Seagate Technology to Open up Patents in Fight Against COVID-19
May 21 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
The latest data storage innovations now
available as part of the Open COVID Pledge and ongoing efforts to
combat COVID-19 around the world
Seagate® Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data
storage and management solutions, today announced that it has
signed the Open COVID Pledge. The pledge grants free access to all
of Seagate’s patented technologies to help enable diagnosing,
preventing, containing, and treating of COVID-19.
The mission of the Open COVID Pledge is to provide access to
every tool at the disposal of businesses and society toward the
goal of rapid development and deployment of technologies in a
massive scale without impediment, in the fight against the COVID-19
pandemic.
“Seagate’s mission is to maximize the potential of humanity,”
said Seagate’s CEO Dr. Dave Mosley. “Never has that been more
important than during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collaboration is going
to be key in the efforts to fight the disease and minimize the
lasting impact. The Open COVID Pledge is another of the amazing
ways we can all work together, and Seagate is proud to be a part of
this pledge to help enable critical access to powerful solutions
for the good of humanity.”
Seagate has already begun to take proactive steps in helping
organizations around the world fight back against the pandemic. A
few examples:
- At the onset of emergency in China, Seagate donated critical
medical supplies to several hospitals in China’s Hubei Province,
including three fully equipped negative-pressure ambulances.
- Seagate contributed storage and compute resources and employees
volunteered their expertise to drive a positive impact on
Folding@home’s COVID-19 program. Folding@home is a
distributed-computing project that relies on a global network of
volunteers who run complex simulations of protein dynamics on their
personal computers. The insights from data are helping scientists
better understand how diseases occur so they can develop targeted
therapeutics. After a little more than a month of contributing to
this project, Seagate’s team has produced impressive results,
vaulting into the top one percent of worldwide teams in terms of
productivity, with more than 9,000 completed work units. The faster
a team can complete a work unit, the faster scientists can get to
work studying these proteins and finding treatments for diseases
like Alzheimer’s, COVID-19, cancer and many more.
- Seagate and Vent-19, a nonprofit developing affordable rapidly
mass producible solutions to help people breathe with ventilators
and other biomedical devices, are working together to apply
Seagate's strengths in high technology, high volume, and low-cost
solutions to help fight the impact of Covid-19.
- Additionally, as part of Seagate's long-term commitment to fuel
its “Data4Good” program, a number of Seagate employees have
volunteered their data science expertise and time to help various
organizations focused on solving key issues associated with the
pandemic. The program identifies opportunities for employees to
directly contribute their skills and a portion of their time to
fight against COVID-19 and makes it easy to apply their skills to
bring about positive social impact.
About Seagate
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potential by innovating world-class, precision-engineered data
management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships.
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