well as ensure a high throughput of reliable and quality offerings. “The demand for consumer electronic devices will stem from developing countries of APAC like India, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Nepal. The high growth potential of these countries in terms of the demand for electronic devices will drive the electronic devices OEMs and electronic manufacturing companies to order a higher number of semiconductor devices for their end-products,” says Chetan Mohan, a lead analyst at Technavio for semiconductor equipment research. Memory manufacturers The growth in the number of microcontroller processes being undertaken in electronic devices has made the memory a vital component of semiconductor devices. Leading market vendors such as #SKHynix, #SanDisk, #Toshiba, and #Samsung have already adopted #3DNAND technology, resulting in further development and commercialization of devices based on 3D NAND architecture. The production of 3D NAND needs new and optimized production equipment due to the complexity involved in its manufacturing. This is compelling chip manufacturing companies such as Samsung, Micron, and Toshiba to revamp and increase their production lines. Also, there are many emerging memory technologies such as magnetic random-access memory ( #MRAM), spin-transfer torque random-access memory ( #STT-RAM), #FeRAM, #phasechangememory ( #PCM), and #resistiverandomaccessmemory ( #RRAM). “The development of new form factors has gained traction in the memory market, and device manufacturers are now demanding memory chips based on transparent and plastic, three-dimensional, and #quantumdot memory technologies. Such developments in the field of memory will create considerable demand for new wafer inspection equipment in the market,” says Chetan. Integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) The high migration to the fabless model of manufacturing will restrict the growth of IDMs in relation to the other two types of production facilities. A new IDM requires a very high initial investment, as well as the upgrading cost for such facilities, is relatively significant. This is hindering the development of IDMs as most semiconductor device manufacturers are looking to cut down on the production expenditure and focus more on enhancing the design and technology of the chips. IDMs such as Intel, Texas Instruments, IBM Microelectronics, Toshiba, Sony, Renesas, STMicroelectronics, Fujitsu, Philips, NXP, and Infineon, manufacture integrated devices. The top vendors highlighted by Technavio’s market research analysts in this report are: ASML Applied Materials KLA-Tencor Lam Research Tokyo Electron

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170717006008/en/Global-Semiconductor-Capital-Equipment-Market-2017-2021-Industry

Global Storage Hardware Market 2017 – NetApp, Symantec, Toshiba, Huawei,Western Digital, Micron Technology

The worldwide Storage Hardware Market report launched by Market.biz focuses on a complete and accurate study of Storage Hardware industry. Global Storage Hardware Market 2017 report is fundamentally concentrated on current scenario of Storage Hardware market. This comprehensive research document will improve the efficiency of the Storage Hardware market during the forecast period from 2017 to 2022. The Storage Hardware industry report covers different aspects of market such as Storage Hardware Market Segment, Storage Hardware categories of the product, market revenue and product cost. The report also shows the Storage Hardware market volume for every category during the forecast period.
Competitive Research of Global Storage Hardware Market 2017 Based on Key Vendors:
1 #Dell 2 #EMC 3 #HP 4 #IBM 5 #NetApp 6 #Symantec 7 #Toshiba 8 #Huawei 9 #WesternDigital 10 #Micron Technology 11 #SanDisk 12 #Hitachi 13 #Seagate Technologies 14 #Coho 15 #Jeda Networks
16 #Pernix
https://dailyhover.com/global-storage-hardware-market-2017/

Enterprise Read Intensive SATA SSD Roundup Review

When it comes to enterprise SSD marketing currently, #NVMe and high-capacity SAS drives garner most of the headlines. But behind their more showy cousins sit an entire stable of SATA SSDs that are taking the lion's share of overall SSD units shipped. Enterprise SATA SSDs are commonly segmented further into read intensive and write intensive categories. In a few outlier cases a vendor may also ship a mixed-use drive just to cover all the bases. In reality, these drives are all the same at the core, with the key difference simply being overprovisioning and firmware. Overprovisioning generally determines the usable capacity and endurance attributes of a drive. In this roundup we're taking a non-standard approach. Our SSD reviews are generally a deep dive into a single drive. In this case we've lined up five of the leading read intensive SSD offerings from #Intel, #Toshiba, #Samsung, #Micron and #SanDisk to see how they stack up in this lucrative market segment.

http://www.storagereview.com/enterprise_read_intensive_sata_ssd_roundup_review

Global Storage Hardware Market 2017- Dell, EMC , HP , IBM , NetApp ,Symantec , Toshiba

