Seagate Tops 1 Million Mark in Shipments of Self-Encrypting Hard Drives for Laptop PC’s and Data Center Servers
14 Febbraio 2011 - 1:59PM
Business Wire
Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced that it has shipped more
than 1 million self-encrypting laptop and enterprise hard drives.
Sales of the Seagate® hard drives with built-in encryption continue
to surge as more computer makers offer the drives to protect
against unauthorized access to sensitive data, more independent
software vendors team up with Seagate to provide the management
capabilities required for company-wide installations of
self-encrypting laptop PCs, and more of the drives win U.S.
government certifications:
Seagate's Cheetah Self-Encrypting Drive
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- Six original equipment manufacturers –
Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, LSI and Network Appliance – now offer
products powered by Seagate enterprise self-encrypting drives
(SEDs). All told, Seagate now ships 24 products in a family of
enterprise drives that includes Savvio®, Cheetah®, Constellation®
ES and Constellation® SEDs.
- Dell, Lenovo and Panasonic are shipping
or qualifying standard-sized or thin laptops with Seagate Momentus®
and Momentus® Thin SEDs as optional features.
- Seagate’s independent software vendor
(ISV) partnerships have grown to include security leaders Credant,
McAfee, Mobile Armor, Secude, Softex, Symantec, Wave Systems and
WinMagic. With management software from these providers,
organizations can easily and affordably manage and protect
encryption keys and passwords to simplify deployments of Momentus
and Momentus Thin SEDs.
- Seagate’s family of Savvio, Cheetah,
Constellation and Momentus SEDs have secured FIPS 140-2
certification from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST). This key government certification clears the way
for deployments of Seagate self-encrypting drives by all U.S. and
Canadian federal agencies, many state and local governments, and
regulated industries such as healthcare, finance and defense
required to use FIPS-certified gear to help protect sensitive data
on PCs and computer networks and in data centers. The Seagate
laptop and enterprise hard drives are the first with native
encryption to earn the FIPS certification.
- Dell and Panasonic now offer laptops
featuring FIPS-certified Momentus SEDs.
- Several major original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) are now qualifying Momentus SEDs that are
compliant with the Trusted Computing Group’s Opal specification.
The Trusted Computing Group, an international body that promotes
open standards for computer security, issued the Opal specification
in 2009. The specification is focused on enabling the ecosystem for
self-encrypting drives and increasing their adoption.
- Seagate enterprise SED shipments have
tripled over the past two quarters, while the company’s laptop SED
shipments have doubled in each of the past three years.
“Companies and government organizations worldwide increasingly
are securing confidential information on self-encrypting hard
drives, recognizing that this commonsense yet powerful approach
simplifies the deployment of security for data at rest,” said
Charles Kolodgy, research director of security products for analyst
group IDC. “As storage and security continue to converge, solutions
like Seagate’s self-encrypting hard drives are leading the way by
providing organizations with the strong, easy-to-use security they
need to protect their data assets.”
Seagate® Enterprise Self-Encrypting Drives Deliver
Government-Grade Security
Seagate offers a full lineup of enterprise SED options within
its Savvio, Cheetah, and Constellation families. Strong enough for
national security, yet easy enough for the one-person IT
department, Seagate enterprise SEDs simplify decommissioning and
preserve hardware value for returns and repurposing by eliminating
the need to overwrite or physically destroy the drive, securing
warranty and expired lease returns, and enabling drives to be
repurposed securely.
Laptop Lockdown with Momentus® Self-Encrypting Drives
Momentus® SEDs give organizations of all sizes a simple,
cost-effective way to protect against unauthorized access to data
on notebook PCs and a powerful tool for complying with the growing
number of data privacy laws calling for the protection of consumer
information using government-grade encryption. The AES encryption
chip in the Momentus SEDs automatically and transparently encrypts
all drive data, not just selected files or partitions. The 2.5-inch
drive also eliminates disk initialization and configuration
required by encryption software, allows IT administrators to
instantly erase all data cryptographically so the drive can be
quickly and easily redeployed, and delivers full inline-speed
encryption with no impact to system performance.
Momentus SEDs keep all security keys and cryptographic
operations within the drive, separating them from the operating
system to provide greater protection against hacking and tampering
than traditional software alternatives, which can give thieves
backdoor access to encryption keys and are otherwise more
vulnerable to key theft. Momentus SEDs are offered in capacities up
to 500GB.
Seagate at RSA Conference
See Seagate® SEDs in demonstrations at the following booths of
Seagate’s ISV partners at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, site
of this year’s RSA Conference:
- Softex – #750
- Wave Systems – #939
- WinMagic – #839
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About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage
solutions. Learn more at http://www.seagate.com.
Copyright 2011 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved.
Printed in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are
registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United
States and/or other countries. Savvio, Cheetah, Constellation and
Momentus are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate
Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United
States and/or other countries. When referring to drive capacity,
one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or
TB, equals one thousand billion bytes. Your computer’s operating
system may use a different standard of measurement and report a
lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used
for formatting and other functions and will not be available for
data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice,
product offerings or specifications. The export or re-export of
hardware or software containing encryption may be regulated by the
US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (for
more information go to www.bis.doc.gov).
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