lenovo group limited and dell emc dell technologies traded as nyse iom 1983 2008 industry computer founded april 1 1980 1980 04 01 in roy utah usa founder david bailey 1 and david norton headquarters san diego california usa products computer storage number of employees 450 2 parent lenovo dell emc dell technologies website lenovoemc.com lenovoemc formerly iomega sometimes styled lenovo emc is a producer of external portable and networked storage products . established in the 1980s in roy utah as iomega lenovoemc has sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks . it was formerly a public company . 3 the zip drive was iomega s most notable product . 4 contents 1 products 1.1 px4 400d 1.2 lenovo beacon home cloud centre 2 operations 3 history 3.1 acquisition by emc 3.2 joint venture with lenovo 3.3 1980 1999 3.4 2000 present 4 see also 5 references 6 external links products edit iomega designed and manufactured a range of products intended to compete with and ultimately replace the 3.5 floppy disk notably the zip drive . initial iomega products connected to a computer via scsi or parallel port ; later models used usb and firewire 1394 . lenovoemc s current product portfolio includes network attached storage products external hard drives multimedia drives and removable storage technology . 5 px4 400d edit the 400d is a multi bay network attached storage nas device . the 400d is powered by an intel atom processor running at 2.13 gigahertz has 2 gigabytes of ram and has a sata3 controller capable of moving data at 6 gigabits per second . hdmi and usb ports are included . the hdmi out function enables monitoring live feeds from surveillance cameras . the unit can be set up and managed without a pc using an external display keyboard and mouse . the 400d is lenovoemc s first product sold with its lifeline 4.1 software which adds functions such as a domain mode enhanced active directory support and a more robust sdk . mcafee epolicy orchestrator is included for centralized security management . all think branded systems from lenovo pre installed with windows 8.1 include lenovoemc storage connector in order make discovery and set up of the 400d and other lenovoemc nas devices smoother . 6 lenovo beacon home cloud centre edit at the 2014 international ces lenovoemc announced the lenovo beacon home cloud centre . the beacon is a storage device that allows remote sharing of data such as music pictures and video . the beacon allows music and video streaming to multiple devices . android phones and tablets can be used to control the beacon . it also has an hdmi port to allow connection to a television or monitor . up to 6 terabytes of storage raid 0 and 1 wi fi and bluetooth are all supported . 7 operations edit lenovo announced the construction of a research and development facility near s o paulo brazil in november 2013 . this facility will be dedicated to enterprise software and supporting lenovoemc s development of high end servers and cloud storage . construction will cost 100 million and about 100 will be employed at the facility . it will be located in the university of campinas science and technology park about 60 miles from s o paulo . 8 history edit iomega logo iomega started business in roy utah in 1980 the firmed moved its headquarters to san diego in 2001 . 9 for many years the firm was a significant name in the data storage industry . iomega s most famous product the zip drive was revolutionary as it offered relatively large amounts of storage on easily portable compact cartridges . the original zip disk s 100mb capacity was a huge improvement over the 1.44 mb limitation of floppy disks . the zip drive became a common internal and external peripheral for ibm compatible computers and macs . however zip disk cartridges sometimes failed after a short period commonly referred to as the click of death . this problem combined with competition from cd rw drives caused zip drive sales to decline dramatically despite later efforts to introduce larger 250mb and 750mb disk versions . iomega eventually launched a cd rw drive . 10 without the revenue from its proprietary storage cartridges iomega s sales and profits declined considerably . iomega s stock price which was over 100 at its high in the 90s dipped to around 2 in the mid 2000s . trying to find a niche for itself iomega released devices such as the hipzip mp3 player the fotoshow digital image center and numerous external hard drives optical drives and nas products . none of these products were successful . 10 in 2012 reporter vincent verweij of dutch broadcaster katholieke radio omroep revealed that the contents of at least 16 000 iomega nas devices were publicly available on the internet . this was due to the devices being sold with password security disabled by default . among those affected were klm ing group and ballast nedam who all had confidential material leaked in this manner . iomega usa acknowledged the problem and said future models starting february 2013 would come with password security enabled by default . the company said it would clearly instruct users about the risks of unsecured data . 11 acquisition by emc edit the signing ceremony that created lenovoemc joint venture on april 8 2008 emc corporation announced plans to acquire iomega for us 213 million . 12 the acquisition was completed in june 2008 13 making iomega the soho smb arm of the world s largest storage company . emc kept the iomega brand name alive with products such as the storcenter nas line screenplay tv link adapter and v.clone virtualization software . 10 joint venture with lenovo edit in 2013 emc formed a joint venture with chinese technology company lenovo named lenovoemc that took over iomega s business . lenovoemc rebranded all of iomega s products under its name . lenovoemc designs products for small and medium sized businesses that can not afford enterprise class data storage . lenovoemc is part of a broader partnership between the two companies announced in august 2012 . the partnership also includes an effort to develop x86 based servers and allowing lenovo to act as an oem for some emc hardware . lenovo is expected to benefit from the relatively high profit margins of the nas market . lenovoemc is part of lenovo s enterprise products group . 14 15 16 1980 1999 edit 1980 april 2 iomega founded 17 1982 released first bernoulli box drive 10mb 1987 september shipped first bernoulli box ii model 20 mb 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 2000 present edit 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 standard floppy drive 2003 june announced first dvd rw drive 2003 june shipped 50 millionth 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 screenplay 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 2011 march introduced cloud edition ix series 2013 january iomega corporation was renamed to lenovoemc limited which is a joint venture between lenovo group limited and emc corporation . lenovo owns the majority stake in the new company . see also edit noma a competitor that was acquired and closed down syquest technology references edit executive profile dave bailey . bloomberg . the lead founder and chief executive officer of iomega inc. iomega corporation 2005 . iomega 25 years of storage technology leadership . today iomega has approximately 450 employees iomega corporation history . international directory of company histories vol . 21 . st. james press 1998 . iomega products 1 lynn samara 9 january 2014 . lenovoemc reveals nas boxes for home and business . pc magazine . united states . retrieved 10 march 2015 . 2 wallace brice 19 october 2001 . iomega leaving roy for san diego . deseret news . roy with about 33 000 residents had been iomega s headquarters city since the company was founded in 1980 . a b c 3 a gift for the hackers produced by katholieke radio omroep distributed on youtube by journeyman pictures press release emc to acquire iomega . accessed 2008 04 09 http www.computing.co.uk computing news 2213837 emc agrees iomega deal emc secures iomega acquisition . accessed 2008 10 08 http www.pcworld.com article 2025141 lenovo and emc partner on storage for smbs.html http arstechnica.com gadgets 2013 01 storage giant emc unites with pc oem lenovo on new joint venture http blog.laptopmag.com lenovoemc forms to bring nas solutions to businesses of all sizes iomega corporation . 30 years of unstoppable innovation external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to iomega . official website v t e emc corporation corporate directors joseph m. tucci products celerra clariion data domain documentum greenplum isilon lenovoemc mozy networker recoverpoint rsa security scaleio symmetrix vce vmware vplex v t e lenovo products desktops business thinkcentre a series m series edge series home home office ideacentre a series b series q series k series essential desktops laptops business thinkpad t series edge series x series w series l series home home 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