Plextor is a leading developer of high-performance digital storage equipment for professionals, consumers and enterprises.

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As shown in a recent Samsung event, increasing utilization of enterprise equipment, including digital storage, keeps the equipment in data centers working even harder, resulting in even higher energy use.

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Headquartered in California, Western Digital is a global provider of storage devices, networking equipment and home entertainment products.

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Over the past couple of years this had led to a number of valuable acquisitions by major digital storage companies of storage system suppliers that have built specialized equipment to service this market.

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On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.

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Tom is publishes a Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics Report, a Media and Entertainment Storage Report, and a Capital Equipment and Technology Report for the Hard Disk Drive Industry.

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