December 17, 2008
Seagate Is First Hard Drive Company To Achieve European Union's Authorised Economic Operator Status

Seagate has become one of the first companies – and the first hard drive company – to be certified as an Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) in the European Union (EU). This status means that customs authorities across the EU’s 27 member states will accept Seagate as a reliable and compliant operator and, as a result, the company will be able to benefit not only from simplifications provided for under the customs rules but also from facilitations with regard to customs controls relating to safety and security. AEO status will also give Seagate’s consignments priority at customs checks in the US and Asia. Seagate has achieved the most comprehensive level of certification; Full AEO or AEOF.

September 23, 2008
Seagate Launches i365™, A Seagate Company, Unifying Its Services Businesses Under New Operating Structure To Ensure Agility, Speed And Efficiencies In Going To Market

Seagate today announced a comprehensive rebranding of its EVault™, MetaLINCS™, and Seagate Recovery Services companies, which were operating as a division of Seagate under the name Seagate Services. Collectively these companies will now be formally known and unified as i365™, A Seagate Company. Under this operating structure i365 has the agility, speed and efficiency to meet customer data management needs with its software, software as a service (SaaS) and managed service solutions, while continuing to be backed by the resources of an industry-leading corporation.

August 27, 2008
Seagate Technology Announces Move To Nasdaq Stock Market

Seagate Technology announced that it will switch its stock exchange listing from The New York Stock Exchange to The Nasdaq Stock Market, an exchange of The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ), effective September 16, 2008. Seagate Technology will be listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market and trade on the exchange with the ticker symbol NASDAQ:STX.

July 21, 2008
Gold Medal Storage: Seagate To Provide Nearly Half A Million Gigabytes Of Storage For NBC's 2008 Olympic Games Coverage

The Seagate® Barracuda® ES Series has been selected as the hard drive of choice for the Omneon MediaDeck™ media servers and MediaGrid™ active storage systems that will enable NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to be held August 8-24. The media servers and storage systems will allow NBC to produce an unprecedented 3,600 hours of coverage during the Beijing Olympic Games – a three-fold increase over the coverage during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

July 3, 2008
£120 Million Investment Will Make Seagate's Derry Plant Global Technology Leader

Seagate Technology has announced a £120 million investment in its Springtown, Londonderry, plant, which will make it the global technology leader in the production of read-write heads for hard disc drives. The investment, which is expected to be completed in 2010, will go into new equipment, research and development, infrastructure and IT systems that will enable the factory to retain its position as the lowest cost and biggest producer of read-write heads in the world.

May 13, 2008
Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Laptop Hard Drives Earn National Security Agency Qualification for National Security Systems

Seagate Technology today announced that the National Security Agency (NSA) has qualified the Momentus® 5400 FDE.2 hard drive, the storage industry’s landmark self-encrypting laptop PC hard drive, for use in laptops and other computers deployed by U.S. government agencies and contractors for national security purposes.

With the NSA qualification, the Momentus 5400 FDE.2 hard drive meets one of the highest standards for securing sensitive information – the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy (NSTISSP) #11. NSTISSP #11 defines requirements for a wide variety of products that “satisfy a diversity of security requirements to include providing confidentiality for data, as well as authenticating the identities of individuals or organizations exchanging sensitive information.”

April 22, 2008
Seagate First to Ship 1 Billion Hard Drives; Expects Next Billion Within Five Years

Seagate Technology announced today that it is the first hard drive manufacturer worldwide to have shipped 1 billion hard drives – a number not only staggering in size but also emblematic of the massive amount of digital content being created in the home, hand, office, car and dozens of other markets. Consider this: the 1 billion hard drives Seagate has delivered equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music – and Seagate hard drives and storage solutions enable people to create, share, enjoy and protect more digital content every day.

March 12, 2008
Seagate Increases Commitment to Evolving Market Needs

Seagate Technology today announced organizational refinements that represent the next step in the company’s evolution to better serve both traditional and emerging storage markets.

Seagate has formed the Seagate Consumer Solutions division, which leverages the company’s current consumer electronics (CE) component relationships with the growing scale of its branded solutions business

February 25, 2008
Seagate Partners with Australia's Best Gamers to Prepare for World Cyber Games

Seagate Technology today announced it will sponsor this year’s World Cyber Games Australian Tournament by providing Barracuda® 7200.11 hard drives for all the gaming stations.

