Study Group: PC Storage Device Purchasers and Sellers

Council Members in this Study Group: 239

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Michael Horsch Fizz

Senior Advisor
FCI Inc.

Michael Horsch Fizz is a Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. Mr. Fizz specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology...

Howard Bruck

Chief Information Officer
HUDSON VALLEY BANK

Howard Bruck is Chief Information Officer at Hudson Valley Bank, a commercial bank. He has over 25 years of experience in the information technology sector. He specializes in financial services technology, outsourcing, hosting, databases, ERP, CRM, BI...

Mark Teter

Chief Technology Officer
ADVANCED SYSTEMS GROUP

Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Systems Group, a value added reseller and systems integrator. He is responsible for managing major accounts with Sun Microsystems, IBM, NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Symantec, Qlogic, Emulex,...

Izak Mutlu

Vice President- Information and Product Security
SALESFORCE.COM, INC.

Izak Mutlu, CISM, is the Vice President of Information and Product Security at Salesforce.com, a company specializing in customer relationship management software. He is responsible for managing IT security, architecture, design, implementation, and operations....

Gurtej Sodhi

CIO & Sr. VP - IT
CRYE-LEIKE AFFILIATES

Gurtej Sodhi is the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at The Crye Leike Group of Companies (a $5B enterprise). He has over 14 years of increasingly responsible positions in design, development, and management of IT operations. His industry...

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Vast small hard drives fuel new consumer applications and smaller computers

November 8, 2009

Analysis by:Thomas Coughlin, President,

Analysis of:Toshiba Introduces Two 1.8-Inch Hard Disk Drive Families for Both High Performance and Long Battery Life in Mobile Computing Applications | www.earthtimes.org

After its merger with Fujitsu, Toshiba is now the largest manufacturer of mobile hard disk drives (HDDs) (2.5 inch and 1.8 inch HDDs). Toshiba is also the largest manufacturer of 1.8-inch HDDs and the company has just introduced a HDD in this form factor with 320 GB storage capacity. This 2-disk 1.8-inch drive offers the highest storage capacity in such a small package and will enable more consumer and mobile computer applications

Optical disc drives being replaced by flash memory in computers?

November 4, 2009

Analysis by:Thomas Coughlin, President,

Analysis of:PC makeover: slimmer profile, no DVD drive | www.mercurynews.com

Many PC makers are not including optical drives, especially for laptops and netbooks. Leaving out optical drives is being done not to reduce cost but to allow slimmer laptop and netbook computers. Flash memory with built in programs and entertainment content are now on the market in USB as well as memory card formats. Downloading content and applications has become more common, replacing one of the big uses for optical drives in computers. As flash memory $/GB declines and as write speeds for flash devices improve will these devices replace current optical disk physical distribution formats?

Bank Tech Companies - who will be left standing?

September 29, 2009

Analysis by:Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer,

Analysis of:Mergers: Conflicts Becoming A Core Reality | www.banktechnews.com

7,000 US banks and credit unions represents a lot of customers for the banking technology companies. While banks may be hurting, their technology needs only increases. With so many recent mergers are there too few providers left? Who has the advantage banks or the providers?

Rare earth metals ban by China could impact hard disk drive production

September 22, 2009

Analysis by:Thomas Coughlin, President,

Analysis of:World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metals exports | www.telegraph.co.uk

China has been the single largest supplier country for rare earth metals such as terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, lutetium, neodymium, europium, cerium and lanthanum. China is contemplating a ban of some of these metals and restrictions on supply on many others. Many vital technologies are dependent upon rare earth metals such as motors, hard disk drives, electronics and illumination. There are deposits of rare earth ores in the North America, South Africa, and Australia but it may take years to bring these online.

Dell/Perot, HP/EDS what's the difference?

September 21, 2009

Analysis by:Howard Bruck, Chief Information Officer,

Analysis of:Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion | money.cnn.com

Dell, buying into the notion that hardware is now a commodity and they have already optimized that business, believes they need to diversify. So they buy a large business/technology consulting firm. Do they now bring any more value to the Perot business?

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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

Value Added Reseller (VAR)
Systems Integrator (SI)
Distributor
Individual/Small Consultancy
Storage Systems

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Chief Information Officer
President
Director
Chief Executive Officer
IT Director
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