ADIC UK

115 Wharfedale Road, Winnersh, Berkshire RG41 5RB

Info  0118 922 9100   0118 922 9101

Advanced Digital Information Corporation is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC is the world's largest supplier of automated tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks, and the company's line of automated tape storage products is the broadest in the industry - both in terms of capacity range and supported drive technology.

APH Industries

Anderson Works, Tongue Lane, Fairfield, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 7LN

Mr Kevin Thurlow  01298 25335   01298 79945

A.P.H. Industries is an independent, UK owned and run company supplying abrasive and chemical products to the metal finishing industry.

Avalon Electronics Ltd

Langhorne Park House, High Street, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 5AQ

Mr Terry Mason  01749 345266   01749 345267

Avalon Electronics is a UK designer and manufacturer of tape and disk array data recorders for intelligence gathering, telemetry, anti-submarine warfare, telecommunications and related applications.

Berkshire International

122 Castelnau, London, SW13 9EU

Mr Matthew Stevens  0181 748 8590   0181 741 3058

Berkshire designs and manufactures disposable contamination control products for critical environments worldwide.

BI-Tech Solutions Ltd

The Watermill, Spring Lane, Oxted, Surrey RH8 9PB

Sales  01883 734 100   01883 734 101

Business Impact Technology Solutions designs, deploys and manages vendor independent storage infrastructure solutions for businesses with high volumes of data. Our key focus is on delivering dramatic cost reductions across our client's enterprise. Our experience enables us to deliver 'real money' savings in IT infrastructure spend of up to 50% and, in addition, significantly improve service delivery and business continuity capabilities.

BlueArc UK Ltd

Queensgate House, Cookham Road, Bracknell RG 12 1RB

Sales  01344 408 200   01344 408 202

BlueArc delivers the world's highest-performance and most scalable enterprise-class network attached storage (NAS) system. BlueArc's systems are designed to simplify the way enterprise customers design and build their storage infrastructures, allowing them to fully exploit their networks while dramatically lowering their total cost of ownership. BlueArc is able to provide products with groundbreaking speed, scalability and low total cost-of-ownership as a result of its unique SiliconServer architecture. This revolutionary technology removes the bottlenecks that limit performance in other NAS systems on the market today.

BMC Software

Assurance House, Vicarage Road, Egham, Surrey TW20 9JY

Sales  01784 478 000   01784 430 581

BMC Software, the leading provider of systems management solutions to the world's largest enterprises, provides storage management as an extension of the proven PATROL product family.

Bridgeworks

135 Somerford Road, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 3PY

sales  0870 121 0708  0870 121 0709

Bridgeworks is a global cost leader in the data transfer solutions industry. Since 1982, Bridgeworks has been producing high performance solutions to the storage connectivity market.

Business Impact Technology Solutions Ltd

The Watermill, Spring Lane, Oxted, Surrey RH8 9PB

Sales   01883 734 100  01883 734 101  

BI-Tech Solutions, a CNT company, is Europe's leading vendor independent storage solutions company. It is focused on the design, deployment and management of Enterprise Storage Networks and Enterprise Business Recovery Solutions for business critical distributed and e-business systems. BI-Tech recognises that the centralisation, automation, delivery and security of distributed and e-business data is the most strategic initiative for IT operations and, in turn, critical to business survival and growth.

CMS Peripherals Ltd

24 Scrubs Lane, London, NW10 6RA

Mr Raymond Rice  020 8960 6000   

CMS Peripherals Limited was started in 1988 and has since grown to be the foremost independent storage distributor in the UK and Ireland. We now turn over in excess of £100 million a year, represent over 40 manufacturers and offer 3000 plus products. Because of CMS' absolute storage focus, our expertise in this area of IT is second to none. This has contributed to our position as preferred partner for the largest UK & Irish resellers - and as the preferred distributor for some of the best known IT brands.

Cranfield Precision

Division of UNOVA UK Ltd, Cranfield, MK43 0JR

Edric Brown  01234 754020   01234 754223

Cranfield Precision designs & manufactures special purpose precision machinery including super-abrasive grinders, high precision hard turning lathes, ultra-precision diamond turning equipment, measuring systems, profilometry based inspection equipment, glass & semiconductor substrate processing equipment.

Cristie Data Products Ltd

New Mill, Chestnut Lane, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 3EH

Ian Cameron  01453 847000   01453 847001

Cristie has been developing and providing backup and disaster recovery solutions (hardware and software) to Europe's largest organisations for over 15 years. Cristie supplies SLR, AIT, LTO, DLT and DAT Tape Technologies which are available as Internal, External, Rack mounted Units, also available are Autoloaders and Libraries. Using best of breed hardware and software Cristie provides highly cost effective and scaleable systems for all organisations that wish to protect their data - everything from server backup and archiving to centralised storage, business continuance, mirroring, replication and disaster recovery.

CSF

Alliance House, 49-51 East Road, London N1 6AH

Sales  0870 749 9000   0870 749 9001

CSF is an industry-leading supplier of enterprise solutions, including unique solutions StorageXtra Plus, ControlMail and Storage Audit Snapshot. We plan, implement and manage IT insfrastruture solutions that support our clients' business objectives. We specialise in the design and implementation of storage solutions that integrate with existing infrastructure, especially more complex SAN architectures which connect multiple server platforms, operating systems and storage products.

Data Recording Group Ltd

Premier Park, Road One, Industrial Estate, Winsford, Cheshire CW7 3PT

Mr John Moore  01606 593424   01606 558383

Data Recording Heads (DRH) has established a significant presence in the market requiring magnetic heads for the computer industry.

Dataslide Ltd

The Sussex Innovation Centre, Science Park Square, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9SB

Mr Charles Barnes  07812 940236   01424 729710

Dataslide is developing products based on a fundamentally new design paradigm. These products re-use mature technologies to gain rapid access to magnetic media with standard protocols and packages, with low immediate and lifetime energy requirements. They also have the potential to replace a spectrum of current storage formats, using a single technology.

DataSlide technology uses pizeo-electric-activated vibrating recording arrays with data being written and read by semiconductor arrays of read/write heads, analogous to the CCD's in digital cameras. A prototype has been built and development is proceeding apace. The attraction, apart from greatly-improved storage capacity, is that standard semiconductor manufacturing techniques can be used, leading to a good cost profile.

Datastor Technology Ltd

The Old Mushroom Farm, Cromhall, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos GL12 8AX

Mr Richard Stubbing  01454 299399   01454 299400

Datastor is a well established specialist engineering repair house capable of consistently providing solutions for all media storage devices.

Dicoll Electronics Ltd

Arkwright Road, Reading, RG2 0EA

Marc Van de Velde  0118 931 1033   0118 921 0842

Dicoll undertakes repair and refurbishment to all major manufacturers of data storage back up devices, in both the tape and optical markets.

