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• Slovenian shipments of hardcopy peripherals declined 5.3% in 2008
• Global solid state drive market to grow at a 70% CAGR
• Croatian printer market grew 2.2% in 2007
• Romanian hardcopy devices market reached almost 250k units
• Australian identity and access management market generated $89.4 mln in 2007
• Asia printer market grew 6.3% in Q1 2008
• Only 23% of printers in China are inkjets
• China’s hardcopy peripheral market achieved 9.9 mln units in 2007
• Inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China
• Global external disk storage systems in 2007
• Global disk storage systems market in 2007
• Global disk storage systems market in Q4 2007
• Open SAN market grew 17.2% in Q4 2007
• NAS storage grew 15.8% in Q4 2007
• Worldwide external disk storage reached $5.3 bln in 2007
• 31.64 mln graphics devices shipped in Q4 2007
• PC sales up 14% in 2007, printer sales up 3%
• Digital photo frames generated $699 mln in Q1 2008
• 51% of robotics revenue in 2015 will come from entertainment robotics
• 3 mln removable hard disk drives to ship by 2012
• High-definition drives to generate $2 bln by 2012
• Indian printer market to grow at 8.9% a year
• Storage market in Q2 2007
• External disk storage systems up 6.2% in Q2 2007
• 200 mln hard drives to have NAND caches by 2011
• 768 mln hard drives to ship by 2011
• 16.6 mln automotive hard drives to ship by 2013
• Solid-state drives to generate $5.4 bln by 2011
• 82% of companies do not have budgets for storage expenditures
• NAS market to generate $3.4 bln in 2011
• 65.1 mln car navigation systems to ship by 2012
• Top hard drive manufacturers in Q1 2007
• Printer shipments up 3% in Q1 2007
• 764 mln wireless handsets to include USB by 2010
• Indian small and medium businesses to spend $330 mln on printers in 2007
• 2 bln USB devices shipped in 2006
• 146.9 mln wide-format LCD monitors to sell in 2011
• Hard drive industry to generate $33 bln by 2011
• Hard drives up 15.5% in 2006
• 161 exabytes of information created in 2006
• Data protection and recovery generated $58 mln in 2006
• $600 mln spent on external hard drives in 2006
• 440.2 mln devices to support PCI Express by 2010
• 517.3 mln devices to support non-proprietary I/O by 2010
• 21.8 mln graphics boards shipped in Q3 2006
• 168 mln wireless human interface devices to ship in 2012
• Graphics market in Q3 2006
• Non-computer hard drive shipments to grow at 23.8%
• Graphics cards up 37.3% in 2006
• 19 mln flat-panel display units to ship in 2007
• 39.1 mln Seagate drives shipped in Q3 2006
• Global external disk storage systems in Q3 2006
• Chinese tape storage market revenues reached $137.3 mln in 2005
• Hard drive market in Q2 2006
• Virtual tape libraries to generate $1.4 bln by 2011
• Average F1K company has 680 TB of data storage available
• Czech disk storage market up 13% in 2005
• US printer and copier market down 4% in Q2 2006
• Asia-Pacific external disk storage market up 81.8% in Q2 2006
• Disk storage market in Q2 2006
• External disk storage up 8.5% in Q2 2006
• Disk storage up 4.3% in Q2 2006
• Printer market in Latin America up 27% in Q2 2006
• US printer market down 4.2% in Q2 2006
• Flexible displays to generate $2 bln by 2015
• External controller-based storage up 59% in Q1 2006 in India
• 17 inch LCD panels up 5.8% in August 2006 so far
• Disk-based data protection to generate $8 bln in 2006
• Document-class scanners grow by more than 50% for the third straight year
• Tape drive shipments down 10.4% in 2005
• $116.5 mln worth of external disk storage sold in China in Q1 2006
• Global hard drive shipments in Q1 2006
