1. a. Seagate technology
Seagate is one of the largest providers of hard disk drives in America, founded in 1979 by Alan Shugart, Tom Mitchell and Doug Mahon. Since releasing the 5 MB ST-506 drive in 1980, the first 5.25-inch hard drive, Seagate has been a leader in the development of the hard disk drives. Seagate products help more people to store, share and protect their valuable digital content. Usually, Seagate hard drives used in variety of computers such as servers, desktops and laptops, consumer devices such as digital video recorders, Sony’s PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s Xbox, Xbox 360 video game consoles, portable media players and automotive navigation systems. Seagate solutions are not just for businesses and system builders. Innovations such as Backup Plus family of products help everyone who wants to store, share and safeguard their most precious digital assets. Through technology leadership and innovation, Seagate helps businesses and individuals maximize the potential of their digital content in an on-demand world.
b. SanDisk Corporation
SanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. It was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory technology experts. SanDisk products enable users to capture, share, preserve, and enjoy a growing world of digital content. With removable memory cards in cameras, embedded memory in smartphones, powerful memory solutions in cloud storage data centers, and more, SanDisk powers users’ smart digital lifestyle.
SanDisk Corporation serves three high-growth mega markets-mobile, computing, and consumer electronics-each of which increasingly requires flash memory to deliver compelling benefits to consumers and businesses. The interesting product of SanDisk is SanDisk Ultra Memory Storage. Designed by an innovator of flash memory products, SanDisk Ultra memory cards, USB drives, and solid state drives deliver performance that’s twice as fast as comparable memory storage products. Ideal for casual memory users, these SanDisk Ultra cards and drives offer fast write speeds that let user snap photos quickly, record seamless Full HD video, and enhance the performance of users’ computer or mobile device.
c. Samsung Storage Devices
Samsung components are powering a wide range of network storage systems, including the popular home storage units that process an increasingly large amount of multimedia data for consumers. High in density, cost-effective, and reliable, Samsung logic and storage devices, including the industry’s quietest drives keep everything running smoothly inside. Samsung’s storage devices span the spectrum of solutions for saving users’ data, images, audio, and video files. It has a broad line of energy saving Hard Disk Drives, fast and efficient Optical Disc Drives, and leading-edge Solid State Drives ready for users’ application. Samsung’s drives support OEMs and consumers in desktop/notebook PCs, consumer electronics, enterprise storage and more.
Samsung award-winning Optical Disc Drives are designed for consumers that want speed, reliability, and style. Our internal drives are available in standard and slim heights and our external USB-powered drives are offered in a variety of colors. With built-in features link LightScribe™ and TruDirect™, optical storage has been easier.
d. Hitachi
Hitachi is a Japanese multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Hitachi divides its operations into seven segments of industry. There are Information Systems and Telecommunications (21%), Electronic Equipment (11%), Industrial Power Systems (26%), Digital Media & Consumer Products (13%), Component and Functional Materials (15%), Logistics and other services (10%), Financial Services (4%). Information Systems and Telecommunications (21%) consist of: system integration, outsourcing services, software, hard disk drives, disk array subsystems, servers, mainframe computers, PCs, LCD projectors, telecommunications equipment, and ATMs.
Hitachi Data Systems storage systems help users transform raw data into valuable information by making data more accessible and simpler to manage. As the leader in storage virtualization, only Hitachi offers a common, virtualized platform for all data and information. Hitachi Asia and HDS work together to offer a complete portfolio of storage systems, NAS subsystems and content platforms to optimally consolidate users’ storage infrastructure and provide best-in-class availability and performance to meet the needs of business applications.
