Iomega

Iomega Corporation
IndustryComputer
FoundedApril 1, 1980 (1980-04-01) in Roy, Utah, U.S. (as an IBM spin-off)
FounderDavid Bailey[1] and David Norton
FateAcquired by EMC Corporation and Lenovo
HeadquartersSan Diego, California, U.S.
ProductsComputer storage
OwnersLenovo
Dell EMC
Number of employees
450 (in 2005)[2]

Iomega Corporation (later LenovoEMC)[3][4][5] was a company that produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah, United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system.[6] Formerly a public company, it was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2008, and then by Lenovo, which rebranded the product line as LenovoEMC, until discontinuation in 2018.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Executive Profile: Dave Bailey". Bloomberg. 28 July 2023. the lead Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Iomega Inc.
  2. ^ Iomega Corporation (2005). "Iomega:25 Years of Storage Technology Leadership". Today Iomega has approximately 450 employees
  3. ^ Martin Courtney (April 9, 2008). "EMC secures Iomega acquisition". Computing (UK). two previous bids .. were rejected
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  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference IomegaAccepts was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 21. St. James Press, 1998.
  7. ^ "History of Iomega Corporation – FundingUniverse". www.fundinguniverse.com.
  8. ^ Climpanu, Catalin (29 June 2020). "A hacker gang is wiping Lenovo NAS devices and asking for ransoms". ZDNET. Retrieved 26 January 2021.