Featuring SATA interfaces and Native Command Queuing, the 7200 RPM drives are a perfect fit for the speed requirements of the official competition games and are able to deliver the processing performance required to play titles such as Gears Of War and Counter Strike 1.6, which contestants came up against during last year’s tournament.

February 19, 2008
Seagate Helps Top Chinese Photographers Capture Life at Beijing's National Olympic Stadium

Seagate Technology has recently provided Digi-life, one of China’s top photography and lifestyle publications, with its FreeAgent™ Pro digital storage solutions and Barracuda® 7200.11 desktop hard disc drives, in support of its Beijing Olympics photo shoot. Digi-life gathered together some of China’s most prominent photographers to take pictures of the new National Stadium, which will soon be opened to the public.

February 13, 2008
Seagate Further Extends Retail Reach in India with Customer-Friendly Direct Access Outlets in Emerging Cities

Seagate Technology announced today that it will collaborate with its channel partners to support a series of retail access points across several of India’s fast-emerging cities to address the country’s expanding market and customer needs.

The world’s leading manufacturer of hard drives and storage solutions aims to strengthen support for the digital storage needs of customers in cities such as Bhopal, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Madurai, Mysore, Nagpur and Visakhapatnam, which are currently experiencing an economic boom.

These retail access points will now bring new availability for Seagate’s industry-leading storage products to a broader range of consumers in burgeoning areas of India.

At these outlets, customers may browse and reference detailed information on Seagate’s comprehensive suite of products, and avail themselves of trained service staff that provide the opportunity for customers to address their queries in person.

This effort will expand the number of retail outlets in India from 40 today to approximately 100 by the end of 2008.

February 4, 2008
Seagate Technology Announces Dividend Increase and New $2.5 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization

Seagate Technology today announced that its Board of Directors has approved an increase in its quarterly dividend from $0.10 to $0.12 per share, effective with the dividend expected to be paid to shareholders after the conclusion of the company’s third fiscal quarter of 2008.

Additionally, the Board of Directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to an additional $2.5 billion of its outstanding common shares over the next 24 months. This new share repurchase authorization continues our commitment to enhancing shareholder value.

Seagate expects to fund the share repurchase through a combination of cash on hand, future cash flow from operations and potential alternative sources of financing. Share repurchases under this program may be made through a variety of methods, which may include open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, block trades, accelerated share repurchase transactions or otherwise, or by any combination of such methods. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased will depend on a variety of factors including the common share price, corporate and regulatory requirements and other market and economic conditions. The share repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time.

November 12, 2008
Seagate Unveils Latest Storage Solution For Small Business -- New Central Axis™ Business Edition Dual-Drive Network Storage Server

Seagate, the world leader in storage solutions, today introduced the Maxtor® Central Axis™ Business Edition dual-drive network storage server, a storage solution designed to satisfy the long-term business continuity needs and growing storage requirements of small businesses. The Central Axis Business Edition network storage server takes the guesswork out of network storage management by providing simple, automatic backup with solid data protection and secure remote access to business critical information from any web browser. Available in early November, this small-business network storage solution will help companies keep their competitive edge by delivering access to, and protection for their business critical information while in the office or on the road.

September 29, 2008
Seagate 500GB Notebook Hard Drives Power New Acer Notebook Computers With World's Highest Capacity And Speed

Seagate today announced that Acer, one of the world’s largest providers of notebook computers, is offering new mobile computers using Seagate Momentus® 5400.6 hard drives – a 500GB 2.5-inch HDD with the fastest data transfer rates in its class, designed to meet explosive worldwide demand for high capacity home and business notebook computers.

July 10, 2008
Seagate Powers Next Generation Of Computing With Three New Hard Drives, Including World's First 1.5-Terabyte Desktop PC And Half-Terabyte Notebook PC Hard Drives

Seagate today unveiled the industry’s first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives to meet explosive worldwide demand for digital-content storage in home and business environments.

The debut of the Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.

The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines proven PMR technology, components and expert manufacturing to provide 1.5TB of reliable storage for mainstream desktop computers, workstations, desktop RAID, gaming and high-end PCs, and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.

Seagate’s new 2.5-inch half-terabyte 5400- and 7200-rpm drives – Momentus® 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4 – deliver the best combination of capacity, mobility and durability for mainstream and high-performance notebook computers, external storage solutions, PCs and industrial applications requiring small form factor.

Highlighting the global growth of digital content, Seagate expects to ship its two billionth hard drive within the next five years. Earlier this year Seagate shipped its one billionth hard drive since the company’s inception nearly 30 years ago.

