Seagate Wins 2009 Everything Channel Five-Star Award for Partner Program Excellence

Seagate Wins 2009 Everything Channel Five-Star Award for Partner Program
Excellence

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate (Nasdaq:
STX) today announced that the Seagate Partner Program, designed to help
Seagate's channel partners leverage the company's industry leadership,
technology innovation and product reliability to grow their businesses, has
been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America's top
information-technology (IT) partner programs. Seagate was the only hard drive
maker to win this recognition.

The Seagate Partner Program earned the Five-Star certification in the highly
competitive large-volume category - companies with more than $1 billion in
annual revenue - in Everything Channel's 15th Annual 2009 Partner Program
Guide (PPG). Partner programs were evaluated in six areas: sales support,
marketing support, partner profitability, channel operations, communications
and partner recruitment.

Other Five-Star winners in the large-volume category include Microsoft, HP,
Cisco, Oracle and AutoDesk. A list of PPG winners will appear in the March 30
issue of CRN magazine, the channel industry's leading publication, and online
at www.channelweb.com, the world's largest channel industry portal.

The Seagate Partner Program (SPP) is designed specifically for resellers,
system builders, system integrators and solution providers that have aligned
their solutions and customers with the Seagate product portfolio. SPP members
benefit from support, training resources, marketing tools and incentives that
can help them improve service, solve business problems, lower costs, increase
profits, compete more effectively, and improve their hardware and service
delivery infrastructure.

"The prestigious Five-Star honor points to Seagate's steadfast commitment to
our channel partners' success," said John Vossoughi, vice president of
Americas Sales and Marketing at Seagate. "The Seagate Partner Program, now in
its tenth year, continues to evolve to meet the needs of our channel community
-- we continue to reach out to our partners to make the Seagate Partner
Program an essential part of their businesses."

Research for the 2009 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the
Everything Channel Five-Star Program was conducted by Everything Channel's
Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED). IPED analyzed 130 vendor
programs rating vendors' responses to nearly 60 in-depth questions about their
partner programs.

"Now more than ever, the quality of a vendor's partner program determines how
profitable its partners will be," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice
president and editorial director, Everything Channel. "So for their commitment
to their partners, and their efforts to build quality programs, we
congratulate this year's Five-Star Partner Program Guide winners for helping
to drive greater revenue in the channel."

Everything Channel
Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and
accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to
marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the
unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined
with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology
sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides
innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with
the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results. Learn
more at www.everythingchannel.com and www.channelweb.com.

About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of
hard disk drives and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of
applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer
Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business model leverages
technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver
industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal
of being the time-to-market leader 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 http://www.seagate.com.

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of
Seagate Technology LLC. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.

SOURCE Seagate Technology

Michael Hall of Seagate Technology, +1-831-439-2731,
michael.l.hall@seagate.com