For the data storage industry, 2021 was a year of extremes. COVID inflamed political divisions, challenged economies, and snarled supply chains, all while hastening the digitization of our world. Geopolitical tensions ran amok as China and the U.S. battled for …
It can be hard to fathom the impact of the pandemic on the data center supply chain. Demand generated by the overnight explosion in work-from-home and the accelerated digitization of our day-to-day lives has raised the stakes across the board. …
From the coronavirus pandemic and a procession of natural disasters to the superheated presidential election in the United States and its impact on global geopolitics, so much is happening on a day-to-day basis that it feels at times as if …
In our latest Storage Market Brief, Horizon Technology chief operating officer Stephen Buckler assesses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the data storage market.
As we enter the second half of 2020, it is increasingly difficult to talk about …
With unparalleled speed, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has sown disruption across the global IT supply chain and upended the outlook for data center demand. States are only beginning to open up after restrictions were placed mid-March on every aspect of …
Recently we had a large data center ask us when we thought HDD and SSD will reach pricing parity. This is not an easy question to answer and there simply isn’t a straightforward response. New technologies that offer blazing speed …
2018 was an eventful year in the world of storage, and 2019 promises to be no less influential, with several narratives shaping the market.
After a prolonged SSD shortage, SSD pricing tumbled throughout 2018. Lower SSD cost combined with the …
One can feel the momentum changing within the storage market, with several variables at play as we head into the fourth quarter.
After a hyperscaler build cycle that felt like the gift that kept giving, we are seeing signs of …
Market participants are always looking for leading indicators to help them fine-tune their product roadmaps and supply chains. Memory, with its quarter-after-quarter price increases, seems to epitomize a high-flying enterprise market.
However, after a long run-up, memory is beginning to …
Supply channel planning has been as challenging as it ever has been as not only do manufacturers and data centers have to manage the cost of HDD against performance, but it must be done against a moving backdrop of rapid …