The Worldwide Storage Hardware Report does an extensive study of the Market Segment, Product categories, market revenue, product cost, Forecast 2017-2022. After that, the Global Storage Hardware market 2017 Report is segregated into different categories based on geographical regions, key vendors and range of applications. The report also studies the Storage Hardware Market Share and Growth. The latest Storage Hardware global report presents insightful details related to the current scenario of the market. The report labeled Storage Hardware filters out the crucial factors having an impact on the growth of the market. Present market trends along with future growth opportunities have been covered in depth in this report. Competitive Landscape View of Global Storage Hardware Market 2017 and Dominant Sellers – 1 #Dell 2 #EMC 3 #HP 4 #IBM 5 #NetApp 6 #Symantec 7 #Toshiba 8 #Huawei 9 #WesternDigital 10 #Micron Technology 11 #SanDisk 12 #Hitachi 13 #Seagate Technologies 14 #Coho 15 #Jeda Networks 16 Pernix

http://registrardaily.com/2017/04/17/global-storage-hardware-market-2017/

​Western Digital taps Dell EMC exec Bullinger to lead datacenter unit

#WesternDigital appointed Phil Bullinger as head of its datacenter systems division. Bullinger was a general manager at #DellEMC in charge of its #Isilon storage business. Bullinger's remit is to accelerate Western Digital's efforts to grow its disk, flash, and hybrid storage systems in the enterprise. Western Digital has acquired HGST and #SanDisk to build out the group. According to Western Digital, Bullinger will report to operating chief Mike Cordano. Dave Tang, who led the datacenter unit, is now senior vice president of marketing at Western Digital. Bullinger is a storage veteran and before coming to Dell EMC he was in charge of SAN/NAS storage at #Oracle and executive vice president for LSI's Engenio Storage Group.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/western-digital-taps-dell-emc-exec-bullinger-to-lead-data-center-unit/

Western Digital Names New CTO in Push to Commercialize New Memory Technology

#WesternDigital Corp. named #HewlettPackardEnterprise Co.’s Martin Fink as its next chief technology officer as the maker of data storage technologies works to address the rapid rise of data flowing throughout companies. He started Monday and reports to Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan. He’s based in San Jose, Calif. Mr. Fink comes from HP Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he served as CTO and director since 2012. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and general manager for business critical systems in HP’s enterprise, storage and servers unit. HP Enterprise was one of two companies created by the breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2015. Mr. Fink succeeds CTO Steven Campbell, who is leaving to pursue other opportunities, the company said. Mr. Campbell played a key role in Western Digital’s $19 billion acquisition of flash memory firm #SanDisk Corp. in May 2016. HP and SanDisk in 2015 partnered to create new memory technology to help facilitate the use of in-memory databases, real-time analytics and other tools that have grown out of the unprecedented volume of data inside companies. Mr. Fink led the effort at HP. The technology is based on the concept of memory-driven computing, which leans heavily on memory technology to boost calculating speed. In 2015, HP and SanDisk said they expected the technology to be cheaper and up to 1,000 times faster than traditional flash storage. HP Enterprise in November disclosed a working prototype of its own memory-driven computing system, known as the Machine. “(Mr. Fink) has been a leading voice on the value and promise of memory-driven computing and will lead our continued innovation focus areas, including the commercialization of Storage Class Memory solutions,” Mr. Milligan said in a statement.

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2017/01/23/western-digital-names-new-cto-in-push-to-commercialize-new-memory-technology/

Toshiba May Sell Additional NAND Stake To Western Digital

#Toshiba is in talks to sell a stake in its memory business to #WesternDigital. Toshiba is also studying the possibility of splitting this business off as a separate business unit. The company has said that it is considering several options for its memory business but nothing concrete has been decided yet. Toshiba and Western Digital have a joint investment in a #NAND flash manufacturing plant in Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture in Japan. Western Digital acquired this stake through its acquisition of #SanDisk last year. Rumors are that Toshiba may sell a 20% interest in its share of the memory business to Western Digital (and possibily other investors) and that Toshiba would remain a majority stakeholder in the resulting venture.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2017/01/19/toshiba-may-sell-additional-nand-stake-to-western-digital/#4846a93355a0

Western Digital Blue 1TB SSD Review: 1000GB Ultra-Fast Storage For Less Than $300

