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- Storage Innovations
PoINT JUKEBOX MANAGER SUPPORT FOR TeraCart SERIES LIBRARIES
ASACA Corporation has announced that PoINT Jukebox Manager Version 4.0 from PoINT Software & Systems GmbH, supports ASACA's award-winning line of TeraCart DVD-RAM/R Digital Virtual Libraries (DVLs).
AUSPEX AND HDS VERIFY INTEROPERABILITY OF SAN-NAS GATEWAY
Auspex Systems Inc and Hitachi Data Systems have announced the successful completion of interoperability tests of Auspex's NSc3000 Network Storage Controller, a high-performance file serving platform for Network Attached Storage with Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 and Thunder 9200 systems.
CITRIX MetaFrame XP NOW SUPPORTS NEXT GEN EMC ControlCenter
Citrix Systems Inc has announced MetaFrame XP product support for EMC Corporation's EMC ControlCenter 5.1, one of the industry's most advanced ranges of open storage management solutions designed to help customers efficiently manage and automate complex networked storage environments.
M-SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES NEW DiskOnKey TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
M-Systems, a leader in flash-based data storage products, has announced the DiskOnKey Technology platform for its popular USB keychain storage device.
NETEZZA ROLLS OUT DATA APPLIANCE
Two years after its founding, Netezza has launched its tera-scale data appliance to help Fortune 1000 companies organize and analyze vast amounts of data.
RAINFINITY'S NAS APPLIANCE OFFERS TRANSPARENT DATA MOVEMENT
by John Abbott, the451.com
Rainfinity is using its core clustering and protocol routing technology to break into a new market - storage. The company is launching RainStorage, a management appliance for network-attached storage boxes that enables data migration without downtime.
DataDirect AND MidStream JOIN FORCES
DataDirect Networks, a leading provider of the world's highest performance storage networking appliances, has announced the qualification of the company's Silicon Storage Appliances with MidStream Technology's IP 2000 Series of Video Servers.
SNIA READIES STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEMO
The SNIA will demonstrate CIM-SAN-1, a SAN managed through a single management backbone built on Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) technology.

- Financial Plays Of The Week
ADIC AND SGI ENTER INTO RESELLER ALLIANCE
SGI and Advanced Digital Information Corporation have announced the signing of a reseller alliance that will make ADIC's entire line of automated tape libraries available through SGI's worldwide sales force.
DataPeer AND InteSec PARTNER
DataPeer Inc has announced that it has entered into an alliance with InteSec Group LLC to deliver innovative information solutions to United States government agencies.
KXEN ENTERS INTO TECHNOLOGY AGREEMENT WITH TERADATA
KXEN Inc has announced a technology partner agreement with Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation. The agreement means that KXEN has access to Teradata's latest product offerings and will continue to integrate both companies' best in class technologies.
DISK DRIVE INDUSTRY LOOKS FOR WAYS TO GET OUT OF THE SLUMP
It's been a dismal few years for the disk drive industry, suffering from an extended downcycle, falling prices, consolidation of major players, and a perception problem. And everybody in the industry is still talking about what can be done.
INSCI ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH MIDWEST POWER FILES
INSCI Corp has announced that it has signed a strategic marketing alliance with Kansas City-based Midwest Power Files.
MAXXAN SYSTEMS SECURES $25 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL FUNDING
MaXXan Systems Inc, a leading developer of next-generation storage area networking infrastructure technology, has announced that it has closed on $25 million in additional equity financing.
EMC TO BUY PRISA STORAGE SOFTWARE FOR $20 MILLION
Computer data storage heavyweight EMC Corp plans to announce that it will acquire privately held storage software maker Prisa Networks for about $20 million in cash.
END OF AN ERA: QUALSTAR QUITS ON NINE-TRACK TAPE DRIVES
For years, it was Hollywood's de facto standard for computing: when movies showed computers, they invariably portrayed huge nine-track tape drives, with reels shuttling back and forth, while flashing lights blinked on and off.
StorageTek UNVEILS PURCHASE REBATE PROGRAMS
How does a company make an ironclad data storage investment in a climate of tightening IT budgets?
SUN MICROSYSTEMS TO ACQUIRE PIRUS NETWORKS
Sun Microsystems Inc has announced that Sun has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pirus Networks Inc, a recognized leader in multi-protocol, multi-vendor intelligent storage networking for distributed open systems environments.

- Enterprise Data Insights
CELERA GENOMICS AND APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS GROUPS SELECT EMC
EMC Corporation has announced that Applera is upgrading its computational IT infrastructure supporting Celera's drug discovery and development efforts and the Knowledge Business of Applied Biosystems by replacing its present storage systems with a new EMC global automated networked storage infrastructure.
BLUEARC DELIVERS SiliconServer FOR DIGITAL EFFECTS HOUSE
BlueArc Corporationhas announced that Charlex, a digital design, effects and production house for the advertising, broadcast and entertainment industries, has selected BlueArc's Si7500 SiliconServer to accelerate the company's 3D design and rendering processes.
CA'S BRIGHTSTOR ENTERPRISE BACKUP GETS STRAIGHT A'S
Computer Associates International Inc has announced that Canada's Halton District School Board has selected BrightStor Enterprise Backup to manage and automate its critical data protection operations.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY DEPLOYS EMC AUTOMATED NS
Taking full advantage of EMC's recently announced next-generation EMC CLARiiON storage systems, Case Western Reserve University is implementing an automated networked storage solution that will reduce the personnel requirements for managing its storage infrastructure from 20 to three and increase its overall storage utilization from roughly 20 to 80 percent.
Pre-CES STORAGE VISIONS 2003 CONF SET FOR LAS VEGAS, NV
The executive board of the Storage Visions Conference announced the topic and agenda for their third annual pre-Consumer Electronics Show (CES), set at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada for January 7-8, 2003.
DATA-STORAGE FIRMS DIVIDED OVER SHARING COMPUTER CODES
For an industry whose players agree they must co-operate to prosper, there was plenty of sniping at a data-storage trade show here yesterday.

Top Of The News
Short Takes
- People & Positions
Janpieter Scheerder Joins LiveVault Advisory Board
Former VERITAS Chairman And CEO Joins VERITAS Board Of Dirs

Quote Of The Week
"Data storage now serves the role once held by the printing press. It makes vast amounts of information, entertainment and communication available to the bulk of mankind. Like the books of old, the networked data storage world is the repository of our modern civilization." -- Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates

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