Conner Storage Systems joins CableLabs' Convergence Forum.LAKE MARY Lake Mary may refer to:
Conner Peripherals was founded in 1986 by Seagate Technology co-founder Finis Conner, as a merger between a company of his and another started by MiniScribe founders John Squires and Terry Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNR See riser card. CNR - Communication and Network Riser ), Wednesday announced it has joined a trade group created to foster strategic ties among computer industry companies and the cable television industry, the Cable/Information Technology Convergence Forum. "Innovative high capacity storage solutions will be necessary as cable television networks begin to deliver new services such as video-on-demand and interactive home shopping Home Shopping commonly refers to the electronic retailing / home shopping channels industry, which includes such billion dollar companies as HSN, QVC, eBay, ShopNBC, Buy.com, and Amazon.com. ," said Joel Appelbaum, senior vice president and general manager of Conner Storage Systems. "Membership in the forum represents a tremendous opportunity for Conner, and we plan to take an active role in helping to define the requirements and create the storage products to service this exciting market." "The cable industry is quickly moving beyond the traditional boundaries of television broadcasting," said Richard Green Richard Green may refer to:
A major objective of the Cable/IT Convergence Forum is to help identify, define and develop new computer-based information technologies required by advanced cable television networks. It is also intended to enhance communication between the information technology and cable industries through joint participation at events such as conferences and technology demonstrations, and trade shows. Forum members include leading computer industry manufacturers such as Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Digital Equipment Corp., Intel Corp., IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Hewlett-Packard and others. Companies seeking further information on the Convergence Forum are asked to call Donald Frazier or Mike Schwartz at CableLabs, 303/661-9100. The forum was established by Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (CableLabs), a research and development consortium of cable television system operators, representing more than 85 percent of the cable subscribers in the United States, 70 percent of the subscribers in Canada, and 5-10 percent of cable subscribers in Mexico. CableLabs plans and funds research and development projects that will help cable companies take advantage of future opportunities and meet future challenges in the television industry. It transfers relevant technologies to member companies and to the industry, and provides information on current and prospective technological developments of interest to the cable industry. The Conner Storage Systems family of nStor disk array products provide up to 112GB of high availability storage and support a variety of operating systems, including Novell NetWare, Microsoft Windows NT Server, SCO UNIX, SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. Open Server, IBM OS/2 LAN Server, and IBM OS/2 Warp. The group sells products through a worldwide network of dealers, distributors and value-added resellers. Founded in 1986, Conner sells, designs and builds a comprehensive line of information storage solutions products, including disk drives, tape drives, storage management software and disk array storage systems, for a wide range of computer applications. Conner had 1994 sales of $2.4 billion. Conner's World Wide Web address is http://www.conner.com. CONTACT: Conner Storage Systems, Lake Mary Vicki White, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Manager, 407/262-4202 or Joel Reich, Director of Marketing, 407/262-4843 or CableLabs Mike Schwartz, 303/661-9100 |
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