IDEMA DISKCON Asia Pacific 2009
"Facing the Challenges Through Innovation"
Suppliers of HDDs, SSDs, and contributing
technologies face their most daunting challenges
in more than 20 years. Global economic problems
are depressing demand and forcing prices down,
but companies are forced to maintain investment,
reduce cost - and to INNOVATE to meet these
challenges. Innovation arising from new
technology introduction has, in the past,
contributed to the growth of storage by
providing lower prices per gigabytes at
progressively increasing capacities, improved
performances and reliability. DISKCON Asia
Pacific 2009 will investigate storage in the
present environment, addressing both HDD and SSD
technologies and how innovations, as increased
areal densities using new structures and
narrower line widths using advanced equipment,
will sustain industry.
Certificate of Competence in Storage Technology
(CoCST)
The nationally-recognised
Certificate of Competence in Storage
Technology, aimed at the disk drive
industry, is a step to increase the
competitiveness of the workforce. A move to
keep abreast of the technology and products.
A precedent in educational programs.
Going Beyond the Hype: The Real Story Of Hard
Drives Versus Solid State Drives
Every day seems to bring a
new prediction that hard drives will soon go
the way of the floppy disk, due to the
emergence of solid state drives. I
understand the appeal of a good story as
much as anyone. But what is the real story
with hard drives versus solid state drives?
Quite frankly, when you look beyond the
hype, it ¡s clear that hard drives are (and
will continue to be) the dominant storage
choice.
by Joel Weiss for EDN Magazine
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IDEMA Asia Pacific October 2009 Seminar
In October 2009, IDEMA Asia Pacific held
seminars in Singapore (7 Oct 09) and Bangkok (9
Oct 09) with the theme, "Are HDDs Recession
Proof?" The events were well attended. We had
keynote speakers BS Teh - Vice
President & Managing Director, Asia Pacific &
Japan, Sales & Marketing of Seagate Technology
International in Singapore and Dr Djitt
Laowattana - Director of Institute of
FIeld roBOtics (FIBO) in Bangkok.
Other speakers includes John Rydning
- Research Director (Hard Disk Drives,
IDC),
Mark Geenen - Founder &
President of Trendfocus, Matt Bryson
- Senior Research Analyst (Storage, Avian
Securities) and Sherri Scribner
- Senior Analyst (Electronics Supply Chain,
Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.)
IDEMA China Funds Rehab Pool in China
IDEMA China (The International Disk Drive
Equipment and Materials Association), along with
80 companies, including Seagate, held a charity
golf tournament and a charity auction in late
October that raised RMB1.2 million (equivalent
to about $175,000) for repairs and
reconstruction of the pool
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