Each quarterly report gives a lot of opportunities to manipulate the statistics, since the same results of operations may be different ways to present shareholders and investors. For example, Seagate company for the year, not only reduced the amount of hard drives issue, but also reduce the revenue from their sale. This has resulted in a reduction of personnel and the optimization of production capacity. But in terms of business capacity went up the hill. In fact, as the Seagate points out in an accompanying presentation, over the past five years, the capacity of hard drives for server applications grew by an average of 43% per year.
A year ago, a third of Seagate hard drives sold in the corporate sector, and the same share realized in the consumer sector, it is now the emphasis has shifted: 41% of production is delivered to corporate customers, and only 24% goes to ordinary consumers. Representatives of the company explained the need for such a movement to focus on more profitable segments of the market .
The creators of the "cloud" solutions, video surveillance systems, corporate clients - these are the consumers, which Seagate is now making a major bet. They will be required more and more capacious hard drives, which will be more difficult to create, but the company's management believes that the rate of profit in this segment will be a decent, justify all the risks and costs. Related Products :
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