Tinder Social App Now Available in India, US, UK Among Other Markets

Tinder, a leading popular app for meeting new people, has announced the availability of Tinder Social in the United States, India, United Kingdom and other select markets. 

Tinder Social is a new feature that enables users to create groups, meet new people and plan activities together. Using Tinder Social, connections can be made in the same way they are in the real world: with groups of friends, sharing common interests and in-person experiences.

The feature was first test-launched in Australia, and Tinder found that users were looking for the same thing: a feature to help plan their night, get a crowd together, check out new places, try new things, hang with friends and make new connections. So far, Tinder users in Australia have organized pub crawls, attended concerts and more.

“Tinder Social is designed to make it as easy as possible to plan your night, get out into the real world and meet new people. The new feature takes the Tinder experience to a new level, offering our users more ways to expand their social circles and interact with potential matches,” said Sean Rad, CEO and co-founder of Tinder. “We believe it’s the ultimate tool for planning your next adventure.”

Reinforcing Tinder’s commitment to increased growth and user engagement in India, Taru Kapoor, Head – India for Tinder, said, “We’re excited to bring Tinder Social to India – this feature offers a simple, fun way for our users to continue seeking new experiences and forging meaningful connections.”

India is Tinder’s largest market in Asia and among the top 5 fastest growing markets globally.

How it works

After updating the app, Tinder users can choose to “unlock” Tinder Social to gain access to the feature. To get started, users can create a group by selecting 1-3 friends who have also chosen to opt-in. Once a group is formed, members can assign a status to their group, choosing from a variety of suggested activities like  “Going to a concert tonight,” “Girl’s night out,” “Comedy Night,” “Sunday Funday” or “Happy Hour, anyone?” Tinder users can toggle Tinder Social ON and OFF by accessing their settings in-app at anytime.

If a group member of both groups swipes right, it’s a match -- the groups combine and members can chat with each other until the conversation thread expires at noon the following day (in the time zone of the group creator). Users who would prefer not to be added to groups can opt out of Tinder Social through their settings and will not appear on their friends' lists.

Additional Details

●     Users can only belong to one group at a time

●     Any member in the group can add a group status that is visible to everyone in the group, everyone who comes across their group profile, and everyone they match with

●     The person who creates a group can choose to ‘End Group’ – which expires the group

●     A user may leave/un-match with a group at any time. If everyone leaves the group except its creator, the group expires

●     A group match expires at noon the next day (or when the group is ended)

●     Starting today, Tinder Social is available to Tinder users in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Cairn India’s Chairman’s Speech at 10th Annual General Meeting Mumbai on July 21, 2016

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen,

On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am delighted to welcome you all to the Tenth Annual General Meeting of your Company.

The oil and gas sector plays a pivotal role in global growth due to its strong economic linkages.

The oil and gas industry is navigating a tough phase. Excess oil supplies have taken the inventory levels to a historic high, even though strong oil demand has persisted.

The oil exporting economies have seen dwindling profits from oil production, even as the oil importing economies are benefiting from lower energy costs.

India, as one of the largest oil importers, witnessed lower trade and current account deficits, reduced inflation and lower subsidy bill.

India has shown remarkable resilience and remains progressive. As per IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook, India is a bright spot with strong growth and rising real incomes.

Cairn India for an energy secure nation

India’s crude oil import bill reduced from US$ 113 billion in FY 2015 to US$ 64 billion in FY 2016, a reduction of 43%.

It is important that as a country, we do not take this reduction for granted, because all projections indicate an increasing dependence on oil and gas imports. As per the IEA’s World Energy Outlook, by the year 2040, 91% of India’s demand for oil and 49% demand for gas would be met by imports. This high dependence would entail significant cost to the economy.

Thus, every effort should be made to enhance domestic hydrocarbon production.

In this context, it is heartening to see the government introduce various policy reforms, which will attract investments and encourage the domestic oil and gas sector.

We are confident that the government will continue this momentum and in the next phase of reforms, introduce policy measures to facilitate existing producers to increase domestic hydrocarbon production.

As the largest   private crude oil producer in India, your Company assumes a very significant and responsible role in reducing India’s import dependence.

Your Company operates over 27% of domestic crude oil production. During the year, Cairn India’s operations helped reduce India’s import bill by over Rs 21,000 Crore and its gross contribution to the government exchequer was over Rs 10,000 Crore.

With this larger context, let me now talk about your Company’s performance.

