This study uses the case study method to investigate how a start-up company in industrial PC ODM field makes the product line decision when the outcome does not meet the expectation on funding. Since the company A corp. which was formly a software company in Netword Attached Storage field merged a communication appliance business unit from a industrial PC manufactoror, it was expected to leverage the resources of both joint venture parties to create synergy in competing with the existing competitors. It is two years after funding the management is about to review the product lines ¡V hardware manufacture and storage system, to make the go/no go decision on the storage system product line. Regarding to the business factor, the case is described in terms of value propostion, value network, and resource and process of the company; For the business competition, competitors in both product lines are stated; And respective operation records are provided in making the decision.

As people’s lifestyle is changing and the cloud computing environment is spreading into our everyday life, more people want to create their own multimedia contents. Therefore, people need connection, interaction and larger storage space. On the other hand, technology is pursuing lean and reasonable capacity of storage. Even though NAS is not a new product concept, consumer’s recognition level of NAS is still low. The most important thing for the success of NAS is to enhance the market recognition first. To do so, a new type of marketing approach is needed which is different from the conventional one.

IP-surveillance systems are surveillance systems designed to send video and audio over IP-networks, to be able to function a typical system consist of IP-cameras to record footage, a client to view footage and recordings, network hardware to send the data, protocols to administer storage and viewing operations and last but not least a location to store the captured data. One of the options for storing surveillance video is to use a Network Attached Storage. Axis has received customer cases reporting lost footage and cameras losing their connection when using NAS-devices as storage in IP-surveillance systems. This thesis aims to investigate what a NAS is and how it interacts with cameras in an IP-surveillance environment by analyzing the protocols and components being used and by performing experiments to locate the system bottleneck causing these problems. After concluding that the hard disk drive was the bottleneck because of the overload imposed on the other components by the incoming data traffic and how data is moved and temporarily stored in a system. Recommendations of possible ways to remedy these problems were suggested with the proposed problem of solving the bottleneck problem was to add more disks to improve performance, this was the second aim of the thesis, which sadly was not possible because of the 2-bay NAS systems being used in the tests. The third and final aim was to establish and develop method guidelines for testing NAS-systems. This was done by using previous research in the area and using data encountered when trying to locate the bottleneck.

ITC/USA 2008 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Fourth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 27-30, 2008 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / A common concern in telemetry post-processing environments is adequate disk storage capacity to house captured and post-processed telemetry data. In today's network environments there are many storage solutions that can be deployed to address storage needs. Recent trends in storage systems reveal movement to implement security services in storage systems. After reviewing storage options appropriate for telemetry post-processing environments; the security services such systems typically offer will also be discussed and contrasted with other third party security services that might be implemented directly on top of a networked storage system.

Thesis (M.T.S.C.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2003. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105).

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