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SUPERCOMPUTING '02 SHOWS EVOLUTION OF STORAGE NETWORKING

STORAGE TRAVELS INTO THE FUTURE

IS THE DATA STORAGE FIELD FINALLY LEARNING TO COOPERATE?

Features

Storage Innovations

BREAKTHROUGH SYSTEMS LAUNCHES FIBRE CHANNEL SCSI FIRMWARE
Breakthrough Systems Inc, a provider of advanced SCSI interface solutions to the storage OEMs, has announced the availability of its Fibre Channel SCSI-3 Target Firmware (FC-STF) for the QLogic FibreFAS family of cost-effective, high performance Fibre Channel controllers.

BOCADA SHIPS BACKUPREPORT SUITE 2.0
Bocada Inc, a Storage Intelligence Company, has released BackupReport Suite 2.0, the latest version of its agentless, multi-vendor Storage Intelligence solution.

DiskSites DELIVERS BRANCH OFFICE FILE STORAGE SOLUTION
DiskSites Inc has announced the availability of W-NAS, a groundbreaking solution for consolidating branch office file storage. W-NAS was developed by DiskSites to enable companies with file storage in multiple branch offices to simply eliminate the need for such file storage, but letting branch office users work directly with a central file server at the data center.

OTHER WORLD INTRODUCES 200GB EXTERNAL FireWire DRIVE
Other World Computing has introduced three new Mercury Elite Pro external FireWire storage solutions featuring the industry's largest and fastest hardware. The new drives break performance and size barriers with 8MBs of cache and storage capacities of 200, 180 and 120 Gigabytes (GBs).

IOMEGA SHIPS NEW 720GB NAS
Iomega, the company that earned its reputation by bringing the world 'Zip' drives, has launched the Iomega NAS P415 in both Microsoft and UNIX versions, adding a 720GB NAS server to its family of NAS products.

Flex-P ANNOUNCES 1 GIGABYTE TYPE 1 COMPACT FLASH CARD
Flex-P Inc recently announced its 1.0 Gigabyte Type 1 Compact Flash Card, a result of its successful development of its own patented flash memory controller chip. Flex-P continues to accelerate towards setting new standards for flash memory data storage with a solutions roadmap that includes flash memory/data storage far beyond the 1.0 Gigabyte level.

OKAPI INTRODUCES REMOTE TAPE APPLIANCES UNDER $1,000
Okapi Software, a recently launched iSCSI applications company bringing IP storage to the enterprise, has introduced its ipXtensionCord remote tape appliances that operate at 10/100 and GbE network speeds.

PACIFIC DIGITAL INTRODUCES TWO EXTERNAL USB STORAGE PRODUCTS
Pacific Digital Corporation, a leader in storage and multimedia solutions, introduced two external USB 2.0 storage products at COMDEX this year. The new products are a fast 52X CD burner and a hard disk drive (HDD) kit, available with 120, 80 or 60GB.

TEXAS MEMORY SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF RamSan-220
At the Oracle World Exhibition Hall, Texas Memory Systems announced general availability for the RamSan-220, a solid state disk leveraging 2Gbit Fibre Channel to accelerate disk I/O performance for the most demanding applications.

VERBATIM FIRST TO LAUNCH 4X DVD+R WRITE-ONCE MEDIA
With a recent announcement of 4x-speed DataLifePlus 4.7GB DVD+R media, Verbatim Corporation became the first media manufacturer to offer DVD+R that supports 1x, 2.4x and 4x write speeds. At 4x speed (44 megabits per second or about 36x CD-R performance), a 4.7GB DVD+R disc can be filled to capacity in about 15 minutes.

Financial Plays Of The Week

StorageTek CANADA TO RESELL AUSPEX NSC3000 CONTROLLER
Auspex Systems Inc has announced a reseller agreement authorizing StorageTek Canada Inc, a subsidiary of StorageTek, to market the Auspex NSc3000 Network Storage Controller in conjunction with StorageTek disk products.

DATA I/O CORP AND M-SYSTEMS COLLABORATE ON DiskOnChip
Recently at Electronica in Munich, Germany, Data I/O Corporation and M-Systems announced that both companies will collaborate to provide FlashCORE based programmer support for M-Systems' line of DiskOnChip products.

