Seagate Unveils New Program to Drive Business Growth With Key, High-Value Americas Channel Partners

 SEAGATE UNVEILS NEW PROGRAM TO DRIVE BUSINESS
GROWTH WITH KEY, HIGH-VALUE AMERICAS CHANNEL PARTNERS


SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — October 29, 2007 — Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX)
today unveiled a new program designed to spur business growth for its
high-value North American system builders by providing dedicated support
and exclusive resources that can help these channel partners reduce costs,
increase profits and improve their hardware and software delivery
infrastructure. The new program, Seagate Premier, focuses on
top-performing system builders that are hard-drive volume and strategic
category leaders in new growth segments such as surveillance and rugged
solutions.

“Success in the channel is key to Seagate’s overall market leadership
strategy,” said John Teeple, director of Americas Marketing at Seagate.
“Seagate Premier allows us to focus our efforts in areas of tremendous
growth potential for both Seagate and our channel partners. Seagate is
pleased to be strengthening our commitment to these partners by offering
enhanced tools and benefits that can help our Premier Partners accelerate
their business growth and ultimately become more profitable.”

Seagate Premier, part of the Seagate Partner Program (SPP), takes aim at
helping Seagate’s high-performing channel partners thrive in an
increasingly competitive industry. SPP Premier membership offers enhanced
benefits such as named Seagate account management support, product and
solution training, solution seminars, partner matchmaking events, and
eligibility to access market development funds. SPP Premier members also
receive all the standard SPP benefits including quarterly web seminars and
evaluation units, sales incentives and product rebates, and monthly
newsletters.

“SPP Premier is a differentiator in the crowded system builder marketplace
and a perfect complement to Seagate’s application-specific and mainstream
hard drives,” said Craig Hayes, executive vice president, of Newegg.com.
“SPP Premier’s enhanced product and solution training and marketing
development funds will allow us to better tune products to customers’
needs and enable us to identify and reach new customers and markets.”

“SPP Premier is a terrific addition to the tools we need to grow with
Seagate and our channel business,” said Royson Ng, president of Samtack.
”Seagate’s new product and solutions tools and market development dollars,
in particular, will enable Samtack to plan and market more strategically,
as well as effectively target new customers.”

The Seagate Partner Program is designed to provide system builders and
resellers with channel programs and tools to grow market share, increase
profits, and accelerate their time to market. The program focuses on
providing national, regional and local whitebox and whitebook system
builders with the technical expertise and marketing resources needed to
deliver Seagate storage to a broader range of customers. For more
information on the Seagate Partner Program, including membership sign-up
details, please visit spp.seagate.com.

About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing
of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of Enterprise,
Desktop, Mobile Computing, and Consumer Electronics applications.
Seagate’s business model leverages technology leadership and world-class
manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its
global customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in which
it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning
products, customer support and reliability to meet the world’s growing
demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and
at www.seagate.com.

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trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC.