New Award-winning, Simplified Network
Backup Solution
Easily Brings Access and Sharing to All Your Files
Easily Brings Access and Sharing to All Your Files
NEW DELHI – March
5, 2013: Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX)
announced, its next-generation, networked home storage solution, Seagate®
Central shared storage, the first storage device to feature a Smart TV app
for access to files on the big screen. A CES 2013
Innovations Honoree, Seagate Central delivers automatic backup for the
entire home, access to digital movies and music from networked devices, as well
as remote access from outside a home network. Seagate has also taken a new step
in making Central storage a low-profile horizontal design, which takes cues
from home entertainment and looks great in any living room.
Simple,
Central – Multi-Computer Backup
Seagate built this product for simplicity. By
focusing on the number one need for homes with more than one computer, Seagate
designed an easy, centralized backup for each computer in the home, regardless
of operating system. Seagate retooled the software and user experience for the
Seagate Central shared storage so that it seamlessly provides a backup for each
system on a home network, even in a mixed platform environment of Windows OS and Mac OS X computers. In addition to
automatic and continuous backup of all the computers in a home, Seagate Central
can also backup photos and videos directly from Facebook, a feature first
introduced in the award-winning Backup Plus line of external drives.
“This is the ideal backup solution for the family of
today, who increasingly have multiple computers, tablets and smart phones,”
said Futoshi Niizuma, executive director of sales for Japan, South Asia, ASEAN
and ANZ. “We focused on what would make Central easy to use in a home setting.
Consumers will find Central storage is easy-to-use as a backup solution with
great-looking apps that deliver access to people’s content from the world’s
most popular mobile devices, as well as Samsung Smart televisions and Blu-ray
players.”
A recent study from Parks Associates found consumers
keep content in a wide variety of places including sites like Facebook. The
average broadband household has 8% of their music, video, and photo content on
social networking sites.
“Consumers are looking for storage solutions that
help them consolidate and safeguard the content they’ve got scattered across a
growing number of places,” said John Barrett, director of Consumer Analytics at
Parks Associates. “Young consumers in particular do not have central repositories
of content but rather many places where content naturally ends-up as a result
of their media habits.”
Enjoy Your Movies and Music
In addition to its primary role as a total home
backup device to organize content in one location, Central storage is also
designed for easy media streaming. Once all your files and rich media are
safely on the drive, Central storage organizes the content for you according to
media type, such as videos, pictures, music and documents. Seagate then makes
it easier than ever before to access entertainment and documents by providing
free apps for Samsung Smart
TVs and Blu-ray players, as well as Apple®
iOS devices, Amazon Kindle HD and
Android mobile devices. Central is DLNA certified and also works with Apple® AirPlay®,
which means nearly any network-connected device can connect to it.
New App, New
Look,
The newly designed Seagate Media app, available for
Android, Kindle Fire HD and Apple iOS, delivers a seamless, user-friendly
experience for accessing, downloading or sharing files from Seagate Central
shared storage. The experience is the same within the network or connecting to
Central storage remotely. Files are easy to enjoy through the visually
appealing app interface. Everything is organized by category as well as folder
view. The Seagate media app and Seagate Central storage will ensure that you
always have access to the files you need when you need them.
Pricing and
Availability:
Seagate Central Shared storage will be available in
March for the following MSRP(s) of 2TB, INR 10,500; 3TB, INR 14,400; 4TB, INR
17,700 (excluding local taxes).
About CES
Innovations Awards:
The prestigious Innovations Design and Engineering
Awards are sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, the
producer of the International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology
tradeshow, and have been recognizing achievements in product design and
engineering since 1976.
About Seagate
Seagate
is a worldwide leader in storage solutions. Learn more at www.Seagate.com
©2013 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or its affiliates in the United States
and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the
property of their respective owners. When referring to drive capacity, 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.
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