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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Exabyte Sold To Tandberg Data For $28M

http://www.techrockies.com/story/0005152.html

 

Boulder, Colorado-based Exabyte said today that it has agreed to be purchased by Tandberg Data, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA. The asset purchase deal is worth $28M. Exabyte, which put itself on the block in June, said that the agreement has been approved by its board of directors, and is subject to approval by its shareholders. Exabyte said that the proceeds of the sale will go to pay off its loan agreement with Wells Fargo Business Credit, as well as repayment obligations on notes payable to Imation, Hitachi, and Solectron, for a total of approximately $22.5M in cash to the firm. Exabyte said that all of its employees will be offered positions with Tandberg. Exabyte is a provider of tape backup hardware and technology.

posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006

 

Gjelda blir ihvertfall dekket!

Så gjenstår det å se om det faller noen lik ut av skapene når de begynner å rydde.....

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Exabyte Enters Into Agreement for Business Combination With Tandberg Data ASA

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 2006--Exabyte Corporation (the Company) (OTCBB:EXBY), a leading innovator in tape backup, restore and archival systems, today announced that it has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the Agreement) with Tandberg Data Corp. (Tandberg), a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Tandberg Data ASA, a company organized under the laws of Norway and headquartered in Oslo, Norway (collectively Tandberg Data), whereby Tandberg will purchase substantially all of the assets of the Company in exchange for cash and the assumption of certain liabilities of the Company. The Agreement was approved by the Company's Independent Committee and ratified by its Board of Directors. The closing of the transaction is subject to the approval of Exabyte common shareholders at a shareholders' meeting that is expected to occur in October or November 2006. Under certain circumstances, the Agreement may be terminated by either party if the transaction is not completed by December 31, 2006.

 

 

Under the terms of the Agreement, the total consideration is expected to be approximately $28,000,000, plus certain transaction fees. This amount will fluctuate based on the actual balance outstanding under the Company's loan agreement with Wells Fargo Business Credit, Inc. (Wells Fargo) which will be paid in full at closing. The cash payment to Exabyte at closing will be approximately $22,500,000, and will generally be equal to (1) the balance outstanding on the Wells Fargo loan, which holds a first priority security interest in the Company's assets, (2) the repayment obligations, as restructured, under the Company's 10% Secured Convertible Subordinated Notes (second priority security interest), and notes payable to Imation Corp. (third priority security interest), Hitachi, Ltd. and Solectron Corporation, and (3) Exabyte's transaction fees. It is a condition to the Agreement that the cash purchase proceeds to the Company be used to make these payments. In addition, Tandberg will assume certain liabilities of the Company, consisting of substantially all accounts payable and accrued expenses, warranty obligations and obligations under purchased contracts, and new or restructured notes payable issued to Imation Corp. and Hitachi, Ltd., among others.

 

In connection with the Agreement, Tandberg required the Company to enter into Restructuring Agreements or Amendments with the holders of its Convertible Notes, Hitachi, Ltd., Solectron Corporation and Imation Corp. that provide for reductions in the amounts currently due under various debt instruments, the issuance of new or restructured notes payable in certain circumstances, and the waiver of existing and future events of default, if any.

 

Following the closing of the acquisition, the Company will retain certain liabilities owed to creditors; however, Exabyte is not expected to have any significant assets remaining for the payment of these obligations. In addition, subsequent to closing there will be no assets available for distribution to holders of the Company's Series AA preferred stock or its common stock. Exabyte intends to liquidate and dissolve immediately after the closing of the transaction.

 

"We are pleased to have reached an agreement for the combination of Exabyte and Tandberg Data," noted Tom Ward, CEO of Exabyte. "The complimentary strengths of the two companies in the various geographic markets around the world will result in a truly global competitor in the storage industry. In addition, the combined product portfolios of the two companies will provide our customers with the full range of state-of-the-art, cost effective products and technologies to meet their needs. Finally, the operational synergies resulting from the combination will allow the new company to operate from an improved position of financial strength and stability in the future."

 

It is expected that Exabyte management will continue with Tandberg and will focus on capitalizing on the opportunity for Exabyte's VXA and LTO technologies and products, as well as the integration of the two companies' operations and products. All employees of Exabyte will be offered positions with Tandberg.

 

The description of the Agreement in this press release only summarizes the information set forth in the Agreement, which will be filed by Exabyte as an exhibit to the Form 8-K filing to be made in connection with this transaction. Interested parties are encouraged to read the Form 8-K and the Agreement attached thereto in their entirety for additional information on the proposed transaction.

 

mer på

 

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/g...amp;newsLang=en

[tandy]

En interessant artikkel!

http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs090506-story03.html

 

Tandberg Acquires Exabyte as Tape Market Consolidates

 

Published: September 5, 2006

 

by Alex Woodie

 

Norwegian tape drive manufacturer Tandberg Data announced plans last week to snap up midrange tape maker Exabyte for $28 million, as the market for tape solutions continued its current wave of consolidation in the face of threats by LTO and cheap disk. The move is significant for iSeries shops due to the OEM agreement between Exabyte and IBM for the entry-level VXA tape technology, which has been losing market share to LTO.

