Mr. Thomas Coughlin
President, Coughlin Associates
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Tom Coughlin is the President of Coughlin Associates, Inc. He is an acknowledged authority on data storage products including storage devices, network attached storage, storage area networks, and storage applications. Dr. Coughlin has held senior engineering and management positions at companies such as Seagate, Maxtor, Micro polis, SyQuest and Ampex. His responsibilities include technical evaluations, project management, market and technology reports, technical article writing, and conference organizing. He is also involved in IDEMA, A senior member of IEEE and past chairman of SCV Magnetics and Consumer Electronics Society as well as serving several current and recent positions in the IEEE. Dr. Coughlin has been publicity chair of the 1992, 1996, and 2001 TMRC conference and he is the organizer of the annual Storage Visions and Creative Storage Conferences. For more information on Tom go to: www.tomcoughlin.com. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2001 - Unspecified
- President, Coughlin Associates
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Thomas Coughlin
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Strong Storage Growth for the Professional Media and Entertainment Industry
May 16, 2011
A new report on digital storage for the professional media and entertainment industry projects strong growth driven by higher resolution stereoscopic content as well as new channels for content distribution and the increasing digitization of historical analog content. 5.6X storage capacity growth and 1.7X revenue growth are expected between 2011 and 2016.
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Seagate Mobile Storage for the iPad and other Apple Mobile OS devices
May 16, 2011
Seagate Technology introduced its GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage device offering 500 GB storage capacity through a WiFi connection. The battery powered external hard drive allows users to take up to 500 GB of content with them and access it from their iPad, iPhone or other wireless iOS device. The product release is planned for July 2011. Technology originally developed for DAVE several years ago finally finds a market where it fills a need.
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SanDisk Acquires Pliant in Continuation of Record Storage Acquisition Season
May 16, 2011
Sandisk agreed to acquire Pliant Technology for about $327M. SanDisk is most known for its consumer products although the company has offered several SSD products over the last decade. Pliant is a startup company founded by HDD industry veterans and has made a name for itself in the enterprise SSD space. The acquisition continues the trend of storage company mergers that have changed the landscape of the industry in the last 3 months.
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HDD Suppliers Now Down to Three
April 20, 2011
Seagate and Samsung announced that Seagate would acquire Samsung’s HDD business for $1.38 B. In addition to the HDD business Seagate ensures supply of flash memory for its hybrid HDDs and enterprise storage business. Samsung gets 10% ownership of Seagate and a seat on the board. Samsung also gets HDDs from Seagate to meet its product needs.
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Japanese HDD Companies Experience Component Supply Problems Due to Earthquakes
April 8, 2011
Hitachi GST and Toshiba have indicated that due to electrical part shortages they will be constrained on their ability to ship HDDs. Hitachi has reported that this impacts all their desktop supply lines and it may impact their notebook drives as well. Toshiba is also experiencing critical HDD IC shortages that will limit their ability to build HDDs in the short term. Continuing earthquakes and power issues could make the supply of these components questionable for some time.
GLG Study Groups with Thomas Coughlin(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 18301 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 9582 |
| Semiconductor & Component Experts | 713 |
| Semiconductor Experts | 585 |
| Colocation and Data Center Experts | 548 |
GLG Live Meetings with Thomas Coughlin(?)
Recent Seminars
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April 10, 2007 | New York
GLGi: The Future of the Data Storage Market - How Far will Flash Go? -
April 3, 2006 | San Francisco
GLGi: How Consumer Electronics will Change the HDD Market -
March 24, 2006 | New York
GLGi: How Consumer Electronics will Change the HDD Market
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