Software And SSDs Are The Lethal Combination That May Turn Out To Be The Real FC HDD Killers

By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.

A year ago at least two analysts forecast that 2010 would see the accelerated adoption of solid state drives (SSDs) with an accompanying drop-off in the purchase of high end FC hard disk drives (HDDs). Well, here we are 12 months later and while the adoption of SSDs is picking up, at least one SSD provider is reporting a short term oversupply of SSDs even as FC HDDs continue to sell. So what gives?