For
Immediate Release:
16
April 2001
Western Digital Brings Saudi IT Users
Unprecedented Reliability, Storage Capacity
World’s Leading Manufacturer of PC Hard-Drive Technology Builds on No. 1 KSA
Market-share
Jeddah,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
To
better enable Saudi corporate IT users to benefit from the
ever-increasing requirements for PC data storage, Western Digital – a
world leader in personal computing storage – today announced at
Jeddah’s COMDEX Saudi Arabia IT exhibition, the availability of its
highest capacity performance desktop EIDE hard drive which offers 80
gigabytes (GB) of digital storage.
“Western
Digital is committed to providing Saudi corporate users with
best-of-breed, first-to-market, broad-based storage capacity,” said
Rauf Baig, Western Digital sales manager with responsibility for the
Kingdom’s growing desktop PC storage market demands.
“The
newly launched 80 GB Western Digital hard drive empowers Saudi users
with the capacity and performance needed for storage-rich activities,
such as Internet downloads, digital images storage, movie and music
downloads, Internet gaming, and home video editing,” added Baig.
The
third in a series of product developments in the performance-desktop
category by Western Digital, the new WD Caviar 7200 RPM hard drive
family combines the performance benefits of high-speed hard disks with a
new three-disk design to offer desktop PC users faster access to more
applications and data than ever before.
Western
Digital’s growth rate for its operation in the Kingdom has more than
doubled for the year 2000 with a growth rate of 60 %.
“Western
Digital is enabling the Saudi market with innovative, affordable, and
reliable desktop PC storage solutions,” said Homoud M. Saleh, general
manager of Nahil Computers, Western Digital’s largest partner in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. “Western Digital has earned the No.1 position
in the Saudi market by winning the trust of our customers,” added
Saleh.
Western Digital’s advanced PC storage
technology will be on display at the exhibition stands of its long-term
partners, Al-Yousef Computers and Jamjoum
Electronics.
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About
Western Digital
Western
Digital, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders,
provides products and services for people and organizations that
collect, manage and use digital information. Its core business, hard
drive solutions, produces reliable, high-performance hard drives that
keep users' data close-at-hand and secure from loss. Applying its data
storage core competencies to emerging markets, Western Digital's new
ventures meet the increasing demand for innovative information
management solutions arising from the proliferation of the Internet and
broadband services. Keen Personal Media provides interactive personal
video recorder and set-top box software, services and hardware for
broadband television content management and commerce. Connex designs
Network Attached Storage products that enable IT managers to quickly
expand network storage, and software that simplifies the central
management of Storage Area Networks. SageTree is a software company
providing enterprise manufacturing and supply chain analytic
applications.
Western
Digital was founded in 1970. The Company's storage products are marketed
to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers under the
Western Digital brand name. Visit the Investor section of our Web site (www.westerndigital.com)
to access a variety of financial and investor information.
For
further information, please contact:
Wallis
Marketing Consultants
T:
(971-4) 332-3225
F: (971-4) 332-3228
E-mail: wallismc@emirates.net.ae
Attn: Mr. Michael E. Wallis, Mr. Nawfal Al-Jourani
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