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Around the world, new technology continues to intertwine with
many aspects of life. People create, store, and share their
digital experiences and data more than ever. Companies such as Seagate, Cisco, and Sun, continue to convey the connection between their products
to lifestyle and commerce.
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Seagate's roots stem
back to 1979. Over the years Seagate has played a significant role
in digital storage. Seagate had its first big success in 1980 with
a hard drive that could fit into a 5.25 form factor slot in computers.
By 1996 Seagate has secured a firm footing in the tape drive end of the
business by acquiring Conner Peripherals. The deal came with
rights to Archive Corporation as well. Tape drive solutions
have been popular back up solutions for enterprise level businesses.
Although the Tape Drive solutions did not produce as much for Seagate as hard drive technology, they produced a strong tape line.
Over the last 20 years many resellers and service providers have taken on support of Seagate tape drives.
Delta Peripheral Technologies
has found that companies are in need of tape drive support. Phil Tran, CEO of
Delta Peripheral Technologies, told Trade Federation "
Medium sized businesses and Fortune 500 companies rely on tape drives to restore critical data". Companies like Delta Peripheral
focus on providing replacement tape drives and cost affective repair options to corporations.
Currently,
Seagate continues to support enterprise businesses with storage products although they have definitely stepped up
their consumer line.
Back in 2007 The Red Hot Chili Peppers had endorsed Seagate's Free Agent product line as
a solid solution for the music industry.
FreeAgent is a portable desktop hard drive storage line. In 2008, Seagate's website features Director Yun-Chan Lee from Taiwan in an article.
By April 2008, FreeAgent contributed to a project across the water from
Taiwan. In China, FreeAgent played a role in documenting Olympic
preparation of the Bejing National Stadium. The man in charge of the documentation, Digi-Life editor-in-chief Lu Jing, could
relax according to an article featured on the Seagate home page.
Thus for the last two years, The FreeAgent storage solution has
been acknowledged to be a
foundational piece of many world class professionals and thier projects.
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Featured products on Seagate.com 4/15/2008:
Tape Drives
Seagate STU816001LW
Seagate CDL432LWF
Seagate STD624000N
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Portable Electronic Hard Drives
Seagate ST730212DE
Seagate ST760211DE
Seagate ST612712DEG
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In January 2008 Cisco began
the year by featuring a
new product on their site called TelePresence System 3000.
This product is perfect for real-time highly-populated meetings that could include
anything from dealing with customers
to discussing supply-chain issues. By mid-April 2008, Cisco featured a
banner titled Self-Defending Network. Cisco's suite of products is focused on
3 key areas: preventing data leakage, preventing data loss, defeating
botnets, and complying with regulations.
4 product lines were emphasized: Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks, Intrusion Prevention, and email/web security. . This astounding creation is aimed
at enterprises or chain businesses, but, it is also used for some small
businesses.
Cisco's testimonials section is also known as the Human Network.
Back in 2007, Cisco devoted a large rotating banner to new updates
related to
Thunder Sk8 company. Thunder Sk8 is a skateboard manufacturer based out of
Venice, California.
A video is hosted by Sean Adams, Product Development, from Thunder Sk8.
Sean and his professional skateboard team proceed to explain the benefits of Cisco's Smart Unified Business Communication solutions.
Sean Adams is able to communicate with Pro Skaters, in the field, to get rapid video updates on product quality.
In April 2008, Cisco boasts about their integral role in revolutionary
life saving technology. WeatherBug.com has built its real
time and location specific weather application on a Cisco backbone.
The article quotes Ken Jenne, sheriff of Broward County Florida.
Ken Jenne explained that officials of Broward county relied on
WeatherBug.com to better predict the path of Hurricane Wilma in
October 2005. The county was able to successfully and safely
evacuate citizens.
Cisco has also been making moves on their financial side of the
business.
As of February 15th, 2008
Frank Calderoni is the CFO of Cisco.
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Delta Peripheral Technologies
Tape Drive Repair
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Featured products on Cisco.com 4/16/2008:
Routers
Cisco 851
Cisco 857
Cisco 871
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Self-Defending Network
Cisco ASA 5500
Cisco IPS 4200
Cisco IronPort C-Series
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Eco-friendly Datacenters, based on the
carbon emission efficiencies, were at the top of the list for Sun Microsystems in early 2008.
By April 2008 Sun was focusing on database applications. Sun Microsystems traditional rotating banner typically switches between 3 different images that represent
a particular topic. This month, all 3 banners were related to MySQL data.
Sun was talking about Zmanda a radically simple backup solution
in one banner and the other 2 banners essentially took visitors to the
same location with one banner highlighting MySQL Community servers and Enterprise level subscriptions and
the other banner encouraging citizens of technology to Harness The Power.
Both of the banners were linked to a free MySQL database application download
page. The theme was
data-centric to say the least. This newer campaign was built upon a similar
data related topic back from January 2008. Sun recently reached a goal to cut carbon emissions from Datacenters. The
speakers explained, via podcast, how older Datacenters have been pinpointed as a key
component for energy saving and cost cutting changes.
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MySQL Community application
downloads and
optional Enterprise level subscriptions are enabling citizens of technology
and businesses to Harness The Power. MySQL is a
database application that supports a shared multi-user envirnoment for
your data. Sun spouts 60,000 downloads per day. MySQL can
run on Windows, Linux, Red Hat, Novell,
Solaris, and SCO operating systems. For those
that are technically inclined or have access to technical
resources, the MySQL application is FREE. Sun adds value to
business users by offering Enterprise level support. Support
includes updates, alerts, custom code reviews, and support tickets with
varying response times. Enterprise level support ranged from
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Zmanda... ...A
Radically Simple Backup Solution. Zmanda is an open source backup application. In
particular, the strength of this application is in its capability of
backing up and restoring MySQL databases. This application
includes the ability to schedule backups, encryption security, hot
backups, remote backups, and even email notification options.
Zmanda and other Sun software solutions are supported by
Independent Software Vendors certified through the Sun Partner Advantage
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Featured products on Sun.com 2/15/2008:
Servers and Disk Storage
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server
Sun Blade T6320 Server Module
Sun StorageTek 2530 Array
Sun StorageTek 5320
Sun StorageTek 5220
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Tape Storage
Sun StorageTek SL8500
Sun StorageTek SL24
Sun StorageTek SL48
Sun StorageTek T9940B
Sun StorageTek T9840C
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As you can see, three major computer companies
have brought the technology worldinto everyday life. Seagate connects the music world with storage devices.
Cisco brings internet resources to skaters and weather-afflicted communities. Sun connects businesses with technology solutions which will take them to the next level.
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Sources |
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Written By Philip Dominguez
Wikipedia.org
Seagate 4/9/2008
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc April 2008, Cisco/WeatherBug Article 4/16/2008 |
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Harness The Power of MYSQL Article
Sun published 4/15/2008.
Sun
MySQL Download 4/21/2008
http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2008-0102/feature/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2008jan02_lookahead_read |
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China Article April 2008, Seagate.com 4/09/2008
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Trade Federation Article: Direction of the Computer Industry 2008, published February 2008
Trade Federation Article: Direction of the Computer Industry August 2007, published Aug 2007
Trade Federation Article: Direction
Of The Computer Industry For 2006, published Sept 2006
Trade Federation Article: Direction
Of The Computer Industry For 2005, published Jan 2005
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