On top of that, it is also expanding its relationship with Yandex, the Google of Russia, to pull images from Yandex's search engine and its cloud storage product, Disk, into Cooliris.
Iomega's chief executive, Jonathan Huberman, said the deal was intended to give the company leverage both in the Chinese market, where it is not currently active, and to use the Iomega brands to sell a variety of Chinese-made products beyond disk drives.
After complete hydration of the product, the disk simulating the surface of the orthopaedic implant under study was placed on an analytical balance to a weight of 200 mg (10% tolerance) of gel.
He said a number of products, known as disk wiping utilities or disk erasers, would do the job.
For its part, Silver Lake is betting that the corporate winners will include Flextronics, a contract manufacturer of computers, cellphones and other products; Seagate Technology, a disk drive maker; Gartner Inc., the technology research firm; and Ameritrade, the online broker.
"If you look at our marketing material right back to the IPO days we were saying that ARM technology is applicable to a wide range of products - TVs, disk drives and cars," says Mr Brown.
Mr. Nuccio sells some compact-disk products, and he said his company faced constant pressure from customers to cut prices.
Besides giandujotti, his signature products include "amarissimi," disks of bitter chocolate mixed with ground cocoa nibs, and nubs of chocolate-coated ginger.
Overall revenue from storage products including hard disks fell.
The Disk product is a simple online storage tool, similar to many we've profiled in the past.
Yandex currently accounts for about 65percentt of Russia's search market, and its Disk product rivals Dropbox, with about half of the several million files uploaded daily to Disk photos and graphics, according to Yandex.