During the year, despite one of the lowest oil price scenario, your Company successfully delivered key projects. This will support medium and long term production. Your company continues to be in a strong position to growth further.

Assets

The Rajasthan block, a world class asset has significant national importance.  It has considerably helped reduce country’s crude oil imports.

Cairn India’s success, over the years, has been reinforced by innovative application of technology. This DNA has enabled early adoption of technology including Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Rajasthan field.

One of the world’s largest polymer flood projects at Mangala, continued to yield positive results. The project contributed an average of 14,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, during FY2016.

Excellent performance by Mangala EOR and encouraging upside from Aishwariya infill programme augur well for the Rajasthan block. I am happy to share that Mangala EOR performance reaffirms the potential of the Rajasthan block.

Our continued efforts have improved the viability of polymer flood in Bhagyam and Aishwariya as the development and operating cost per barrel is reduced by 25-30%. The Field Development Plan for Aishwariya EOR is proposed to be submitted in the current quarter and the revised FDP for Bhagyam EOR is expected to be submitted to our JV partner, in 1H 2017.

With a large exploration potential, Barmer Hill offers an excellent growth opportunity. Development of Aishwariya Barmer Hill is envisaged in stages, and production from    Stage 1 is expected to commence, in the current fiscal.

To finalise the development plan for Mangala Barmer Hill, Appraisal, Internal Studies and Field

Pilots are being carried out.

During the year, your Company commissioned the Salaya Bhogat Pipeline storage terminal & marine export facilities at Bhogat. This is a significant first step towards accessing larger market as it allows us to ship out crude oil from the Rajasthan Block to refineries, across the country.

A continual enhancement in productivity has been one of the key factors for the resilience of U.S. production during historic low oil prices.

I am happy to share that your company, in line with the current global practices, has also achieved notable improvements in productivity, which will aid future growth.

For example, the expected ultimate recovery from the Raageshwari Deep Gas field has been upgraded by over 25%. This was a result of successful application of hydro frac technology and better reservoir management. With this, your company successfully placed the largest frac in India.

India is gradually moving to a gas based economy, where-in, gas will play an increasingly important role, in the overall energy mix.

Your company is leveraging gas potential of the Rajasthan block, which is important for future growth. We envisage multiplying our gas production by four times, which will support resource maximization from the block.

Ravva and Cambay, our offshore blocks are excellent examples of innovative reservoir management and production optimisation practices. They are delivering best-in-class recovery that is far greater than the initial resource estimates.

Your company’s success, over the years, was achieved by focussing on adoption and innovative application of technologies. For example, EOR, Hydraulic Fracturing and state-of-the art seismic imaging are leading to enhanced hydrocarbon recovery. Together with greater focus on productivity, we are well placed to maximize the resource potential.

Adapting to new environment, leading to free cash flow and planned dividend

In the low oil price environment, our focus was to make the organisation adapt to a new way of working. This was achieved through a multi-pronged focus on optimising costs, building talent and capabilities from within, and keeping employees focussed on goals and priorities of the organisation.

This has enabled free cash flow generation of over US$ 637 million and a robust cash balance.

I am happy to share that despite a steep drop in crude oil prices, your company adhered to its stated dividend policy. The dividend pay-out amounts to 31.6% of Cairn India’s annual consolidated normalized net profit.

Health, Safety, Environment and Community Engagement

Your company is committed to sustainable development that involves integrating economic health, safety and environmental aspects into our business decisions.

Safety is non-negotiable at Cairn. Continuous drive to operate safely and responsibly, sets your company apart. This relentless focus has helped build an excellent safety record over the years. For instance, we have clocked more than 70 million LTI free man-hours, last year. We ensure a safe working environment for all, by upholding the highest international standards.

Your company’s focus on shared prosperity through empowerment and development enables us to forge a lasting relationship with the communities.

We continued our contribution to the social and economic progress in education, health, livelihood, water & sanitation.

Our strategic investments are aligned with country’s social goals, thereby enabling us to positively impact around one million people.

Our efforts to bring a holistic development of the local communities were recognised when your company received the CII-ITC Sustainability Award for ‘Excellence in CSR’. 

Merger

Your Company continues to work towards completion of merger with Vedanta. The merger would generate value for the shareholders and de-risk your company.

Your company will get access to Vedanta’s tier-one metal and mining assets, which are well-invested, low cost and have a long life.

The Path Ahead

Over the years, Cairn India has delivered through its targeted investments, consistent focus on efficiency, execution and reliability.