While the impact of SSDs hasn't quite been a drastic as, say, the impact of digital cameras on the photo film industry, which almost died over night, we can only imagine what the likes of #Hitachi and #WesternDigital thought when SSDs hit the mainstream. The hard disk's only benefit was cheap storage - SSDs were much faster, quieter, more power efficient and more durable, at least in that they'd survive a drop. These days SSDs have warranties and life spans measured in years and are trouble-free when it comes to things like TRIM and garbage collection - they're just as easy to use as hard disks. So it came as no surprise that Western Digitial bought #SanDisk - a popular manufacturer of budget-conscious SSDs, earlier this year.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2016/11/30/western-digital-blue-1tb-ssd-review-1000gb-ultra-fast-storage-for-less-than-300/#33e6867c668e

WD gets flash boom bang from SanDisk swallow

WD's disk and #SanDisk-boosted flash sales boomed as overall revenues in its first fiscal 2017 quarter rose to $4.7bn, up 40.6 per cent on the year-ago $3.4bn. But it reported a net $366m loss. Why a loss? A year ago it made a profit of $283m on lower revenues. This time around there were charges associated with WD’s recent acquisitions ( #SanDisk and HGST) and debt extinguishment charges related to repricing and repayment of outstanding debt. Compared to the previous quarter revenues of $3.5bn the revenue growth was abrupt and shows the effect of having SanDisk inside WD’s house. CEO Steve Milligan’s canned quote said: “We are pleased with our performance in the September quarter, the first full quarter as an integrated company following the SanDisk acquisition in May. Demand for both hard drive and flash-based products was strong across all customer categories, driven by cloud and mobile applications, as well as better-than-expected PC market trends.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2016/10/27/boom_wd_gets_disk_demand_and_sandisk_flash_revenue_boost/

Western Digital Addresses Increasing Application Workload Demands for VMware Environments with New Certifications of Two SSDs

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VMWORLD EUROPE 2016 — #WesternDigital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that two of its most compelling data center devices are now certified for use with #VMware ® environments1, including the high-capacity yet cost-effective #SanDisk -branded CloudSpeed™ Eco Gen. II SATA solid state drive (SSD) and the HGST-branded Ultrastar® SN100 PCI Express (PCIe) #NVMe #SSD, which was rated in VMware’s highest performance class2. Either used independently or together for enhanced data center benefits, these SSDs bring consistent performance and rapid responsiveness to virtual desktops, databases, e-mail, cloud services, and other business-critical applications. The company will showcase the newly certified SSDs and multiple new all-flash ( #VSAN ) Virtual SAN Ready Nodes that were created in collaboration with #HPE® at its VMware Europe booth (#G313).

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161017005399/en/Western-Digital-Addresses-Increasing-Application-Workload-Demands

Nexenta and Western Digital Present “Staying Ahead of the Curve—Tech Updates from Nexenta and Western Digital” Complimentary Webinar

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage ( #OpenSDS ), today announced it is hosting a complimentary webinar with #SanDisk ®, a #WesternDigital brand, titled “Staying Ahead of the Curve—Tech Updates from Nexenta and Western Digital.”

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160919005054

Flash Memory Summit Draws Record Attendance at the World's Largest Storage Show

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Flash Memory Summit (FMS) today reported that 2016 registration increased 10% to almost 5,800. Actual attendance jumped 13% to over 4,600 year-over-year. FMS is now the world's largest storage conference with over 100 exhibitors and sponsors. Many keynotes drew over 1,500 attendees and multiple sessions drew well over 100. As one exhibitor put it, "The high quality visitors who stopped by our booth came from major Silicon Valley companies (and beyond) including: #Apple, #Cisco, #Intel, #SK Hynix, #MarvellSemiconductor, #Toshiba and #WesternDigital." Conference visitors from other major companies interested in enterprise storage included #Alibaba, #Amazon, #Baidu, #Brocade, #Daimler, #Facebook, #Google, #Jaguar #LandRover, #NASA Ames Research Center, #NorthrupGrumman, #Uber, and #WellsFargo. The Summit also received widespread media attention with articles in #CTimes (China), #ElectronicDesign, #Forbes, #eWeek, #PCWorld, and #Tom'sHardware. Products of significant interest included #SSDs, #NVDIMM, flash chips, flash controllers, flash-based storage systems, new non-volatile technologies, and all-flash arrays. Special conference features included keynotes by top speakers from Facebook, #Micron, #Samsung, #SanDisk, #Toshiba, #Marvell, SK Hynix, #Huawei, Seagate, Microsemi, EMC, Nimbus Data, #Crossbar, and #Mangstor. Other well-attended sessions included annual updates, market research insight, performance testing results, and a VC Forum. Session materials and conference proceedings are now freely available at: www.flashmemorysummit.com.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/flash-memory-summit-draws-record-attendance-at-the-worlds-largest-storage-show-300329297.html

