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Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) is a major American manufacturer of hard drives, founded in 1979 and based in Scotts Valley, California. The company is registered in the Cayman Islands. Their hard drives are used in a variety of computers, from servers, desktops, and laptops to other consumer devices such as digital video recorders, the Microsoft Xbox and the Creative Zen Micro line of digital audio players. Seagate is the world's largest computer hard disk manufacturer and the oldest independent hard disk maker still in operation. Image File history File links Seagate_logo. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Alan Shugart (b. ... â€œChief executiveâ€ redirects here. ... Stephen J. Luczo (also known as Steve Luczo) is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Seagate Technology. ... A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Dr. Mark Kryder is Seagate Corp. ... A chief technical officer or chief technology officer (abbreviated as CTO) is an executive position whose holder is focused on scientific and technical issues within a company. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... The ST-506 was the first hard disk intended for use specifically on microcomputers, introduced in 1980 by Seagate Technology. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... Scotts Valley is an elite suburb community of Santa Cruz located in central, Santa Cruz County, California. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 kmÂ²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ... This article is about the machine. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A personal computer (PC) is a computer whose price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals. ... An ultraportable IBM X31 with 12 screen on an IBM T43 Thin & Light laptop with a 14 screen QWERTY keyboard on 2007 Sony Vaio laptop A laptop computer, or simply laptop (also notebook computer or notebook), is a small mobile computer, which usually weighs 2-18 pounds (1-6 kilograms... Foxtel IQ, a digital video recorder and a satellite cable set-top box. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... The ZEN is an award-winning line of digital audio players and portable media players made by Creative Technology. ... Apple iPod, the best-selling hard drive-based player An embedded hard drive-based player (Creative ZEN Vision:M) An MP3 CD player (Philips Expanium) The Eiger Labs MPMan F10, the first digital audio player A digital audio player (DAP) is a device that stores, organizes and plays audio files. ...

History

Early history

Seagate Technology was founded (under the name "Shugart Technology") by Alan Shugart (back from a sabbatical after getting pushed out of Shugart Associates) and Finis Conner; their first product (released in 1980) was the ST-506, the first hard disk to fit the 5.25" form factor of the (by then famous) Shugart "mini-floppy" drive. The hard disk was a hit, and was later released in a 10-megabyte version, the ST-412. Seagate's history is filled with dramatic boom and bust cycles that typify the hard disk business. Alan Shugart (b. ... A sabbatical year is a prolonged hiatus, typically one year, in the career of an individual taken in order to fulfill some goal, e. ... Shugart Associates was a computer peripheral manufacturer, famous for introducing the floppy disk to the microcomputer market. ... The ST-506 was the first hard disk intended for use specifically on microcomputers, introduced in 1980 by Seagate Technology. ...

In the early 1980s Seagate secured a contract as a major OEM supplier for the IBM XT, IBM's first personal computer to contain a hard disk. The volumes were large as IBM was the dominant supplier of PCs at the time and fueled Seagate's early growth. IBM was a fickle buyer and abruptly reduced its purchases from Seagate and began purchasing from other suppliers such as Miniscribe, IMI and others, creating financial havoc for Seagate. Seagate responded by establishing a powerful distribution channel that supplied hard disks for the millions of PCs hungry for hard disk storage. This was the first of many examples of Seagate turning a pending financial disaster into a huge success. Original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, is a term that refers to a situation in which one company purchases a manufactured product from another company and resells the product as its own, usually as a part of a larger product it sells. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... IBM redirects here. ... MiniScribe was a manufacturer of disk storage products, founded in Longmont, Colorado in 1980. ... IMI is a three letter acronym. ...

Through the 1980s, Seagate mainly sold simple hard disks which suited the price conscious distribution channel well. These devices were derivatives of (and improvements upon) the original ST-506 design; the ST-225 20 MB disk and ST-251 40 MB disk were the biggest sellers of this age, though they also sold faster hard disks that used voice coil technology. Because of this, Seagate disks were sometimes referred to as cheap and unreliable, a reputation not entirely undeserved because of the 225's and 251's usage of stepper motors to position the heads. However, Seagate disks were usually held in better regard than their competition (mainly MiniScribe, but also Microscience, Rodime, Tandon and Kalok). Seagate finally abandoned stepper motor designs in the early 1990s; the ST351A/X, an oddball 40 MB drive that could run on either an ATA or XT Attachment bus, was Seagate's last product to use a stepper. A voice coil is the coil of wire attached to the apex of the moving cone of a loudspeaker. ... The top electromagnet (1) is charged, attracting the topmost four teeth of a sprocket. ... MiniScribe was a manufacturer of disk storage products, founded in Longmont, Colorado in 1980. ... Kalok was a hard disk drive manufacturer which went bankrupt in 1994. ... ATA connector on the left, with two motherboard ATA connectors on the right. ...

