Industry Trends and Current Dynamics

Seagate and Plantronics is just a couple of the big name players in the heart of Silicon Valley today. Each of them meet the demands of certain niches in both the booming center of California and the rest of the world as well in emerging markets spread across from South America all the way to Asia Pacific. There is one thing that is common amongst these thriving companies of the Silicon Valley however, and that is excellence in their management of information technology at the respective companies. We are going to explore the finer details and glimpses inside these companies’ business models, structures, and strategies beginning with Plantronics.

Seagate is a leader in storage devices. Proving this is their company data that shows them having shipped more than 51 million drives since the first quarter of 2012. And with that, they have generated a revenue of $2.8 billion and counting.
This company provides all the solutions for storage that this rapidly growing tech industry throws out there from enterprises to desktops to mobile computing to whatever consumer electronics you can name. Specifically though, Seagate has been building hard disks, solid-state hybrids, and solid-state drives. With that said, they have managed to take over 29% of the entire market share in which they are competing in. This is astounding for any company to capture more than a fifth of the market in whatever field that they are in. This means that one in every five consumers in the storage industry now own a Seagate storage product.
If the earlier stated data does not convince you that this is a rapidly growing frontier company in storage solutions, then let the very number of employees they have employed deliver the punch line. 53,775 employees and counting. That’s about half of many cities in the United States