An engineer hired for a job that never materialized was awarded $1.9 million by a Minnesota jury after his employer, Seagate, uprooted him from a job in Dallas and then laid him off nine months later.
Seagate said it is offering its self-encrypting drive feature with its entire line of enterprise-class hard disk drives and that it has partnered with Intel and LSI to integrate its encryption technology with the two companies' security management firmware.
As part of ongoing efforts to save money that include staff and operating cost reductions, Seagate Technology today announced a restructuring plan that will mean cutting an additional 1,100 workers. That amounts to about 2.5% of the company's global workforce.
Seagate Technology Tuesday is offering free data recovery services for customers who purchased the company's flagship Barracuda 7200.11 desktop hard drive through December 2008. A firmware bug in those drives has produced a high number of failures.
Dell announced Monday that it is offering Seagate 's self-encrypting hard drives in its Latitude laptops, Precision Mobile Workstations and OptiPlex desktops as a security precaution to those machines being lost or stolen.
Seagate Technology Thursday announced the industry's first 1.5TB desktop hard drive, as well as half-terabyte notebook hard drives based on PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) technology.