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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.
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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.
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CMS Peripherals Ltd
24 Scrubs Lane, London, NW10 6RA
Mr Raymond Rice
020 8960 6000
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
20 Hereford Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG23 8QL
Mrs Tina Hart
01256 810126
01256 810119
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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