SoftBank Corp adopts SanDisk All-Flash Storage Platform

#WesternDigital today announced that #SoftBank Corp has adopted the #SanDisk InfiniFlash all-flash storage platform for its software-defined storage solution. Previously, SoftBank was running an in-house traditional storage system combining hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) for some of its applications. Today, SoftBank has built a new software-defined, multi-petabyte in-house system using the SanDisk InfiniFlash platform as its core storage engine for real-time data transaction applications, enabling the installation of software in general-purpose servers. This has allowed SoftBank to integrate operations of complex systems, solve the problem of silos, and eliminate vendor-specific tasks, which has led to higher efficiency. With its scalability and high density, the new system is able to handle a soaring volume of data and has made it possible to reduce the number of racks by 75% and power consumption by up to 83% within the data center, compared to traditional dedicated storage, says WD.
http://www.in.techradar.com/news/SoftBank-Corp-adopts-SanDisk-All-Flash-Storage-Platform/articleshow/53842850.cms

IT Pros Choose 2016 Flash Storage/NVMe Brand Leaders

#EMC leads three product categories; #SanDisk and #NetApp on top for two; #Dell, #HPE, #Mellanox, #Micron, #Nutanix, #Samsung Electronics also voted Market Leaders; Intel and Samsung recognized for special innovation achievements in NVM and #NVMe #SSD

IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source for research, data and analysis about data center infrastructure, today announced the results of the recent IT brand leader survey covering Flash Storage/NVMe products. IT Pros from around the world responded to the independent, non-sponsored survey in June 2016 asking which vendors they perceive to be leaders in these fifteen categories: •All Flash Converged System •All Flash Unified SAN/NAS Array •All Flash NVMe Fabric Attached Array •All Flash FC Array •Flash Cache Software •NVMe Network Adapters •All Flash Hyperconverged System •Hybrid HDD/SSD Array •All Flash NVMe PCIe Cards •All Flash iSCSI Array •NVDIMM •All Flash NAS Array •NVMe SSD Modules •Contributions to NVMe Technology (2012-2016) •Innovative New Enterprise-Class NVM Product “The flash industry is at the threshold of a new era where NVMe is the protocol of choice for internal and external storage,” said Frank Berry, CEO and Sr. Analyst, IT Brand Pulse. “This round of surveys reveals which vendors are establishing incumbent brand leadership for NVMe SSDs, PCIe cards and all flash arrays.”

http://www.prurgent.com/2016-07-29/pressrelease412704.htm

WDC's SanDisk flashes its vSphere speed-up creds to world+dog

@WesternDigital Corporation’s @SanDisk unit has VAIO-compliant flash caching software and hardware for #vSphere servers.

This announcement represents WDC inheriting a two year #SanDisk - @VMware partnership to make use of SanDisk’s acquired FusionIO PCIe flash hardware and software. There are two products:

FlashSoft 4 software for VMware vSphere 6Flash Virtualization System, a flash-based hardware and software product incorporating FlashSoft v4

FlashSoft is caching software taking advantage of a server’s flash drive. Its version 4 leverages a Western Digital and VMware VAIO co-design partnership for vSphere 6.

FlashSoft v4 is the result, we’re told, of a two year co-operative design project by Western Digital and VMware, with FlashSoft 4 software using VMware vSphere’s APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO), providing, WDC SanDisk claims, “the highest level of usability and performance with vSphere 6.”

Ravi Swaminathan, Data Center Solutions Business Unit VP and GM at Western Digital Corporation, went into hype mode in his canned quote, saying: “These new product innovations resulted from the deep ongoing engagement between our companies and are expected to greatly enhance virtual machine performance. We look forward to expanding possibilities of the new architecture to continue delivering high-value solutions for our customers.”

“New innovations”? Umm, we didn’t know there were any other kind of innovations.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/28/wdc_sandisk_vsphere_speedup/

Western Digital Introduces FlashSoft 4 Software for VMware vSphere 6 and New Flash Virtualization System for Non-Disruptive Acceleration of Virtual Environments

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#WesternDigital ® Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC), a global storage technology and solutions leader, today announced two new virtualization solutions designed to significantly improve virtual machine performance and density in #VMware® #vSphere® environments. These include the availability of the new #FlashSoft® 4 software for @VMware vSphere 6, and the introduction of the Flash Virtualization® System, a new flash-based hardware and software solution. FlashSoft 4 leverages a @WesternDigital and VMware VAIO co-design partnership for vSphere 6.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160623005283/en/Western-Digital-Introduces-FlashSoft-4-Software-VMware