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HOT TIP OR HOT AIR? HITACHI TEAMS WITH InterSAN

EXABYTE DEAL WITH IBM PROVES FRUITFUL

EMC/DELL TEAM UP AND AIM LOW WITH THE NEW CX200

Features

Storage Innovations

ADIC BOOSTS PERFORMANCE/CAPACITY OF SDLT LIBRARIES BY 45%
Advanced Digital Information Corporation has announced the industry's broadest range of automated tape libraries using Quantum Super DLT 320 drives, and the first SDLT 320 libraries designed with integrated storage networking support to improve the performance and reliability of SAN backup.

ASTRUM ANNOUNCES ACTIVE STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Astrum Software has introduced a new storage management solution for actively managing data-intensive, mission-critical applications and enterprise storage resources.

BakBone/NETWORK APPLIANCE TEAM TO DELIVER SIMPLIFIED BACKUP
BakBone Software and Network Appliance Inc have announced that BakBone's NetVault is compatible with the Network Appliance NearStore product line. The joint solution provides enterprise customers with a cost-effective, easy to manage, and reliable backup and recovery nearline solution.

DOT HILL INTRODUCES SANnet II HIGH AVAILABILITY DS SYSTEMS
The SANnet II family of storage systems provides industry-leading 99.9998+ percent uptime in a compact, rugged enclosure. SANnet II brings enterprise class features into the workgroup and virtually eliminates downtime with no single points of failure.

EMC/DELL TEAM UP AND AIM LOW WITH THE NEW CX200
By Ryan Naraine
Looking to develop a presence in the lucrative low-end computer storage market, EMC Corp recently unveiled the CLARiiON CX200 network storage system, a new device co-designed and built in partnership with Dell Computer.

NEW ORGANIC DYE TECHNOLOGY FOR BLUE-VIOLET LASER WORM DISCS
Fuji Photo Film Co Ltd is pleased to announce the development of next-generation blue-violet laser write-once, read-many (WORM) optical discs produced using an exclusive new organic dye coating technology that is ideally suited to mass production.

IBM DRIVES BLUEFIN; DELIVERS IMPROVED, AUTONOMIC STORAGE
IBM has launched a new initiative to accelerate the delivery of interoperable storage management products using the "Bluefin" specification.

MAXTOR, ADAPTEC DRIVE TRANSITION TO ULTRA320 STO SOLUTIONS
Maxtor Corporation and Adaptec Inc have announced an alliance to ensure the interoperability of Maxtor's high-performance, Atlas 10K III Ultra320 SCSI hard drives and Adaptec's Ultra320 SCSI RAID controllers.

MCDATA INTRODUCES SANTEGRITY AUTHENTICATION
McDATA Corporation has announced the first demonstration of SANtegrity Authentication and the management of advanced storage networking security features through McDATA's SANavigator.

StorageNetworks LAUNCHES STANDALONE BACKUP SOFTWARE MODULE
StorageNetworks Inc, a leading provider of storage management software and services, has announced STORos StorageManager for Backup software.

VICOM DEVELOPS LONG DISTANCE DATA MIGRATION
Vicom Systems Inc announced that the company has created with LightSand a long distance data migration system that uses synchronous mirroring technology to quickly and reliably replicate large amounts of data over distances up to 8000 kilometers.

Financial Plays Of The Week

CHAPARRAL NETWORK STORAGE TEAMS WITH FalconStor
Chaparral Network Storage Inc and FalconStor Software Inc have announced the incorporation of FalconStor's IPStor software with select models of the Chaparral RIO RFF288 and RFF244 RIO DISK Storage Subsystem, to be marketed and sold as Chaparral RAIDar Provisioning Services.

CIPRICO/SGI EXPAND PARTNERSHIP FOR RUGGEDIZED STO SOLUTIONS
Ciprico Inc and SGI announced recently that they have expanded their strategic partnership by signing a new contract enabling SGI to offer Ciprico's TALON storage solution to its government customers.

