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Storage Innovations

ACIRRO LOOKS TO SIMPLIFY NAS MANAGEMENT IN COMPLEX ENVIRONS
By Ben Worthen
Acirro's product, Acumula, simplifies the management of network attached storage (NAS) devices across the WAN and eliminates redundancy. But while Acirro makes a network administrator's job easier, the target audience is actually the CIO, who can use it to reduce costs.

ADVANTECH NAS-1100 DATA STORAGE DEVICE FOR SMALL BUSINESS
ADVANTECH has released its latest NAS Appliance, the NAS-1100, a 1U storage device suitable for small to medium businesses.

IMATION IMPLEMENTS GENTRAN INTEGRATION SUITE
Sterling Commerce announced recently that Imation Corp, a world leader in removable data storage media, is in production with Gentran Integration Suite to automate online product orders and translate foreign language business information.

IOMEGA 720GB NAS UNIT SHIPS WITH IOMEGA AUTOMATIC BACKUP SW
Iomega Corporation has launched the Iomega NAS P415 in both Microsoft and UNIX versions, adding a 720GB NAS server to its family of NAS products. Designed for the growing storage needs of small and medium-sized businesses and enterprise workgroups, the NAS P415 offers easy installation and seamless support of multiple network environments and file protocols.

LSI ROLLS OUT ATA RAID
LSI Logic has begun shipping its latest storage adapter, which it says is perfect for desktops, workstations and entry-level servers.

IBM PIXIE DUST PUSHES PORTABLE STORAGE TO 80GB
By Martyn Williams
IBM says an enhancement to its 'Pixie Dust' technology has enabled it to break the current storage density record for hard drives and to produce the highest capacity mobile hard drive yet.

Financial Plays Of The Week

BROCADE BAGS RHAPSODY NETWORKS
By Clint Boulton
In yet another demonstration that the data storage sector is an arms race in which major factions are snapping up startups to bolster their offerings, Brocade Communications Systems snapped up rival Rhapsody Networks for $175 million in stock.

CreekPath Systems CLOSES OVERSUBSCRIBED SERIES B FINANCING
CreekPath Systems has announced the closing of its oversubscribed Series B financing with total commitments of more than $16 million, bringing the total raised funds to over $36 million.

ELPIDA'S NEW PRESIDENT HAS BIG PLANS FOR HIS COMPANY
Elpida Memory Inc, the memory-chip joint venture between NEC Corp and Hitachi Ltd, aims to be the world's third-largest memory-chip maker within the next three years, the company's new president said.

SAN SOLUTIONS AND FALCONSTOR PROVIDE CO-LOCATION SOLUTION
FalconStor Software Inc has announced that it has teamed with SAN Solutions to deploy FalconStor's IPStor as the network storage infrastructure at Europe's most advanced neutral co-location company, to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery for itself and its hosted customers.

IBM TO SLASH SOME DATABASE PRICES
International Business Machines Corp said recently that it would slash the price on the new version of its database for mid-size companies and simplify pricing on its updated high-end database.

NEW ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATES LEADS $16MIL CreekPath FINANCING
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) announced recently that it has invested $10 million in CreekPath Systems, a leading software development company that is setting the pace for the market in delivering integrated Storage Resource Management (SRM) solutions.

Enterprise Data Insights

TI PUSHES FERROELECTRIC RAM FORWARD IN MEMORY RACE
By Peter Clarke
Texas Instruments Inc is jumping into the next-generation universal memory fray with hard-hitting support for ferroelectric RAM, heralding its suitability as a replacement for embedded flash and embedded DRAM.

SURVEY: COMPUTER USERS EXPECT DATA TO GROW
Almost two-thirds of respondents to a survey by an Orlando computer data storage company said they expect their data to grow between 200 percent and 500 percent in the next two years.

BEST PRACTICES IN STORAGE WINNERS RECOGNIZED AT SNW ORLANDO
IDG's Computerworld, in partnership with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), has announced the winners of the 'Best Practices in Storage' awards program, a new addition to the Storage Networking World conference, held at the Renaissance Orlando Resort in Orlando, FL.

INDUSTRY BATTLE OVER STORAGE FORMAT
Two competing technologies which enable more than 20GB of data to be stored on each side of an optical disk are nearing commercialization, leading to fears that the industry could be split between support for one format or the other.

DATA HANDLING EASED
By Dennis Callaghan
Enterprises faced with the daunting task of managing hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of records in data warehouses are finding that job scheduling applications can ease their data management headaches.

Q&A: BellSouth CIO FRAN DRAMIS ON REDISTRIBUTING STORAGE
By Lucas Mearian
BellSouth Corp has seen its disk-based storage grow 130%, from 239TB to 550TB, during the past three years, even as its tape-based storage rocketed from 350TB to 2 petabytes -- mainly due to business growth from new electronic channels and business continuity planning efforts, including creation of redundant systems.

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People & Positions
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Quote Of The Week

"The industry is in a race to see which memory technology will succeed -- ferroelectric, MRAM, or Ovonic -- as the low-power, high-density, non-volatile embedded memory." -- Dennis Buss, Texas Instruments

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