Study Group: Hard Disk Drive Experts (North America)(?)

*  Encrypted hard disk drives have begun to appear in the laptop market using encryption built into 2.5-inch HDDs * Working with multiple internally encrypted HDDs in an enterprise environment requires key management to deal effectively with the drive encryption keys * The Trusted Computing Group...

* The replacement of one technology by another is drive by economic factors among which is the cost of building manufacturing facilities  * HDDs manufactured in 2008 probably will have provided over 100 Exabytes of total new storage, all the flash memory produced in 2008 probably amounts to only...

* Hitachi Global Storage Technology (HGST) is the third leading manufacturer of enterprise HDDs  * Intel announced a family of high performance, low overhead solid state drives last Summer  * Intel’s current products do not include enterprise SAS or Fibre Channel interface SSDs  * HGST...

*  Fujitsu is the number 2 supplier of enterprise HDDs, behind Seagate but ahead of HGST*  Fujitsu also supplies 2.5-inch drives for the notebook market*  Fujitsu has been rumored to be in talks to sell the HDD unit for many months since the unit has been losing money*  Several companies...

* Microsoft will have lower ASP's in both their OS and Application products * The driver will be sub-$200 Netbooks * Netbooks will gain more traction, * The threat of the Linux OS is enough to pressure Microsoft margins, which has already started.