 

Exabyte, based in the storage hotbed of Boulder, Colorado, was one of the premier vendors of tape drives during the 1990s with its 8 mm Mammoth tape technology, which IBM sold to its customers via an OEM agreement, and later with the 8 mm VXA format, which Exabyte acquired from Ecrix. IBM also OEM'ed the VXA technology as an entry-level tape drive to its customers, primarily as a replacement for aging 4 mm DAT and DDS tape drives.

 

However, missteps in executing on the VXA product roadmap led to the eventual downfall of Exabyte. The company continued on for years, due to a massive customer base--including many iSeries shops--and the maintenance revenue that brought in. But the fact that $22.5 million of the $28 million purchase price will go to pay off debt shows how the value of the VXA technology has declined.

Now, that VXA business is in the hands of Tandberg Data, which also has an OEM agreement with IBM for its quarter-inch SLR (Scalable Linear Recording) tape drive technology, the only remaining QIC drive on the market. Tandberg, which has a U.S. office in San Diego, also manufacturers LTO gear, as did Exabyte. The acquisition is being financed by a $35 million bond loan, and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter. The merged company is expected to have revenues of $215 million for 2006.

 

Tandberg didn't explicitly say what it plans to do with the VXA technology, but it will likely continue selling VXA to small and mid size businesses (SMBs), Exabyte's market sweet spot--for the time being, anyway. In explaining the rationale for the acquisition, Tandberg touted an expanded presence around the world, and an estimated $10 million in cost savings. "Tandberg Data and Exabyte complement each other well in terms of both products and markets, and will jointly take a clear second place," said Tandberg Data chief executive Gudmundur Einarsson.

 

Einarsson was referring to SDLT (Super Digital Linear Tape) developer and tape drive leader Quantum, which in late August completed its own $770 million acquisition of Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC), a developer of disk- and tape-based backup solutions, including tape libraries incorporating LTO and SDLT technology. Quantum says it will continue to sell all current Quantum and ADIC products. Together, Quantum and ADIC did $1.2 billion in business the last four quarters.

 

While the tape product roadmaps of Quantum and Tandberg will likely change in the years to come, one thing is for certain: They will need to keep selling LTO gear if they want to grow their businesses.

LTO, which was co-developed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Seagate in the late 1990s and introduced to the market in 2000, has become the dominant midrange tape drive format. According to the Freeman Reports, LTO libraries accounted for 81 percent of all midrange tape libraries shipped in 2005, representing for more than 46,000 units. In 2004, LTO libraries had 73 percent of the midrange tape library market, and Freeman's Bob Abraham predicts that by 2010, that share will increase to 86 percent (see "LTO Drives, Libraries Rule the Midrange Tape Storage Market").

 

While tape's glory days are over and disk-based backup solutions are obviously the wave of the future, tape technology is likely to remain a key part of IT shops' routines for the years to come. This is largely due to the huge growth in the amount of data that organizations are generating. Prices for disk-based systems, particularly ATA technology, are dropping, but they're not dropping fast enough to keep up with the exploding growth of demand for overall storage capacity,

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Enda en interresant artikkel

 

Tandberg's tapeless tape driveAnother way to back up to hard disk

By Bryan Betts

Published Tuesday 3rd October 2006 14:59 GMT

 

Tandberg Data is the latest storage vendor to bring out a removable-disk backup product. It says the RDX QuikStor combines the portability and simplicity of tape - its cartridges are tape-sized and plug in just as easily - with the speed of hard disk.

 

The idea is that you use it like a tape drive, with the same backup software, but inside the cartridge is really a 2.5-inch hard disk. Tandberg says it can back up 80GB of data in under an hour, and access it again in milliseconds. Initially, it is offering 40GB, 80GB, and 160GB cartridges, with a drive and a 40GB cartridge costing £160. Extra cartridges will cost from £65.

 

Although Oslo-based Tandberg pitches itself as the only European data storage manufacturer, RDX QuikStor is actually American technology - it comes from a licencing agreement with Colorado-based ProStor.

 

Several other companies are also touting cartridged hard disks as the modern alternative to tapes, including Iomega and Imation. Unlike Iomega's REV - which has just the drive mechanics in the cartridge, not the electronics - but like the Imation Ulysses technology, the RDX QuikStor is a complete hard disk in a plug-in enclosure.

 

So why not simply use a USB external drive, such as those offered by Maxtor/Seagate or Western Digital, and back-up to that?

 

Tandberg product manager Kjell Aasene said it's to do with the degree of ruggedness. The reinforced cartridge includes a shock-proof mounting, and the drive enclosure adds an extra level of error correction via ProStor's Adaptive Archive technology.

 

Aasene added that because the system is hard disk-based, the same "drive" will be able to accept higher capacity cartridges in the future, something that's impossible with tape drives and cartridges.

 

He said users can either treat the unit as an extra hard disk and drag files to it, or use it as a backup device via either the copy of Symantec Backup Exec QS that comes with it, or any other software that supports backing up to disk.

 

QuikStor is available in 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch versions, connecting to the host server either internally via SATA or externally over USB. ®

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/03/tandberg_quikstor/

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Iomega ships disk-based small business backup

 

By Deni Connor, Network World, 10/12/06

 

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/1012...ess-backup.html

 

Iomega yesterday announced the availability of a removable disk backup product that makes it easier for small businesses to protect data easier and faster.

