Iomega is an American 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. On April 8, 2008, EMC Corporation announced its plans to acquire Iomega for a consideration of US $213M.[2] The acquisition was completed in June 2008,[3] making Iomega the SOHO/SMB arm of the world’s largest storage company.
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Iomega designed and manufactured a range of products designed to compete with and ultimately replace the 3.5" floppy disk, notably the Zip Drive. Some of these products came very close to this goal while also achieving status in their own right as collectable items.[citation needed] Initial Iomega products connected to a computer via SCSI or parallel port, later models used USB and FireWire (1394).
Iomega's current product portfolio includes network attached storage products, external hard drives, multimedia drives, and removable storage technology, the REV Backup Drive.[4]
[edit] Timeline
[edit] 1980–1999
- 1980: April 2, Iomega Founded[5]
- 1982: Released First Bernoulli Box Drive (10MB)
- 1995: January, Shipped Iomega Ditto Tape Drive
- 1995: March, Released Zip 100MB Drive
- 1995: December, Shipped Jaz Drive 1GB Drive
- 1997: June, Announced Buz Multimedia Producer
- 1997: November, Unveiled Clik! 40MB Drive
- 1998: February, Shipped Jaz 2GB Drive
- 1998: December, Shipped Zip 250MB Drive
- 1999: Shipped First Internal CD-RW Drive
[edit] 2000–present
- 2000: September, Launched HipZip Digital Audio Player
- 2000: October, Shipped FotoShow Digital Image Center
- 2000: December, Shipped First External CD-RW Drive
- 2001: January, Announced Peerless Drive System
- 2001: March, Shipped DataSafe Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server
- 2002: April, Announced Portable and External Hard Drive Family
- 2002: August, Shipped Zip 750MB Drive
- 2002: November, Launched USB Mini Flash Drive
- 2003: March, Launched iStorage Online Storage
- 2003: March, Announced External Floppy Drive
- 2003: June, Announced first DVD-RW drive
- 2003: June, Shipped 50 millonth Zip drive
- 2003: November, Introduced Super DVD QuikTouch
- 2004: February, Shipped CD-RW/DVD-ROM 7-in-1 Card Reader
- 2004: April, Shipped REV 35GB Drive
- 2004: April, Shipped Floppy Plus 7-in-1 Card Reader
- 2004: September, Introduced Wireless NAS Server
- 2004: October, Introduced REV Autoloader 1000
- 2005: November, Announced ScreenPlay Multimedia Drive
- 2006: September, Introduced desktop RAID storage
- 2008: January, Announced eGo Portable Hard Drive
- 2008: April, EMC acquired Iomega
- 2008: April, Announced ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive
- 2008: May, Announced eGo Desktop Hard Drive
- 2008: August, Introduced ScreenPlay TV Link Multimedia Adapter
- 2008: September, Announced the new eGo Helium Portable Hard Drive
- 2008: October, Announced StorCenter ix2
- 2008: October, Announced ScreenPlay Pro HD Multimedia Drive
- 2009: January, Shipped Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive
- 2009: February, Announced StorCenter ix4-100 Server
- 2009: April, Ships the StorCenter ix4-200r NAS
- 2009: May, New Generation of eGo Portable Hard Drives
- 2009: August, Announced StorCenter ix4-200d NAS
- 2009: October, Announced StorCenter ix2-200
- 2010: January, Shipped Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station
- 2010: January, Announced ScrenPlay Media Player, Director Edition
- 2010: January, Announced v.Clone Technology: Take your PC Virtually Anywhere
- 2010: April, Iomega celebrates 30 years
- 2010: May, Announced StorCenter ix12-300r NAS
- 2010: June, Introduced Skin Hard Drive by Iomega
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