Digital Interactive Solutions

C3 Baird Court, Park Farm, Wellingborough, Northants NN8 6QJ

Sales  01933 402940   01933 402938

DIS Ltd specialises in the design, production and supply of high-end tape storage solutions and ancillary devices. The extensive product range includes single, dual and quad tape subsystems and tape libraries based on LTO, DLT, AIT and Mammoth drives, Fibre channel and Storage Area Network products, SCSI extenders for remote operation of disc and tapes and SCSI switching and SCSI Converter solutions.

Disctronics

Southwater Business Park, Worthing Road, Southwater, West Sussex RH13 7YT

Sue Mackie  01403-739600   01403-739601

The Disctronics plant in Sussex was built in 1986 and now has a capacity of 0.36m CD's and 100k DVD's every 24 hours. Additional facilities include CD premastering, CD and DVD mastering, copy protection, label printing and packing. Another plant in Blackburn was acquired from Universal Music in June 2002 and offers a daily capacity of 0.4m CD's. It provides mastering, replication, printing and packaging services for all formats of compact discs including Audio CD's, CD Extra, Enhanced CD's, CD Text, CD ROM's, CD-i, Video CD, DVD Video and DVD ROM. We are also able to offer copy protection for CD-ROM's and Audio CD's.

DISC Storage

Sheraton House, Castle Park, Cambridge CB3 0AX

Sales  01932 223102   01932 229380

DISC is a worldwide leader in the development and production of NearLine storage solutions built around the most reliable storage technologies ever created. Offering capacities from 180GB up to 10TB, DISC solutions add storage to networks for a fraction of the cost as systems based on RAID technology. Due to longevity of Optical media and certain legislation, DISC systems are often used in electronic archiving solutions, including Document Management, Medical Imaging, E-Mail archive etc. Due to the low cost/GB, DISC systems are also used in conjunction with RAID solutions to provide a finely tuned Data Management solution, with automated data migration.

DISC Wizards

3 Oakleigh Court, Edgware, London HA8 5JB

Rebecca Smith  020 8931 0001

Disc Wizards specialises in CD and DVD duplication and replication, all with a UK low price guarantee.

DSK Technology International Ltd

Marlborough House, Churchfield Rd, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 2TJ

Mr David Murray  01932 223102   01932 229380

DSK specialises in real-time applications that involve data acquisition storage and replay.

DOCdata UK Ltd

Halesfield 14, Telford, Shropshire TF7 4QR

Steve Toms 01952 680131   01952 583501

DOCdata is a leading independent manufacturer of predominantly CD's, DVD's and audio cassettes to content owners, audio, multimedia and software publishers, with facilities in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. DOCdata provides e-commerce fulfillment services to webshops, retail chains, direct marketing and Internet service providers. DOCdata also designs and builds production systems based on optical and laser technology.

ECD Magnetics

Unit 26C, Brighton Road, Salfords, Redhill, Surrey RH1 5BX

Mr John Keki  01293 825566   01293 825577

ECD Magnetics Ltd, formed in 1988, is an ISO 9002 registered company that specialises in the support of mature disk drive products from 14" SMD technology to 2.5" notebook drives.

Efocus International Ltd

Kinetic Centre, Theobald Street, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 4PJ

Mr Nick Kotaki  020 8387 1270   020 8387 1280

Efocus supplies manufacturing and testing equipment and raw materials to the optical disc market within Europe, specialising in linking top Japanese suppliers with European manufacturers.

eMag Solutions Ltd

2A Oaktree Court, Cardiff Gate Business Park, Cardiff, CF23 8RS

Mr Mark Stephens  02920 739940   02920 739948

eMag provides a wide range of storage-related products and services, including: eDiscovery, eDiscovery from Tape, Legacy system migration; Backup subsystems; eMail Vault population from Tape; Conversion (Media, Data & Format); Data Recovery; Media Copying.

EMC Computer Systems (UK) Ltd

EMC House, 40-48 Pyrcroft Road, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 9SS

Nigel Ghent  0870 608 7777

EMC Corporation is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services and the only company 100% dedicated to automated networked storage. EMC Automated Networked Storage combines SAN, NAS, and CAS environments into an integrated networked storage infrastructure. It unifies networked storage technologies, storage platforms, software and services to enable organisations to better and more cost-effectively manage, protect and share information.

Engis (UK) Ltd

9 Centenary Business Park, Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1DS

Sales 01491-411117   01491-412252

Engis manufactures diamond powders, compounds, superabrasives, slurries and lapping/polishing machinery for the fabrication of magnetic heads and disk media. A superabrasive consultancy service is also provided to magnetic substrate and disk fabricators. The full range of products offered includes consumable materials, precision tooling, process equipment, process materials, production equipment/services, precision diamond powders, compounds and slurries for disk and magnetic head fabrication as well as flat lapping, polishing and texturising equipment and plated diamond tooling.

Europa Magnetics Corporation Ltd

45 Colbourne Avenue, Nelson Park, Cramlington, Northumberland NE23 1WD

Sales  01670 730022   01670 730012

Europa is a leading manufacturer of CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD and Floppy Diskette. We provide a complete in-house service from manufacturing, fulfillment and delivery from our UK base.

Eyedot (Europe) Ltd

The Close, Cherhill, Wiltshire SN11 8XP

Mr Clive Huntley  01249 811811   01249 812812

The company's key activities revolve around the supply, maintenance, repair and support of ½" tape drives, magnetic disk drives, 12" optical drives and RAID subsystems and includes integration of storage devices onto a wide variety of mid range processors.

FACTS Precision Ltd

Fullerton Road, Queensway Industrial Estate, Glenrothes, Fife KY7 5QR

Mr Martin Davidson  01592 753512   01592 752507

FACTS Precision is a high-precision engineering company with over 30 years experience in CNC turning, CNC milling, precision grinding, assembly, test and vacuum brazing. The company services a variety of markets including aerospace, health care, hydraulics, fuel injection, telecoms and disk storage.

Fluid Film Devices Ltd

Unit 8, Greatbridge Business park, Budds Lane, Romsey, Hampshire SO51 0HA

Mr Ron Woolley  01794 514551   01794 524116

FFD has a wide and proven capacity in all aspects of the design and manufacture of fluid film bearing systems. The company has 25 years of continuous experience of applications within aircraft and ships interial systems, machine tools, and metrology systems, as well as the total spectrum of experience developed by the original Gas Bearing Advisory Service of the University of Southampton. FFD was founded in 1987, with the aim of building a centre of excellence for the development, manufacture and marketing of fluid film bearing technology.

The primary services offered by FFD are: manufacture of rotating and linear air and other fluid bearings for industrial and consimer applications; manufacture of specialist air probes to measure displacement and surface features to extremely high accuracies and durability for both metrology and in-process gauging; consultancy and prototype manufacturing service to suit customers' special requirements.

Fortuna Power Systems Ltd

Units B, E & F Brickells Business Court, Oakley Lane, Oakley, Hampshire RG23 7JU

Mrs Tina Hart  01256 782030   01256 783174

Fortuna supply a complete range of data storage products to the corporate market - these include tape libraries, portable backup devices, CD towers, optical jukeboxes, standalone tape drives, backup media and CD optical products.

