Research and Markets: 2011 Self Encrypting Drive Market and Technology Report

October 20, 2011

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e9f63c/2011_self_encrypti) has announced the addition of the "2011 Self Encrypting Drive Market and Technology Report" report to their offering.

In July and August 2011, in cooperation with members of the Trusted Computing Group storage working group, Coughlin Associates conducted a survey of a number of interested parties to the use of encryption to provide security in various types of electronic equipment that use storage devices. Those interviewed included storage device suppliers (hard disk drives and solid state drives), systems OEMs, security software companies, storage controller suppliers and others.

Based upon input from the interviews we created a list of drivers for the use of selfencrypting drives (SEDs) as well as factors that limit their use in the market, both historically as well as in the near future. In this report we examine each of these positive and negative factors and look at their historical impact on the SED market and the implications of these factors in the future growth of SEDs, both HDDs and SSDs.

In addition to input from the interviews we also used public information such as press releases, reports and presentations to look at both past projections and factors driving or moderating future growth. We include references and material from these sources as appropriate in this report.

The major conclusions from this report are:

It is likely that by about 2017 all HDDs will shift to SED capable units, although estimated security adoption units by 2016 (SED capable HDDs actually used or intended for data security) are only 25% of all HDDs shipped.
By 2016 the high, median and low estimates for security adoption for SED HDDs are 411 M, 315 M and 122 M units.
We project that within 2 years (by 2013) SED capability will be in over 80% of SSDs and likely in almost all SSDs within 3 years (2014).
Although actual SSD SED feature implementation in 2016 is likely to 100% in about 122 M SSDs, the projected actual SSDs from that year used for security and data protection purposes is estimated at less than 18 M units

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