Included
We wish to include in this database industrial and academic organisations involved in the EU in the research, development or manufacture of the following products:
Data Storage Devices
- magnetic disk drives
- tape drives
- optical disk drives
- flash storage
- MRAM
- holographic
- probe recording
- other emerging storage technologies
Data Storage Supplies
- heads
- media
- mechanical components
- electronic components
- optical components
- manufacturing/test equipment
- consumables
- other storage supplies
Data Storage Systems
- network storage hardware/software/management
- disk arrays
- storage libraries
- optical file systems
- video-on-demand servers
- back-up solutions
- other storage system products, services & solutions
Excluded
We do not intend to include organisations involved in:
- low density storage (e.g. magnetic stripe cards)
- conventional semiconductor memory such as DRAM and SRAM
- non-data storage (e.g. audio tape drives, audio CD’s, video recorders)
- general purpose active and passive electronic components
- audio or video tape
- general purpose support equipment for inspection, measurement, analysis and maintenance
- non value-added peripheral distribution
- peripheral use
- content provision
- replication
- fulfilment
- general analysis and market research