Bruce Helart

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

NexGen Storage, Inc. operates as a computer data storage company. It offers both Storage QoS for managing performance and Service Levels for critical application performance. The company was founded by John W. Spiers and Kelly C. Long in 2010 and is headquartered in Louisville, CO.