GLG News by PC Storage Device Purchasers and Sellers

1.  The more data that can be shared, the more data we want. 2.  New types of storage increase data collection at the source.

Soho / consumer NAS will show stable growth in high 2digits over the next years. While the competition environement has become more close over the last 2 years, this segment is still in the beginning. Iomega offers a well known brand and market awareness for the low end segment.

* Iomega had previously entered into an agreement with ExcelStor Great Wall Technology owned by the Chinese government  * Iomega terminated this purchase agreement with ExcelStor  * Iomega entered into an agreement to merge with EMC  * EMC will probably use Iomega as a means to move into...

1.  Sharing of information from one service to another needs to be thought out. 2.  The viral nature of online business causes the rewriting of new rules.

1. The Darwinism of technology continues in economic hard times. 2. Today's hot gadget is tomorrow's paperweight and CIO's should look to prune un-needed equipment.

Vista SP1 is for people and organizations that are non-believers in Microsoft Security promises. Vista have good good technology and security before SP! and SP1 makes it even better. Microsoft is better than Open-Source anytime.

In depth partnership between Ciena and Hitachi Data Systems will suggest both companies are targeting the ISP / Telecommunication market and are expecting further changes in regulations how (long) critical data in the www has to be stored tomorrow.

1) Due diligence is expected and the news of tightening belts was predicted. 2) In the last quarter we have found all verticals are experiencing some level of conservative spending. 3) However, we have also seen increased spending with some vendors and/or specific vendor products and solutions. ...

* Hitachi introduced a 500 GB 2.5-inch hard disk drive in January 2008 but the product would not fit into a conventional 2.5-inch hard drive bay  * Fujitsu followed suit with a 500 GB 2.5-inch HDD announcement with a similar thicker drive package  * Samsung announced in March that they would...

* Seagate says that if SSDs start to threaten HDDs Seagate may sue SSD companies such as Intel and Samsung for patent infringement  * Seagate and WD have patents with many of the ways that a storage device communicates with a computer and SSDs may use some of these approaches  * SSDs are being...