Seagate To Showcase New External Hard Drives At GITEX 2008

Seagate, the world leader in storage solutions, will showcase its new range of FreeAgent™ external hard drives at GITEX 2008.

19-23 October, at the Dubai World Trade Centre. Seagate will exhibit in the Sheikh Maktoum Hall, at stand number C9-6, and will be represented at GITEX by ten members of its team who represent the company in the Middle East.

“GITEX provides the opportunity to meet with leading channel integrators and retailers from across the region, to find out more about their specific  requirements and to present our strategy and plans for the coming year,” said Mark Whitby, executive director, Former Soviet Union and Middle East sales and EMEA marketing. “Also, it allows us to display our wide range of products; our new exciting new FreeAgent consumer solutions as well as our industry-leading desktop, notebook and enterprise hard drive offerings.

Seagate has had a successful first half of 2008 with its milestone achievement of being the first hard drive manufacturer to have shipped one billion hard drives; a number not only staggering in size but also emblematic of the massive amount of digital content being created in the home, hand, office, car and dozens of other markets. Seagate hard drives and storage solutions enable people to create, share, enjoy and protect more digital content every day.