 

The REV Loader 560 consists of an external autoloader that contains as many as eight 70GB REV disk drives for a total capacity of 560GB. It connects to the server it is backing up via a USB 2.0 interface.

 

The REV Loader 560 is meant to replace tape libraries and autoloaders, which are dogged by slow performance and media problems. It offers a 30M bytes/sec data transfer rate -- ten times the speed of many tape alternatives.

 

The loader can read and write older 35GB disk cartridges. Bundled with the loader is CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup for Windows software. Password protection and encryption provide additional data security.

 

Iomega's REV Loader differs from Tandberg's RDX or Quantum's GoVault disk-based backup technologies in the cost of the disk cartridges and drive technology.

 

The Iomega REV Loader 560 desktop autoloader is $1,600. Iomega REV 70GB disks are available for $69 each or in four-packs for $250

 

 

Så spørs det da hva Tandberg Data kan stille opp med her....

[tandy]

Igjen et bevis på at AF er først med de viktigste nyhetene!

 

Men vi tar det gjerne en gang til og denne gangen er det fra HO...

 

Autolader for REV-disker

 

Iomega tilbyr en pakkeløsning for flyttbare harddiskplater.

 

 

Artikkel av: Jon Wolla (16.10.06 17:45)

 

 

Iomega har nå lansert en autolader for sin REV-løsning. Laderen kan ta opptil 8 drev, og skaffer man de nyeste 70GB-enhetene er altså stabelen i stand til å håndtere 560 GB data. Det hele knyttes til maskinen via USB-porten, og dukker opp som én stasjonsbokstav.

 

Iomega peker på at harddiskteknologien i REV-enhetene er en tryggere og kjappere måte å ta sikkerhetskopier på sammenlignet med tape eller optiske plater.

 

REV-laderen koster knapt 1800 dollar, men selges med bare én medfølgende 70GB-plate. Ekstra plater ligger på rundt 70 dollar stykket. Dermed vil en fullrigget lader få en total pris i norske kroner på omlag 15.000 kroner. Det kan vel neppe sies å være noe røverkjøp, så lenge eksterne harddisker på 500GB selges for rundt 2.500 kroner. Til gjengjeld er REV-diskene enklere å ta ut og låse bort.

 

Iomegas REV-teknologi er en videreføring av "gamle dagers" utbyttbare harddisk-plater, kjent under merkenavn som Syquest og Iomegas egen Jaz-enhet. Imidlertid har REV-lassettene både lagringsplatene og motoren innebygget, mens lesehoder og øvrig elektronikk ligger i selve leseren.

 

Mer info på iomega.com

[tandy]

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Exabyte Launches LTO-2 Tape Autoloader!

REVIEW DATE: 20-OCT-2006

By Joel Shore

http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article/E...r/191972_1.aspx

 

With its acquisition by Tandberg Data slated for completion in early November, tape storage maker Exabyte is launching products based on the industry open-standard LTO-2 tape format.

 

 

Exabyte insists the launch does not suggest that its proprietary VXA-2 packetized tape format is heading for oblivion.

 

The $3,400 Exabyte StorageLoader LTO-2 (Linear Tape Open) 1x8 1U Tape Autoloader holds up to eight LTO-2 tapes in a 1U-high rack-mount form factor, yielding an aggregate compressed capacity of 3.2TB (400GB per tape).

 

Built around an LTO-2 half-height drive made by Tandberg, the unit's 1U height targets small and midsize businesses upgrading from stand-alone tape drives, a market sweet spot, according to analysts.

 

Migrating to LTO tape automation will boost throughput and capacity while simultaneously reducing the need for manual tape shuffling. Sporting an Ultra 160 SCSI/LVD connection, Exabyte claims a compressed data transfer rate of 48M bps.

 

 

 

"This does not mean that VXA is going away," said IDC analyst Robert Amatruda. "Even IBM offers several products based on VXA-2 technology that it OEMs from Exabyte. And tape products tend to have a very long lifecycle."

 

Exabyte officials said the key to Tandberg's acquisition of Exabyte is VXA. VXA, now in its second generation (VXA-2), is a fault tolerant technology that writes data to the tape as a series of small packets which can be read out of sequence and transparently re-assembled, very different from other technologies that write data as a single continuous stream which can become entirely useless if the tape is damaged.

 

Exabyte, based in Boulder, Colo., also announced that the LTO-2 Magnum Tape Drive used in the StorageLoader is available as a stand-alone device.

 

Click here to read how Exabyte is targeting SMBs. Click here to read more.

 

Internal and external versions are priced at $1,550 and $1,890, respectively. The drive is 50 percent faster than LTO-1 and up to eight times faster than competing DLT VS drives, according to Exabyte officials.

 

The LTO format was developed jointly by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate in the late 1990s. VXA was developed by Ecrix, a company acquired by Exabyte in 2001.

 

Tandberg, headquartered in Norway, announced its deal to acquire Exabyte in August 2006. An Oct. 10, 2006 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission places a proposed maximum aggregate value on the transaction at $28.5 million.

 

For the six months ending June 30, 2006, Exabyte had a loss from operations of $3.17 million on net revenue of $41 million.