2. Several Operating System
a. Microsoft Windows
PC: Microsoft Windows is a family of proprietary operating systems designed by Microsoft Corporation and primarily targeted to Intel architecture based computers, with an estimated 88.9 percent total usage share on Web connected computers. The newest version is Windows 8 for workstations and Windows Server 2012 for servers. Windows 7 recently overtook Windows XP as most used OS. Microsoft Windows originated in 1985 as an operating environment running on top of MS-DOS, which was the standard operating system shipped on most Intel architecture personal computers at the time. In 1995, Windows 95 was released which only used MS-DOS as a bootstrap. For backwards compatibility, Win9x could run real-mode MS-DOS and 16 bits Windows 3.x drivers. Windows Me, released in 2000, was the last version in the Win9x family. Later versions have all been based on the Windows NT kernel. Current versions of Windows run on IA-32 and x86-64 microprocessors, although Windows 8 will support ARM architecture. In the past, Windows NT supported non-Intel architectures.
Usages:
- Users can open more than one file at the same time
- Users can share data from other applications easily
- There are many applications that are compatible with windows
- It is easier to use because it is more user friendly than other OS
- Installing software is easier than other OS
- Many software developer are based on windows
- It has more drivers support hardware that easily recognized
- There are hundreds of GPL and Freeware offered for Windows
Server: Server editions of Windows are widely used. In recent years, Microsoft has expended significant capital in an effort to promote the use of Windows as a server operating system. However, Windows’ usage on servers is not as widespread as on personal computers, as Windows competes against Linux and BSD for server market share.
Mobile: Windows Mobile is a family of mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs. Windows Mobile is the predecessor of Windows Phone. In February 2010, Microsoft announced Windows Phone to supersede Windows Mobile, with the new operating system incompatible with Windows Mobile devices and software. As a result, Windows Mobile has been discontinued. The final version of Windows Mobile, released after the announcement of Windows Phone, was 6.5.5. Microsoft has stated that the Windows Phone operating system is incompatible with devices designed for Windows Mobile as “Windows Mobile 6.x devices do not meet Windows Phone hardware requirements designed to ensure a consistent user and developer experience”, and software designed for Windows Mobile is incompatible with the new operating system.
Usages:
- Most versions of Windows Mobile have a set of standard features such as multitasking and the ability to navigate a file system similar to that of Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT, with support for many of the same file types
- Internet Connection Sharing, an application that allows computers to share an Internet connection via USB or Bluetooth
Embedded: Windows Embedded is a family of operating systems from Microsoft designed for use in embedded systems. Microsoft makes available four different categories of operating systems for embedded devices targeting a wide market, ranging from small-footprint, real-time devices to point of sale (POS) devices like kiosks. Windows Embedded operating systems are available to OEM system builders, who make it available to end users preloaded with the hardware. It’s also available for students in www.dreamspark.com.
Usages:
- Windows XP Embedded supports the development of embedded devices and applications by providing solutions for common embedded scenarios.
- Windows XP Embedded provides tools to help users manage their run-time images.
- Embedded device disk volumes often require protection against improper disk write operations. Windows XP Embedded provides Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) as a solution for this scenario.
- Embedded OEMs can create a bootable CD-ROM when a run-time image is ready to be deployed.
- Windows XP Embedded supports remote booting by providing the Remote Boot service.
b. Mac OS
Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. Mac OS is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface. The original form of what Apple now calls OS X was the integral and unnamed system software first introduced in 1984 with the original Macintosh, and referred to simply as the System software.
PC: OS X originally Mac OS X, is a series of Unix-based graphical interface operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. It is designed to run exclusively on Mac computers, having been pre-loaded on all Macs since 2002. It was the successor to Mac OS 9, released in 1999, the final release of the “classic” Mac OS, which had been Apple’s primary operating system since 1984. The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop version, Mac OS X v10.0 “Cheetah” followed on March 24, 2001. Releases of OS X are named after big cats: for example, OS X v10.8 is referred to as “Mountain Lion”. OS X originally ran on PowerPC-based Macs. In 2006, the first Intel Macs had a specialized version of 10.4 “Tiger”. In 2007, 10.5 “Leopard” was the first to run on both PowerPC and Intel Macs with the use of Universal Binaries. 10.6 “Snow Leopard” was the first version of OS X to drop support for PowerPC Macs. Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” was the first version of OS X to drop support for 32-bit Intel processors and run exclusively on 64-bit Intel CPUs.
