The Savvio From Seagate – World’s Highest Capacity Enterprise Storage

Seagate has done it yet again. The Scotts Valley, California headquartered company has come out with the world’s highest-capacity enterprise hard disk drive in the enterprise storage category. The Savvio 10K.4 can hold 600GB worth of data.

Savvio 10K.4 measures 14.8mm (H) X 70.0mm (W) X 100.2mm (L), and weighs 208g. It has a spindle speed of 10,000 RPM, and a sustained data transfer rate of 141 Mb/s. The average latency time is 3.0 ms. Savvio requires a random seek time of 3.89 ms and a random write time of 4.54 ms, to operate an overall I/O data transfer rate of 600 MB/s.

Savvio 10K.4 has an interface of 6 Gbps SAS, and a cache of 16MB. With a reliability of 2 million hours of MTBF, the annual failure rate is estimated to be about 0.44%. Savvio requires a 12V start max current of 1.65A and 5V start max current of 0.86A. The average idle power requirement is 4.6W.

The device’s firmware comes with enhanced data protection features such as a self-encrypting drive (SED) option.

Read more about a new height achieved by Seagate in the arena of storage media, here.

Adobe Posts Q1 2010 Results

San Jose, California-headquartered Adobe Systems Inc has announced its financial results for Q1 2010 that ended March 5, 2010.

The company has posted revenue of USD 858.7 million for Q1 2010, which is 9% more than the revenue posted for Q1 2009 (USD 786.4 million). The GAAP operating income was USD 176.8 million, compared to USD 207.9 million achieved in Q1 2009. This works out to 20.6% of the first quarter revenue. The GAAP net income computation yielded USD 127.2 million, which is less than the USD 156.4 million reported in Q1 2009. The diluted EPS for Q1 2010 was USD 0.24, which has been computed based on 532.6 million weighted average shares. This compares well with the GAAP diluted loss per share of USD 0.06 for Q4 2009, computed based on 532.0 million weighted average shares.

The company is targeting revenue of USD 875 million for Q2 2010, with an operating margin of 21% to 24.5% on a GAAP basis. The company is banking on its flagship products of Flash Player and Creative Suite to see it achieve these figures, according to the press release.

Read more about the surge in business earnings reported by an IT biggie, here.

NEC, Casio And Hitachi To Form New JV Company

The mobile terminal business is in for a shake-up. With effect from May 1, 2010, a new company is coming into existence. This company is called NEC Casio Mobile Communications Ltd (NCMCL).

The new company will have its headquarters in Kawasaki City in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan, and will be housed in the NEC Tamagawa plant. The company will begin its innings with a capital of JPY 1 billion. The shareholding pattern of the investors in the new company is as follows: NEC – 66%, Casio – 17.34% and Hitachi – 16.66%. By the end of June 2010, one round of capital increase will take place, through which the new capital will become JPY 5 billion. After this increase, NEC will come to hold 70.74%.

For the JV company, NEC and NCMCL have signed a corporate spin-off contract. A merger agreement between NCMCL and Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co Ltd (CHMC) has been signed whereby NCMCL will completely integrate NEC’s Mobile Terminal Operations Unit with CHMC. This integration includes the unit’s sales, development, manufacturing and maintenance strengths.

Mr Koji Yamasaki, Executive GM of the Mobile Terminal Operations Unit of NEC will be the new company’s President.

Read more about the latest alignments and alliances in the mobile terminal domain, here.

Microsoft Reworks Virtualization Technology Offerings

Redmond, Washington-headquartered Microsoft Corporation has announced that it is reworking its strategy for virtualization technology. The company has entered into an alliance with Fort Lauderdale, Florida-headquartered Citrix Systems Inc for this purpose.

Microsoft is offering new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promotions to qualified customers. VMware View customers can trade in up to 500 licenses and obtain the same number of Microsoft VDI Standard Suite subscription and Citrix XenDesktop VDI Edition annual licenses free of cost, under the “Rescue for VMware VDI” scheme. This scheme is detailed further here: http://www.citrixandmicrosoft.com.

From July 1, 2010, Windows Client Software Assurance customers now can access Windows OS in a VDI environment without having to go for a separate license for the virtual access. Further, they are now free to access Microsoft products such as the OS and Office applications hosted on VDI technology on any secondary, non-corporate network device such as home PCs and kiosks.

In a further simplification of virtualization technology, Windows XP Mode has been freed from the hardware underlying VDI. This means that small / midsize businesses can migrate to higher versions of Microsoft’s OS (such as Windows 7) and still continue to run XP-based apps.

Read more about the strategic changes being made by Microsoft in this sunrise industry, here.

Dell Launches Precision M4500, A Mobile Workstation

A new mobile workstation has been rolled out by Round Rock, Texas-headquartered Dell Corporation. The workstation is called M4500, and is touted by the company as the most powerful in the world in its category.

The M4500 is targeted at professionals such as creative artists, designers, simulators, animators, engineers and research scientists. It is also expected prove useful to users from government defense who need to work in the field and yet have adequate security such as authentication and data encryption.

A salient feature of the workstation is that it is built upon Intel Core i7 processor (Extreme Edition). The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 graphics card is embedded in the system by default. It is the first mobile workstation in the industry with this level of power. Dell is offering the M4500 with the other options of Intel Core i7-920XM Quad Core processor Extreme Edition and Core i5 processors, and NVIDIA FX880M for the graphics.

The M4500 is optionally offered with a 3MP camera and Gobi 2.0 mobile broadband support.

The mobile workstation also comes with an optional SSD minicard for additional data storage.

Read more about the latest launch of computing gizmo from Dell, here.

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