Fujitsu Software Technology UK Ltd

16 Bartley Wood Business Park, Bartley Way, Hook, Hampshire RG27 9UZ

Info  01256 386200   01256 386290

Fujitsu Softek provides storage management software that helps customers ensure high availability of business-critical data. It simplifies and optimizes data storage resources while reducing the risks associated with managing complex storage infrastructures. One of the world's leading storage management software companies, Fujitsu Softek offers vendor- and platform-independent solutions in storage virtualization, SAN management, storage resource management, data migration, replication, backup, disaster recovery/business continuance and quality of service monitoring.

GRAU Data Storage

Venture House, 2 Arlington Square, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1WA

Sales  01344 742 836   01344 742 936

Grau Data Storage is a producer of automated Network Attached Storage solutions, and is focussed upon archiving. The Infinistore VirtualDisk NAS appliance combines disk and automated tape storage management available with a range of libraries giving affordable capacity and scaling from 1 Terabyte to 1 Petabyte. The system comprises storage server, archiving software, RAID-5 disk and Sony AIT tape drives all pre-integrated within a robotic tape library, which makes for ease of installation at the customer site. Infinistore presents itself across the network to users and applications as a large logical disk. Typical applications include Email, Document Management, CCTV, Broadcast/Video and General Archiving.

Hardware Planning Services Ltd

1 Thatcham Business Village, Colthrop Lane, Thatcham, Newbury, Berks RG19 4LW

Mr Tony Jones    01635-874330    01635-874331

Established in 1988, HPS introduced high performance fibre optic infrastructures to the market for the first time. Today, HPS - the founding member of the Fibre Channel Association Europe - is the leading independent specialist in storage network solutions. As well as providing expertise and tailored solutions utilising existing fibre channel technologies, HPS is already developing new strategies using emerging technologies such as, iSCSI, Fc-IP, iFcP and Infiniband.

Hawke

Newlands Drive, Poyle, Slough, Berkshire SL1 0DX

Sales 01753 686686  01753 686747

By integrating industry leading technologies from HP, Veritas, Legato, StorageTek, EDUCOM and Trellisoft, Hawke is highly skilled in the planning, design, implementation and support of complex enterprise storage solutions including Storage Area Networking, Network Attached Storage, Storage Archiving, Backup and Disaster Recovery.

Headway Technology Group Ltd

Headway House, Crosby Way, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7XG

Sales 01252-717071   01252-741223

Headway Technology, a member of the ACAL Group, is Europe's premier specialist distributor for document management and storage products. Sourcing only 'best of breed' products from top class manufacturers, Headway and its associated companies are well positioned to meet the increasing requirements of the information management marketplace.

Our product portfolio includes scanners, document capture software, optical, CD and DVD storage hardware and software, tape backup solutions, development toolkits including image compression techniques and display subsystems. We also provide in-house training as well as consultancy and maintenance services.

Hewlett Packard Ltd

Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8QZ

Mr Ian Russell  0117 312 8802   0117 312 9265

HP is a leading supplier of data storage solutions and is one of the few companies that offers a complete portfolio of storage products, including disk arrays, network attached storage (NAS), tape and virtual tape systems, storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, and storage management software.

HP's Bristol site hosts the R&D centre for tape drive development and data protection solutions. HP is the world's leading manufacturer of tape drives and has been a key player in developing the two most successful tape formats of all time, DAT and LTO, both of which are based on open standards.

Hiden Analytical Ltd

420 Europa Blvd, Warrington, Cheshire WA5 5UN

Mr Mark Buckley  01925 445225   01925 416518

The company's primary involvement in the information storage industry is in the supply of process control and diagnostics equipment (particularly for gas analysis and end point detection).

Hirst Magnetic Instruments Ltd

Tesla House, Tregoniggie, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4SN

Mr John Dudding  01326 372734   01326 378069

Hirst designs and manufactures bespoke turnkey magnetising and demagnetising systems as well as machines to undertake pulsed field magnetometry. The company also manufactures and distributes magnetic instrumentation, including flux density meters and gaussmeters.

Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory

Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE

Dr David Williams  01223 442902  01223 467942

The Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory is a small reasearch centre, having interests in a range of quantum and classical devices related to advanced information storage and processing.

Imerge Ltd

Unit 6, Bar Hill Business Park, Saxon Way, Bar Hill, Cambridge CB3 8SL

Adrian Lucas  01954 783600   01954 783601

Imerge is a recognised leader in Internet-connected hard disk-based audio products and Media Appliances. Products include the XiVA Media Appliance Technology, XiVA-Net Entertainment Portal for music and video products and the revolutionary SoundServer range of hard disk audio devices. Its market-leading core technologies – XiVA and XiVA-Net – are licensed extensively to manufacturers, household brands and software and service providers. Imerge was created to build partnerships and licensing arrangements operating as an extension to partner teams and as a third-party developer of CE media appliance products.

Infinite Data Storage Ltd

1 Pitreavie Court, Dunfermline, Fife KY11 8UG

Mr Jim Leslie  01383 627300   01383 627301

As well as designing and licensing its market-leading portable data storage technology, IDS is also offering its expertise and intellectual property under license to global designers of such consumer electronic devices as 'tablet' PCs, audio systems and digital cameras.

Infinity I/O Ltd

6/9 Library Parade, Crockhamwell Rd., Woodley, Reading, Berkshire, RG5 3JH

Sales  0118-969-9977   0118-962-8466

Infinity I/O combines multi-vendor solution expertise and unmatched industry experience to offer IT professionals the most comprehensive Storage Networking education available today. Infinity I/O offers comprehensive, vendor-neutral training and certification solutions for storage providers, resellers and end-users via standard courses, custom curriculum and stand-alone learning products.

Informatic Component Technology

Shepperton Studios, Studios Road, Shepperton, Middlesex TW17 0QD

Mr John Crane  01932 572215   01932 572465

ICT was formed in 1991 by staff with extensive experience of the magnetic recording head industry - the objective being to meet the demands of a market requiring custom built quality magnetic recording products to advanced technical standards. The company offers magnetic heads for instrumentation applications, video heads, card / ticket readers, reel to reel and QIC drives. ICT supplies new replacement heads as well as the design and manufacture of magnetic heads to OEM specification, coupled with its own repair / reprofile facility.

InTechnology plc

Nidderdale House, Beckwith Knowle, Harrogate HG3 1SA

Louise Schofield  01423 850000   01423 858855

InTechnology plc is an expert in data storage, data management and the protection of business critical information and is widely acknowledged by the UK IT community as being the market leader in this field. In close partnership with major storage suppliers such as HP, IBM, Sun, Veritas, Tivoli & CA, we have delivered over £1 billion worth of data storage solutions to businesses in the UK and other European countries. We can also offer our clients a unique range of Managed Data Services which enables them to back up their data to a secure, offsite facility using our own, purpose-built data centres and high speed network infrastructure.