Finis Conner left Seagate in early 1985. After one failed attempt to start his own company, and also briefly serving as CEO at CMI (Computer Memories Inc.), in 1986 he founded Conner Peripherals, which originally specialised in small-form-factor drives for portable computers. Conner Peripherals also entered the tape drive business with its purchase of Archive Corporation. After ten years as an independent company, Conner rejoined Seagate in a 1996 merger. Computer Memories Inc. ... Conner Peripherals was a company that manufactured hard drives for personal computers. ... Archive Corporation was a computer tape drive manufacturer, based in Costa Mesa, California that was acquired by Conner Peripherals in 1993. ...

In 1989, facing increased competition and margin pressure, Seagate turned another challenging financial situation into success by making an important and strategic acquisition of Control Data's MPI/Imprimis disk storage division. Seagate management had always believed that vertical integration of key components such as heads and disks was crucial for the long term survival of the company in the face of competition from deep-pocketed competitors such as IBM and certain Japanese suppliers. This move gave Seagate access to CDC's voice coil and disk-manufacturing patents, and importantly a competitive advanced head development capability. As well, the purchase provided access to a high end server customer base and the first 5400 RPM drives on the market (the CDC Elite series). Seagate quickly began to leverage vertical integration across its entire product line and once again became a dominant force in the business. Control Data Corporation, or CDC, was one of the pioneering supercomputer firms. ... IBM redirects here. ...

1990s–2000s

In 1992, Seagate introduced the Barracuda, the industry's first hard disk with a 7200 RPM spindle speed. The company followed this with the Cheetah (the first 10,000 RPM disk) in 1996 and the X15 (15,000 RPM) in 2000. Seagate also introduced the Medalist Pro 7200 range, the first ATA disk with a 7200 RPM spindle, in 1997. As of 2005, Seagate started an innovation called the "pocket hard drive". Seagate has the highest areal density (number of bits stored per square inch) in the industry. The pocket hard drive is a higher capacity variant of the flash drive. ...

In the mid-to-late 1990s, Seagate management began to acquire storage software companies, believing that the relentless pressure on disc drive margins could be cushioned by diversification into software. The investment paid off as Seagate eventually sold its software division to Veritas and became one of the largest Veritas shareholders. Veritas stock soared and Seagate was able to convert its investment into much desired cash.

On December 21, 2005, Seagate confirmed the acquisition of rival HDD firm Maxtor. The all-stock deal was worth $1.9 billion. The firms said the combination will be 10-20% accretive on a cash EPS basis after the first full year of combined operations. The combined company will save around $300 million in operating expenses after the first full year of integration, Seagate said. The transaction was completed in May of 2006. is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Maxtor Corporation was an American manufacturer of computer hard disk drives founded in 1982 and acquired by Seagate in 2006. ...

Corporate affairs

Seagate was traded for most of its life as a public company under the symbol “SGAT” on the NASDAQ system, then moved to the NYSE system under the symbol “SEG” in the 1990s. In 2000, the company was taken private by an investment group composed of Seagate management, Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group in a 3-way merger-spinoff with Veritas Software; Veritas merged with Seagate, which was bought by the investment group. Veritas was then immediately spun off to shareholders, gaining rights to Seagate Software Network and Storage Management Group (with products such as Backup Exec), as well as Seagate's shares in SanDisk and Dragon Systems. Seagate Software Information Management Group was renamed Crystal Decisions in May 2001. Seagate re-entered the public market in December 2002 on the New York Stock Exchange as STX. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... Silver Lake Partners is a notable American private equity firm founded in 1999 and headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. ... The Texas Pacific Group (commonly referred as TPG) is a private equity investment firm founded by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price in 1993. ... VERITAS Software Corp. ... Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Severs, formerly Veritas Backup Exec, is backup software for Microsoft Windows environments. ... SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), formerly SunDisk, is an American multinational corporation which designs and markets flash memory card products. ... Dragon Systems, Inc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ...

Research and development

Seagate's research and development wing is called Seagate Research. It was established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in August 1998. On September 11, 2006, Seagate won the Technology Design Award for its "Hard-disk recording technology that dramatically increases the amount of information that can be stored on a single disk".^[2] The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of scientific research and technological development. ... â€œPittsburghâ€ redirects here. ... is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Antecedents

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Timeline of notable events

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Recognition

In December 2006 Seagate's Barracuda 750GB hard disk was 9th in PC World's 'The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year' ^[9] PC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services. ...

Competitors

Western Digital Corporation (NYSE: WDC) (often abbreviated to WD) is a manufacturer of a large proportion of the worlds hard disks, and has a long history in the electronics industry as an IC maker and a storage products company. ... Samsung Group is one of the largest South Korean business groupings. ... Hitachi may refer to: Hitachi (train) trains in Melbourne, Australia. ... For the district in Saga, Japan, see Fujitsu, Saga. ... Toshiba Corporations headquarters (Center) in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo Toshiba Corporation sales by division for year ending March 31, 2005 Toshiba Corporation ) (TYO: 6502 ) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ...

References

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