Thus, going forward, despite one of the toughest operating conditions and uncertain economic environment, your company is in a strong position to deliver on key projects.

We will continue to invest in our existing assets to increase production and maximize economic recovery.

I remain confident that your company will play a pivotal role in India’s quest for energy security.

The key enablers for our growth would be our strength in ‘execution’, technology along with a strong balance sheet.

Your company is well placed to expeditiously ramp up production and thus deliver enduring, sustainable shareholder value.

Now I would like thank Mayank Ashar for his commitment and contributions. I wish him every success in his future endeavours.

We greatly value the support of the Government of India, State governments, ONGC, joint venture and other business partners and local communities for their collaborative and enduring relationship.

Our world class talent pool is helping us achieve our business goals successfully. On behalf of the entire Board, I deeply appreciate all our employees for their resilience and continued support. 

I also take this opportunity to thank my Board colleagues for their valuable guidance and active support.

Finally, on behalf of the Board of Directors and the employees of your company, I would like to thank YOU, our shareholders for your enduring support.

Texas Instruments Unveils Fastest Isolated Gate Driver for High-Voltage Applications

Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced the industry’s fastest 5.7-kVRMS isolated dual-channel gate driver, the first of a new gate-driver family in TI’s isolation portfolio. The UCC21520’s flexible, universal compatibility enables its use as an isolated driver in low-side, high-side, high-side/low-side or half-bridge power management designs. With its integrated components, advanced protection features and optimized switching performance, the UCC21520 enables designers to build smaller, more robust designs for enterprise, telecommunications, automotive and industrial applications.

Developed for high-voltage applications where system protection and reliability are critical, the UCC21520 provides reinforced isolation of 5.7 kVRMS and surge immunity tested up to 12.8 kV, along with common-mode transient immunity greater than 100 V/ns. By delivering the industry’s fastest propagation delay of 19 ns and the tightest channel-to-channel delay matching of less than 5 ns, the device enables high power density and efficiency, resulting in smaller solution size and reliable operation over end equipment lifetimes.

Key features and benefits of the UCC21520

·         Higher power density for smaller solutions: The 4-A source and 6-A sink current of the UCC21520 reduce switching losses via faster rise times of 6 ns and fall times of 7 ns for a 1.8-nF load in high-frequency switch-mode power applications.

·         Isolation robustness: With its surge protection that has been tested up to 12.8 kV and its noise immunity of greater than 100 V/ns, the new gate driver helps protect end equipment from conditions commonly found in data centers, factories and other high-voltage environments.

·         Flexibility: With a wide input voltage of 3 V to 18 V, programmable dead-time control, and dual channeling and paralleling of outputs, the UCC21520 gives designers a single, flexible device for multiple applications.

·         Low power consumption: The device’s standby power, as low as 1 mA per channel, helps increase energy efficiency.

Complete power management design to maximize system performance

Engineers can pair the UCC21520 isolated gate driver with a TI controller to optimize their system performance. Analog controllers include the UCC28950 for phase-shifted full bridge designs, the UCC25600 for resonant mode power supplies and the UCC28070 for power factor correction (PFC). TI digital power controllers include the UCD3138 and C2000 32-bit microcontroller.

Tools and support to speed design

TI offers a broad range of support tools for the UCC21520 to speed engineers’ time to market. Get started now using the UCC21520EVM-286 evaluation module and PSpice/SIMPLIS transient models. Review the block diagram, design files and bill of materials for the TI Designs Reference Design for Reinforced Isolation 3-Phase Inverter with Current, Voltage and Temp Protection (TIDA-00366).

Package, pricing and availability

The UCC21520 is now available in the TI store and through the company’s authorized distribution network. The isolated gate driver comes in a 16-pin plastic small outline (SOIC16) wide-body package and is priced at US$2.40 in 1,000 unit-quantities.

Pearson’s Project Literacy Lab - First Accelerator for Entrepreneurs Focused on Closing the Global Literacy Gap

Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, has partnered the Unreasonable Group to launch “Project Literacy Lab,” the world’s first accelerator for entrepreneurs dedicated to closing the global literacy gap by 2030. As a part of the inaugural program, Project Literacy Lab has identified 16 high-growth ventures, headquartered across five continents, which are working collaboratively on scaling their technologies and products to combat illiteracy worldwide.