Kerry Ultrasonics Ltd

Hunting Gate, Wilbury Way, Hitchin, Herts SG4 OTQ

Mr Jeremy Humphreys  01462 450761   01462 420712

A member of the Halma group of companies, Kerry Ultrasonics - formed in 1954 - is a UK manufacturer and leading global supplier of fully integrated automated ultrasonic cleaning systems, supplying aqueous, semi-aqueous and solvent cleaning equipment to diverse industries including computer disk drive manufacture.

Kingswell Computer Company Ltd

Cornwell Business Park, Salthouse Rd, Northampton NN4 7EX

Mr Mike King  01604 767636   01604 767639

Kingswell is a leading provider of high-performance, multi-platform data storage solutions from desktop to enterprise together with high level support and professional services.

K-PAR Systems Ltd

174 Cheltenham Rd, Bristol, Avon BS6 5RE

Ms Lisa Brockwell  0117 942 1141   0117 942 0564

K-PAR is a software development company specialising in archive and data management software for Windows NT, Sun Solaris and SGI IRIX. ARCHIMEDIA enables users to read and write files to DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, CD-ROM, CD-R, MO and WORM drives and jukeboxes on the network as easily as writing to a hard disk drive.

KVS Plc

155 Wharfedale Road, Winnersh Triangle, Berkshire RG41 5RB

Mr Peter Parker  0118 9273800

KVS was founded in 1999 by a team of software engineers from Compaq. The engineering team had worked together for several years as the core development group at Digital for its market leading ALL-IN-1 office product, before initiating and developing Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange. KVS is the global market leader in email management solutions, providing archiving, storage and management for the total lifecycle of email. The award-winning Enterprise Vault is the market's most comprehensive email
lifecycle management solution.

LaCie Ltd

46 Gillingham Street, London, SW1V 1HU

Mr George Leptos  020 7872 8000   020 7233 8338

LaCie specialises in the development, manufacture and distribution of SCSI storage peripherals for microcomputers and workstations.

Landis Lund Ltd

Crosshills, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 7SD

Roger Coverdale  01535 633211   01535 635493

Landis Lund is a Division of the UNOVA Group of companies, and with its subsiduary company Cranfield Precision manufactures the DT40 Ultra Precision Lathe for the turning of precision spindle hub components for disk drive motors in soft and hard materials and Edge Finishing Machines for alternative disk substrate materials.

Lasertrack Ltd

47 Nork Way, Banstead, Surrey SM7 1PB

Sales  01737 373134   01737 363056

Lasertrack specialises in the sale and workshop repair of all manufacturers' optical jukeboxes, optical disk drives and optical library parts. With our own fully trained specialist engineers, we are able to carry out repairs on all manufacturers' optical drives and optical libraries (jukeboxes) in-house.

Leeway Data Products

Headway House, Crosby Way, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7XG

Mr Mike Harris  01252 717071   01252 741214

Leeway Data Products is a specialist sales and distribution company, servicing the computer OEM and third party maintenance companies with a range of specialist components for computer peripherals.

Loadpoint Ltd

Chelworth Industrial Estate, Cricklade, Swindon, Wiltshire SN6 6HE

Mr John Sweet  01793 751160   01793 750155

The company is involved with the manufacture of air bearings & the development of Electro-chemical MicroMachining capability. These are used in the disk drive business for production of the GMR heads, servo writers, certifiers & the manufacture of the bearing grooves for oil & air bearing drive systems. Loadpoint also manufactures dicing machines for GMR head production.

Loughborough Surface Analysis Ltd

PO Box 5016, Unit FC, Gas Research and Technology Centre, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3WS

Dr Mike Petty  01509 283069   01509 283067

The company provides a contract surface chemical analysis and depth profiling service. Using a range of techniques (including SIMS, Auger, LIMA and AFM), our analysts can help with issues such as dopant and contaminant profiling, failure analysis, delamination, adhesion and wire bonding failure. We have experience in analysing a wide range of technologies, including thin-film devices and read-write heads. In addition to contract analysis, we would be happy to consider involvement in LINK and EU programmes.

M5 Data Ltd

Mendip Court, Bath Road, Wells, Somerset BA5 3DG

Mr Eric Lowe  01749 683 800  08700 519 697

Founded in 2003, M5 Data is a data storage start up company focussed on developing tape library technology. The company has a unique background in the industry and is proud to be researching and developing new, world beating tape libraries. The use of tape is a critical part of all data resource management policies.

Macarthur Stroud International

St. James House, 9-15 St. James Road, Surbiton, Surrey KT4 6QU

Mr Hamish E Macarthur  0208 240 6000   0208 240 6006

Macarthur Stroud provides a range of independent technical, investment and marketing consultancy services in Europe and the US.

Mackintosh Consultants

The Chase, Pinfold Lane, Northop Hall, Mold, Flintshire CH7 6HE

Dr Nigel Mackintosh  01244 819797

Mackintosh Consultants is one of Europe's leading independent storage industry consulting groups, assisting clients in all aspects of the global storage industry - technical, financial, marketing, strategic, operational and logistic.

Manton Industrial Seals Ltd

Unit 5B, Bydand Industrial Estate, Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire PE19 4ES

Mr George Culley  01480 214300   01480 218987

Manton specialises in all forms of industrial sealing, gaskets and extrusion.

Matrix Computer Engineering Ltd

Matrix House, Langley Road, Chippenham, Wilts SN15 1BT

Mr Dave Lethaby  01249 660011   01249 443534

Matrix, founded in 1967, is an independent storage device specialist with a reputation for excellence.

MCS Manufacturing Ltd

Unit 23, Ynyscedwyn Enterprise Park, Ystradgynlais, Powys SA9 1DT

Stephen McEwen  01639 841500   01639 841570

MCS is a brand new company with a management team that has had a hundred years of combined experience in the optical disc market. The purpose built manufacturing facility can produce any of the following optical disc formats to the highest standards: CD Audio, CDROM, 80 mm CD, Enhanced CD, CD Business Card.

Medéa Corporation

12 Progress Business Centre, Whittle Parkway, Slough, SL1 6DQ

Sales 01628-661600   01628-665003

A long time leader in cutting edge disk storage arrays, Medea - with the former Storage Concepts - designs, manufactures and markets high speed disk RAID storage products for very demanding applications in the medical imaging, government, military and aerospace industries. These specialized markets not only demand bandwidth and exacting performance of products, but also demand sophisticated company policies and standards to comply with OEM, prime contractors and government requirements.

Memorex Telex

Prescott Road, Colnbrook, Slough, Berks SL1 0AE

Mr Anurag Patel 0870-606-8800   0870-606-8801

Now part of EDS, Memorex Telex is IBM's premier UK storage network solution provider/integrator. Our unrivalled experience in enterprise storage and partnership with some of the leading storage and data management vendors allows us implement flexible, open and robust solutions in the areas of storage networks, disk & tape systems, library management, data management and optical storage.

Metron Technology Europa Ltd

2 Gregory Rd, Kirkton Campus, Livingstone EH54 7DR

Lynne Sorensen  01506-403000   01506-403037

The company's primary involvement in the information storage industry is the supply of cleanroom consumables for contamination control, disk carriers and shippers, polishing slurries and pads, and equipment for chemical distribution.

Metrum Information Storage Ltd

2 Weller Drive, Finchampstead, Wokingham, Berks RG40 4QZ

Mr Chris Beeton  0118 973 3000   0118 973 4363

As the UK's leading supplier of high performance data recording systems, Metrum's product range is used extensively in the aerospace, defence, manufacturing, power, automotive and medial research industries. The company’s core products include: reel to reel laboratory recorders/reproducers; DAT & AIT tape recorders; IRIG standard 1/2inch and 1 inch format tape recorders/reproducers; ID-1 tape recorders/reproducers; VLBI systems; wideband analogue recorders/reproducers; cassette handling systems, including robotics; and flight qualified airborne tape recorders.

NanoMagnetics Ltd

108 Longmead Road, Emerald Park East, Emersons Green, Bristol BS16 7FG

Mr Eric Mayes  01179 104160   01179 104161

NanoMagnetics is developing advanced magnetic materials for the information storage industry using its patented protein-based technology. These materials have the potential to replace the magnetic thin film technology used today by the hard disk industry, which is seeking to overcome the approaching physical “superparamagnetic” storage density limit.

nCode International Ltd

230 Woodbourn Road, Sheffield S9 3LQ

Mr Alan Bennetts  0114 275 5292   0114 275 8272

Since 1982, nCode - part of AEA Technology plc - has focused on durability technology and processes. With unmatched experience, nCode provides powerful software products for processing field data and for predicting fatigue life in Test and CAE environments.

Network Appliance

Waterview House, 1 Roundwood Avenue, Stockley Park, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1EJ

Mr Peter Rawden  020 8756 6700   020 8756 6701

Network Appliance is a world leader in open network storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has pioneered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. NetApp achieved $1 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2001 and has over 35,000 systems installed worldwide - the company's distribution channel spans over 70 countries around the globe.

Nexsan Technologies Ltd

Imperial House, East Service Road, Raynesway, Derby DE21 7BF

Gary Watson  01332 544433   01332 544499

Nexsan Technologies, an Engineering Design and Manufacturing Technologies company, creates and delivers storage-centric hardware and application based solutions to the world through one of the most diverse and established network of professionals in the storage industry. Nexsan personnel have been involved with delivering the latest advancements in deployable storage solutions for over 15 years.

Next generation storage and data protection for - Corporate - Print Graphics - Disaster Recovery - Medical Imaging - Animation and Special Effects - Real Time/Event Monitored/On Line/Off Site Storage - Internet Delivered Content - Financial On-Line Transaction Data - Music and Voice - Video Security - Digital Film - Policy-Based Management - and Document Imaging is available today.

Nordiko Ltd

Hayward Business Centre, New Lane, Havant, Hampshire PO9 2NL

Mr Mervyn Davis  02392 488200   02392 470992

Nordiko is a member of the Shimadzu Group and one of the world's leading suppliers of specialist thin-film deposition systems for the computer disk-drive industry. The company is dedicated to assisting the hard-drive disk industry improve areal density. Anisotropic magnetoresistive (AMR) films developed on Nordiko systems are the technology of choice for hard-drive reading heads, and current work on Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) films promise a further giant leap in storage density. Nordiko is continually striving to help its customers achieve smaller head-size and higher sensitivity to allow greater storage capability.

Northern Ireland Centre for Advanced Materials (NICAM)

University of Ulster - NIBEC Building, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim BT37 0QB

Mrs Patricia Pepper  028 9036 8339   028 9036 6863

NICAM is a multi-disciplinary partnership between The Queen's University of Belfast and The University of Ulster involving four research groups. It brings together the scientific and engineering expertise in Advanced Functional Materials and Surface Science, which is crucial to the success of many products and processes today.

ODC Nimbus

Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, NP25 3SR

Sales  01600 892222   01600 892110

ODC Nimbus develops and manufactures high quality mastering equipment for the production of CDs, DVDs and next generation optical discs that is used by optical media manufacturers worldwide. The company also provides specialized mastering services to optical disc technology and format developers.

Established in 1982 as Optical Disc Corporation, ODC Nimbus continues to be a world leader in providing optical disc mastering equipment and technology development to the Optical Disc Industry. Headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California, ODC Nimbus has regional sales and service offices in Monmouth, UK and Hong Kong, China.

ODC Nimbus has installed well over 200 laser beam recording and mastering systems worldwide. The company also provides Optical Disc Mastering Technology Research and Development services. When it comes to optical disc mastering, ODC Nimbus has more experience and technical achievements than any other group active in the industry today.

Overland Storage

Overland House, Ashville Way, Wokingham, Berkshire RG41 2PL

Mr Henrik Hansen  01189 898000   01189 891897

Overland is a global supplier of entry level to enterprise tape storage solutions and related technologies designed to meet and surpass the critical requirements of high-availability network computing environments. With products available for every possible capacity range from 50 GB to more than 48 TB, Overland Storage offers a wide variety of tape technologies — including LTO, Super DLT, DLT, DLT1 and AIT— and proven compatibility with all leading backup applications. Advanced connectivity features provide customers with the ability to incorporate Overland libraries into Fibre Channel, SCSI and other storage networking technologies, and increase backup and restore capabilities in SAN and NAS environments by enabling LAN-free and Server-free backup.

Peripheral Support Services

Unit 32, Portland Court, Kingsway, Luton, Beds LU1 4JF

Mr Tony Woodley  01582 877333   01582 877332

PCS is involved in the repair and supply of magnetic tape drives in the higher end of the market where the IBM 'standards' are met.

Phi Magnetronics Ltd

Bickland Industrial Park, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 4RY

Sales 01326-373134   01326-377249

Phi Laboratories, a member of the Onyx Holdings Group of Companies, is a leading manufacturer of multi-track linear instrumentation recording heads, offering a range of IRIG assemblies for all popular recording formats, track densities and applications. The range includes headstacks for direct recording to 600KHz, 2MHz and 4MHz (both standard and double density) and equivalent FM and High Density Digital Recording (HDDR) specifications. The company serves both the end-user and OEM markets, providing new assemblies and 'restacks' for almost all types of IRIG system including fully MIL-SPECed designs. Other specialist services include: rotary head mounting, precision grinding, spark erosion, bespoke precision sub-assembly, coil winding and sub-contract servicing.

Philips Semiconductors

Millbrook Industrial Estate, Southampton, Hants SO15 0DJ

Simon Bramwell  023 8070 2701   023 8031 6303

Philips designs, develops and manufactures semiconductors for storage devices and systems.

Photo-Sonics International Ltd

5 Thame Park Business Centre, Wenman Road, Thame, Oxon OX9 3FR

Mr Bruce Hefford  01844 260600   01844 260126

Photo-Sonics designs, develops, manufactures and supports ruggedised high performance analogue and digital instrumentation data magnetic tape recording systems.

