The lab, the first of its kind in Europe, is equipped with Class 100 clean rooms and Class 10 horizontal flow clean bench environments that protect recovery equipment and client data from contamination.
Kees Nielen, general manager of the new facility, said, “Data is becoming more important and while storing data is vital it is not the only issue. Whether it is a single hard drive, flash, USB, optical, raid system or complex high end tape recovery, we can handle the need.”
Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate – which already operates storage facilities in the US, Canada and Asia – said the new addition is part of a wider move to expand into the storage solutions sector.
“The objective for Seagate Recovery Services is to become a leading provider of services to manage and protect our customers’ digital content throughout its lifecycle.”
The company hopes to target the organisations that cite data availability and recovery as the key IT challenge. Some analysts say this could offer a market of some 74 million small to medium sized businesses worldwide.