• 50% of laptop hard drives could be solid state by 2013
• 12% of printing devices sold in EMEA in 2005 were color devices
• Global printer and copier market to generate $62.6 bln by 2010
• US printer market down 13% in Q1 2006
• 115.8 mln 1394-enabled devices shipped in 2005
• 408.3 mln hard drives to ship in 2006
• Asia-Pacific external disk storage up 11.6% in Q1 2006
• US inkjet market to decline at 4.2% a year
• Asia-Pacific market for document solutions up 80% in 2005
• EMEA market for printers, copiers and multifunction devices up 3% in Q1 2006
• Printer and inkjet multifunction products grew 8% in Q1 2006 in Asia-Pacific
• 2.8 bln USB devices to ship by 2010
• External controller storage market up 9.4% in Q1 2006
• Global external controller storage market up 8.6% in Q1 2006
• External controller storage market up 15.8% in North America in Q1 2006
• Storage shipments to grow at more than 50% a year
• 32% of Asia-Pacific SMBs plan to buy printers in 2006
• NAS to generate $3 bln by 2010, driven by ISCSI
• Data storage systems up 10.3% in Q1 2006
• 2.8 bln USB devices to ship in 2010
• Latin American printer market up 27% in Q3 2005
• 7.5 mln printers sold in the US in Q3 2005
• Asia-Pacific LCD market up 15.6% in 2005
• US market for office copiers and multifunction products reached 492K units in Q3 2005
• 148 petabytes of external disk storage sold in Asia Pacific in 2005
• Top external storage vendors: EMC, HP, IBM, Dell
• External storage market up 17.9% in Q4 2005
• 21.4 mln printers sold in 2005
• Desktop graphics market generated $1.6 bln in Q4 2005
• Disk storage revenue in Central and Eastern Europe up 10.8% in 2005
• Internal DAS preferred storage technology among European companies
• 82.7% more terabytes of external storage sold in Asia-Pacific in Q3 2005
• Tape automation systems to grow at 8-9% a year
• Printer and copier market to generate $59.7 bln in 2005
• Worldwide storage software up 10% in Q3 2005
• LCD monitor prices to fall 2-3% in Q1 2006
• 283 mln PCI Express devices shipped in 2009
• Top storage vendors: HP, IBM, EMC
• $167 mln worth of copiers sold in China in Q2 2005
• Asia-Pacific printer market to grow at 4% a year
• External disk storage up 12.5% in Q3 2005, 505 petabytes shipped
• Revenue from chips in small form factor hard drives to grow at 39.4% a year
• Home network storage market to start growing at 50% and more a year
• LCD monitor sales up 70% in Q3 2005
• External disk storage market to grow to $19.6 bln by 2009
• 1.5 mln mln A3 copiers and multifunction devices to sell in EMEA in 2005
• 6.4 mln MFPs shipped in EMEA in the first half of 2005
• 68.4 mln PC graphics devices shipped in Q3 2005, 8.2% YTY growth
• 12.6 mln printers and MFP devices sold in the first half of 2005
• OLED display shipments up 82% in Q2 2005
• 300K US households had a network storage device in 2004, 10 mln by 2010
• By 2009 80% of laptops will have wide screens
• Russian printer market topped $1 bln in 2004 for the first time
• IP multimedia subsystems to generate $14.1 bln by 2010
• 225 mln TFT-LCD panels will be sold in 2006
• Asia-Pacific printer and MFP shipments down 4% in Q2 2005
• Latin America printer market up 23.4% in Q2 2005
• Latin American printer market to grow 23.4% in 2005
• US production copier and printer market up 27% in 2004
• 90.03 mln hard drives shipped in Q2 2005
• Australian printer market up 16% in Q2 2005
• LCD driver sales to generate $3 bln in 2005
• 2 bln microphones to sell in 2005, 3 bln by 2008
• USB flash drive revenue to grow 64% in 2005
• Asia-Pacific external disk storage revenue will grow 24.3% in 2005