Pilkington Special Glass Limited

Glascoed Road, St. Asaph, Denbighshire LL17 0LL

Sales  01745 536500   01745 536099

Pilkington Micronics' primary involvement in the information storage industry is in the manufacture and supply of precision glass discs (substrates) for optical storage and mastering (for CD's, LD's and DVD's). Pilkington mastering and data storage discs are made exclusively from specially produced Pilkington float glass, providing seamless control from the very first step of manufacture. Pilkington produces discs for all major mastering systems and data storage applications. Glass selected for thickness, flatness and parallelism is machined to tight edge and surface tolerances. Customisation includes: metal hubs, central holes, special etched marking (including barcodes) and chemical strengthening.

Plasma Quest Ltd

Unit 1b, Rose Estate, Osborn Way, Hook, Hants RG27 9UT

Dr Mike Thwaites  01256 740680   01256 740690

Created on an extensive knowledge of plasmas and thin film deposition, PQL was founded in 1998 by plasma expert Dr Mike Thwaites. PQL's initial drive was to extend the existing technical base of plasma physics and to develop commercial uses of (high intensity) plasmas - primarily, but not exclusively, for the sputtering of thin film coating and for surface engineering applications.

PQL consists of a small team of scientists and engineers working on a number of plasma based projects. Early success has been achieved with PQL's high density plasma technology for high target utilisation sputtering (HiTUS). Applications have been demonstrated for computer media storage and retrieval, optical filter manufacture for DWDM, photonics and for precision optics.

Plasmon plc

Whiting Way, Melbourn, Hertfordshire SG8 6EN

Mr Nigel Street  01763 261466   01763 264444

Plasmon provides the storage industry's most comprehensive line of professional automated libraries, optical drives, media and software. Customers include corporations, institutions and government agencies worldwide and are backed by our global service and support network. Plasmon's broad product line includes UDOTM (Ultra Density Optical), 5.25" MO (Magneto Optical), DVD/CD, LTO/AIT Tape, 12" TrueWORM, media and storage management software, offering the highest level of technical innovation, reliability and flexibility.

Posetiv Ltd

60 Canon Street, London EC4N 6JP

Ms Hannah Coveney  020-7653-0990   020-7653-0991

Posetiv is the UK's leading independent storage consultancy and integrator. The company provides enterprise storage networking solutions to a variety of customers ranging from established corporations to newly formed fast-growth companies. Posetiv strives to provide its customers with scalable, robust storage solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of managing a rapidly growing storage environment.

Pulstec Industrial Co Ltd

Swindon

Mr Mike Woodward  01943 877363   01943 877585

Pulstec designs and manufactures media testing equipment for the optical disc industry.

Q Associates Ltd

Langley Business Court, Beedon, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 8RY

Sales  01635 248 181   01635 247 616

Q Associates is recognised as a leading UK provider of technical corporate data storage solutions. These include storage area networks, clustered high-availability configurations, RAID storage arrays, large scale backup solutions and corporate data management systems.

Queensgate Instruments

Woodland Road, Torquay, Devon TQ2 7AY

Robert Ching  01803 407700   01803 407699

The Queensgate division of the Sifam group of companies designs and manufactures NanoPositioning products, which are piezo-scanned flexure guided stages with integrated capacitance position sensors capable of sub-nanometer resolution and reproducibility. NanoMechanisms are used for testing and grading disk drive read write heads (TFI, MR, GMR) and for characterizing magnetic media and recording methods.

Since incorporation in 1979, Queensgate has pioneered development of a range of market-leading products. Our staff of development scientists and engineers has expertise in digital and analog electronics, space research and engineering, mechanical engineering and nanotechnology.

R&R plc

Taylors Road, Stotfold, Herts SG5 4AZ

Sales 01462-834546   01462-834250

R&R is Europe's primary provider of in-house repair, inventory management and logistics to the IT service support industry. With pan-European repair and logistics practices supported by a worldwide product sourcing capability R&R provides its customers with one source and one solution for all multi-vendor spare part requirements. R&R offers customers a comprehensive repair service covering all storage products.

Reactive Computer Services Ltd

Queen Eleanor House, Unit 9, Kingsclere Business Park, Kingsclere, Hampshire RG20 4SW

Sales  01635 291440   01635 291468

Reactive Computer Services is a reseller of all computer hardware from most of the manufacturers. We are able to deal with all types of customer requests whether it be new, refurbished or used products. Reactive's well established reputation for reliability, honesty and outstanding product knowledge continue to make it the preferred supplier for all types of hardware within the industry. Reactive specialises in media products, and in October 2000 Tiger Technology Ltd was acquired. Tiger is a specialist company in military storage products - the company has also designed and built bespoke solid state disks, many of which are installed in NATO and military environments.

Redstor

Redstor House, 1 London Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 5BH

Sales  0118 377 6500   0118 377 6501

Redstor is a vendor independent storage services and solutions provider offering services and solutions to a magnitude of customers throughout the UK and Europe utilising best of breed technology through our partners and suppliers.

Sagitta Performance Systems Ltd

Langstone Technology Park, Langstone Road, Havant, Hampshire PO9 1SA

Mr Andy Norman  02392 445000   02392 498853

Sagitta is a storage networking company and offers exceptional levels of hands-on expertise and a wide range of professional services geared towards finding appropriate and realistic solutions which are tailored to individual requirements and budgets. Sagitta provides the most comprehensive suite of storage, managed and financial services delivered by a team widely recognised as having a level of expertise that leads the industry. Sagitta has specialists in the following areas; data profiling and analysis, capacity planning, business continuity and availability, system design, implementation and documentation and incident and problem management. To support these technical skills, Sagitta also offers project management and financial services.

Seagate Technology Media (Ireland)

99 Dowland Road, Limavady, Co Londonderry BT49 0HL

Ms June Coates  028-7127-4216   028-7127-4325

Seagate Limavady - part of the Company's Recording Media Operations (RMO) - began producing advanced media substrates in July of 1997 and now produces 125,000 substrates per day. Some 900 people are employed at the plant. The finished product from the Limavady facility is shipped to the Far East where it is "sputtered" or coated with a magnetic layer before being assembled into finished hard disc drives.

Seagate Technology (Ireland)

1 Disc Drive, Springtown Industrial Estate, Londonderry, Northern Ireland BT48 0BF

Ms June Coates  028-7127-4216   028-7127-4325

Seagate Springtown is part of Seagate's Recording Head Operations (RHO) which develops and manufactures advanced read/write heads for hard disk and tape drives. Seagate RHO is the world's largest supplier of magnetic recording heads. Set up in 1993, Seagate Springtown presently employs 900 people including research and development engineers, manufacturing engineers, production managers, technicians, operators and other professional/managerial staff.

Silicon Infusion Ltd

Park House, 15-19 Greenhill Crescent, Watford, WD18 8PH

Mr Tirumal Parvataneni  01923 814900   01923 249888

Silicon Infusion is developing a range of single chip solutions targeted at network access, load balancing and network based storage. The devices support wire-speed processing of all the required functions including encryption and compression.