 

 

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http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_c...iew&id=1498

[tandy]

ANOTHER BREAKING NEWS!!!

 

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/g...amp;newsLang=en

 

Exabyte Releases RDX® QuickStor, New Disk-Based Backup System, into Its U.S. Channel

New Removable Disk Storage Device, Ideal for SMBs, Combines the Portability and Archival Capabilities of Tape with the Performance, Reliability and Instant Access of Hard Disk at a Lower Cost

 

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Exabyte Corporation (OTCBB: EXBY), a leading innovator in tape backup, restore and archival systems, today announced the availability of Tandberg Data’s RDX® QuikStor to its channel partners in the U.S. RDX QuikStor is a new disk-based storage device with removable disk cartridges for data backup and archival storage, designed for SMB and professional office users. Made possible by the pending purchase of Exabyte assets by Tandberg Data, this marks the first time that Exabyte has offered a disk-based system to complement its family of VXA and LTO tape products.

 

RDX QuikStor is a disk-based storage system with removable disk cartridges that offers rugged, reliable and convenient backup. It combines the benefits of tape – reliability, portability, archive life, and low cost – with the performance, speed, random access, and ease of use of hard disk technology, all at a competitive price. The product is available in two configurations: an internal (3.5” or 5.25”) SATA docking bay or an external USB docking bay. RDX QuikStor features fast transfer rates of 30-35 MB/sec. (SATA 2.0) and 25 MB/sec. (USB 2.0) and a range of native storage capacities via 40, 80, and 120 GB removable disk cartridges. The rugged shock-proof design of the removable disk cartridge means it is protected even under the most extreme conditions. RDX QuikStor ships with Symantec Backup Exec QS backup software and is compatible with all the leading backup applications. Its well-defined product roadmap and a three-year warranty provide maximum investment protection.

 

“RDX QuikStor is ideal for small and medium-sized businesses that need faster access speeds and drag-and-drop convenience, coupled with the added security of portability, allowing data to be easily secured when not in use,” said Kelly Beavers, Vice President, Product Marketing at Exabyte. “This reliable and affordable disk-based system, the first ever offered at Exabyte, is an excellent addition to our line-up of tape storage products. RDX QuikStor provides another technology option for our customers to select based on their performance, capacity and cost requirements.”

 

“We see many customers who are looking for easy-to-use, reliable, and portable storage systems,” explained Phil Pesce at HemTech, Inc., an Exabyte reseller based in Staten Island, New York. "As a disk-based system with variable cartridge capacities for convenience and portability, RDX QuikStor fits a growing niche of professional offices users, such as physicians and architects as well as graphics and marketing firms, that want a robust, plug-and-play storage solution that is affordably priced and easily and safely stored."

 

Pricing and Availability

 

The RDX QuikStor is available immediately through Exabyte’s channel of distribution and reseller partners. The estimated street price of the RDX QuikStor will start at $277 for an internal SATA docking bay with a 40 GB removable disk cartridge, including accessories and Symantec Backup Exec QS backup software. The estimated street price starts at approximately $120 for a 40 GB native capacity removable disk cartridge.

 

Tandberg-Exabyte Transaction

 

Tandberg Data and Exabyte recently announced an agreement for sale of substantially all of Exabyte’s assets to Tandberg Data. The transaction is anticipated to close in the next 30 days. The strengths of the combined companies in their various geographic markets around the world will make Tandberg Data a formidable global competitor in the storage industry. In addition, the combined product portfolios will provide customers a full range of state-of-the-art, cost effective products and technologies to meet their needs.

 

About Exabyte Corporation

 

Exabyte Corporation (OTCBB: EXBY) is a leading innovator of tape storage products. For more than 20 years, the company has been recognized for its innovative engineering approach and for consistently raising industry standards in technology, quality and data reliability for tape drives and tape automation. The Company’s products back up and restore critical business information in a manner consistently ahead of its competitors in terms of capacity, transfer speeds, and reliability – all at competitive prices. With patented and award-winning VXA Packet Technology and ExaBotics™, Exabyte’s VXA™ and LTO™ (Ultrium™) products are ideally suited for SMB and departmental servers, workstations, LANs, and SANs. Exabyte has a worldwide network of OEMs, distributors and resellers that share the company's commitment to innovation and customer service, including IBM, Apple, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Fujitsu Ltd., Imation, Tech Data, and Ingram Micro. For more information, call 1-800-EXABYTE or visit www.exabyte.com.

 

RDX QuikStor, BAKStor, and SLR are trademarks of Tandberg Data ASA. RDX is a registered trademark of ProStor Systems, Inc. DLT, DLTtape, DLT VS, SDLT and Super DLTtape are registered trademarks of Quantum Corporation. LTO is a trademark of HP, IBM and Seagate. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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04.10.06 14:54 Marked=OB TAD ARBEID MED REALISERING AV SYNERGIEFFEKTER andre børsmeldinger

 

 

 

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Ledelsen i Tandberg Data har siden annonsering av

oppkjøpet av Exabyte arbeidet med en grundig

gjennomgang av de to organisasjonene. Målet for

dette arbeidet har vært å få til en best mulig

organisasjonsstruktur og styringsmodell med sikte

på å få til kostnadsreduksjoner og en styrket

markedsposisjon for det sammenslåtte selskapet.

