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ARROW LAUNCHES SECOND ENTERPRISE STORAGE LAB

Cylink NetHawk CERTIFIED TO PROVIDE SECURITY FOR COMPAQ

IMATION OUTLINES DATA STORAGE FOCUSED STRATEGY

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Storage Innovations

ARROW ELECTRONICS LAUNCHES SECOND ENTERPRISE STORAGE LAB
Enterprise Storage Solutions, a division of the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics Inc, launched its second Universal Enterprise Storage Lab in Minneapolis.

Cylink NetHawk CERTIFIED TO PROVIDE SECURITY FOR COMPAQ
E-business security provider, Cylink, announced that it has been certified to work in Compaq's SANworks Data Replication Manager Fibre Channel and Internet Protocol (FC-IP) solution for more flexible management of customers' business continuity systems.

DataDirect NETWORKS TO PRESENT APPLIANCE-BASED 2GB SOLUTION
DataDirect Networks to present scalable, high performance appliance-based 2Gb solutions at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC2002).

EXABYTE ANNOUNCES SECOND GENERATION 160 GB VXA TAPE DRIVE
Exabyte Corporation, a performance and value leader in tape backup systems, announced the introduction of its second-generation VXA tape drive.

FalconStor & StorageTek PARTNER TO CAPTURE AUSTRIAN MARKET
FalconStor Software Inc, a leading provider of network storage infrastructure software and StorageTek, an expert in high-performance, efficient digitized data storage, announced their collaboration to win the Austrian storage market.

IMATION OUTLINES DATA STORAGE FOCUSED STRATEGY
Asserting that "the value is in the data," chairman and ceo Bill Monahan and the senior management of Imation Corp unveiled the elements of the company's strategy focused on the data storage removable media industry before an audience of investors and analysts.

DataDirect AND SANDIA TO DISCUSS HIGH-THROUGHPUT
DataDirect Networks, a leading provider of one of the world's highest performance storage networking appliances, will be presenting the real-world results of appliance-based infrastructures when Dov Cohen from Sandia National Laboratories joins DataDirect's Bob Woolery at Network Storage 2002.

SUN DELIVERS HIGHER LEVELS OF MANAGEABILITY
Sun Microsystems announced it is delivering on the promise of SANs with the new Sun StorEdge Open SAN Architecture.

Financial Plays Of The Week

EDGEWATER TECH AND OPTICAL IMAGE TECH CREATE ALLIANCE
Edgewater Technology and Optical Image Technology create alliance to deliver enterprise content management solutions. The industry leaders form a strategic partnership to streamline the implementation of business-critical document imaging solutions.

MONOLITH CORPORATION JOINS DATAFLUX ALLIANCE PROGRAM
DataFlux Corporation, a SAS Company and leading provider of data quality and data integration solutions that increase the accuracy and reliability of enterprise-wide data assets, announced that it has signed Monolith, Raleigh, NC, to the DataFlux Alliance Program as a referral partner.

ORACLE MEETS EXPECTATIONS FOR NET PROFIT
Oracle Corporation, one of the world's second-biggest software companies, posted a net profit that was down from last year but in line with Wall Street estimates, as quarterly revenue.

ParallelDB JOINS THE EMC DEVELOPERS PROGRAM
ParallelDB joins the EMC developers program for real-time, open, active target database replication: ParallelDB to integrate open, real-time, "active-active" remote replication solutions for EMC storage environments.

RINGFOTO TO SELL SANDISK'S LINE OF FLASH MEMORY CARDS
Ringfoto will provide the complete SanDisk product line to more than 2,500 Photo retail outlets in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Czech Republic.

SAP HAS CONTINUED SUCCESS IN UPSTREAM OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Marathon Oil Company among many of the world's leading oil and gas companies to realize benefits with e-business functionality of mySAP Oil & Gas.

STRATUS TO RESELL COMMVAULT GALAXY SOFTWARE AND SERVICES
CommVault Systems, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions, and Stratus Technologies, maker of the world's most reliable servers, have signed a worldwide reseller agreement.

Enterprise Data Insights

WELLS FARGO BANK SOFTWARE TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING
Wells Fargo will announce that it plans to launch new software to combat money laundering. The software, from enterprise software company Searchspace, uses artificial intelligence to weed out any activity deemed suspicious. Wells Fargo plans to have the software up and running by the end of the year.

FORRESTER RESEARCH DEFINES ORGANIC IT
Organic IT, the next corporate computing revolution, presents CIOs with a new, holistic way to think about technology, investments and deployment.

SAS READIES SOFTWARE FOR INTEL ITANIUM 2 PROCESSOR
SAS and Intel Corporation announced that the latest release of SAS software will soon be available for servers based on the forthcoming Intel Itanium 2 processor.

TERADATA'S CUSTOMERS TAKE 8 BEST PRACTICES AWARDS
Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, announced that its customers dominated the Data Warehousing Institute awards competition by taking eight of the 15 prestigious 2002 Best Practices Awards.

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People & Positions
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Quote Of The Week

"Customers don't just want to be told what works and what is available; They want to see it in action. The Storage Security Showcase, as part of FCIA's Interoperability Lab, will dispel storage security myths and encourage the use of available security features." -- Ed Von Adelung, Managing Director of the FCIA

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