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Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Hybrid PCs, will they make a difference?

September 21, 2009

HP equips desktop PCs with SSDs for faster Windows 7 boots | www.thestandard.com

HP has introduced a desktop computer with a combination of an SSD and a HDD. The SSD will store Windows and commonly accessed applications while the HDD stores user data and other content. The SSD provides faster performance than a HDD for sequential data transfer but may be slower than the HDD for random data.

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

HDD component vendors support increasing storage capacity

August 20, 2009

Head shop rolls out disk size roadmap | www.theregister.co.uk

TDK has shown a roadmap for HDD heads showing development of areal densities with time. Current mass produced products are 250 GB/platter and 500 GB/platter for 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch HDDs respectively. Full production of 320 GB/platter 2.5-inch drives is to start by December (thus close to 1 TB for 3 disks and 620 GB for 2 disks). Full production of 640 GB/platter 3.5-inch drives should begin in January 2010.

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Flash memory will grow in enterprise applications

August 18, 2009

STEC Has EMC to Thank for it's Rapid Growth | www.enterprisestorageforum.com

Enterprise applications are the brightest spot currently for SSDs. Enterprise SSDs are used in applications where performance is a greater value than digital storage capacity. STEC has scored many successes in the enterprise market including qualifications at EMC, Sun, IBM, HP, HDS and Fujitsu. EMC has shipped the most enterprise storage systems using STEC SSDs and has been the major factor in STEC’s growth.

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Holographic dreams, or visions?

August 18, 2009

Mitsubishi, Hitachi eye disc for cloud computing era | www.physorg.com

Hitachi, Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies are working together on a holographic optical disc that would store 1 TB of information. The companies say that this technology would be used in cloud computing to store data and information offline in interconnected databases. Holographic storage has been pursued by many companies over the last 20 years with no surviving commercial products.

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

A market for vast laptops and mobile storage

August 5, 2009

WD ships industry’s first 2.5-inch 1TB hard drive | www.engadget.com

Western Digital announced a 3 disk 2.5-inch hard disk drive with 333 GB per platter giving 1 TB total capacity, the highest shipping 2.5-inch drive product yet The WD drive is 12.5-mm high to accommodate three disks, this makes it useful only in larger laptop or external storage products. The company is offering this drive as an internal drive product or an external addition to their Passport product line offered for about $250 retail today.

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Are we at the beginning of a HDD upturn

July 26, 2009

Seagate reports fourth quarter 2009 fiscal results | www.tweaktown.com

Seagate Technology reported June quarter 2009 results, the first public announcement by a HDD company of June quarter results. Shipments in the June quarter totaled 40.6 M, up 6% over the March quarter in a very unseasonal increase in what is generally the slowest quarter of the year. Seagate reported that the total HDD TAM was 132 M for the June quarter, up 17% from the March quarter and indicating that Seagate has lost market share

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

EMC and NetApp after the Data Domain acquisition

July 26, 2009

EMC outlines where Data Domain will fit | blogs.zdnet.com

EMC acquired Data Domain, a data deduplication company for $2.1 B in cash. EMC beat NetApp in the acquisition of Data Domain after several months of a bidding war. EMC says that it will integrate Data Domain as a division focused on the latest disk-based backup, recovery and archive products. NetApp needed a technology like Data Domains to give it a data deduplication capability to help the company remain competitive in the current economic climate.

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

New enterprise HDDs offer highest capacity and security

July 26, 2009

New Seagate Cheetah Drives Go High-Capacity, High-Performance | www.crn.com

Seagate Technology introduced its newest line of Cheetah enterprise HDDs with storage capacities up to 600 GB, the highest ever for such drives The drives are available with 6 Gbps SAS or 4 Gbps Fibre Channel high speed storage interfaces These are the first enterprise drives to include built-in drive encryption allowing protection of drive data as well as a fast sanitization by erasing the encryption key.

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Next generation Intel SSDs appeal to high performance notebook users

July 26, 2009

Intel’s second-gen solid state drives: faster, cheaper and ready for Windows 7 | apcmag.com

Intel introduced a new generation of SSDs with a lower price point than earlier products. Intel 80 GB SSD sells for $225 and 160 GB for $440, available in 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch form factors Lower price was due to move from 50 nm to 34 nm lithography processes to give higher density chips The Intel SSD will provide a higher performance product for high end notebook users

Thomas Coughlin, President

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates What is a GLG Leader?|The Gerson Lehrman Group&reg; (GLG) Leader Program<sup>SM</sup> is our premium Member Program<sup>SM</sup>. Those identified as GLG Leaders are in the top 5% of GLG CouncilRank and have an exclusivity agreement with GLG.

Operating system constraints may curb notebook and netbook storage

June 22, 2009

Microsoft bans XP on hybrid storage netbooks | www.techspot.com

*  Microsoft is limiting notebook computers from using combined SSDs  * Microsoft XP is the most popular operating system for small notebook and netbook computers  *  Companies that had announced hybrid storage netbooks (such as MSI) will be pulling their products off the market to comply with Microsoft’s edict *  This will delay hybrid storage solutions to either linux-based computers or else delay them until the introduction of Windows 7 *  Hybrid storage can help in the introduction of SSDs by allowing customers to take advantages of SSD and HDD where each would provide greater value to notebook customers

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