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Ask HN: Size of the SSD based cloud market?
One can now buy SSD based cloud instances. Vendors include (in no particular order):
1> https://www.digitalocean.com
2> www.rackspace.com/cloud/block-storage
3> solidfire.com
4> AWS
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AWS alone accounted for ~ $4.5 billion in revenues in 2013 [Source: http://ubm.io/1epSqbW ].
Assuming AWS owns 20% of cloud IAAS market, total [estimated] size in 2013 is $23 billion.
How much of this is SSD based?
- lanman 13y agoHN lurker/flash geek here. I don't want to derail your question, but I just wanted to point out that SolidFire doesn't actually sell cloud instances - we sell service provider/enterprise storage appliances. Essentially it's a storage system (like EMC, NetApp, etc.) designed to, among other things, allow service providers (Rackspace, DigitalOcean) to easily provision (via REST API) virtualized storage devices for their cloud tenants. These service providers then typically resell this as a capability in their own public API or management console. (Full disclosure that you may have picked up from my earlier phrasing, I am a SolidFire employee.)
- mankash666 13y agoThanks for the clarification. What is your estimate of the flash based IaaS market?