Seagate to introduce surveillance specific drives in April

Surveillance has gained prominence in the recent past. The
necessity-based demand for supervision appliances have prompted Seagate to bring
out video surveillance specific drives.

"Seeing the intensity of catastrophic events engineered
by unscrupulous human beings every then and now, surveillance has become the
compulsive need of the times," stated Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager,
India and Saarc for Seagate, while sharing details about the company's
upcoming Surveillance standalone hard disk drives.

RAJESH KHURANA Opportunities in surveillance market is immense and still untapped

The new product range from the house of Seagate will hit the
shelves this April, for which the vendor is currently seeking a distributor and
reseller partners. These new video surveillance specific drives, christened
SV-35, would come in capacities ranging from 160Gb, 250Gb to 500Gb in both SATA
and PATA storage interfaces.

Divulging more details on the product line and prospective
market opportunities in surveillance arena Khurana said, "Surveillance has
gained immense stride in the past few years only. Private enterprises and
government sector departments have now started realizing the importance of 24X7
security of their premises. The market opportunity is immense and still remains
untapped by any leading player. This is why we believe that the SV-35 drives
will find widespread acceptance in the market especially in the banking and
retail sector, where constant security is indispensable."

He added, "The offenders of the callous bomb blast incident of Varanasi
that took place recently could have been put behind the bars the very next day
or that unfortunate incident could have been averted, had the place been under
supervision camera. Seeing these instances surveillance has become one of the
intrinsic requirements for countries like India, which remains at the gun point
of insurgent elements at all times."