{"id":412,"date":"2011-05-23T09:16:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:58:25","slug":"rimage-plans-to-play-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/rimage-plans-to-play-in-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rimage Plans to Play in the Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this weekend in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune an interesting article about one of our important vendors &#8211; Rimage Corporation of Edina, Minnesota.\u00a0I have used and sold Rimage thermal disc printers and duplicators for over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The article talks about Rimage&#8217;s\u00a0plan to grow their business into &#8220;the cloud.&#8221; It also states that some of Rimage&#8217;s shareholders are not impressed with\u00a0these plans as many prominent companies are already in this space &#8211; IBM, HP, VMware, Amazon, SalesForce.com, etc. These same investors want Rimage to return a large part of the $109 million in cash to their shareholders in the form of a special dividend.<\/p>\n<p>Rimage management has other ideas like using this large cash position to invest and diversifying away from physical disc media into secure digital publishing in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this new direction plays out. We wish them the best.<\/p>\n<p>Techware specializes in using, repairing, selling and renting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rimage Everest auto-printers, PrismPlus printers, 8100 and 7100 disc duplicators<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this weekend in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune an interesting article about one of our important vendors &#8211; Rimage Corporation of Edina, Minnesota.\u00a0I have used and sold Rimage thermal disc printers and duplicators for over 10 years. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/rimage-plans-to-play-in-the-clouds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}