@jasonh : Thanks for sharing. Intel and SamSung are pretty much the leaders in the market. (Recent Gartner report June 13, 2014)

SSD Revenues

Samsung $3.1b in revenue leads SSD sales - majority of revenue is attributed to PC SSD Sales. At #2 is Intel($1.4b), #3 is SanDisk($1.3b), #4 Micron($0.8b), #5 Toshiba ($0.6b)

In the enterprise, the SSD reliability reality may TOO match the report:http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/gartner-report-places-ibm-pure-storage-atop-2013-all-flash-array-market/ . Look forward to hearing from enterprise users of SSD (server admins, non PC users).

Enterprise SSD Revenues

Total sales $4.4b, Hyperscale customers are purchasing low-cost SATA SSDs in huge volumes whereas Storage Manufactures are buying higher quality SAS SSDs. SATA SSDs: Intel lead producer of enterprise SATA SSDs, followed by Samsung, Smart Storage, OCZ and SanDisk. SAS SSDs: WD is #1 is SAS based SSD market followed by SanDIsk, Seagate, Toshiba and Hitachi PCIe SSDs: FusionIO is #1 followed by Google, NetApp, LSI and WD at #5. NOTE: Google, NetApp and Hitachi use their own PCIe SSDs within their own data centers - no external enterprise customers

With SanDisk's recent acquisition of FusionIO, they may pose a threat to Intel's SSD market.

@shalooshalini

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Yup. Both internal and clients are basically completely virtual and generally on VMware.

@scottalanmiller said:

@shalooshalini said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

What about the big there platforms.... vSphere, HyperV and XenServer. KVM is a pretty minor player and bare metal Windows and Linux are rare today.

Regarding Linux, especially Ubuntu and RHEL servers - are those rare too, these days?

You are asking the wrong question. You are asking him if they are big platforms, but you mean to ask if they are rare on bare metal and the answer is.... absolutely. They should be unheard of on bare metal. This is 2014, we are over half a decade since OS on bare metal is a niche use case.

I meant 'rare' as in 'hardly anyone uses non-virtualized Linux servers these days'
During early virtualization and 'cloud' days, many of the traditional IO heavy workloads did not move into virtual environments or on cloud due to latency issues. Now with standard cloud instance plans and hosted server plans increasingly available with 'SSD storage' that scenario for IO heavy workloads in Linux may have changed - in general. But are there say 20% of servers running Linux which are not virtualized today?Or is it <5% mostly small and outdated companies?