Thomas Coughlin
PresidentCoughlin Associates
Tom Coughlin is the President of Coughlin Associates, Inc. He is an acknowledged authority on data storage products including storage devices, network attached storage, storage area networks, and storage applications. Dr. Coughlin has held senior engineering and management positions at companies such as Seagate, Maxtor, Micropolis, Syquest and Ampex. His responsibilities include technical evaluations, project management, market and technology reports, technical article writing, and conference organizing. He is also very involved in IDEMA, A senior member of IEEE and past chairman of SCV Magnetics and Consumer Electronics Society as well as past SCV Section Chairman. Dr. Coughlin has been publicity chair of the 1992, 1996, and 2001 TMRC conference and he is the organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference. (This is me - Update Profile)
| 2001 - present | President Coughlin Associates |
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GLG Study Groups with Thomas Coughlin(?)
| Study Group Name | Members |
|---|---|
| Flash Memory Experts | 101 |
| DVD Replication Volume Trend Experts (North America) | 38 |
| Personal Video Recorder Experts | 49 |
| Hard Disk Drive Experts | 28 |
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* USB 2.0 provides external data rates of 480 Mbps sustained. eSATA, an external version of the SATA interface currently provides data rates of 3 Gbps sustained * Next generation USB will have 5 Gbps and next generation eSATA will have 6 Gbps data rates * Recently several laptop and external...
* Oerlikon sold its disk drive sputtering assets to Intevac and exits the hard disk drive business * Oerlikon, in a former incarnation as Balzers used to be one of the major players in the disk sputtering equipment market but had lost most of its business over the last 10 years * Despite...
Seagate has stated that they will introduce a SSD device by the end of 2008 This is expected to be an enterprise level SSD to help protect the company’s position in the enterprise storage market There are several rumors that Seagate is looking at acquisitions to enable its SSD effort Intel...
* Hitachi president Kazuo Furukawa said that Hitachi wants to surpass Seagate’s HDD business profitability * Furukawa-san said that Hitachi has the latest technology required to be competive in the HDD business * He also said that there is synergy between Hitachi’s computer business and...
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