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Around the world, new
technology grows and expands into a daily part of our lives.
The Internet and communication are two essential aspects of our lives today.
Technological advancements by companies such as Seagate, Cisco, and Sun,
strive to meet a demand
for new ideas and related digital solutions. As more technology is manufactured, a
steady demand to repair or replace parts on existing computer products
exists.
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Earlier this year Seagate, a popular
digital storage company, devoted the top of their home page to the "Free
Agent" product line. In late August 2007, Seagate continues to
convey the message using the same image/banner. One of Seagate's home
page
articles was titled "How Gamers Can Upgrade Their PS3 Drives". The
Sony PS3 gaming console features a Seagate LD25 series hard drive. The
article describes a 10 minute process to transfer existing game data
into a larger hard drive, ultimately enabling gamers to add video,
music, photos to the same console. Much of the content on their site is Terabyte-oriented. A Terabyte is a term used to measure digital storage
capacity. One Terabyte equals
1,000 Gigabytes. Seagate has created a whole new family of
terabyte-sized solutions. The Barracuda Desktop family of
hard drives has reached the terabyte benchmark with the 7200.11 series. In a recent podcast on podtech.net, Seagate's Marc Jourlait (VP of Global Marketing) was pointing out that this new family of drives actually cuts down the "Watts per Gigabyte"
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Featured products on Seagate.com 8/28/2007:
Laptop Drives
Seagate ST980825A
Seagate ST96023A
Seagate ST94015A
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Desktop Hard Drives
Seagate ST31000340AS
Seagate ST3750630AS
Seagate ST3750330AS
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This spring, Cisco was
promoting the Human Network, a forum that showed other people's testimonials
about new Cisco solutions. This summer, Cisco is advertising their
Human Network and their new Interaction Network using a
rotating banner. The Interaction Network is a new part of Cisco where you can
seek advice about business challenges etc. The resource is broken
down into 3 categories: Business, Technology, and Industries.
The available resources within the Interaction Network are geared to
organizations with existing and somewhat sophisticated networks. Cisco provides advice, via online video, on
"how to give your road warriors (remote and traveling employees) wireless connectivity from anywhere without
compromising network security or losing control". In addition to quality
content, a new
message was conveyed "Work Green" to suggest
WebEx services. WebEx enables companies to have shared
online conferences that include web, audio, and more. This
program is meant to enhance the characteristics of your company
during sales and team activities. Anyone in the
world connected to you with this program can see anything happening on
your desktop. This can come in handy for meetings, where some
people are not available to attend.
Under Cisco's Latest News section of their home page, 29 Aug 2007, was an article titled "A Unified and Collaborative Future".
This article is about Cisco and IBM joining forces to meet the business
demand for integrated communications and collaborative workspace. The article kicks off stating "Cisco and IBM have a long relationship created out of network synergy and built on collaboration". Bruce Morse, Vice President of
Unified Communication and Collaboration software at the IBM Software Group
later added that unified collaborative communication and workspace is in demand: "Although Cisco is a company that started in the networking business, they quickly understood that business solutions are a key part of the overall success". Bruce goes on to state "There's a, lot of people entering the workforce that grew up on the web using real-time collaboration tools like chat and video and social software like Wiki's and blogs".
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Featured products on Cisco.com 8/27/2007:
Optical Networking
Cisco ONS 15600 SONET/SDH MSSP
Cisco ONS 15500 Series Metro DWDM
Cisco ONS 15310-CL SONET MULTISERVICE Platform
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Cisco ASA 5500
Cisco PIX 515E
Cisco PIX 535
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Sun Microsystems previously featured an event called CommunityOne. This event showed people
to explore the open source possibilities. In Late August 2007, the company
has now dedicated 1/2 their page to a banner that read "Go Green, Save Green"
hardware campaign. The banner, a picture of a close up o a newly
sprouted plant being held by a pair of hands, is vivid with the color
green. Sun Microsystems claims their new Sun Fire Servers are "The world's first eco-responsible server: Triple the throughput, half the power,
half the size". In addition Sun is currently offering a Trade-In Program.
This program allows someone to obtain credit on purchase of a new
product in exchange for the customer's existing computer. Many
computer companies offer these types of programs. It keeps the
older computers out of landfills/dumps and provides parts that can be used
in supporting older hardware failures. What's left of the circuit board is shredded and processed to extract the
precious metals. Such metals include: gold, platinum, palladium, copper and silver. Sun will accept computers manufactured by the following companies: Sun, Dell, IBM, or HP systems. |
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Featured products on Sun.com 8/27/2007:
Servers
Sun Fire T2000 Server
Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems
Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Server
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Storage
Sun StorageTek 2500 Series
Sun StorageTek 9990V System
Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager (CAM) Software
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Similar programs have been
around and have been used by companies like IBM, Sony, Compaq, HP, and
National Service Solutions,
since the late 1980's and the early 1990's. This and other factors
contribute to the existence of a rather lucrative secondary hardware market. Secondary computer hardware
and 3rd party maintenance companies have in turn helped to spawn a new
sector of the computer industry known as the Online Computer Resellers.
Many Online Computer Resellers, Like Tamaya Tech, sell new hardware
and will also offer refurbished computer parts and repair services. |
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Servers, Storage Devices, and Network
Communication are an integral part of modern day society.
Industry leaders continue to develop technology with improved
performance and features. Generations of computer systems are
available. Parts and repair options are available for older
computers as well. New technology provides new solutions for the work
place and streamlines our lifestyles. |
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Sources |
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http://www.seagate.com., http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=cs_storage_swap_upgrade_ps3_hd_story, and www.podtech.net
(8/28/2007) |
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http://www.sun.com (8/27/2007), ehs-reuse.html, recycling_products.html |
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http://www.cisco.com (8/27/2007 And 8/29/2007), TechWiseTV episode 22 - 61:55 min., modified excerpt from a News@Cisco podcast interview and http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/hd_082907.html
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1st Hand - Written By The Trade Federation
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
(8/28/2007)
Graphic and photos by Trade Federation.
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