PERIPHERAL CONCEPTS, INC. - was formed in 1991. It specializes in market research and consulting in the industries related to Computer Mass Storage and Storage Management, with emphasis on the systems, the applications and the end user requirements. Its services include:

• Market Research, Studies, and Analysis
• Market, Strategic, and Business Planning
• Product and Market Development
• Analysis of End-User Applications and Solutions
• Competitive Analysis

PUBLICATIONS:

• Cost of Managing Storage in the PC LAN Environment
• Enterprise Data Management
• Backup and Archive in the PC LAN and UNIX Environments
• Cost of Managing Storage in the Midrange Environment
• Managing Network Storage
• Intelligent Storage Arrays
• Storage Area Networking - Infrastructure, Products, and Market Opportunities

CONFERENCES: Peripheral Concepts, Inc. sponsors the annual "Network Storage" conference in June in Santa Clara, California

CLIENTS: Include

• Adaptec
• ADIC
• Artecon
• ATL
• Compaq
• Computer Associates
• EMC
• Exabyte
• Groupe Bull
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• Intel
• Legato
• MTI
• Sony
• StorageTek
• Unisys

FARID J. NEEMA president of PERIPHERAL CONCEPTS, INC., has thirty five years of experience in the computer industry, half of which in the peripherals and the peripheral subsystems. He has held technical and management positions in the U.S. and in Europe. He was Chief Engineer at Honeywell Information Systems, Director of Product and Strategic Planning at Corporate Groupe Bull, and President and CEO of Bull Peripheral Corporation. As a representative to the Commission of the European Community in Brussels, Belgium, he chaired several Executive Strategic Committees and has consulted for the Commission as an expert on Peripheral Systems. He holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris, and a Master's Degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité in Paris, France.