Tandberg Datahar tidligere informert om at

selskapet skal oppnå kostnadssynergier på minimum

10 millioner dollar med effekt fra første kvartal

2007.

 

- Tandberg Data opererer i et marked preget av

tøffe krav fra krevende kunder og betydelig

konkurranse, og både kunde- og leverandørsiden er

for tiden preget av konsolidering. I denne

sammenheng har Tandberg Data gjennom oppkjøpet av

Exabyte tatt nødvendige grep som sikrer oss

verdifull teknologi og salgskraft, sier

administrerende direktør Gudmundur Einarsson i en

kommentar.

 

- Tandberg Data/Exabyte oppnår en attraktiv

nummer to posisjon, og en mer fordelaktig

størrelse vil gi oss bedre muligheter til å bygge

noe enda sterkere til beste for kunder, ansatte

og aksjonærer. Det er imidlertid helt avgjørende

at vi konsentrerer ressursene mest mulig og

samler nøkkelressurser der det er naturlig,

understreker han.

 

Forløpige analyser viser at den beste

organiseringen vil være å samle forskning og

utviklingsvirksomheten i Boulder, USA, med unntak

av en liten og spesialisert avdeling rettet mot

båndstasjoner som foreslås lokalisert i Oslo.

Salgs- og markedsføring vil dels bli basert på

Exabyte`s virksomhet i USA og Tandberg Datas

virksomheter i Europa/Asia.

 

Styret har i dag gitt ledelsen i oppdrag å

arbeide videre med en plan for optimalisering av

organisasjonen basert på disse foreløpige

analysene. Ledelsen vil således i løpet av kort

tid blant annet igangsette drøftelser med

involverte parter, herunder de ansattes

representanter, og vil deretter legge frem sin

endelige innstilling til styret.

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limer inn innlegg fra HO

 

TAD Fremover,presentasjonen q3-2006

 

Var på presentasjonen i dag og mener bestemt at tad/exabyte utfyller hverandre 100%,og at markedet for og selge varer i usa ville vært en nesten umulig oppgave uten exabyte,sa Tom ward som kom fra usa med mange positive innspill.

Exabyte har nå i det lukkede usa markedet tilgang på hele portoføljen fra tad som de ikke hadde tilgang på før oppkjøpet .

Sammenslåingen vil gi tad i europa de beste produktene fra exabyte innen automation og media,og marginene der ligger på 35%,og utgjør før oppkjøpet all inntekt i exabyte i usa.Den teknologien tar tad inn i europa og blir komplett salgskanal i europa.

Exabyte lanserer nå Lto og Rdx inn i sin salgskanal i usa,og den tilgangen ville aldri tad fått inngang i da de ikke omsetter nok i usa,og ville vært utestengt fra usa markedet,noe Tom Ward påpekte sterkt.

Marginene i de 2 sammenslåtte selskapene blir 28-30% ved sammenslåingen noe som ved økning av totalsalget fra tad/exabyte vil bli 450 mill bruttomargin for 2007.Tad ligger i dag isolert med en brutto margin på 22% og utgjør 160 mill.

Vær også oppmerksom på at det totale antallet ansatte Tad/Exab er 240 stk det samme som tad alene hadde i 2006 men marginen bruttomarginen vil øke med +290 mill sammenslått.Det er tall som antakeligvis stiger da de sammenslåtte produktene i salgskanalene vil øke omsetningen på topplinjen grunnet tilgangen til hverandres produkter.

NB! -1,2 mill usd avskrivning CDG buisness da det skal selges og ligger ikke i kjernevirksomhet lenger,og pris salg ble antydet 50-120 mill,som er ren netto på bunn når det gjennomføres.Dette har ikke vært noen suksess heller sa de.

De var allerede interesenter for kjøpet i dollar og pund.Dette blir ren netto da alle avskrivninger er tatt ut.

 

I de store linjene er tad/exabyte perfekte for hverandre og begge med nye sollide produkter.

Exabyte investerte sterkt innen automatasjon og media selv om de slet før oppkjøp.De representerer seg sterkt innenfor dette markedet i usa,og nå vil tilliten i markedet gi de mer tiltro da kapitalen er satt på plass. RDX og LTO burde bli en suksess mente Tom Ward og de hadde tilgangen i usa markedet.Dette kan være noe av det mest interesante i hele presentasjonen da markedet der er meget stort og sterk etterspørsel for tiden som bare var sterkt voksende.

 

RDX er forøvrig mottat med enorm kjøpsinteresse og kapasiteten på produksjonen gikk for fullt,men etter det ble lansert klarer de ikke og produsere etterspørselen Dette vil gi utslag i q4.

Synergien og en ekstrem sterk salgskanal i europa og usa med flere produkter i alle prisegment noe som forsterker salget og oppsiden videre.

 

De store linjene tyder på et tad med exabyte vil bli en suksess og den sterke veksten og marginøkningen sammen med en redusert organisasjon og administrasjon vil gi aksjonærer og analytikere litt og tenke på fremover.

De røde bunnlinjene burde overskygges totalt da fremtiden vil gi aksjonærene sterke resultater fremover,og det spekuleres i om 40% av synergiene blir tatt ut i q4,dvs 40 mill.

