Intel® Solid-State Drive Pro 2500 Series Brings Trusted Security Features and Lower Cost of Ownership to Business
July 22 2014 - 12:30PM
Business Wire
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- By increasing performance and limiting
downtime, the Intel® SSD Pro 2500 Series delivers industry-leading
TCO for businesses of all sizes.
- With hardware-based encryption, the
Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series helps mitigate the threat of costly data
breaches without diminishing performance.
- Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series delivers
security features and a manageable storage platform for the level
of uncompromising performance demanded by today’s businesses.
Intel Corporation today announced an addition to the Intel®
Solid-State Drive (SSD) Professional Family: the Intel® SSD Pro
2500 Series. This new business-class SSD delivers lower total cost
of ownership, security and manageability features, and blazing-fast
SSD performance demanded by today’s business users.
Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series offers IT departments peace of mind
with advanced security features and capabilities designed for
businesses ranging from small companies through large IT-managed
enterprises. Security and remote manageability features, combined
with lower annual failure rates than hard disk drives (HDDs), help
to reduce the need for resource-intensive deskside visits.
Managing data security is critical for businesses and a
challenge for IT leaders. Data breaches, often a result of lost or
stolen PCs, can cost a business nearly $50,000 in lost
productivity, replacement, data recovery and legal costs.1 To help
businesses mitigate the threat of such costly breaches, the Intel
Pro 2500 Series SSDs are self-encrypting drives (SED) utilizing
hardware-based 256-bit encryption to protect data without a loss of
performance. Additionally, the new Intel drives feature the Trusted
Computing Group’s OPAL 2.0* standard and are Microsoft eDrive*
capable. These policy-based controls help to prevent data breaches
and support crypto erase to repurpose the drive for reuse.
“The need to protect assets, keep an eye on the bottom line and
ensure employees have the best tools is a challenge for IT
departments,” said Rob Crooke, Intel corporate vice president and
general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. “The
Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series is a well-rounded solution to help
balance those often competing needs. Adding the Pro 2500 Series to
the Intel SSD Professional Family delivers a powerful storage
solution to help businesses of all sizes meet their critical IT
needs.”
“The Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series is the second-generation
OPAL-based client storage solution that helps IT departments
protect their users’ data and also provides valuable features to
reduce operational costs,” stated Candace Worley, senior vice
president and general manager, Endpoint Security, McAfee*, part of
Intel Security. “The Pro 2500 Series is a perfect companion to our
data protection solutions, managed by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator*,
all working in concert to provide IT departments with data
security, management and control, wherever their endpoints may
be.”
In an environment with Intel® vPro™ Technology, with Intel®
Setup and Configuration Software and leading security software, the
Pro 2500 Series drives can be managed remotely allowing IT to
monitor and report drive health as well as track assets and remedy
faults. This remote manageability enforces IT policies to help
prevent mishaps and simultaneously provides a great user
experience. Embedded and Internet of Things applications can also
take advantage of the remote manageability features to help limit
the number of IT professionals needed to oversee devices. To assist
in protecting user data and lower the total cost of ownership,
applications such as ATMs and remote digital signage can be
updated, monitored and managed remotely.
“Corporations of every size are facing the growing challenge of
protecting sensitive data and ensuring compliance with a litany of
data protection laws and regulations,” said Bill Solms, president
and CEO of Wave Systems*. “The Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series offers a
sound foundation for any data security program, incorporating
hardware-level encryption without impacting drive performance.
Wave’s on-premise and cloud-based management software complements
the Intel SSD Pro 2500 by offering remote drive provisioning,
automated password recovery and secure audit logs to document that
encryption was in place should a laptop become lost or stolen.”
The Intel SSD Professional Family is part of the Intel® Stable
Image Platform Program, including a 15-month availability of the
components and drivers for compatibility and stability across a
qualified IT image. This helps minimize IT qualification and
deployment times. The Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series also features five
advance power modes helping to balance performance and power to
enable a longer battery life and provide a better mobile
experience.
The Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series will be available in both 2.5-inch
and M.2 form factors and in capacities ranging from 120GB to 480GB.
The Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series is backed by a 5-year limited
warranty and features a world-class annualized failure rate (AFR)
well below 1 percent. The AFRs of other SSDs and HDDs can reach as
high as 5 percent or more in mobile environments.
More information on Intel SSDs can be found at www.intel.com/ssd
or by accessing the multimedia press kit at
www.intel.com/newsroom/ssd. Follow Intel SSDs on Twitter:
@intelssd, or communities.intel.com.
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation.
The company designs and builds the essential technologies that
serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. As a
leader in corporate responsibility and sustainability, Intel also
manufactures the world’s first commercially available
“conflict-free” microprocessors. Additional information about Intel
is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com, and about
Intel’s conflict-free efforts at conflictfree.intel.com.
1The Billion Dollar Lost Laptop Problem, Ponemon Institute,
2010
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