June 25, 2008
Seagate's New Central Axis™ Network Storage Makes Back Up And Access To Files Easier Than Ever

To address the growing consumer need for storage in the home, Seagate today announced the Maxtor® Central Axis™ network drive, a network storage drive that can be used by the whole family. This latest drive from Seagate provides a terabyte of storage that every computer in the home can back up to. In addition to media streaming capabilities for video, photos and music, the new Maxtor Central Axis network drive also includes an easy-to-use remote access service that allows people to easily and securely retrieve content stored on their network drive through any Internet browser.

To meet the growing demand for higher-capacity, more efficient enterprise storage systems, Seagate today introduced the Savvio® 10K.3 hard drive – the world’s highest-capacity, small form factor 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive built for the demands of enterprise servers and storage arrays. This latest generation of 2.5-inch drive offers 70% lower power and greater than 60% performance density over traditional 3.5-inch drives. As the only 10K-rpm 2.5-inch enterprise design backed by two prior generations of field-proven reliability, the Savvio 10K.3 drive leads the industry with 300GB of capacity, reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF, and an advanced SAS 2.0 (6Gb/sec data rate) interface. Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive is also the industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting enterprise drive with government-grade Full Disk Encryption (FDE) data protection.

At NCTA’s Cable Show, Seagate Technology announced it will introduce its Seagate® Showcase™ storage solution, a new series of products that extends the storage capacity of your Digital Video Recorder (DVR), so you never have to say goodbye to your favorite movies and television shows. Seagate also announced that the Showcase family of products will be designed to be compatible with Motorola’s market leading e-SATA capable high-definition (HD) digital video recorder (DVR) set-top portfolio.

April 7, 2008
Seagate Delivers World's First 1TB Drive with SAS Interface

Unprecedented performance along with improved data integrity over SATA, makes the Barracuda ES.2 SAS hard drive the ideal solution for expanding Nearline applications

Seagate today announced it has begun worldwide shipment of its 1 terabyte (TB) enterprise-class Barracuda® ES.2 hard drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. Applications addressing rich media content and collaborative applications like email can benefit from the average 135% performance boost over SATA-interface drives along with robust enterprise features and native compatibility.

Seagate Technology today introduced a new breed of hard drive, the Cheetah ® 15K.6 FDE (Full Disk Encryption) disc drive family, the world’s first self-encrypting hard drives for mission-critical servers and storage arrays. As part of the award-winning Cheetah family, the industry-standard in performance and reliability in data centers, the new Cheetah 15K.6 FDE hard drive now also encrypts data as well. And that encryption goes anywhere the hard drive goes – whether it is moved, stored, or retired.

Seagate has today announced a decision which will dramatically reduce its carbon footprint in Derry.

The company has switched from traditional electricity supply to environmentally friendly wind power, supplied by Airtricity, Ireland’s leading renewable energy company. Airtricity specialises in the development of onshore and offshore wind farms and currently has 24 wind farms in operation throughout Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland.

Going forward, the electricity required to run the massive Springtown plant will be 100 per cent renewable, reducing the site’s carbon footprint by 41,800 tons of carbon dioxide, which equates to 95 percent of the total carbon emitted each year by Springtown. The reduction is the equivalent to the carbon dioxide emitted by 4,500 households per year.

New Savvio® HDD uses 70% less power than competing 3.5-inch hard drives, and is a key component in Seagate's new Unified Storage™ architecture

Seagate today introduced the world’s fastest and greenest drive – the Savvio 15K.2 HDD, the new 15K-rpm addition to the Savvio family of 2.5-inch SAS 2.0 enterprise solutions. Savvio 15K.2 HDD delivers the industry’s highest hard drive performance and reliability as well as adding a self-encrypting drive option, all while maintaining Seagate’s industry leading, record low power consumption. The Savvio 15K.2 hard drive and the previously-announced Savvio 10K.3 hard drive are both part of Seagate’s new Unified Storage architecture which converges disk drive interfaces, form factors, and security features into a common best-of-breed platform for powerful, yet simple storage solutions. Together, Seagate’s Unified Storage architecture and the Savvio hard drive family improve manageability, integration, security and performance benefits for IT departments while ensuring business continuity with no compromise.

Later this week, business leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs from the U.S. and beyond will come together to address one of the biggest challenges of our time—developing business opportunities that are both environmentally sound and profitable. Presenting at the 2008 Sustainable Opportunities Summit in Denver will be Colorado Governor Bill Ritter and keynote speaker Jeff Kiehl, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.