Thus consumer storage growth will be a driver in cost effective digital storage provided by hard disk drives.
Following the close of the sale of his shares to Seagate, Mr. Spruch would join Seagate and lead the company's consumer storage products organization.
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Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.
Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and home entertainment products.
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"Smartphones and tablets offer amazing new opportunities for Seagate to provide new consumer storage solutions in an increasingly mobile world, " said Scott Horn, vice president of Marketing at Seagate.
The transaction would combine two highly complementary product and technology portfolios, adding LaCie's line of premium branded consumer storage solutions, network-attached storage solutions and software offerings to Seagate's array of mainstream consumer storage products.
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The combination would accelerate Seagate's growth strategy in the expanding consumer storage market, particularly in Europe and Japan, and add strong engineering and software development capabilities, as well as relationships with several key retailers.
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Whether it is faster direct attached storage products, personal or home cloud storage devices or improved enterprise and archive storage consumer applications storage capacity, architectures and transport speeds will continue to grow and develop.
At the CES show and in related hotel exhibits there were a number of storage companies showing the growth and development of consumer oriented storage technology.
Consumer electronic storage devices are used in applications such as gaming consoles, DVRs and devices which require high capacity and low cost per GB.
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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.
This will lead to shortages and higher prices for hard disk drives and will cause problems for computer, consumer and enterprise storage customers well into 2012.
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Another indicator of its consumer orientation is storage.
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Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi GST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage.
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This group has created standard for encrypted storage devices for consumer as well as enterprise applications with its OPAL and now enterprise secure-storage device standards.
This piece looks at some of these new products as well as an announcement for client consumer solid-state storage.
Tom is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which was published by Newnes Press.
The company makes chips used in networking gear, storage and consumer devices.
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Advised by Bank of American Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, the combined company will result in the largest consumer based digital data storage companies.
However as more traffic goes though the public Internet it could overwhelm the carrying capacity in many geographic areas, even within the US. As a consequence a new type of network addressable storage appliance in consumer homes and SMB facilities as well as carried by people themselves will play an increasingly important role in the developing storage hierarchy.
The TV, DVR and External Storage or client non-compute applications are storage solutions designed for consumer electronic devices such as media recorders and disk drives used for external storage such as a portable external disk and network-attached storage.
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Micron announced an SSD with almost 1 TB storage capacity for consumer (client) applications.
Consumer devices use common digital storage technology such as flash memory, hard disk drives or optical discs.
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In the consumer market, direct attached storage devices use USB connections predominately.
"Floppies and memory keys have their place, but they don't have anything like the capacity or flexibility of a hard drive so are unable to meet the demand for more and more storage capacity in consumer devices, " said Mr Larsson.
This week, the company that brought its near-ubiquitous Zip storage drives to PCs everywhere unveiled the second in what may be a string of consumer electronic devices that aren't PC-storage peripherals.
HDDs provide a crucial role in modern computers, enterprise storage equipment, including cloud storage, and many consumer electronic devices.
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Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions.
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Other related technologies like demand response, consumer-side controls and energy storage are expected to play an equally important role in distributed-energy networks.
Tom is the founder and organizer of the Annual Storage Visions Conference (www.storagevisions.com), a partner to the International Consumer Electronics Show, as well as the Creative Storage Conference (www.creativestorage.org).
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