IDEMA Announce Program Highlights for DISKCON USA 2006; This Year's Theme Is the Hard Drive's 50th Anniversary; Tracks to Include Past, Present and Future Applications.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- The DISKCON USA 2006 Conference, the hard disk drive industry's premier event, today announced program highlights for this year's conference, to be held September 13 and 14 at the Hyatt Regency Conference Center in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . This year's conference, which is presented by the International Disk Drive, Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA IDEMA International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association ), will address the business and technology aspects of the hard disk drive industry, including evaluating its past accomplishments and its future potential. The conference also aims to help developers maintain hard disk drive utilization as the dominant storage technology for many years to come. Several presentations and panel discussions will be hosted by leading industry executives who will represent their companies as well as the overall hard disk drive industry. "As we celebrate 50 years of hard disk drive innovation, the industry has never been stronger or more vibrant," said Ed Grochowski, executive director for IDEMA. "New technologies such as perpendicular recording A method of digital recording on a magnetic disk in which the bits are in a vertical arrangement instead of horizontal in order to take up less space. Also called "vertical recording," perpendicular recording is expected to materialize with areal densities exceeding 200 gigabits per are paving the way to handle the consumer's insatiable appetite for multimedia content which other competing technologies can't support. As we usher in Verb 1. usher in - be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period" inaugurate, introduce commence, lead off, start, begin - set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. the 51st year, many top industry analysts are predicting that hard drive manufacturers are poised to sell more drives in the next five years as they had in the last 50! The future has never been brighter." DISKCON USA 2006 Program Highlights: Wednesday, September 13 --8:30 a.m. - Opening Keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. presented by Mark Kryder Mark Kryder (Portland, Oregon, Oct, 7, 1943) was a Seagate Corp.'s senior vice president of research and chief technology officer. He is noted for his research work in the development of magnetic and magneto-optic data storage technology. from Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. : 50 Years of Disk Drives -- And the Exciting Road Ahead. --9:00 a.m. - Historical Perspective on Hard Disk Drives to be presented by IBM's Barry Rudolph. --10:30 a.m. - Executive Presentation Panel to feature executives from Hitachi GST GST abbr. Greenwich sidereal time GST (in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) Goods and Services Tax , Komag, Seagate, Toshiba, Veeco, Western Digital and Xryatex. Topic of discussion: Strategic Directions for the Future. --2:00 p.m. - Hard Disk Drive Technology and Its Future: This panel discusses solutions and technological challenges associated with today's hard disk drive manufacturing. --6:00 p.m. - Keynote dinner titled Disk -- the Past, the Present and the Future to be presented by Fred Moore
Fred Moore (born September 7, 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA; died November 23, 1952 in Burbank, California, USA in a road accident), was an American character , Futurist and Founder Horison Information Strategies. Moore's presentation will provide a unique look at the future of one of the most important products of the information age: The hard disk drive. Thursday, September 14 --8:30 a.m. - Retrospect of Hard Disk Drive Industry and Future Business Directions: This panel discussion offers insight into how Wall Street views and evaluates the hard disk drive industry. In addition, today's top analysts will discuss how the Seagate-Maxtor merger might affect this industry as well as the growth in the consumer electronics market. --11:30 a.m. - Luncheon Keynote titled The Future Looks at Your Past: Digital Archeology and the Hard Disk Drive to be presented by Charles Sobey, Chief Scientist for ChannelScience. This session will present ideas for new businesses and provide a long-term view of a product with notoriously short production cycles and lifetimes. --1:00 p.m. - Intermag 2006 is a technical forum where some of the latest and greatest new technological advances for the hard disk drive industry are presented and shared. --3:00 p.m. - Hard Disk Drive Applications, Integration and Evolution: Users Speak Out: This session will review end-user's or integrator's perspectives of developing hard disk drive features, with specific attention to new product directions required over the next five years on a market-by-market basis. --4:30 p.m. - The Hybrid Landscape: Opportunity and Challenge: A panel discussion on the impact of this new technology will have on the existing hard disk drive and Flash industries. For more information on these program highlights, please visit www.idema.org/_smartsite/modules/news/show_news.php?cmd =display&news_id=1364 (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) Registration Conference registration is currently underway and there is no charge to visit the exhibit show floor with pre-registration. On-site registration for the exhibits is $30.00. Full conference registration is as follows: Two day conference attendance: --$550 for IDEMA members --$775 for non-members One day conference attendance: --$295 for IDEMA members --$425 for non-members To register online, please visit: www.xpressreg.net/register/disk096/reginfo.asp?st=1&o=81056 Lastly, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the hard disk drive, contributions are being accepted to preserve the history and legacy of magnetic disk storage. Contributions go to the Magnetic Disk Heritage Center, where they are currently restoring a RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) The first hard disk computer, introduced by IBM in 1956. All 50 of its 24" platters held a total of five million characters! RAMAC was half computer, half tabulator. drive. For more information, please visit www.magneticdiskheritagecenter.org. About IDEMA Now celebrating its 20-year anniversary, IDEMA is the trade association for the $30 Billion hard drive industry, representing 340 member companies in the personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. , enterprise, and consumer electronic storage with offices in Sunnyvale, CA, Singapore, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, please visit: www.idema.org. |
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