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P.J. LouisPresident and OwnerPJ Louis LLC

Nokia – Undergoing a Massive Restructuring and Turnaround

February 7, 2011

Analysis of:Nokia CEO Considers Big Shake-Up | online.wsj.com

When a company changes the executive and senior management team you have a massive restructuring of the company underway. Whether or not CEO Stephen Elop can effect a turnaround is another story.

P.J. LouisPresident and OwnerPJ Louis LLC

Technology and Patent Companies – Trolling for Value – Picking Nortel’s Bones

February 5, 2011

Analysis of:Bidders Emerge for Nortel Patents | online.wsj.com

Patent portfolio investing is not new; it’s just appears to be something new for the mainstream media to write about. The concept of buying patents for defensive and offensive purposes has been a legitimate business warfare weapon for the last couple of hundred years.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

ASTC plans brave new work on HDD research collaboration

February 3, 2011

A consortium of hard disk drive companies in combination with equipment and component suppliers has formed the Advanced Storage Technology Consortium. In the kick-off meeting the group, sponsored by IDEMA announced its plans for creating a new spirit of pro-competitive technology analysis. This collaborative work is expected to reduce the overall risk of new technology introductions such as energy assisted magnetic recording and bit pattern magnetic recording

P.J. LouisPresident and OwnerPJ Louis LLC

Nokia – Not Adapting Fast Enough – Has the Train left the Station?

February 3, 2011

Analysis of:Nokia Shares Drop on Poor Q4 Earnings | www.wirelessweek.com

Nokia is still the 800 pound gorilla but it is clearly being challenged. If the company does not take aggressive action it will become another Motorola.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Digital Storage@Home

January 31, 2011

There may been a flurry of new consumer storage devices that appeared before, during and after the 2011 CES. At or shortly after the 2011 CES there were devices for private storage clouds announced by several companies, offering remote access of content stored at home. Media server devices either directly connected or connected through a network to a TV have achieve new levels of functionality and ease of use.

Steven HarnsbergerPrincipalFreestyle Digital Media

Hulu Stuck Between a Rock and the Entertainment Industry

January 28, 2011

Analysis of:Hulu Reworks Its Script as Digital Change Hits TV - Hulu Online Cable Move? | online.wsj.com

Hulu is trying to reinvent itself as a paid service, either as a SVOD provider  or a replacment cable service .  Because of conflict between the Board of Directors and its management, there is little chance that Hulu will ever be able to offer a subscription TV service like the one discussed in this article.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

What will Apple XSERVE end of life mean for the media and entertainment market?

January 25, 2011

In November 2010 Apple announced that the company will discontinue making its XSERVE 1U enclosure enterprise server. The XSERVE and associated XSAN storage systems have been popular in some enterprise applications, particularly in the media and entertainment market. Apple’s discontinuance of XSERVE has let to lots of speculation that Apple would no longer support XSAN and may get out of the professional video market altogether

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Tape company consolidation points to more focused storage market

January 25, 2011

Analysis of:Imation Announces Strategic Alliance With TDK Corporation for Joint Development and Manufacturing of Magnetic Tape | www.hughsnews.ca

Imation signed a deal with TDK corporation to consolidate tape coating operations in TDK’s Yamanashi manufacturing facility. Imation is closing down its Oklahoma tape manufacturing facility in April 2011. Imation and TDK signed a strategic agreement to develop and manufacture magnetic tape technologies. The agreement between Imation and TDK points to consolidation in the magnetic tape industry. What are the continued opportunities for magnetic tape?

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Seagate opens GoFlex to allow universal storage module standard

January 24, 2011

Seagate introduced its GoFlex interface standard last year. The GoFlex standard effectively extends the HDD SATA interface to external connection cables. AT the 2011 Storage Visions Conference (a partner to the 2011 CES) the SATA-IO standards organization announce a version of the the GoFlex interface as an open standard for removable consumer devices (Universal Storage Module--USM). At the 2011 CES show Seagate highlighted third-party companies introductions for GoFlex/USM on CE products.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Will tablets destroy the market for PCs and computer HDDs?

December 22, 2010

Analysis of:Outlook for PCs Strong, Despite Pressure From Tablets | it.tmcnet.com

Tablet computers are eating into some laptop sales. Estimates are that 19.1 million potential laptop sales will go to tablets in 2011, rising to 26 million by 2012. Corporate computers are less likely that consumer laptops to fall to tablets at least for the near term. It appears that the average price of laptops is rising, indicating that it is the lower end of the laptop market that will suffer the most from tablets. However, overall flash and HDD storage capacity will rise.

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