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Group Vice President, Storage, Semiconductors, GRC, and Pricing

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Violin Memory Enters the PCIe SSD Market
Jeff Janukowicz, David Reinsel
Mar 2013 - Doc # lcUS23987213 IDC Link

Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is an early entrant to the solid state storage market. Initially, the company focused on all-silicon shared storage systems built from the ground up to harness the potential of flash memory. Since that time, t ...

NAND Flash Memory Is Not About Storage
David Reinsel, Jeff Janukowicz, John Rydning
Dec 2012 - Doc # lcUS23892112 IDC Link

The authors of the paper, “The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory,” predict the future stagnation (hence demise) of NAND flash memory based on its inability to improve flash densities through a reduction in silicon feature size thereby stori ...

Multiple Hybrid-SSHD Vendors Are Required to Enable Increased Adoption by PC OEMs
David Reinsel
May 2012 - Doc # lcUS23509912 IDC Link

Toshiba, one of the last three remaining hard drive vendors (four if counting WDT and HGST as separate subsidiaries) after a bout of consolidation over the past two years, announced its commitment to bring to market its hybrid solid state h ...

Taser AXON Flex Demonstrates How the Cloud Is Reshaping Video Surveillance
Christopher Chute, David Reinsel, Christopher Chute
Feb 2012 - Doc # lcUS23338712 IDC Link

On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, Taser announced a new video system called AXON Flex. Aimed specifically at the law enforcement vertical, the AXON Flex features a small HD video camera that is mountable to clothing, eyeglasses, or other weara ...

NAND Flash: Game On or Game Over?
David Reinsel, Jeff Janukowicz
Feb 2012 - Doc # lcUS23338612 IDC Link

The use of NAND flash dates back to the 1980s, with the first removable NAND-based product (think Memory Sticks, Secure Digital cards, and other memory cards) being introduced in the mid-1990s. Now, at the ripe old age of 32, NAND technolog ...