Aidan Higgins

The two we were most impressed with were Sean Carty's Connect Electronics, a tech hardware broker, and Aidan Higgins's Xnet, a storage company.
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Name: Aidan Higgins
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Started by Aidan Higgins and Kevin Moore in 1995, this small company has been steadily winning business based on its best-of-breed data storage solutions.
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Its other selling point, says Higgins, is service.He points out that Hitachi is the only company in the world to guarantee data availability -- it pays money to customers if data becomes unavailable on their disk system.This level of guarantee, says Higgins, is something Xnet's rivals can't offer.Other big partnerships include Veritas and Storagetec.

For all its attractions, the storage market was not the original target for Higgins who had worked as an IT business consultant for Philips and IT manager for Crown Equipment in Galway.

`Originally we had a look at the ISP market and came close to setting up, but found it difficult to find anyone who'd back us financially.The costs of entry into that business were very high.So we went into storage."

Higgins doesn't think that the sector is necessarily inherently profitable, despite the huge growth rates.

The two we were most impressed with were Sean Carty's Connect Electronics, a tech hardware broker, and Aidan Higgins's Xnet, a storage company.
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Name: Aidan Higgins
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Started by Aidan Higgins and Kevin Moore in 1995, this small company has been steadily winning business based on its best-of-breed data storage solutions.
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Its other selling point, says Higgins, is service.He points out that Hitachi is the only company in the world to guarantee data availability -- it pays money to customers if data becomes unavailable on their disk system.This level of guarantee, says Higgins, is something Xnet's rivals can't offer.Other big partnerships include Veritas and Storagetec.

For all its attractions, the storage market was not the original target for Higgins who had worked as an IT business consultant for Philips and IT manager for Crown Equipment in Galway.

`Originally we had a look at the ISP market and came close to setting up, but found it difficult to find anyone who'd back us financially.The costs of entry into that business were very high.So we went into storage."

Higgins doesn't think that the sector is necessarily inherently profitable, despite the huge growth rates.