After a rigorous evaluation of India-based learning models, two innovative Edupreneurs have been selected among the 16 promising ventures worldwide under the ‘Project Literacy Lab’ program – Bangalore-based ‘Guru-G’, the fastest growing mobile app for Indian teachers that’s already led to 86% improvement in student outcomes and Chennai-based ‘Karadi Path’, the language-learning curriculum reaching over 1,500 schools and 500,000 children across India. Pearson and Unreasonable Group will support these entrepreneurs by providing them world-class mentors, access to financing, and a global network of support.

“1.19 trillion US dollars is the cost of illiteracy to the world economy each year.” explains Jennifer Young, Director of Social Impact Programs at Pearson. Young explains that in fact, “Illiteracy is linked to just about every major sustainable development challenge. That is why Pearson, as the founder and convener of Project Literacy, is excited about our partnership with Unreasonable, a group that has a track record of helping entrepreneurs solve pressing global challenges.”

Some other global participating ventures include the world’s first customizable machine learning technology platform for one billion people around the world with disabilities (Livox, Brazil) and a company that decreases recidivism by providing the 2.25 million incarcerated adults in the United States with daily access to educational and vocational programming via tablets (Edovo, USA).

During the recently organized program, the entrepreneurs met up with 20 mentors and specialists including Emilie Colker, Vice President, Global Brand & Social Impact Strategy and Campaigns at Pearson, who is steering the Project Literacy initiative.  She further elaborates, “Today, there is a need to provide an impetus to entrepreneurs that are introducing innovative technologies & solutions to complex social issues.”

Guru-G Learning Labs is a teaching innovations company that is transforming the teaching-learning process globally through the world's first gamified platform for teaching & teacher training. Guru-G improves student outcomes by increasing teacher motivation and skills through an engaging mobile application that continuously mentors the teachers on the best ways to use new teaching methods & innovative practices in their classrooms such as guided lesson plans, 21^st century practices and adaptation to different student moods etc. The platform works offline as well as in local languages.  Guru-G reaches to 350+ rural schools.

Karadi Path addresses the huge need to improve language learning across India, which is often the key to student progress, whether in higher education or the workplace. To accelerate learning, Karadi Path provides schools with a proprietary curriculum that includes multi-media materials and training designed to accelerate the acquisition of language skills. They use a highly impactful approach that mimics the processes of mother-tongue learning to help students learn English through actions, music and stories in an immersive environment. Founded in 2011, Karadi Path now operates in over 1,200 schools, both private and government-run, across 8 states, reaching over 200,000 students this school year. They have also trained over 6,000 teachers till date.

Adds Asheesh Sabarwal, Vice President - Marketing, Pearson India, “Enabling access to quality education is one of the key efforts that Pearson is driving globally and I am confident that firms like Guru-G and Karadi Path, with their innovative learning models, will contribute towards this shared vision.”

Jugnoo Expands its B2B Logistics Delivery Service; Launches Dodo Deliveries in Gurgaon

Scaling its B2B logistics unit, Dodo Deliveries, Jugnoo forays into Gurgaon. Optimally utilizing its well-established network of auto-rickshaw fleet, venturing into Gurgaon is a part of the company’s natural progression. Dodo Deliveries, an on-demand, hyper-local service, is creating a marketplace which is enabling vendors to deliver products to their customers when, where and how they want to while ensuring a seamless delivery experience. This is a dual concept that only adds to the myriad of services offered by Jugnoo, but also aids the local merchants and vendors to scale their businesses.

Talking about the potential of the Millennium city, Zorawer Singh, Head of Dodo Deliveries, said, “Gurgaon or Gurugram being a rapidly flourishing market and a corporate hub, offers a lot of potential for businesses in the B2B logistics segment. Considering the growing demand in the segment, we intend to fully utilize the existing auto-supply in the region with this launch. Even though there is a lot of existing competition in the city, we are confident that Dodo can create a niche for itself and provide great value proposition for businesses. We are not limiting our services to the food space and are serving a host of other vendors like hardware shops, grocery stores, pharmaceutical distributors, retail outlets, chemists, and even florists.”

Businesses can start using Dodo's services by downloading the Dodo Deliveries App (available on Android and  iOS) and registering themselves.

Dodo has added two-wheelers and commercial vehicles to their fleet in Gurgaon, making it an omni-channel service through which vendors can customize their delivery experience.Jugnoo’s strong network of auto-rickshaws in Gurgaon currently does 5000 transactions a day in the region and therefore launching Dodo in the city is certainly a lucrative move.

