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Seagate Technology to Open up Patents in Fight Against COVID-19
The latest data storage innovations now available as part of the Open COVID Pledge and ongoing efforts to combat COVID-19 around the world FREMONT,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe latest data storage innovations now available as part of the Open COVID Pledge and ongoing efforts to combat COVID-19 around the world\n\n FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nSeagate® 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.\n\n\nThe 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.\n\n\n“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.”\n\n\nSeagate has already begun to take proactive steps in helping organizations around the world fight back against the pandemic. A few examples:\n\n\n\nAt 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.\n\n\nSeagate 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 pr...