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Liz Conner
Senior Research Analyst, Storage Systems, Personal Storage, and Disk Storage System Tracker

Liz Conner is a Senior Research Analyst with IDC’s Storage Systems and Personal Storage teams. In this role, she conducts in-depth research and analysis for IDC's Storage Systems team as well as provides quarterly quantitative data of the disk storage systems market in the form of the Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. In addition, Ms. Conner is the co-lead for IDC’s Personal Storage research, focusing on tracking quarterly shipment, forecasting the market and providing comprehensively market research.

Prior to joining IDC, Ms. Conner was a cost analyst for Tecolote Research, where she focused on product life-cycle cost estimates for the Department of Defense.

Ms. Conner earned an M.A. in Applied Economics from Binghamton University and a B.A. in Economics from The College of Wooster in Ohio.


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Seagate Announces Intent to Acquire LaCie
Liz Conner
May 2012 - Doc # lcUS23506912      IDC Link
On Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Seagate Technology announced its intent to acquire the controlling interest in external personal storage maker LaCie. Seagate intends to purchase the controlling interest from LaCie's chairman and CEO, Philippe S ...

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Storage News: Period Ending May 17, 2013
Natalya Yezhkova, John Rydning, Jeff Janukowicz, Liz Conner, Amita Potnis, Robert Amatruda, Eric Sheppard, Ashish Nadkarni, Zina Ashkouri
May 2013 - Doc # 241208      Update
This IDC update includes these stories and more::
  • Seagate Unveils Complete SSD Product Line
  • Xyratex Introduces ClusterStor 1500
  • WD and SanDisk Team Up
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    Storage News: Period Ending April 29, 2013
    Natalya Yezhkova, John Rydning, Jeff Janukowicz, Liz Conner, Amita Potnis, Robert Amatruda, Eiji Sasahara, Ph.D., Ashish Nadkarni, Zina Ashkour
    Apr 2013 - Doc # 240919      Update
    This IDC update includes vendor financial results as well as these stories and more::
  • WD Debuts Its 5mm 2.5in. Hard Drive
  • Fusion-io Acquires NexGen Storage
  • Exablox Exits Stealth Mode
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    Appearances

    Storage Industry Transformation: Convergence, Cloud and Scale-Out
    Framingham, MA United States
    January 29, 2013

    IDC Predictions 2013: SMB - Impact of Changing Priorities, Preferences, Challenges
    United States
    January 24, 2013

    Trends in the Personal & Entry Level Storage Market
    Framingham, MA United States
    March 27, 2012

    IDC Predictions 2012: SMB - Shifting Priorities Will Mean New Opportunities/Challenges for Technology Providers
    Framingham, MA United States
    January 19, 2012