The acquisition falls under SanDisk's Sansa audio/video business unit.

The digital music player manufacturer's shares closed at $26.52 on Monday. Christie Rizk cr/pc

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MusicGremlin s digital distribution platform and capabilities will provide SanDisk with adaptive and innovative technology that will play a key role in the development of future Sansa products for consumers, said Daniel Schreiber, general manager and senior vice president for SanDisk s Sansa audio/video business unit.

Robert Khedouri, co-CEO and co-founder of MusicGremlin, will join the Sansa team as vice president of services.

SanDisk and MusicGremlin share a core passion for granting consumers easy access to digital content, said Khedouri. We re very pleased that MusicGremlin technologies will soon contribute to a new generation of Sansa products and services. We look forward to joining SanDisk in realizing our vision for the future of distributed media.

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HEADLINE -Frost & Sullivan: Need for Uninterruptible Power Supply Growing .TEXT According to Frost & Sullivan, increasing complexity of data centers and networks contributes to growing trend toward outsourcing of North American uninterruptible power supply (UPS) services.

The consulting firm found that UPS protection is vital for data centers and networks. Customers are overwhelmed by having to manage and control electrical systems in addition to managing networks. Issues such as heat, battery capacity and UPS uptime require constant supervision, and the transition to server consolidation and high-density data centers further aggravates this situation due to increased heat and power density.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, North American UPS Services Markets, finds the market earned revenues of $876.3 million in 2007 and estimates to reach $1.29 billion in 2014.

Revenues for UPS services are primarily driven by the number of installed UPS systems, which is expected to grow during the forecast period, said Frost & Sullivan Senior Consultant Farah Saeed. The growth of the installed base has been positively influenced by data center expansions and build-outs.

The analysis showed that revamped service offerings also increase the attractiveness of outsourced UPS services. A number of companies focus on addressing the entire physical infrastructure of data centers. Physical infrastructure consists of UPS, power distribution units (PDU), chillers, air handlers, pumps and other devices. As a direct result, companies have introduced, launched and marketed service programs that provide holistic solutions to address predictive faults, emergency and preventative maintenance issues.

In an increasingly competitive market, Frost & Sullivan noted, vendors are challenged by shrinking margins, rising raw material costs, market mergers and product commoditization. Consequently, vendors bundle services, such as breakdown maintenance, with UPS shipments and use them as a bargaining tool. This, in return, reduces revenue for UPS services.

Furthermore, there exists a oligopolistic competitive environment with the top four market participants controlling around 53.9 percent of the market, and the remaining market participants controlling less than 3 percent each, said Saeed.

Frost & Sullivan concluded that educating customers on the importance of maintaining uptime through acquired value-added services is important to gain revenue. Many UPS manufacturers resort to production of white papers on the difference between various UPS services and also collaborate with the media to educate end users about benefits of purchasing preventative maintenance contracts.

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, partners with clients to accelerate their growth.

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