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Iomega

Iomega

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Iomega
Type Subsidiary
Industry Computer
Founded 1980
Headquarters San Diego, California, USA
Products Computer storage
Employees 450[1]
Parent EMC Corporation
Website Iomega's Website
Iomega is a producer of consumer external, portable and networking storage hardware. Established in the 1980s, Iomega has sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks. Purchased by EMC in June 2008, Iomega has become the SOHO/SMB arm of the world’s largest storage company.
On April 8, 2008, EMC Corporation announced[2] its plans to acquire Iomega for a consideration of US$213M. The acquisition was completed in June 2008[3].

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Current Products:
Iomega's product portfolio includes industry leading network attached storage products, external hard drives, multimedia drives, and removable storage technology, the REV® Backup Drive:
Hard drives connect to the computer via USB 2.0, SuperSpeed USB 3.0, Firewire 400, FireWire 800, or eSATA depending on the model.

Legacy Products:
Iomega designed and manufactured a range of products designed to compete with and ultimately replace the 3.5" Floppy Disk. Some of these products came very close to this goal whilst also achieving status in their own right as highly collectable items.
Initial Iomega products connected to a computer via SCSI or Parallel port. Later models used USB & FireWire (1394).

[edit] Timeline[4]

1980
April 2, Iomega Founded
1982
Released First Bernoulli Drive (10MB)
1995
January, Shipped Ditto Tape Drive
March, Released Zip 100MB Drive
December, Shipped Jaz 1GB Drive
1997
June, Announced Buz Multimedia Producer
November, Unveiled Clik! 40MB Drive
1998
February, Shipped Jaz 2GB Drive
December, Shipped Zip 250MB Drive
1999
Shipped First Internal CD-RW Drive
2000
September, Launched HipZip Digital Audio Player
October, Shipped FotoShow Digital Image Center
December, Shipped First External CD-RW Drive
2001
January, Announced Peerless Drive System
March, Shipped DataSafe Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server
2002
April, Announced Portable and External Hard Drive Family
August, Shipped Zip 750MB Drive
November, Launched USB Mini Flash Drive
2003
March, Launched iStorage Online Storage
March, Announced External Floppy Drive
June, Announced first DVD-RW drive
June, Shipped 50 millonth Zip drive
November, Introduced Super DVD QuikTouch
2004
February, Shipped CD-RW/DVD-ROM 7-in-1 Card Reader
April, Shipped REV 35GB Drive
April, Shipped Floppy Plus 7-in-1 Card Reader
September, Introduced Wireless NAS Server
October, Introduced REV Autoloader 1000
2005
November, Announced ScreenPlay Multimedia Drive
2006
September, Introduced desktop RAID storage
2008
January, Announced eGo Portable Hard Drive
April, EMC acquired Iomega
April, Announced ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive
May, Announced eGo Desktop Hard Drive
August, Introduced ScreenPlay TV Link Multimedia Adapter
September, Announced the new eGo Helium Portable Hard Drive
October, Announced StorCenter ix2
October, Announced ScreenPlay Pro HD Multimedia Drive
2009
January, Shipped Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive
February, Announced StorCenter ix4-100 Server
April, Ships the StorCenter ix4-200r NAS
May, New Generation of eGo Portable Hard Drives
August, Announced StorCenter ix4-200d NAS
October, Announced StorCenter ix2-200
2010
January, Shipped Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station
January, Announced ScrenPlay Media Player, Director Edition
January, Announced v.Clone Technology: Take your PC Virtually Anywhere
April, Iomega celebrates 30 years
May, Announced StorCenter ix12-300r NAS
June, Introduced Skin Hard Drive by Iomega
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