Iomega Corporation, a Global Leader in Data Storage Products

The Iomega story began in 1979 at an IBM facility in Tucson, AZ, where four engineers came up with a radical new approach to an old problem: how to keep the read/write heads of a magnetic storage device from crashing into its rotating platter and causing data loss. IBM turned down their development proposal, believing it to be unworkable, so Tony Radman, Renee Radman, David Bailey and David Norton got permission to take their idea and form their own company. Iomega was born on April 2, 1980, and its crash-proof technology became the basis for the first signature Iomega product, creating the industry’s first high-capacity removable storage.