Western Digital Allies with ‘Phillauri’ as their digital storage partner

Phillauri (Saved on WD) poster

Western Digital, a leading digital storage provider, has announced its association with film production houses Fox Star Studios and Clean Slate Films Private Limited - Anushka Sharma and her brother Karnesh Sharma's production house, one of long awaited movies ‘Phillauri’. WD has provided the film production house with its world-class storage products for studio editing, post-production, and storing top notch special effects. As part of the association the company has provided the production house with key storage products. These products have been used by Fox Star Studios & Clean Slate Films for studio editing, post-production, and storing world-class special effects.

Media companies are investing heavily in migrating from the traditional to digital value chain to achieve efficiency in processes and save costs. With digitization, managing assets and control over content, from the script to screen processes, is enhanced. Digitization also enables collaboration between geographically spread entities, distribute content through multiple media gateways and open new avenues for monetization of content. 

“Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest computer hard disk drive and solid state drives manufacturer, which enables creative professionals to store, collect, access, and use a vast and growing body of digital information. Our entertainment industry is growing at a high speed and editing requires high performance storage devices and we at WDC are trusted leaders.” said Khalid Wani, Managing Director for India Sales, Western Digital Corporation.

“Movies are shot on high end camera’s but the challenge is where to store these without compromising the quality of the footage. There is a continued need for storage high end workflows. Western Digital Corporation is a storage which is reliable with a huge capacity of terabytes. This association showcases the vital role storage products plays for production houses.” said Karnesh Sharma, Producer, Clean Slate Films.

As part of the association, Western Digital also offered an exciting chance to meet the star cast of the movie ‘Phillauri’ in an exclusive Meet & Greet event on 22nd of March in New Delhi. Additionally, the purchase of WD products under this promotion at www.flipkart.com and www.amazon.in also  allowed the first thousand purchasers to receive a free gift. The promotional offer lasted until March 20^th, 2017.

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SEAGATE launches world's thinnest 2TB mobile Hard Drive with BACKUP PLUS ULTRA SLIM

New Compact External Drive Provides High-Capacity Storage for Users to Manage Their Digital Lives

Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced the launch of the Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim, the world’s thinnest 2TB mobile hard drive. This new product builds on the award-winning Backup Plus Slim drive, delivering a stunning new design with the same leading capacity in an even slimmer profile. The Backup Plus Ultra Slim also includes 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage and Lyve software compatibility, so users can back up, access and share their favorite files from any device or location.

Pricing and Availability

The Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim gold and platinum finishes are now available exclusively from Amazon India at INR5699 for 1TB, INR8399 for 2TB. However, we spotted 2 TB version for 6,905 only on Amazon.in

Seagate BACKUP PLUS ULTRA SLIM

“The launch of the Backup Plus Ultra Slim builds on Seagate’s rich history of award-winning innovation to give users even more capacity in an incredibly small form factor,” said Tim Bucher, vice president for Seagate’s Consumer Group. “Based on our breakthrough ultra-mobile hard drive technology, this new storage solution gives them a better way to manage the increase in both data volumes and number of devices.”

Sleek New Design for Ultimate Portability and Capacity

At just 9.6mm, the Backup Plus Ultra Slim external drive employs Seagate’s latest 2.5-inch HDD technology, making it more than 50 percent thinner than other 2TB drives on the market. Thanks to its low-profile, high-capacity design, users can keep more than 500,000 songs, 320,000 photos or 240 hours of high definition video in their pocket*. Available in gorgeous golden or platinum metal finish, this sleek new product is designed to complement the looks of stylish computers, tablets and phones.

One-Click or Customizable Backup

The Backup Plus Slim includes Seagate Dashboard software, which offers users either one-click on-demand or customizable, scheduled backups for their devices. This allows users to schedule backups for when it’s most convenient.

Simple Cloud Storage and Management

Backup Plus Ultra Slim comes with 200GB of free Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage for two years, which lets users share and access their favorite files anywhere on a mobile device or a PC. The Backup Plus Ultra Slim also includes Lyve software, which helps users to protect precious photos and videos from their digital cameras and smartphones and automatically organizes them into a single unified library accessible from any mobile device or computer.

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