Solectron Scotland Ltd

Queensferry Road, Dunfermline, Fife KY11 5PX

Mr Cliff Hargest  01383 628255   01383 622045

Solectron provides integrated solutions that span the entire product life cycle - from pre-production planning and design, to manufacturing, distribution and end-of-life product service and support - for the world's leading electronics OEM's.

SomerData Ltd

3 Underwood Business Park, Wookey Hole Road, Wells, Somerset BA5 1AF

Mr Edwin Kayes  01749 671481   01749 671482

SomerData's main business focus is in real-time data recording applications with the emphasis on offering alternatives to traditional instrumentation magnetic tape recording technologies.

Speake & Co Llanfapley

6 Firs Road, Llanfapley, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire NP7 8SL

Mr Bill Speake  01600 780150

Historically SCL has specialised in the supply and maintenance of computer media for main frame computer systems. This has included the supply of fully cleaned and re-certified open reel computer tapes and cleaned/re-tensioned 3480, 3480XL and 3490E 1/2" computer tape cartridges. We also offer a range of tape cleaning/re-tensioning machines and degaussing equipment for these products. The company also manufactures and supplies a unique range of Magnetic Field Sensors, augmented by a series of ASIC's to facilitate specific applications such as gaussmeters, vehicle detectors, compasses, magnetometers and gradiometers.

Stakesolve Ltd

Min Y Nant, Llandyrnog, Denbigh, Denbighshire LL16 4HB

Prof Ted Williams  01824 790405   01824 790405

Stakesolve is involved in various dimensions of the storage industry, including marketing studies, preparation of proposals and management of government contracts, transfer of technology for new inventions and training courses on CD-ROM and DVD.

Storage Computer UK Ltd

Business Park 5, Cleeve Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7NB

Mr Bill Greenfield  01372-376221   01372-376834

Pioneers in RAID technology, Storage Computer Corporation is a leading worldwide provider of high performance storage solutions focused on developing advanced storage architectures to address the emerging needs of high-bandwidth and other "performance-impaired" applications. Storage Computer's technology supports a variety of applications including advanced database activities, wide area networked storage and sophisticated business continuity topologies.

StorageNetworks Inc

Berkeley Square House, 2nd Floor, Berkeley Square, London, W1J 6BD

Sales  0207-887-6280   0207-887-6380

StorageNetworks is the world's leading provider of data storage management services. The company develops innovative software and services that solve the challenges of managing a rapidly growing storage environment.

StorageTek

StorageTek House, Woking Business Park, Albert Drive, Woking, Surrey GU21 5JY

Sales  01483 737333   01483 737222

StorageTek is the innovator and global leader in virtual storage solutions for tape automation, disk storage solutions and storage networking, offering a broad range of storage solutions for digitised data. With a portfolio of solutions ranging from storage media to the design and implementation of global information infrastructures, StorageTek is a leading provider of information-centric solutions. Direct sales, consultancy and service delivery organisations are located at each of the four UK offices.

Sun Microsystems

Java House, Guillemont Park, Minley Road, Blackwater, Camberley, Surrey GU17 9QG

Sales  0800 731 0658

As the number 1 in UNIX and UNIX storage, Sun offers the total storage solution. Sun's pre-emminent position as a supplier of storage management solutions is demonstrated through its integrated solutions encompassing hardware, software, consultancy and services.

Tap Systems Ltd

Lyons House, 2 Station Rd., Frimley, Surrey GU16 5HF

Mr Andy Piper  01276 685761   01276 691090

TAP Systems is a distributor and supplier of fast affordable hard drive copy and software downloading systems.

Technica UK Ltd

Watery Lane, Sherbourne, Warwick CV35 8AL

Admin  01926 620006

Technica is a leading supplier of Storage Area Networking (SAN) services. We provide assessment, implementation, consulting and training services to help some of the largest blue chip companies implement SAN and storage technologies. Once implemented, we help our customers manage their SAN and storage environments through on-site managed services and remote managed services.

Technicolor Home Entertainment Services

Llantarnam Park, Cwmbran, Gwent NP44 3AB

Mr Stuart Tolson  01633 465 000   01633 867 799

Technicolor is the world's leading video duplicator and DVD and CD replicator, offering comprehensive turnkey production services in North America and Europe. We also offer a full spectrum of packaging, distribution, warehousing and fufillment services.

Teer Coatings Ltd

290 Hartlebury Trading Estate, Hartlebury, Worcestershire DY10 4JB

Mr Dennis Teer  01299 251399   01299 250171

Teer Coatings is a specialist PVD coating company, divided into three separate parts: the manufacture of a wide range of coating and test equipment, commercial coating services, and contract and in-house R&D. Many new and successful coatings have been developed here,including the first DLC coating with good adhesion and the unique hard, wear resistant solid lubricant coatings MoST and Graphit-iC.

TIB plc

Unit 5, Triangle Business Park, Pentrebach, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, CF48 4TQ

Sales  01685 354700   01685 354701

From its origins as the largest floppy disc company in the UK, TIB has grown to become a force to reckon with in the DVD and CD industry, manufacturing over 5 million discs per month. TIB offers the complete solution of one-stop shopping: disc manufacture, printing, collation of material, mail-sort and fulfilment.

Toshiba Research Europe Ltd

260 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WE

Dr Stuart Holmes  01223 436934   01223 436909

Toshiba Research Europe Limited (TREL) has its headquarters in Cambridge and incorporates two divisions, the Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL), and the Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRL). CRL is located in the Cambridge Science Park, and is headed by its Managing Director, Professor Michael Pepper, FRS, who is concurrently Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. CRL is actively pursuing research in the field of Quantum Information, in collaboration with the Cavendish Laboratory Semiconductor Physics Group, the University of Cambridge and other European institutions.

A particular research field is that of spintronics and spin-manipulation for Quantum (and classical) devices. This includes mainly hybrid half-metal semiconductor devices based on spin injection. This technology can be used for memory such as MRAM and also magneto-resistive devices. The half-metals, such as cobalt-manganese-gallium alloys, provide the only route for room temperature operation of spin-injection into semiconductor devices. CRL's expertise is in growing half metals, understanding their unique band structure and magnetic properties, and processing hybrid devices. We have already several publications in this field and initial IPR.

Trace Services Ltd

2 Furmston Court, Icknield Way, Letchworth, Herts. SG 6 1UJ

Mr Craig Jones  01462 484248   01462 484987

Trace is a major force in the software manufacturing equipment sales and service industry. Dedicated to total customer satisfaction, we supply and fully support a wide range of CDR and Floppy Disk duplication and printing equipment. In addition, we also supply raw CDR media and a reliable CD and floppy disk duplication service to companies who do not own their own systems, or who simply need to get over a production peak. We have one of the largest installed bases of floppy disk and CDR duplication equipment and our reference site list includes a wide range of small and large companies along with top blue chip names.