• Worldwide storage market up 11.8% in Q2 2005
• 208 mln large TFT LCDs will be sold in 2005
• External disk storage revenues up 8.6% in Q2 2005
• Asia-Pacific printer market down 4% in Q1 2005
• Worldwide HDD market in Q2 2005: Seagate - 30.5%, Western Digital - 17.6%, Hitachi - 15.5%
• 124.7 mln printers, copiers and multifunction devices will ship in 2005
• 80% of counterfeit $50 bills are made on PC with color printer
• Hungarian printer revenues up 6% in 2004
• SAN fibre channel up 10% in Q1 2005
• United Arab Emirates printer market up 2.2% in 2004, to remain flat in 2005
• 149 mln multifunction printer/copiers to ship by 2009
• South African printer market up 17.8% in shipments in 2004
• Compact libraries to generate $35.3 mln in Asia-Pacific in 2009
• Hard drive terabytes to increase at 37% a year between 2004 and 2009
• Croatian printer market shipments up 1.2% in 2004
• Global hard drive shipments to grow at 15.5% a year, consumer electronics HDDs to grow at 37.4% a year
• Branded tape drives in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan to decline by 0.5% a year
• Small display shipments up 17% in Q1 2005
• Czech printer market dow 5.2% in 2004
• Nordic storage market generated 744 mln euros in 2004
• Perpendicular magnetic recording to ship in 630 mln hard drives in 2009
• Australian monitor market up 3% in Q1 2005
• Hard drive average selling prices up in Q1 2005
• 409 petabytes of external storage shipped in Q1 2005
• 95-100 mln LCD monitors to ship in 2005
• Branded tape market leaders: HP, IBM
• Remanufactured printer cartridges to account for 24% of the market by 2008
• Americans go through 604 mln inkjet cartridges a year
• 500 mln hard drives will be shipped in 2008, 30% of them with consumer electronics
• Multiservice switch market grew 9% in 2004
• Power over Ethernet revenues reached $96.09 mln in 2004
• TFT LCD sales up 45% in 2004
• Open standards chassis generated $221 mln in 2004
• External storage market up 8.5% in 2004 in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan
• 50 mln US households to have home media networks by year-end 2005
• 27% of households with home networking want network-attached storage
• External disk storage revenues up 5.1% in 2004
• $1.2 bln of Web cams to be sold in 2005
• iSCSI storage up 32% in Q4 2004
• Users’ peripherals: 82% have CD-RW, 76% have CRT, 68% have DVD-ROM
• EMEA LAN switch revenues up 6.6% in Q4 2004
• EMEA router market up 4.5% in Q4 2004
• External storage market up 5.1% in 2004
• Indian SMB printer spending reached $300 mln in 2004
• 64.1 PC graphics devices shipped in Q4 2004
• Disk storage systems market leaders: HP, IBM, EMC, Dell, Hitachi
• External disk storage market leaders: EMC, HP, IBM, Hitachi, Dell
• Disk storage grows 57.7% in petabytes shipped, but only 1.8% in revenues
• USB-enabled products to grow at 25% a year
• Router market up 13% in 2004
• 18.2 mln digital cameras sold in 2004, 20.5 mln will be sold in 2005
• Demand for hard drives exceeded supply by 7% in Q4 2004
• PC graphics market leaders - Intel, ATI, Nvidia
• Automatic backup is #1 priority for home network owners
• Asia-Pacific monitor market up 13.7%
• LAN switches in Europe, Middle East and Africa down 1.4% in Q3 2004
• Router market in Europe, Middle East, Africa declined 2.5% in Q3 2004
• Single tape drives to grow at 1.3% a year in Asia-Pacific
• Taiwan LCD market up 68% in Q3 2004
• Asian multifunction peripheral market down 4% in Q3 2004
• Asian-Pacific disk storage revenues up 5.7% in Q3 2004
• External disk storage systems up 3.5% in Q3 2004
• Indian printer market up 3.5% in Q3 2004

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