Currently operational in Chandigarh-Tricity and Gurgaon, the services will soon beoperational in Noida, Indore, and Surat as well. Eventually, the service will be launched across all locations in India wherever Jugnoo is present.

Accenture & Tricentis to Bring Down Testing Automation to Enterprises Efforts by 50 Percent

Taking clients to the next level of automation with model-based testing, Accenture and Tricentis entered into an alliance relationship that integrates the Tricentis Tosca Testsuite into Accenture’s application testing services. This will help clients use intelligent testing across multiple platforms in order to launch new applications quickly and manage risk more easily.
 
Tricentis is a continuous testing company and market leader in agile software testing solutions for enterprises. Its integrated software testing solution, Tosca Testsuite, consists of a unique model-based test automation and test case design approach, encompassing risk-based testing, test data management, provisioning and service virtualization. This helps drive significant performance improvements to testing projects with automation rates that can reach over 90 percent1.

“Our approach to ecosystem innovation seeks to break the boundaries between service and tool providers, ensuring seamless collaboration so that clients can take advantage of end-to-end touchless test automation capabilities,” said Kishore Durg, managing director and global testing lead for Accenture. “This new alliance with Tricentis builds on our open testing ecosystem to bring the latest in testing automation, intelligent testing, touchless testing and digital testing to our clients.”

Accenture is incorporating the Tosca Testsuite into its touchless testing approach for enterprise applications, which seamlessly integrates the best capabilities from leading providers across the entire tool chain, beginning with requirements, to achieve end-to-end touchless test automation. Accenture has developed an industry-specific reusable testing repository comprising more than 75,000 test scenarios, scripts and conditions across 33 industries. Through a jointly developed add-in, these reusable test components can be easily imported into the Tricentis Tosca Testsuite. Combining Accenture’s deep industry vertical and testing acumen with Tricentis’ advanced model based testing experience, clients would be able to significantly accelerate their testing automation and drive down the test design effort.

For a European insurance client, Accenture used Tosca to drive innovation and agile automation across the delivery lifecycle. By providing unattended test execution for major business processes and establishing an organization-wide test factory, the insurer was able to increase productivity five-fold and reduce testing costs by over 40 percent.

“We’re pleased to expand our relationship with Accenture, which already has the most trained and certified Tosca resources in the world,” said Sandeep Johri, CEO of Tricentis. “Working together, we can disrupt traditional testing methods to help our clients deliver a seamless DevOps experience and thrive in the digital era.”

Accenture’s certified Tosca consultants also bring deep industry and business process understanding to help clients achieve end to end automation, and leverage an expansive repository of 75,000 industry-specific test artifacts to further accelerate test design.

New Range of Broadest 10TB Portfolio From Seagate Unveiled in India

Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today unveiled a new portfolio of 10TB high capacity drives dubbed the Guardian Series. Purpose-built to help customers better manage and move the huge amounts of digital data they consume and create, the 10TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro desktop drive, Seagate IronWolf for NAS applications and Seagate SkyHawk for surveillance introduce new brand names and imagery and represent the most complete 10TB portfolio in the industry. The Guardian Series features industry leading technology that raises the bar on features, speed and capacity for use across a wide range of markets, including personal, creative and design computing, online gaming, small- and medium-sized businesses and large-scale surveillance systems.

“Consumers and organizations today face a similar challenge -- what to do about the massive deluge of data and video they confront every day,” said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of Client and Consumer Storage at Seagate. “Whether it’s dominating in the latest game, producing compelling multimedia content, mining data to help create new apps and business services, helping to protect people and places around the world against new threats, and more, the Seagate Guardian Series is designed to preserve your most critical data and move it where it’s needed fast so you can make the most of it. By incorporating powerful new features and capabilities, our 10TB products also make it easier for everyone to create, consume and use data.”

Innovative capabilities in the new 10TB drives include multi-tier caching technology (MTC Technology), an intelligent caching architecture for maximized performance; AgileArray, designed to optimize drive performance through error recovery control, dual-plane balancing, and power management; and ImagePerfect for surveillance, supporting more high resolution cameras than any other industry drive.

Seagate’s 10TB product branding represents the next phase of the company’s new corporate brand unveiled at CES in 2015, in which Seagate introduced its “Living Logo” that visually captured the idea that data is most valuable as part of our daily lives at home and at work. The new Guardian Series product brands link this living data concept more directly to Seagate’s foundational technologies in a way that is memorable and easier for customers to understand.