FUJIFILM LICENSES THE LTO ULTRIUM FORMAT GENERATION 2
HP, IBM Corporation, and Seagate Removable Storage Solutions, the technology provider companies (TPCs) for the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program, have announced that Fujifilm is the most recent licensee of the Ultrium format Generation 2.

NETREON AND UNISYS SIGN STO MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
Netreon Inc recently announced a business relationship with Unisys Corporation under which Netreon will develop storage management technology that Unisys will include in future releases of its Storage Sentinel solutions.

OVERLAND AND ATTO MAKE JOINT STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
Overland Storage Inc and ATTO Technology Inc, a worldwide manufacturer of Fibre Channel and SCSI storage-infrastructure solutions, have announced a joint strategic technology development agreement.

StorageTek JOINS BMC SOFTWARE'S ACSM CONSORTIUM
StorageTek announced recently that is has joined BMC's Software's ACSM Consortium. This alliance will enable StorageTek and BMC Software to combine their technology expertise to provide interoperable solutions that address today's data storage management challenges throughout the information life cycle.

VERITAS SOFTWARE ACQUIRES NTP SOFTWARE'S STORAGE REPORTER
VERITAS Software Corporation, a leading storage software provider, announced recently that it has acquired NTP Software's Storage Reporter, a storage reporting product that gives IT managers a detailed view of their enterprise storage usage and more control over storage management and its associated costs.

Enterprise Data Insights

MANAGING DATA IN COMPLEX SAN ENVIRONS: AN ADIC CASE STUDY
At the Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate's Starfire Optical Range, where researchers are working on the world's fastest and most accurate adaptive optics, the team had to solve the problem of storing, protecting, and accessing their research data. Due to recent advances in sensors and processing hardware, the scale of the task grew significantly.

HP STORAGE SYSTEM BOOSTS PERFORMANCE OF AFFINA'S INFO SYS
HP has announced that AFFINA, a leader in providing comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) services to Fortune 1000 clients and government agencies, has implemented a complete computing infrastructure based on HP's storage area network (SAN) technology.

BENELOGIC BENEFITS FROM DELL EMC STORAGE
Benelogic LLC, a leading provider of software applications to help simplify employee benefits administration, has implemented a Dell EMC storage area network (SAN) to more efficiently host its application software products.

WorldCare DEPLOYS FalconStor's IPstor
FalconStor Software Inc has announced that WorldCare Inc, a leading provider of global e-health services and solutions, has chosen FalconStor's IPStor to ensure optimal performance, efficient capacity utilization, and fast and secure access to critical information.

IS THE DATA STORAGE FIELD FINALLY LEARNING TO COOPERATE?
By Justin Pope
What do railroads, computer networks and laser printers have in common? They all started out as neat, but unwieldy, ideas -- until they adopted uniform standards and the industries took off.

INKRA SCORES WITH IBM
By Eugenie Larson
Inkra Networks looks as if it's ready to play with the big guys: the data-center switchmaker announced recently that it has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with IBM Global Services.

M-SYSTEMS ENLISTS WILLIAM MORRIS TO TARGET ENTERTAINMENT
William Morris Consulting recently announced a marketing partnership with M-Systems' DiskOnKey product division. The goal of the relationship is to build alliances for M-Systems within the entertainment and media markets enabling the company to introduce its DiskOnKey technology to music publishers, gaming companies, broadcast studios and networks.

NVIDIA CORPORATION SELECTS SPECTRA LOGIC AIT TAPE LIBRARIES
Spectra Logic Corporation announced recently that NVIDIA Corporation chose Spectra Logic as its library provider of choice. NVIDIA chose Spectra Logic's enterprise libraries for their dynamic drive sharing capability as well as high performance.

SUPERCOMPUTING '02 SHOWS EVOLUTION OF STORAGE NETWORKING
By Henry Baltazar
Last week, two technology demonstrations provided a glimpse of the incredible storage networking power that will soon be available in the future. IT managers who made the trip to Baltimore for Supercomputing 2002 instead of journeying to the bright lights of Comdex Las Vegas were rewarded with demos by SGI and StorageTek that pushed the limits of scalability and speed for storage networking.

STORAGE TRAVELS INTO THE FUTURE
Growth in data stored over the past decade has forced radical changes in storage technology. The switch from direct-attached to networked storage started in the late 1990s, and is steadily gathering momentum.