 

Mener investeringen i tad vil gi vann på mølla. Når de får presentert dette for analytikerne som var på vei etter presentasjonen kan det tyde på at noe er på gang i markedet også.

 

Hilsen større aksjonær.

[Zoonic]

Nå Tandy, følger du TAD om dagen? DNM starter initiell dekning av selskapet og sier KJØP

 

 

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[Kristian]

"Høydepunkter for fjerde kvartal 2006

 

*Omsetningen i fjerde kvartal utgjorde 46,3

millioner dollar (inkluderer omsetning fra

Exabyte i kvartalets siste seks uker),

tilsvarende en omsetningsvekst på 59,9 prosent

sammenlignet med Q4 2005

- Engangseffekt: Salg av domenet www.tandberg.com for 1,5 millioner dollar

 

*Bruttomarginen økte til 25,9 prosent, opp fra

22,5 prosent i foregående kvartal

 

*Driftsresultat på 5,1 millioner dollar før

avskrivninger

- Driftsresultatet ble positivt påvirket av IFRS

justeringer på 1,1 millioner dollar

 

*Oppkjøpet av Exabyte ble fullført 17. november

2006

 

*Kostnadssynergier er oppnådd i henhold til plan

 

*Vellykket plassering av obligasjonslån:

- Første transje på 130 millioner kroner i

november 2006

- Andre transje på 25 millioner kroner i februar

2007

 

*RDX: Vellykket kvalifisering av OEM og

introduksjon i salgskanalen. Flere tusen enheter

solgt i fjerde kvartal

 

*Lansering av produktet StorageLoader LTO-3,

innenfor automasjon.

 

Vennligst se full rapport og presentasjon

vedlagt."

 

http://newsweb.no/cdco/atmnt/TAD_Q406__rep...AL.pdf?id=50855

[trend]

Markedskreftene burde være på plass jf. MarketWatch. Spørsmålet er bare om TAD har den rette posisjon og evne til å utnytte og forbedre denne.... Men med de prøver jo.... Spørsmålet jeg stiller meg er om de klarer å gjennomføre .

 

BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- According to experts, the world generated 161 exabytes of information last year that needed to be stored.

What does that mean? I sure didn't know off the top of my head what an exabyte was, but I knew it was big.

Technically, it is (you're going to love this) 1 quintillion bytes of information. Great; I'm not sure how many zeros are in a quintillion, either. And apparently we are talking about 161 quintillion.

I had to look it up. A kilobyte has three zeros -- it's 1,000 bytes. A megabyte is a million. A gigabyte is 1,000 million or a U.S. billion (nine zeros). A terabyte is a trillion bytes (12 zeros). Then comes the petabyte, which has 15 zeros. Finally, the quintillion-ish exabyte with 18 zeros! That's a lot of zeros.

FYI: Next comes the zettabyte with 21 zeros, and then the yottabyte with 24 zeros, which eventually will become a disk drive for sale at Costco for $150. After that, perhaps the yotta-yottabyte.

My advice to investors: Storage technology is never going away.

So how did we find a crisis in our midst regarding the need for all this storage? The Associated Press reports that a study done at the University of California at Berkeley found we were humming along in 2003, creating the need for 3 exabytes per year worldwide, and then the rate jumped to 161 exabytes.

Surely the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act can't be the only reason for this.

This situation concerning the long-term reliability of stored data is the biggest joke in high technology.

The need arises from the emergence of digital storage for videos; larger formats of digital images; the requirement to archive entire corporate databases for years on end; the storage of trillions of e-mails here and there; multiple stores of the entire Internet (or as much as can be found); digitization of film archives and digital distribution of new films. It just goes on and on.

When you start to look into this, it's not the actual storage of all this data and all the backups that's alarming, but the integrity of any of it. (The AP article concludes the same thing.) This is what nobody really wants to discuss.

This situation concerning the long-term reliability of stored data is the biggest joke in high technology.

Does anyone really think the 4.7 gigabytes that you moved to a DVD-R disc will be readable 100 years from now? Or 20 years from now, for that matter? I have CD-ROMs that are a decade old and failing.

For example, it's a well-known fact that there are only a few working 2-inch tape, 4-head Ampex video machines still in operation. These are the monsters that were the workhorses of network television in the 1960s and were phased out in favor of newer technologies.

What few are left get stripped for parts to keep a few others working, in a futile effort to transfer old master tapes to new formats. Time is running out as the defunct technology falls apart.

Because of never-ending changes in technology, all sorts of things will be lost -- from entire movies, photos and electronic publications to corporate records and entire digitized libraries (the ones that threw out the books).

Of course, this loss always has been a problem with media since the first great library burnt down. The difference is that the mean time to failure (a great tech phrase) is not in the hundreds of years anymore. Now it's just a few years.

The irony is that digital information can be easily moved from here to there intact, unlike analog media that cannot be copied perfectly and degrades over time from copying itself.

But once you cannot read the data, you're out of luck. Usually nothing is salvageable.

The implications and consequences of this inevitable loss of information needs to be studied sooner rather than later.

