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- Storage Innovations
DATA SHARING COMPANY CORIGIN ABOUT TO COMPLETE $5M 1ST ROUND
Israel start-up Corigin, which specializes in data sharing solutions, is in the advanced stages of a $5 million financing round, according to Corigin vice president of sales Ami Zuaretz.
IBM PLAYS "TAG 'N SEEK" TO SPEED DESKTOPS
IBM is expected to announce that "tag 'n seek" technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.
KASTEN CHASE UNVEILS ADVANCED SECURITY ARCHITECTURE FOR SANS
Kasten Chase has introduced an advanced security architecture for networked storage. Kasten Chase's Assurency Secure Networked Storage is the first storage security solution to introduce certificate-based authentication for a wide variety of storage network devices.
LUCENT AND STORAGE COMPUTER: CROSS-COUNTRY OPTICAL NETWORKS
Lucent Technologies and Storage Computer Corporation have announced the completion of the world's first live optically connected storage network using Fibre Channel Over IP technology for real time data mirroring and replication through an OC-48 network, traversing distances exceeding 2,100 miles.
McDATA RAISES THE BAR - AGAIN - WITH INTREPID 6140 DIRECTOR
McDATA Corporation has announced the worldwide availability of its Intrepid 6000 Series 140-port Director, an industry standard for building the world's largest, most scalable and reliable enterprise storage networks.
NeoScale NAMED THEME LEAD FOR STORAGE SECURITY AT SNW 2002
NeoScale Systems Inc has announced that it will be demonstrating its transparent storage security solution at Storage Networking World's Interoperability and Solutions Demonstration lab.
SERVERS/SOFTWARE DESIGNED FOR NAS AND SANS IN SAME ENVIRON
While IT budgets are expected to remain flat or increase only slightly in the coming year, the demands for data storage won't adhere to such a conservative growth curve.
NETWORK APPLIANCE DEBUTS NEW MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Network Appliance Inc has announced management products, programs, and partnerships that enable simple, single-point control of storage appliances within a data infrastructure and help maintain business continuance.
StorageTek/BakBone PROVIDE SOLUTIONS FOR TERADATA DW MARKET
BakBone Software has announced a joint offering with StorageTek to provide Teradata data warehouse customers direct access to enterprise-class tape silos through BakBone NetVault.
SUN ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF NEW 3300 SERIES
Continuing the momentum of Sun's recent storage management software and virtualization announcements, Sun Microsystems Inc has announced the Sun StorEdge 3300 Series, extending its promise of Complete Storage Solutions by delivering enterprise features into the workgroup.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
SUN REVAMPING LOW-END STORAGE SYSTEMS
Sun has launched the first of a new range of lower-end storage setups, the fruit of a partnership with storage-system maker DotHill. The new 3000 line of storage systems is designed to be paired with Sun's lower-end servers, everything from its eight-processor V880 down to its LX50 Linux server.
AUSPEX AND HITACHI ANNOUNCE ASIA PACIFIC RELATIONSHIP
Auspex Systems Inc and Hitachi Data Systems have announced a reseller agreement involving the Auspex NSc3000 Network Storage Controller, the first universal file-serving solution for Storage Area Networks (SANs).
BROCADE AND NETWORK APPLIANCE EXPAND PARTNERSHIP
Brocade Communications Systems Inc and Network Appliance Inc have announced that they have signed an OEM partnership agreement.
HEWLETT-PACKARD AND EMC SUE EACH OTHER
Hewlett-Packard Co and EMC Corp have launched dueling patent infringement suits on data storage technology, as the two biggest firms in that industry lock horns.
EMULEX'S BACKLOG UP AT YEAR-END
Storage-networking equipment maker Emulex Corp said in a regulatory filing that its order backlog at the end of fiscal 2002 was up 30 percent from a year earlier, but analysts said similar disclosures in the past had not been meaningful.
2G FibreChannel SAN INTERCONNECTION HW REVENUE GROWS 317%
Worldwide revenue for 2G FibreChannel SAN interconnection hardware grew 317% between the second half of 2001 and the first half of 2002, according to Infonetics Research's worldwide market share and forecast service, SAN Interconnection Hardware.
StorageTek TO OUTSOURCE DEVELOPMENT/MANUFACTURE OF SN6000
StorageTek has announced a decision to outsource development activities and the manufacturing for the StorageNet 6000 at its facilities in Minneapolis and Toulouse, France.
- Enterprise Data Insights
SWEDISH NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF SOUND/IMAGES CHOOSES DIMENSION
The IT integrator Dimension has received an order from the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images for a data storage solution for archival material and backup for existing systems.
FUJIFILM OPENS DOOR TO DATA STORAGE UNIVERSITY
To help fill the current knowledge gap about the importance of data storage technology and its business and personal applications, the Computer Products Division of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc has launched an objective, innovative online learning center, Data Storage University.
ORACLE AND EMC OPEN JOINT SERVICE CENTER
EMC Corporation and Oracle Corporation have announced the opening of the Oracle and EMC Joint Service Center (JSC), delivering both deeper service support and quicker problem resolution for their shared customers.
QUEST STANDARDIZES ON EMC AUTOMATED NETWORKED STORAGE
EMC Corporation has announced that Quest Diagnostics Incorporated has standardized on EMC automated networked storage to improve the quality and accuracy of medical-testing services through more reliable, efficient and faster sharing of vital information.
SGI: PROTECT OR PERISH
By Winston Raj for IDG
With 16 years in sales and marketing, Bob Bishop knows all about protecting one's own turf. That's why the chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics Inc is bent on making inroads into the crowded high-end storage market.
TERADATA DEBUTS UPGRADE: TERADATA 7.0
Teradata will debut a major upgrade of the Teradata suite that's designed to help erase the gulf between IT used for strategic and tactical business intelligence. Teradata 7.0 is the first real embodiment of 'active data warehousing.'
IEEE KICKS OFF 'ENCRYPTED SHARED MEDIA' STANDARD FOR STORAGE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association has begun to develop a new standard, IEEE P1619, "Standard Architecture for Encrypted Shared Media," to help protect information in comprehensive storage environments.
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