Storage Markets Enters Consumer Electronics Storage: Targets CE-ATA Availability.Storage Markets' Traders Traders Individuals who take positions in securities and their derivatives with the objective of making profits. Traders can make markets by trading the flow. When they do this, their objective is to earn the bid/ask spread. Predict the Mainstream Availability of CE-ATA Disk Drives BOULDER Boulder, city, United States Boulder, city (1990 pop. 83,312), seat of Boulder co., N central Colo.; inc. 1871. A Rocky Mountain resort and a suburb of Denver, it is the seat of the Univ. of Colorado (1876). , Colo. -- Storage Markets, an innovative company providing impartial Favoring neither; disinterested; treating all alike; unbiased; equitable, fair, and just. , cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. market research to the data storage industry today announced a new program to provide storage-related research data for the consumer electronics industry. Storage Markets will apply its predictive market venue to answer a series of questions associated with consumer electronics storage technology trends and transitions. The Storage Markets community will first predict if and when CE-ATA based hard disk drives will reach mainstream adoption by consumer electronics vendors. Hard disk drives have penetrated the consumer space in markets such as digital cameras, music players and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Some people believe that a Consumer Electronic (CE) specific interface will enable disk drives to achieve better price, performance, and mechanical goals. Others believe that existing interfaces will meet customer requirements, and remaining with current interfaces would be cheaper by virtue of the economies of scale. Storage Markets' online community of traders is being asked to share their perspective on the CE-ATA interface issue by participating in a virtual financial market game. Players, acting as financial traders buy and sell virtual stocks whose value are tied to the timeframe for the availability of the millionth CE-ATA drive shipped. The dynamics of the trading environment aggregates the insight of over 400 storage professionals yielding a real time and continuous prediction "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." - Niels Bohr A prediction is a statement or claim that a particular event will occur in the future in more certain terms than a forecast. of when the millionth drive with a CE-ATA interface will ship. About Storage Markets (www.storagemarkets.com) Storage Markets is an innovative market analytics and data provider that enables data storage and IT professionals to better predict technology and market trends. At Storage Markets, a cross-industry community of storage professionals participates in a virtual stock market, buying and selling virtual shares of stocks that represent specific outcomes for future technological developments. Pertinent PERTINENT, evidence. Those facts which tend to prove the allegations of the party offering them, are called pertinent; those which have no such tendency are called impertinent, 8 Toull. n. 22. By pertinent is also meant that which belongs. Willes, 319. topics are posted by companies or organizations that seek answers from qualified anonymous traders with the aim of making better-informed strategic decisions. Storage Markets utilizes Hollywood Hollywood. 1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. Stock Exchange([R])'s Virtual Specialist(TM) exchange technology to allow an unlimited number of participants to trade virtual securities in a fair and orderly orderly /or·der·ly/ (or´der-le) an attendant in a hospital who works under the direction of a nurse. or·der·ly n. An attendant in a hospital. , supply-and-demand-based market. Storage Markets syndicates the data collected to storage related vendors, organizations, and businesses and as original content to media outlets. Founded in 2006, Storage Markets is at the forefront of providing predictive market services to the technology industry and beyond. Storage Markets is headquartered in Boulder, CO. For more information, please go to www.storagemarkets.com. |
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