Imation has made availablke its next-generation IronKey S250 and D250 hardware-encrypted flash drives. The newest IronKey flash drives feature faster performance, a redesigned control panel that supports multiple languages (German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, in addition to English,) and new remote management capabilities in its rugged design.

IronKey Enterprise S250 and D250 devices can be remotely recovered, reset, and forced into a read-only mode, all from Imation's cloud security service.

Dual-channel flash memory gives file read performance of up to 31 MB/second and write speeds of up to 18MB/second.

The IronKey S250 and D250 flash drives are available in Basic, Personal and Enterprise editions for enterprise and personal use. The IronKey flash drives deliver protection against data loss and are validated to meet the Security Level 3 requirements of the FIPS 140-2 standard, which fully support corporate and government compliance strategies.

The Personal and Enterprise editions feature built-in identity protection that allows users to securely surf the web, and the IronKey password vault to store and protect user passwords. The Enterprise edition adds centralized remote administration through Imation's cloud security console, which supports full life cycle management for deploying and managing dozens to thousands of secure flash drives.

The D250 capacities range from 2GB – 64GB and the S250 capacities range from 2GB – 32GB.

Both new flash drives are designed for use with Microsoft Windows XP SP2+/Vista/7; Mac OS X 10.5+ (including Mountain Lion OS) and Linux 2.6+.

Manufacturer's list pricing ranges from $US109 to $US599 for S250 and $US89 to $US599 for D250 models; reseller prices may vary.