 

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/smart-investors-know-storage-technology/story.aspx?guid=%7B130C1773%2D23E7%2D40D2%2D948E%2D8F2D912199BD%7D&dist=

[Zoonic]

Nå, Tandy, du fulgte TAD i "gamle" dager og DNM er ute med en oppdatering etter rapporten.

 

http://www16.dnb.no/markets/rapporter/pdf/...ta%20080507.pdf

 

 

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[Even]

Det ser svart ut for tandberg data om dagen da kursen stuper osv, sitter på 20.000 aksjer i selskapet, men er snart verdiløse. omsettes akkurat no for 0,35kr stk, men syns det er merkelig att det går sopass ned etter emisjon er godkjent og redningsplanen er i boks! Alt er jo klart for videre drift! Er det noken som har råd eller tips? bør en selge seg ut og ta dei småpengene en får igjenn eller ta det rolig og vente??

 

Takker for alle svar!

[Joe]

Hvis regnestykket på Hegnar Online stemmer, så lønner det seg å selge aksjer i dag til 35 øre, for deretter å kjøpe tegningsrettigheter som gjør at du får nye aksjer for 2,6 øre. Prisingen i TAD virker fullstendig ufornuftig, det er ikke samsvar mellom kursen på aksjen og kursen på tegningsrettigheten.

[Even]

Hvis regnestykket på Hegnar Online stemmer, så lønner det seg å selge aksjer i dag til 35 øre, for deretter å kjøpe tegningsrettigheter som gjør at du får nye aksjer for 2,6 øre. Prisingen i TAD virker fullstendig ufornuftig, det er ikke samsvar mellom kursen på aksjen og kursen på tegningsrettigheten.

 

Var ditta eg heller ikkje fekk til og stemme, prisingen er totalt ufornuftig, men ser ut som markedet he fårr med seg det, tegningsretta omsettes for 0,12 i øyeblikket og hovudaksja e ned 17% og omsettes for 0,29 i øyeblikket... Tegningsrettane avsluttes 1. april so skal bli spennende og sjå kursen på hovudaksjen da.

 

Når tegningsperioden er over og det er sikkert mange tradera som handler tegningsrettane no grunna ganske ok kurs i forhold til prisen for pr. aksjer i tegningsperioden, men kan det ikkje skade litt ekstra og feilprisinga om mange he tegnet seg no og kursen stuper videre noke som eg rekna me den gjer når tegningsperioden er over? Er vel mange som vil dumpe aksjene dei he tegna seg i perioden! Det lova heller ikkje bra!

[Joe]

Aksjekursen burde vært lavere basert på hva som er en fornuftig prising av selskapet, og det faktum at nye aksjer blir ervervet til en "effektiv" kostpris på 2,6 øre. At prisen holder seg oppe fremdeles skyldes ene og alene markedet, etter min mening. Jeg tror også at kursen vil falle, om ikke før så iallefall når de nye aksjene kommer på børs, da blir det mange til salgs.

[Even]

Aksjekursen burde vært lavere basert på hva som er en fornuftig prising av selskapet, og det faktum at nye aksjer blir ervervet til en "effektiv" kostpris på 2,6 øre. At prisen holder seg oppe fremdeles skyldes ene og alene markedet, etter min mening. Jeg tror også at kursen vil falle, om ikke før så iallefall når de nye aksjene kommer på børs, da blir det mange til salgs.

 

Eg hadde en liten post aksjer i selskapet og hadde tegningsrett på 20.000 nye aksjer! kor kan en tegne dissa? er det noke eg får i posten og sender tilbake eller? Finner lite om det på dnb nord market sida ( den eg bruker )

 

Har aldri vert borti tegningsretta aksjer før?

 

Takker for all hjelp og svar!

[Tyger]

Hei Even!

 

Du kan logge deg på hos vps.no med fødselsnummer og VPS-konto og skrive ut tegningsblanketter.

[Even]

Hei Even!

 

Du kan logge deg på hos vps.no med fødselsnummer og VPS-konto og skrive ut tegningsblanketter.

 

Tusen takk for infoen, fekk også brev i posten osv, men sjønna ingenting. kursen stiger meget bra dei siste 2 dagene etter mldinga om positiv framtid, men tegningsrettane fortsatt omsettes for rundt 0,8-0,10 øre stk..

 

Har litt lyst og tegne for dei rettane eg har, men mitt store spørsmål er når kjem fallet? kan det holde seg sopass høgt lenge som det gjer? eller raser det brutalt etter tegningsperioden er over ( har sett fra tidligere firma att kursen går faktisk litt opp etter alt er ordna og sikkra ), datoen for ny aksjer i portofølgen er 10.april skal dei som ha tegna fått aksjen, men ka skjer denne dagen? slepper alle aksjene ut, men kan aksjen komme under betalte pr.stk 2 øre aksjen? da er vel snart firmaet teoretisk konkurs?

[vy1]

Tusen takk for infoen, fekk også brev i posten osv, men sjønna ingenting. kursen stiger meget bra dei siste 2 dagene etter mldinga om positiv framtid, men tegningsrettane fortsatt omsettes for rundt 0,8-0,10 øre stk..