Usages:
- The human interface guidelines published by Apple for Mac OS X are followed by many applications, giving them consistent user interface and keyboard shortcuts. In addition, new services for applications are included, which include spelling and grammar checkers, special characters palette, color picker, font chooser and dictionary; these global features are present in every Cocoa application, adding consistency.
- In version 10.3, Apple added Exposé, a feature which includes three functions to help accessibility between windows and desktop. Its functions are to instantly display all open windows as thumbnails for easy navigation to different tasks, display all open windows as thumbnails from the current application, and hide all windows to access the desktop.
- Features introduced in version 10.4 include Automator, an application designed to create an automatic workflow for different tasks; Dashboard, a full-screen group of small applications called desktop widgets that can be called up and dismissed in one keystroke; and Front Row, a media viewer interface accessed by the Apple Remote.
Server: OS X Server, formerly Mac OS X Server, was a separately sold Unix server operating system from Apple Inc. architecturally identical to its desktop counterpart Mac OS X—with additional server programs and management and administration tools. As of version 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server were combined into one release and re-branded as OS X. A separate “server” operating system is no longer sold; the server-specific server applications and work group management and administration software tools from Mac OS X Server are now offered as Server App, an add-on package for OS X sold through the Mac App Store along with Server Admin Tools 10.7, available from the Apple support web site.These tools simplify access to key network services, including a mail transfer agent, AFP and SMB servers, an LDAP server, a domain name server, and others. Also included (particularly in later versions) are numerous additional services and the tools to manage them, such as web server, wiki server, chat server, calendar server, and many others.
Usages:
- It provides services and applications for file sharing, sharing contact information and calendars, schedule events, send secure instant messages, conduct live video conferences, send and receive email, contribute to and comment in wikis, publish a company-wide blog, produce and distribute podcasts, and set up websites.
Mobile: iOS (previously iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed and distributed by Apple Inc. Originally released in 2007 for the iPhone and iPod Touch, it has been extended to support other Apple devices such as the iPad and Apple TV. Unlike Microsoft’s Windows Phone (Windows CE) and Google’s Android, Apple does not license iOS for installation on non-Apple hardware. The user interface of iOS is based on the concept of direct manipulation, using multi-touch gestures. Interface control elements consist of sliders, switches, and buttons. Interaction with the OS includes gestures such as swipe, tap, pinch, and reverse pinch, all of which have specific definitions within the context of the iOS operating system and its multi-touch interface. Internal accelerometers are used by some applications to respond to shaking the device (one common result is the undo command) or rotating it in three dimensions (one common result is switching from portrait to landscape mode). iOS is derived from OS X, with which it shares the Darwin foundation, and is therefore a Unix operating system. iOS is Apple’s mobile version of the OS X operating system used on Apple computers.
Usages:
- The home screen (rendered by and also known as “SpringBoard”) displays application icons and a dock at the bottom of the screen where users can pin their most frequently used apps.
- A Spotlight Search function has been available on the leftmost page of the home screen page allowing users to search through media (music, videos, podcasts, etc.), applications, e-mails, contacts, messages, reminders, calendar events, and similar files.
- In iOS 4 or later and with a supported device, user can set a picture as the background of the home screen.
- In the iOS 5 update, the notifications feature was completely redesigned. Notifications collate in a window which can be dragged down from the top of the screen.
- Siri is currently only available on iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th generation, iPad 3rd generation and iPad 4th Generation. The service, directed by the user’s spoken commands, can do a variety of different tasks, such as call or text someone, open an app, search the web, lookup sports information, find directions or locations, and answer general knowledge questions.
Sources:
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a/News/Fourteen-reasons-to-use-Windows-Embedded/
http://www.hitachi.co.id/eng/products
en.wikipedia.org/
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