TriSys Ltd

29-37 Mill Street, Luton, Bedfordshire LU1 2NA

Sales  01582 733133   01582 721252

TriSys is an independent supplier of data storage solutions, offering a comprehensive range of services covering consultancy, training, support, maintenance, implementation and installation. The company has successfully integrated data management, protection and availability solutions into many blue chip companies throughout the UK.

Ultratec Ltd

Unit 7 London Road Indust Est, Baldock, Hertfordshire SG7 6NG

Mr Ian Turnbull  01462 490082   01462 490083

The company supports the third-party maintenance sector in supply and repair/exchange on hard disks, DAT and tape products and optical drives.

Unaxis Nimbus Ltd

Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, NP25 3SR

Mr Alberto Ravagni  01600 890682   01600 890398

Unaxis Nimbus Limited - formally Nimbus Technology and Engineering - is a world leader in optical disc and electron beam mastering systems. Nimbus was acquired by Unaxis in June 2001 and is a wholly owned subsidiary within the Unaxis Data Storage Division.

VDC Group

VDC House, South Way, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 0HB

Sales  0208 903 3345   0208 902 1716

VDC's services include DVD authoring, glass mastering and CD/DVD replication.

Vector Fields Ltd

24 Bankside, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1JE

Chris Riley  01865 370151  01865 370277

VF develops and markets software for electromagnetic design covering the entire frequency spectrum with both 2D and 3D numerical based software. We have around 1900 installations of our products through 42 countries ranging from major multinationals to one man consultancies, as well as a large number of academic institutions and government research labs.

The usage in the storage industry is primarily in head design but we are also developing tools for modelling the magnetization process in remanent media and we are interested in extending the capabilities of our software in these areas. In particular, we are very interested in improving models for materials that can be included in our finite element software and would be interested in participating in LINK projects where researchers are looking for a test-bed in which to include their models. The clear advantage of working with a commercial vendor of this type of software is that the necessary interactive software tools for defining realistic models and displaying results are already available, as well as very efficient algorithms for equation solution etc. Micromagnetic modelling is becoming more important as device sizes reduce and inclusion of such models can lead to a more general hysteresis modelling capability.

Veeco Instruments Ltd

Nanotech House, Buckingway Business Park, Anderson Road, Swavesey, Cambridge CB4 5UQ

Mr Carl Hatton  01954 233900  01954 231300

Veeco designs, manufactures, markets and services a broad line of equipment primarily used by manu-
facturers in the Optical Telecommunications, Data Storage and Semiconductor industries. Our Process Equipment products precisely deposit or etch various materials in the manufacturing of advanced thin film magnetic heads for the data storage industry. In addition, with the merger of Ion Tech in 1999, Veeco became the leading supplier of ion beam deposition equipment to the fast-growing dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) filter market. Our Metrology Equipment provides critical surface measurements on thin film magnetic heads and disks used in hard drives, as well as on semiconductor wafers and in research applications. Veeco continued to broaden its data storage, surface metrology and magnetic testing product line in 1999 with the acquisition of Optimag and in early 2000 with its acquisition of Monarch Labs and purchase of technology from Seagate.

Ventura Computer Solutions Ltd

Unit 12, Robert Cort Industrial Estate, Britten Road, Reading, Berks RG2 0AU

Mr Bob Bushell  0118 931 4050   0118 986 0727

Ventura specialises in the sale and repair of tape drives, ranging from 1/4" to DLT. The company stocks many makes and models, and most of the drives are second-user and come with a six month warranty. The company can supply new drives and other peripheral products, i.e. controller cards, cables, media and CD-Rom drives.

VERITAS Software

350 Brook Drive, GreenPark, Reading, Berkshire RG2 6UH

Sales  0870 243 1080   0870 243 1081

VERITAS Software is the leading provider of storage management software for data protection, application availability and disaster recovery. VERITAS' software solutions give customers full command over their business-critical data, providing data access across diverse server, operating system, storage and network environments. Over 86% of the Fortune 500 companies rely on VERITAS Software storage management solutions that offer proven interoperability across diverse applications, servers, storage hardware and appliances.

Verity Systems Ltd

Verity House, 2 Eastern Road, Aldershot, Hampshire GU12 4TD

Mr David Tucker  01252 317000   01252 316555

Verity Systems manufactures and supplies audio, video, data and hard drive degaussers (erasers), CD sleevers, CD-R duplicators, cassette de-labellers and cassette assembly equipment.

Westek Technology

Unit 1, Lancaster Park Industrial Estate, Bowerhill, Melksham, Wiltshire SN12 6TT

Sales    01225 790600  01225 702968

Westek is a UK manufacturer of rack mount computers and storage systems supplying the telecoms industry and big business since 1987. Westek's storage systems are scaleable from a few tens of megabytes up to multi-terabyte systems. Westeks innovative nested RAID technology takes scalability and availability to a new level with cost effective reliable storage solutions for Direct Attached, SAN and NAS requirements.

Westpoint Peripherals Ltd

Felton Lane, Felton, Bristol BS40 9UX

Damon Pulsford  01275 474740   01275 474760

Westpoint has been involved with supplying, maintaining and repairing tape drives for over 13 years. Tape drives distributed are by ODI, Fujitsu, M4 Data and Tandberg Data involving 9-track, 3480/90/90E, DLT, QIC, Exabyte and DAT. Westpoint also provides data conversion bureau services and also now distributes and supports CD jukeboxes from Pioneer, JVC, NSM, Sony and Kodak. It manufactures its own virtual CD tower that serves the CD information from its own hard drive and may be administered through a web browser.

Westwind Air Bearings Ltd

Holton Rd, Holton Heath, Poole, Dorset BH16 6LN

Mr Stephen Ratcliffe  01202 627200   01202 627202

With over thirty years experience, Westwind - part of the Cobham plc group - is universally recognised as world leader in the design and manufacture of air bearing spindle systems, and has designed a range of aerostatic spindles specifically for the applications of hard disk inspection/certification and dynamic flying head test equipment.

Willow Starcom

F21, Coppull Enterprise Centre, Mill Lane, Coppull, Chorley, Lancashire PR7 5BW

Mr Nicky Jepson    01257 471132  01257 471073

Willow Starcom is a specialist consultancy with over 10 years experience in providing expertise on data backup and storage solutions. The Company's services are designed to encompass all the elements of planning, implementing and supporting effective storage systems that draw together unique combinations of features required for protecting mission critical data environments.

XenData Ltd

Sheraton House, Castle Park, Cambridge CB3 0AX

Sales  01223 370114

XenData provides data storage software for archiving applications such as document imaging, check imaging, enterprise report management and medical imaging. Its Archive Series software provides fast access to data from RAID, unalterable archive to WORM tape and fully integrated off-site tape management for assured business continuity.

Xyratex

PO Box 6, Langstone Road, Havant, Hampshire PO9 1SA

Mr Paul Wetton  023 9248 6363   023 9245 3611

Xyratex is a global technology business operating in the Storage Systems and Storage & Network Infrastructure marketplaces. Xyratex specializes in the development and production of storage and network technology and is focused on creating essential building blocks for data storage networks and technology for enabling high performance digital communication networks and storage devices.