 

Har litt lyst og tegne for dei rettane eg har, men mitt store spørsmål er når kjem fallet? kan det holde seg sopass høgt lenge som det gjer? eller raser det brutalt etter tegningsperioden er over ( har sett fra tidligere firma att kursen går faktisk litt opp etter alt er ordna og sikkra ), datoen for ny aksjer i portofølgen er 10.april skal dei som ha tegna fått aksjen, men ka skjer denne dagen? slepper alle aksjene ut, men kan aksjen komme under betalte pr.stk 2 øre aksjen? da er vel snart firmaet teoretisk konkurs?

 

 

Det letteste er dog å gå inn på http://www.arcticsec.no/ . Velg deretter "Offerings", og så "Tandberg Data asa". Videre må du ha postnummer, personnummer, vps-konto og bankkonto klart (kontoen hvor du vanligvis henter aksjepengene fra). Da får du gjort operasjonen raskt og effektivt.

 

Lykke til.

 

mvh V

[tandy]

Oj oj oj

 

Ser at noen har ropt mitt navn her!

 

Ikke Zoonic vel?

Håper ikke du hoppet på denne kjøpsmuligheten fra DNM....

 

Jeg har sterke meninger om TAD og har fulgt dette selskapet meget nøye

 

Med over 20 dårlige Q er det et under at de ennå ikk er slått konkurs!

 

Siste emisjons er intet under isåmåte og for de som måtte tro de blir rike av å gå inn nå tror jeg blir meget skuffet.

 

Min magefølelse sier "ligg unna" til ting er etablert og selskapet kan vise seg levedyktig!

 

Men for de som liker å spille poker, vær so go'

 

tandy

[Even]

Oj oj oj

 

Ser at noen har ropt mitt navn her!

 

Ikke Zoonic vel?

Håper ikke du hoppet på denne kjøpsmuligheten fra DNM....

 

Jeg har sterke meninger om TAD og har fulgt dette selskapet meget nøye

 

Med over 20 dårlige Q er det et under at de ennå ikk er slått konkurs!

 

Siste emisjons er intet under isåmåte og for de som måtte tro de blir rike av å gå inn nå tror jeg blir meget skuffet.

 

Min magefølelse sier "ligg unna" til ting er etablert og selskapet kan vise seg levedyktig!

 

Men for de som liker å spille poker, vær so go'

 

tandy

 

Snakker om driten som renne.... sat akkurat og spilte poker men for "leikepnger" og solgte tegningsrettane til 10 øre stk! Tenkte og handle meg oppatt rett før børsen stengte til 2 øre tegningsretten, men fekk bangeanelsa om att børsmeldinga fra siste kvaratal ifjor vart utsett til 30.april so redd kursen snubbler endel da!, men skal bli spennende og sjå, cognacen står i skapet so blir enten feiring for en ikkje hoppa på eller trøst om e he fått feil følelser og kursn hopper i taket!

[tandy]

Big Blue to ship RDX removable drives

 

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/1...stor_lands_ibm/

 

ProStor scores big - again!

 

By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author

 

Posted in Enterprise, 15th January 2009 13:03 GMT

 

That's it - with IBM joining the RDX party, there is now effectively only one business-class removable disk drive technology in town for backup, and that's ProStor.

 

RDX is a USB-connect dock and removable 160, 320 or 500GB disk drives, that comes with backup software - Backup Exec or Yosemite FileKeeper. You back up to it like tape and then take the disk away for offsite backup, again like tape. But unlike tape, you get disk restore speeds and disk backup speed. The USB interface ensures a blindingly obvious installation, with sustained transfer rates of up to 90GB/hour; not that fast really, not for disk. We could do with USB 3.0, SAS 2 or eSATA.

 

The drives are mostly manufactured by Tandberg - Imation has manufacturing rights but no known customers - and it makes them for itself, Dell, Fujitsu and Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and NEC. With IBM now joining the RDX reselling party that's probably the kiss of effective death for competing business removable disk drive formats, such as Quantum's GoVault, which IBM used to sell.

 

This year the drives should increase capacity to 750GB and get a SAS interface, a 6Gbit/s one hopefully. There is speculation that they could appear in a SOHO/consumer-class product where they would compete with Iomega's REV. This product is available with capacity options of 35, 70 and 120GB and can come in a bundle with CA's ARCserve software. It is also available as an external USB-connect device or as an internally-fitted dock with SATA, ATAPI or SCSI connectivity. The minimum RDX capacity is 160MB so there is a clear capacity separation between the REV and RDX products.

 

It's possible that the EMC-energised Iomega may boost REV capacity, or come up with a new product altogether to provide stronger competition for RDX.

 

It's also possible that other suppliers like Drobo may add a removable drive element to their products - how hard can it be to put a 2.5-inch hard drive in a shock-hardened plastic case fitted with a connector set? Also, looked at one way, the Drobo box is already a 4-bay dock and not a lot of development would be needed. Other potential entrants to this product space include Buffalo and La Cie.

 

Until this happens ProStor has the field to itself, with no effective price competition, and may even be growing sales and revenue while the recession blunts sales of other storage company's products. With IBM now added to Tandberg's OEM list its happy, happy OEM sales rep will be looking intently at other possibilities like Sun.

 

IBM is selling RDX docks and drives with Yosemite FileKeeper for use in System x or BladeCenter S environments, and they should be available from the end of January. ®