Case Study: Seagate Technology streamlines global embedded firmware collaboration with Perforce P4

Seagate Technology streamlines global collaboration with Perforce P4 across 15 million daily transactions

Seagate Technology, a leading data storage manufacturer, faced a challenge in enabling efficient global collaboration for its embedded firmware development. Their design centers across Asia and the U.S. experienced significant lag time as they primarily collaborated through email. After evaluating numerous solutions, Seagate chose the Perforce P4 version control system to streamline this process.

The solution implemented by Perforce provided a platform for true multi-site development, uniting Seagate's global teams. This allowed the company to support its massive scale, conducting 15 million daily transactions and running 1,500 builds and hour. The Perforce P4 system reliably handles almost 1TB of data and thousands of custom hardware configurations, which was a critical factor over other tools like Git that do not scale as effectively for such massive development needs.

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