BarraCuda Pro 10TB Desktop Drive

As data becomes the life blood of all online interaction and workforce productivity, Seagate has brought back its hugely popular BarraCuda brand to respond to demands for high capacity storage at an affordable price point. BarraCuda Pro combines 10TB at 7200 RPM for outstanding performance, and includes power-saving features to help keep drive operating costs low, as well as a 5-year limited warranty for peace of mind.

With its enduring legacy of PC Compute drives, BarraCuda responds to market demands for high performance hard drives that don’t sacrifice capacity or affordability. The 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch fierce BarraCuda drives offer a versatile and dependable line of hard drives for nearly every application and budget. Lightweight and robust, the 2.5 inch BarraCuda drive delivers market-leading cost/TB options in a thin 7mm form factor with up to 2TB of capacity.

Furthermore, the FireCuda SSHD combines flash with the latest hard drive technology for both 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch offerings. The FireCuda drives ignite both fantastic capacity (up to 2TB) and performance solutions (up to 5 times faster than its HDD counterpart) for gaming and creative applications.

“The Barracuda family has a rich history of delivering reliable drives at an affordable price point for our customers, who are struggling to keep up with the vast amounts of data they’re creating and consuming,” said Merle McIntosh, SVP Sales and Marketing, Newegg. “Seagate is pushing the boundaries on capacity and a cost-effective 10TB option is a product our customers will appreciate.”

IronWolf 10TB for NAS

Tough, ready, and scalable, IronWolf combines the legacy of big iron with tough, pack-leading performance for NAS applications and a wide range of capabilities designed to meet the most challenging always-on environments. NAS-optimized with AgileArray, IronWolf is built with drive balance, and is the first in its class of drives to have rotational vibration (RV) sensors to mitigate vibration in multi-drive systems, RAID optimization for best performance with error recovery control, and advance power management providing power savings in NAS. The result is power when and where it’s needed most. IronWolf raises the bar even further with multi-user technology that provides a 180TB/year user workload rate.

“It is critical for businesses with demanding data growth to select the right drive that is optimized for enterprise NAS usage and high capacity data storage,” said Jones Tsai, vice president, Hardware Division at Synology Inc. “Seagate IronWolf works seamlessly with our latest technology developments. With the perfect balance of durability and agility, IronWolf meets the requirements to support running multiple enterprise-level applications developed by Synology on NAS.”

“NAS hardware and software has greatly evolved to cover potentially limitless applications for home and business users. This evolution now calls for a new breed of hard drive that can provide the capacity, performance and flexibility for next-generation QNAP NAS,” said Meiji Chang, GM of QNAP. “IronWolf from Seagate represents a great leap forward for NAS hard drives, and we are amazed at its potential to take QNAP NAS to the next level.”  

SkyHawk 10TB for Surveillance

An industry first, Seagate celebrates its 10^th year of shipping surveillance drives with its latest 10TB SkyHawk offering for surveillance systems relying on large storage solutions for network video recording (NVR). SkyHawk drives use rotational vibration sensors to help minimize read/write errors, and can support the razor sharp vision of 64 cameras, more than any other drive on the market. Ideal for modern, hi-resolution systems running 24/7, SkyHawk drives also come with a data recovery services option for additional peace of mind.

“Seagate pioneered surveillance purpose-built drives more than 10 years ago with Hikvision’s R&D team, and today they continue to lead and partner closely with us to develop surveillance storage solutions of the future,” said RnD director Chenghua Sun at Hikvision. “With the advances in camera technology from 4k to thermal to panoramic recording, Hikvision believes in Seagate’s technology to optimize storage for highest quality recordings and to ensure customer data is safe and secure.”

“Seagate is a powerful storage brand in the surveillance market,” said James Wang, vice president of Dahua Overseas Business Center. “We’re proud to stand-by them as a strategic partner and to introduce the next evolution of Seagate surveillance storage with SkyHawk and an incredible 10TB capacity point.”

“Libraries of digital content continue to expand, both in the home and the workplace,” according to John Rydning, IDC’s research vice president for hard disk drives. “Seagate’s new 10TB HDD product lineup provides consumers and organizations with a range of capacious, on-premise HDD storage alternatives to the cloud that address a wide variety of storage use cases.”

IronWolf and BarraCuda Pro are now shipping worldwide, and SkyHawk is currently sampling to select customers with wide-scale availability to be announced shortly.