Seagate Technology Plc history, profile and corporate video

 Seagate Technology Plc designs, manufactures and markets data storage products. The company produce a range of electronic data storage products including Hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives and solid state drives, which address enterprise applications, where their products are designed for enterprise servers, mainframes and workstations; client compute applications, where their products are designed for desktop and notebook computers; and client non-compute applications, where their products are designed for a variety of end user devices such as digital video recorders, gaming consoles, personal data backup systems, portable external storage systems and digital media systems. In addition to manufacturing and selling data storage products, the company provides data storage services for small to medium-sized businesses, including online backup, data protection and recovery solutions. Seagate Technology was founded by Finis Conner, David Thomas Mitchell, Alan F. Shugart, Syed Iftikar, and Doug Mahon and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.“

“Seagate Technology Company Milestones

March 2013

Seagate Celebrates Milestone: First to Reach 2 Billion Hard Disk Drives Shipped

March 2013

Seagate Launches Third-Generation Laptop Solid-State Hybrid Drives and First-Ever Desktop SSHD

February 2013

Seagate Enables Growth of Small to Medium-Sized Businesses with New Networked Business Storage Solution

February 2013

Seagate Unveils New Advanced Storage Design Centre in South Korea

January 2013

Seagate and Virident Join Forces to Deliver Solutions for the Enterprise Flash Storage Market

January 2013

Seagate Wireless Plus Wins CNET’s Best of CES 2013

January 2013

Storage for Life: Seagate Showcases Groundbreaking Innovations at CES 2013

December 2012

New Seagate Video 2.5 HDD Delivers Industry-Leading Reliability and Energy Efficiency

November 2012

Seagate Backup Plus Family of Hard Drives Named as CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Award Honouree

October 2012

Seagate Expands Industry’s Broadest Enterprise Portfolio

September 2012

New Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance to Promote Cloud Innovation and Growth

August 2012

Seagate and LaCie Announce Completion of the Acquisition of a Controlling Interest in LaCie

June 2012

Seagate and DensBits Announce Strategic Agreement for Development of Solid-State Drives for Consumer and Enterprise Markets

March 2012

Seagate reaches One Terabit per Square Inch Milestone in Hard Drive Storage with New Technology Demonstration

January 2012

Seagate Wins UBM Channel Top 100 Recognition For Powering Data Centres With Innovative, Environmentally Friendly Products

December 2011

Seagate Completes Acquisition of Samsung’s Hard Disk Drive Business

November 2011

Seagate GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage Named as CES Innovation 2012 Design and Engineering Award Honoree

November 2011

Seagate Enhances Laptop PC Performance with Fast, Second-Generation Solid State Hybrid Drive

September 2011

Seagate is the First Manufacturer to Break the Capacity Ceiling with a New 4 TB GoFlex Desk Drive

August 2011

Seagate Ships 1 Million Solid State Hybrid Drives; Momentus XT Hybrid Drive Adoption Soars as Major Computer Makers Offer Laptops with World’s Speediest Hard Drive

June 2011

Seagate Delivers Unmatched Price-Performance Storage for World’s First Tablets Featuring Hard Drives

May 2011

Seagate Breaks Areal Density Barrier: Unveiling the World’s First Hard Drive Featuring One Terabyte per Platter

March 2011

Seagate Ships Industry’s Easiest to Deploy 3TB Desktop Drive to Overcome 2TB Capacity Barrier

February 2011

Seagate tops the One Million Mark in Shipments of Self-Encrypting Hard Drives for Laptop PCs and Data Centre Servers

November 2010

Seagate GoFlex Family and Momentus XT Drive Named as CES Innovations 2011 Design and Engineering Award Honourees

September 2010

Seagate Unveils Industry’s First 12 TB Four-Bay Network Storage Server for Small Businesses

September 2010

Seagate Introduces Industry’s First 1.5TB Portable External Drive

July 2010

Seagate Debuts GoFlex Home: Easy-to-Use Centralised Storage for the Whole Family

June 2010

Seagate Breaks Capacity Ceiling with World’s First Three Terabyte External Desktop Drive

May 2010

Seagate Delivers World’s Fastest Hard Drive for Laptop Computers; Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drives Offer Solid State Performance with the Capacity and Value of Hard Disk Drives

May 2010

Seagate Introduces New Era of External Storage: A Flexible Hard Drive Solution with Multiple Interface and Content Sharing Options

April 2010

An Industry First: Seagate Offers FreeAgent Go Hard Drives Preloaded With Paramount Pictures’ Feature Films

December 2009

Seagate Unveils World’s Thinnest 2.5 inch Hard Drive for Slim Laptop Computers

December 2009

Seagate Introduces its First Solid State Drive: Pulsar

September 2009

Seagate Ships World’s Fastest Desktop Hard Drive; First Drive to Feature Serial ATA 6Gbit/Second Technology

March 2009

Seagate Introduces BlackArmor Family of Storage Solutions for Small Businesses

July 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

April 2008

Seagate First to Ship One Billion Hard Drives; Expects Next Billion within Five Years

March 2007

Seagate to Acquire EVault, Inc. – Enhances Strategy for Seagate Services

October 2007

Notebook Computers Go Green – Seagate Hybrid Hard Drive Ushers in New Era of Power-Thrifty, Higher Performance Mobile Computing

May 2006

Seagate Technology Completes Acquisition of Maxtor Corporation

April 2006

Seagate Expands Desktop Hard Drive Lead with 750GB Monster Built on Perpendicular Recording Technology

January 2006

Seagate Named 2006 Company of the Year by Forbes Magazine

September 2005

Seagate Technology Acquires Mirra, Inc.

August 2005

Seagate wins “Company of the Year” and “Best Product Innovation” ARC Awards from VARBusiness Magazine

June 2005

Seagate Does it Again: Drives Innovation with 10 New Groundbreaking Hard Disk Drives

May 2005

Seagate Honoured for Advancement of Women in the Workplace

March 2005

Ten Million Cheetah 15Ks Now Running the Enterprise

February 2005

PC World names Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 Best Hard Drive

June 2004

Unprecedented Announcement of 12 New Products for all Major Market Segments Reinforces Seagate’s Disk Drive Leadership Position

February 2004

Another Seagate First — Savvio 2.5 inch, 10K RPM Enterprise Disk Drive Addresses Storage Consolidation, Reliability and Performance Needs

June 2003

Seagate Enters Notebook Hard Drive Market; Now Shipping to Major Notebook PC Makers

December 2002

Seagate Technology Prices Initial Public Offering Of Common Shares

November 2002

Seagate ‘Goes Vertical’ and Demonstrates Record Storage Areal Density and Performance

August 2002

Seagate Swings “HAMR” to Increase Disk Drive Densities by a Factor of 100

May 2002

Seagate’s New Cheetahs Drive Down Storage Total Cost of Ownership

March 2001

Seagate’s New Cheetah Makes a Record Run, Setting the Pace as the World’s Fastest Disk Drive for the Needs of the Internet and Beyond

February 2000

Seagate’s New Cheetah X15 Leaps to 15,000 RPM for Record-Setting Levels of Performance

October 1997

Seagate Unveils Industry’s First 7,200 RPM, Ultra ATA-Interface Disk Drive for Desktop Computers

February 1996

Seagate Press Release: Seagate Technology Completes Merger with Conner Peripherals”

*Information from Forbes.com and Seagate.com

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