On October 30th, Seagate Technology LLC and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. held a ceremony to commemorate ten years’ partnership at Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center of China. Dahua Technology VP and General Manager of the Domestic Business, Mr. Zhang Wei, and Seagate Technology Global VP and President of China Region, Ms. Sun Dan, were present at the ceremony to celebrate their ten years’ partnership and join hands in riding the new wave of artificial intelligence in the development of the security industry.
Seagate and Dahua
During the event, Seagate awarded Dahua the title of “Seagate Global Security Strategic Partner”, further strengthening its cooperation between the industry leaders and continuing to jointly develop market opportunities and drive the development of the security industry.
Seagate is a global leader in the field of data storage solutions. Ten years ago, Seagate established a specialised sales and technical team and started partnering with surveillance equipment manufacturers. Seagate Technology Global VP and President of China Region, Ms. Sun Dan, noted that during the ten years of cooperation between Seagate and Dahua, a strategic relationship was formed and many high-performance, large-volume, and high-reliability storage products had been released to provide stronger support to video surveillance storage.
Higher performance products and solutions
“In addition to the procurement and deployment of products, the partnership between Dahua and Seagate also involved all-rounded and in-depth joint effort in the hard disk technological evolution, customised research and development, and market promotion”, stated by Mr. Zhang Wei, Dahua VP and general manager of Dahua Domestic Business. “Dahua and Seagate have long been more than just a simple customer and supplier relationship – we are strategic partners whose mutual cooperation is based upon a high degree of trust and interdependency.”
After the event, Mr. Shi Dong, channel business director of the Domestic Business, and Mr. Feng Li, senior product marketing engineer, stated that Dahua will launch in-depth cooperation with Seagate and introduce higher performance products and solutions to meet higher customer requirements.
Integrated cloud and edge computing
As a part of its “Cloud Ecosystem, Smart Future” strategy, Dahua articulates “end-to-end computing” which integrates cloud and edge computing. Dahua actively expands into fields such as smart cities, intelligent transportation, and smart homes, offering professional and differentiated services, which in turn raises the bar for the product technologies and project services of both parties. During the ceremony, the two sides unanimously expressed that they would make full use of their own technologies, talents, resources, and other advantages to form cohesion and continue innovation, jointly building a more thorough new ecosystem within the video IoT industry.
