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ST. VINCENT HOSPITAL DEPLOYS BROCADE SAN INFRASTRUCTURE

HP AND IBM EXPAND STORAGE INTEROPERABILITY INITIATIVES

ARMY NATIONAL GUARD AUTOMATES OPERATIONS WITH EMC

Features

• Storage Innovations
  
  ALACRITECH BROADENS PRODUCT LINES/INTRODUCES NEW PRODUCTS
  Alacritech Inc has announced that the company is broadening product lines and introducing new products to provide all segments of storage and networking markets with the industry's first TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) and acceleration software.
  
  BakBone SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES Oracle9i SUPPORT FOR LINUX
  BakBone Software, a global provider of storage management software, has announced the expanded availability of its NetVault Oracle RMAN Application Plugin Module (APM) for Linux.
  
  HP AND IBM EXPAND STORAGE INTEROPERABILITY INITIATIVES
  HP and IBM have announced a new interoperability milestone intended to help enable customers to more easily deploy open storage networks.
  
  IOMEGA SHIPS WINDOWS POWERED IOMEGA NAS SERVERS
  Iomega Corporation has announced that it is now shipping a new line of Windows Powered Iomega Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers, built with an optimized version of Windows 2000 technology.
  
  PLASMON AUTOMATED LIBRARIES SUPPORT DOUBLE-SIDED DVD-R MEDIA
  Plasmon has announced support for double-sided DVD-Recordable media in its D-Series DVD/CD libraries. Use of double-sided media effectively doubles the storage capacity of the library without increasing the footprint.
  
  FUJITSU SOFTEK GUARANTEES 25% INCREASE IN UTILIZATION
  By utilizing Softek storage management software, Softek guarantees that it can show customers a way to improve enterprise storage utilization by at least 25 percent, resulting in dramatic cost savings and deferred capital expenses.
  
  StoneFly NETWORKS ANNOUNCES FIBRE CHANNEL SUPPORT IN i1500FS
  StoneFly Networks has announced the Storage Concentrator i1500FS, the industry's first IP SAN appliance with 'plug and play' access to existing storage, including support for Fibre Channel storage devices.
  
  SUN DELIVERS NEW CIM-COMPLIANT SAN MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
  Sun Microsystems Inc has announced Sun StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager software for SAN management. Designed to help lower customers' storage TCO, the new software provides a centralized management platform for viewing and managing storage environments.
  
  UniTrends INTRODUCES ITS DPU LINE OF STORAGE APPLIANCES
  UniTrends' DPU products represent a tangible step forward in data storage technology, enabling companies of all sizes to cost-efficiently reap the benefits of lightning-fast backup and restore of information, coupled with the ability to recover crucial information within minutes in case of a total computer crash.

• Financial Plays Of The Week
  
  CISCO TO BUY STORAGE SWITCH MAKER
  Cisco Systems Inc, a leading maker of equipment that directs Internet traffic, has said it will buy privately held Andiamo Systems Inc to expand its presence in the storage switch market.
  
  FalconStor AND LUMINEX PARTNER UP
  FalconStor Software Inc and Luminex Software Inc have announced their partnership to collaborate on enabling mainframe storage management using FalconStor's IPStor storage management software.
  
  RHAPSODY NETWORKS AND FalconStor INK MAKE AGREEMENT
  Rhapsody Networks and FalconStor Software Inc have announced that they will deliver an advanced solution to help enterprises more effectively manage large and growing corporate data requirements.
  
  SAMSUNG AND SanDisk SIGN PATENT CROSS LICENSE
  Samsung Electronics Co and SanDisk Corporation have announced that they have dismissed lawsuits that they had filed against each other and signed cross license and supply agreements covering flash memory technology.
  
  StorageTek ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH SINE NOMINE ASSOCIATES
  StorageTek has announced an agreement with Sine Nomine Associates (SNA) allowing StorageTek customers to engage Sine Nomine to provide comprehensive third party implementation, training and consulting services for StorageTek SnapVantage software to manage virtual servers in Linux for System/390 environments.

• Enterprise Data Insights
  
  ADIC NAMED MARKET SHARE LEADER AGAIN
  Advanced Digital Information Corporation has announced that the company has again been named market leader for the largest segment of the worldwide tape automation market by a leading analyst firm.
  
  ARMY NATIONAL GUARD AUTOMATES OPERATIONS WITH EMC
  The Army National Guard has purchased more than 200 terabytes of EMC networked storage systems and software and services to automate and streamline administrative functions and increase focus on war fighter operations.
  
  NetWorld+Interop AND COMDEX ATLANTA FOCUS ON NETWORK STORAGE
  Recognizing that challenging economic times are forcing companies to think more strategically about network storage, Key3Media Group Inc has announced that NetWorld+Interop and COMDEX Atlanta will highlight critical storage issues, leading storage providers, and key storage technologies, September 9-13, 2002, at the Georgia World Congress Center.
  
  ST. VINCENT HOSPITAL DEPLOYS BROCADE SAN INFRASTRUCTURE
  St. Vincent Hospital and Healthcare Services, which supports more than 400,000 patients a year across eighty facilities, has deployed Brocade SAN infrastructure, including the SilkWorm 12000 Core Fabric Switch, as the highly available, intelligent foundation for its mission-critical enterprise SAN.

Top Of The News

• Hardware
  Iomega Announces The New Zip 750MB Drive
  Maxtor Joins Intel and Eurologic to Showcase Storage Tech
  Promise Technology Delivers Affordable ATA Raid 5
  PSS Introduces Lowest Power 1Mb Flash Memory
  Qualstar Ships Quantum SDLT 320 Drives
  Samsung To Mass-Produce 1-Gigabit NAND Flash Memory Chips
  
  
• Apps & Analytics
  AxCell Biosciences/IBM Explore Pathways To Disease
  Braun Consulting/Business Objects Bring BI To BEA Weblogic
  
  
• Storage
  Hitachi Selects Adaptec RAID Cards For HA8000 Series Servers
  Fujitsu Announces Volume Production of MAP Series HD Drives
  Net One Systems and IBM Japan to Form Joint SNS Venture
  Procom Increases Scalability Of NetFORCE 1750
  
  
• Networking
  Actona Technologies Secures $7 Million in Series B Funding

Short Takes

• People & Positions
  Astute Networks Names New president and CEO

Quote Of The Week

"In this economy, faced with inefficient hardware-centric overprovisioning, it is critical for IT departments to develop automated policy-based management to increase the utilization of their existing resources." -- Steve Duplessie, founder, Enterprise Storage Group

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