PowerQuest ACQUIRES CORE COGNET ASSETS
PowerQuest Corporation, a provider of storage lifecycle automation solutions to businesses worldwide, has announced the acquisition of core assets of Cognet Corp, a developer of software for managing corporate information technology assets.

EXABYTE DEAL WITH IBM PROVES FRUITFUL
By Lyn Berry-Helmlinger
Exabyte Corp is proving it knows a thing or two about resiliency and survival. Following a huge market share loss in the '90s, a merger with Boulder-based rival Ecrix Corp, the departure of former CEO Bill Marriner and hundreds of job cuts, the 18-year-old data storage company continues to edge toward profitability.

Enterprise Data Insights

ALACRITECH AND LEADING VENDORS SHOWCASE IP STORAGE APPS
Alacritech Inc hosted a multi-vendor, real-world IP storage application demonstration at the Storage Networking World (SNW) conference.

InterSAN JOINS LEADERS TO ACCELERATE INTEROPERABILITY
InterSAN Inc, a leading provider of applications-based storage area management (SAM) software, announced recently that it has joined with 19 leading storage vendors, also SNIA members, to accelerate interoperability in multivendor storage area networks (SANs).

HOT TIP OR HOT AIR? HITACHI TEAMS WITH InterSAN
By Simon Robinson for the451.com
InterSAN - one of an emerging breed of storage area management software startups - has secured its first significant relationship with a tier-one storage vendor after announcing that Hitachi Data Systems will be reselling its Pathline storage provisioning software both directly through its own sales force as well as via its reseller channel.

NETWORK APPLIANCE SHOWS NEARLINE STORAGE MARKET LEADERSHIP
Network Appliance Inc has announced an important milestone in the nearline storage market: NetApp NearStore solutions have been deployed at more than 100 customer sites around the world.

NCSA STANDARDIZES ON BROCADE SilkWorm 12000 SAN PLATFORM
Brocade Communications Systems Inc announced recently that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has expanded its Brocade SAN infrastructure, based on the SilkWorm 12000 Core Fabric Switch. NCSA's SAN is designed to handle high-performance data transfer and retrieval for its 80 Terabyte (TB) storage solution.

AdvanceMed DIAGNOSES DATA DILEMMA WITH FUJITSU'S SOFTEK
Softek has announced that AdvanceMed Corporation, a leading e-health decision support company, has realized an immediate and significant return on investment from implementing Softek's enterprise storage resource management solution, Softek Storage Manager.

SURVEY: RESELLERS, END USERS DISAGREE ON FUTURE OF STORAGE
A new survey of data storage end users and resellers reveals a wide disparity in their opinions on the future of networked storage. However, both sides agree that despite increased interest in alternate media, tape is and will continue to be the predominant medium for storage.

THE WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE STANDARDIZES ON BROCADE
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is implementing one of the world's largest SANs to manage soaring data demands and support their contribution of one-third of the Human Genome Project, which will complete the archival sequence of the human genome in the next two years. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute currently has 85 Terabytes (TB) of data and anticipates adding 60 to 80 TB of storage per year for the next five years.

NERSC DEPLOYS ZAMBEEL AZTERA NETWORK STORAGE SYSTEM
Zambeel Inc has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has implemented a Zambeel Aztera storage system and software to accelerate the productivity of scientists running high performance scientific simulations and computations.

Z-force DEMONSTRATES 47TB NAS ARRAY RUNNING MORE THAN 2 GB/s
Z-force Inc, the inventor of the "file switch," recently announced that it has successfully demonstrated the world's largest single NAS file system and the first heterogeneous "NAS Array" infrastructure.

Top Of The News

Hardware
DiscStaQ Improves Performance Of IBM Deskstar 180GXP
EMC, Microsoft Build Huge SAN

Short Takes

Financial Watch
Zarve Joined Hands with Spectra Logic
Brocade Announces Preliminary Q4 2002 Results
Storage Engine Announces Third Quarter 2002 Results
Losses Cut At Auspex
People & Positions
LEGATO's Sheila Childs Elected Chairperson Of The SNIA
Hitachi Data Systems Executives Elected To SNIA Positions

Quote Of The Week

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