Iomega
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| 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
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- April 2, Iomega Founded
1982
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- Released First Bernoulli Drive (10MB)
1995
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- January, Shipped Ditto Tape Drive
- March, Released Zip 100MB Drive
- December, Shipped Jaz 1GB Drive
1997
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- June, Announced Buz Multimedia Producer
- November, Unveiled Clik! 40MB Drive
1998
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- February, Shipped Jaz 2GB Drive
- December, Shipped Zip 250MB Drive
1999
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- Shipped First Internal CD-RW Drive
2000
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- September, Launched HipZip Digital Audio Player
- October, Shipped FotoShow Digital Image Center
- December, Shipped First External CD-RW Drive
2001
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- January, Announced Peerless Drive System
- March, Shipped DataSafe Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server
2002
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- April, Announced Portable and External Hard Drive Family
- August, Shipped Zip 750MB Drive
- November, Launched USB Mini Flash Drive
2003
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- 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
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- 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
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- November, Announced ScreenPlay Multimedia Drive
2006
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- September, Introduced desktop RAID storage
2008
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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