INPH & DTLK-company overviews...
Datalink Corporation creates high-end, custom-designed data storage systems for big companies and organizations such as American Express, Allstate, NASA, and UAL's United Airlines. The company also sells to original equipment manufacturers and value-added resellers. Datalink's storage systems include data capture equipment such as scanners, data management software, and storage devices using CD-ROM, optical, RAID (redundant array of independent disks), and tape technologies. Datalink uses an open system standard, combining products made by several manufacturers to create its highly customized systems. CEO Greg Meland owns about 40% of Datalink, which has offices nationwide.
Top Competitors: Computer Sciences | IBM | Unisys
iphase.com
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Interphase is hoping that connectivity isn't a passing phase. The company makes network and mass storage products for such applications as work groups, graphic workstations, and medical imaging. Its networking devices, which account for nearly 75% of sales, include adapters that enable high-speed connections between components in LANs and WANs. Interphase's mass storage controllers use fibre channel technology to give PCs rapid access to disk drives, printers, and other peripherals. Interphase sells through OEMs, distributors, and systems integrators, and Hewlett-Packard accounts for about 40% of sales. The company has sold its subsidiary Zirca.com (low-cost international long-distance telephone services).
Top Competitors: 3Com | Adaptec | Cisco Systems |
