SanDisk® Corporation today introduced Cruzer® Professional and Cruzer® Enterprise, two USB flash drives that deliver strong security and state-of-the-art speed to business users. Cruzer Professional is primarily for individuals and small businesses who want to protect crucial data while also making it easy to share selected files. Cruzer Enterprise is primarily for medium and large organizations that require mandatory policy enforcement, central management and regulatory compliance.
Cruzer Professional and Cruzer Enterprise offer password protection and virtually ironclad data security through hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption. Hardware-based encryption is much more reliable than the software-based security used in most consumer USB flash drives with password protection, because software-based protection relies on the host computer – which can be compromised by spyware and other threats -- to perform security operations. Cruzer Professional and Cruzer Enterprise are true plug-and-play devices, requiring no software installation on a host computer, so the drives will connect instantly to any computer running a modern version of Microsoft Windows.
Cruzer Professional and Cruzer Enterprise are also very fast, with read speeds of 24 megabytes (MB) per second and write speeds of 20 MB/sec. This reduces waiting time, which is particularly noticeable when moving large files such as business presentations and video productions.
Cruzer Professional and Cruzer Enterprise are both available now in the United States. They are expected to be available in Europe in July, and in Asia later this year. Cruzer Professional and Cruzer Enterprise are compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003.
Cruzer Professional comes in three capacities, with manufacturer’s suggested retail prices (MSRPs) as follows: 1 gigabyte2 (GB) for $54.99 (about €40), 2GB for $94.99 (about €70) and 4GB for $144.99 (about €107). Cruzer Enterprise comes in the same three capacities, with MSRPs as follows: 1GB for $74.99 (about €56), 2GB for $124.99 (about €93) and 4GB for $184.99 (about €138).
Source: Sandisk.
