ChannelWeb: Seagate Brings Encrypted Drives To The Channel
Author: Joseph F. Kovar
Seagate Tuesday expanded the market for its encrypted Savvio, Cheetah and Constellation hard drives by making them available to solution providers and system builders.
The move to bring encrypted drives to the channel fulfills a promise Seagate made last April when it started shipping encrypted hard drives to OEMs and promised to eventually bring them to the channel .
The move makes Seagate the first to bring its self-encrypting drive technology to the indirect sales channel, said Teresa Worth, senior product marketing manager for the storage vendor.
Along with the new self-encrypting versions of its Savvio, Cheetah and Constellation hard drives, Seagate Tuesday unveiled controllers from LSI and Intel that use Trusted Computing Group-compliant technology to work with the drives to encrypt and decrypt data on-the-fly. One of the LSI controllers, the eight-port MegaRAID SAS 9260DE-8i, allows the building of internal storage systems with up to 32 SATA or SAS hard drives or solid state drives.
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