Noticias del Sector
20090501

Struggling electronics company Pioneer has outlined a number of ventures and investments as part of its plan to turn its business around and return to profitability. Losses at the company grew by more than six times to about ¥129 billion (US$1. 3 billion) in the financial year ended March 31, it said Tuesday, while sales dropped 28 percent to ¥558 billion. The company plans to concentrate on car electronics as its main business while continuing its home electronics activities in the audio/visual, DJ equipment and cable TV set-top box sectors. It has already said it will leave the plasma TV business. It will cut a further 9,800 jobs, including 5,800 full-time employees, as it closes nine of its 30 production companies around the world. Three of Pioneers five bases in Japan will be closed. Pioneer will develop car electronics with Mitsubishi Electric, including hardware and software for car navigation systems and other audio-visual systems for use in automobiles. The two companies have already worked together since 2002, and have codeveloped car navigation software. Pioneer has also agreed to form a joint venture with Shanghai A ...

The ribbons came off on OCZs latest solid-state creation yesterday. Dubbed the Z-Drive, the new solid-state storage device more resembles a videocard than your average flash-based, 2. 5-inch drive. Thats because the company is packing four of its Vertex SSD drives into a single enclosure, then connecting this RAID 0 of drives to your motherboard via a PCI Express x4 interface. Depending on the size of the Z-Drive, read and write speeds are expected to range from up to 450 MB/s and 300 MB/s for the companys 250GB offering to 500 MB/s and 470 MB/s on OCZs top, terabyte offering. OCZ splits the difference by offering a 500GB version of the Z-Drive as well. All three versions come with 256MB of onboard cache, a significant size given that conventional solid-state drives max out at 64MB. So how much will a four-drive array of SSDs set you back? OCZ hasnt released the pricing yet, bu ...

General Electric Global Research says it has figured out a way to put up to 500GB of data on a regular-sized DVD disc under laboratory conditions. GE says its breakthrough was achieved by writing 3-dimensional patterns that represent data onto a disc made of highly reflective material. The disc then acts as a mirror that makes it possible for a laser to pick up the entire piece of data. GEs process doesnt just put information onto the surface of the disc--as DVDs and CDs do--but etches the micro-holographic patterns below the surface of the disc as well. Holographic disc-based storage is a long ways off from consumers, but its potential has many in the storage community excited. Experts see micro-holographic players and discs over time has the potential of becoming a low-cost storage alternative to DVDs and Blu-ray discs. By comparison, the highest capacity Blu-ray discs can store up to 50GB of data, while the most common type of DVD holds less than 9GB of information. GEs eventual goal is to store up to 1 TB of data on the new disc format. GE says its micro-holographic technology is backward compatible - able to read CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. GE says it is eager to take its micro-holographic technology out of the lab and put it on store shelves. GE says its first step in that direction is to target data-intensive business customers like movie studios and medical researchers, but the eventual goal is to put micro-holographic players in the home. New Format, New Headaches, New Expenses? While GEs 500GB disc breakthrough sounds wonderful, will consumers be willing to shell out money for a new disc format. Some early adopters are still licking their wounds after the wake of the Blu-ray versus HD DVD format war. There may not be a micro-holographic format war on the horizon (thanks to reverse compatibility), but will anyone out there really want to invest in a new format in 2011 or 2012 when GE hopes to see consumer devices on the market? Theres also the question of whether there will be a big ...

Según un informe realizado por IDC España en los tres próximos años el modelo de software como servicio (SaaS) evolucionará progresivamente en el mercado hasta convertirse en un modelo de referencia frente al tradicional esquema de cliente-servidor, con una penetración del 18% triplicando, así, su implantación actual (6%) tanto en pequeñas y medianas empresas como en grandes corporaciones. Diario Ti: Con SaaS los usuarios pagan por el uso de servicios y aplicaciones accesibles a través de la red, evitando tener que comprar licencias o mantener su infraestructura de TI; mientras que el proveedor se encarga de la gestión tanto de la infraestructura como de las aplicaciones. Las ventajas que aporta este modelo son claras para el usuario: gestión descentralizada, pago por uso de un servicio 24x7, ausencia inversiones iniciales, actualizaciones automáticas, mejora de la productividad, ahorro de costes, etc. El informe, patrocinado por A3 Software, CETEL, Microsoft, NTT Europe Online, Sage y Telefónica, pone de manifiesto que un 89% de las empresas que usan SaaS lo hacen con un alto grado de fidelidad y continuarán usando el mismo modelo en el próximo año, así como que un 7% incluso ampliará su uso hacia nuevas aplicaciones. A corto plazo el uso de este modelo se acelerará especialmente cuando un mayor número de empresas apuesten por la inversión en el modelo. Según IDC, cuando la penetración alcance el 10%, el mercado entrará en un círculo virtuoso en el que un mayor número de usuarios reducirá los costes medios del proveedor generando economías de escala que permitan potenciar aún más el mercado, hasta alcanzar el 18% en 2012 previsto. Un mercado en expansiónLos factores que favorecerán la expansión de dicho modelo son la consolidación y ampliación de su uso entre los early adopters, la situación económica, las economías de escala a medida que aumente el número de empresas que implanten SaaS sus costes se reducirán y, por último, las referencias de los usuarios sobre sus beneficios especialmente el ahorro de costes, aumento de la productividad y la movilidad. Al contrario de lo que pudiera parecer, el entorno económico actual puede acelerar su adopción porque permite a las empresas acceder a nuevas capacidades sin tener que realizar un desembolso inici ...

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