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THE COST OF EMAIL

IMATION CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MAGNETIC TAPE TECH

NEW SPINNAKER NAS GATEWAY SCALES FROM 1 TO 11,000TB

Features

Storage Innovations

AGERE SYSTEMS' TrueStore ENABLES BREAKTHROUGH
Agere Systems has announced its new read-channel integrated circuit (IC) specifically designed to enable the highest capacity desktop and mobile hard disk drives currently under development. This next-generation chip, the first in Agere's family of TrueStore components for storage applications, delivers increased functionality and signal integrity, driving higher levels of data storage capacity for disk drive manufacturers.

AlphaNet SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES NEW SERVICE DESK SOLUTION
AlphaNet Solutions Inc, a leading IT professional services firm providing a full range of outsourced IT operations and learning solutions, has announced the immediate availability of a Managed Enterprise Storage Portal (MESP), a new managed storage offering enabling companies to seamlessly integrate and manage their storage assets across the enterprise while reducing the costs of IT operations.

BiTMICRO Teams with Solution-Soft On Integrated File I/O Sto
Solution-Soft Systems Inc and BiTMICRO Networks Inc have announced they are joining efforts in identifying and resolving application input/output (I/O) and access time bottlenecks by deploying a best of breed, highly efficient integrated solid state disk (SSD) and storage management software solution.

BROADCOM'S ServerWorks ENTERS STORAGE CONTROLLER MARKET
ServerWorks Corporation, a Broadcom company and a leading independent supplier of high-performance SystemI/O integrated circuits for servers, workstations and storage platforms, announced recently that it has commenced sample shipments of its new line of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) host controllers.

BrightStor SAN MANAGER OPTIMIZES MULTIVENDOR STORAGE NETS
Computer Associates International Inc (CA) has announced the general availability of BrightStor SAN Manager, a comprehensive storage area network (SAN) solution that radically simplifies the administration and troubleshooting of multivendor SANs.

FileTek ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF SAP NETWEAVER
FileTek Inc, a data management software developer, has announced strategic participation in, and technological support for SAP NetWeaver, SAP's Enterprise Services Architecture. FileTek is an SAP Partner that provides its StorHouse product for SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) users desiring to store and relationally access large amounts of historical data.

HP UNVEILS ENHANCEMENTS TO HP StorageWorks MODULAR SAN ARRAY
HP has unveiled major enhancements to the HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000 that drive down the cost of entry-level storage area network (SAN) solutions and broaden support for customers with heterogeneous server environments.

PNY INTRODUCES NEW OPTIMA CompactFlash CARD
PNY is enabling professional photographers and photo enthusiasts alike the ability to capture and transfer images at sustained write speeds of up to 3.2 megabytes per second (MB). PNY's new high-end Optima CompactFlash cards provide a lightning fast 21X data transfer rate, so digital information can be captured quickly.

SanDisk INTRODUCES MEMORY STICK PRO
SanDisk Corporation has introduced the SanDisk Memory Stick PRO, a new Memory Stick form that incorporates a variety of advanced capabilities to enable Memory Stick PRO-optimized devices to capture and play back DVD-quality video in real time as well as store CD-quality music, high resolution digital images and other applications that require high performance and large capacities.

NEW Snap GuardianOS ENABLES INTEGRATED ANTI-VIRUSPROTECTION
Snap Appliance Inc, a worldwide volume leader of network attached storage (NAS) products, has announced the release of the new GuardianOS v2.2, featuring increased security and functionality.

NEW SPINNAKER NAS GATEWAY SCALES FROM 1 TO 11,000TB
Spinnaker Networks, a leader in the development of next generation distributed storage systems, has announced the SpinServer 3300G, a NAS gateway that combines the most scalable and highest performance NAS solution from Spinnaker with SAN storage support from industry leading vendors.

StorCard, xwave DELIVER SOLUTIONS FOR NEW SECURITY DEMANDS
StorCard Inc, a pioneer in secure, portable storage products, and xwave one of Canada's largest IT-services companies, have announced that they have joined forces to deliver innovative security solutions targeted to meet a broad range of government requirements.

TOSHIBA ANNOUNCES 128MB PSEUDO SRAM FAMILY
To meet the growing demand for higher density memory with low-power consumption for next-generation mobile systems, Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc (TAEC) with its parent company, Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba), have announced a family of 128 megabit (Mb) Pseudo Static Random Access Memories (PSRAM).

Financial Plays Of The Week

COGNOS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF ADAYTUM
Cognos, a world leader in business intelligence (BI), announced recently that it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Adaytum, a global leader in enterprise performance planning (EPP).

McDATA JOINS MICROSOFT FOR ENTERPRISE DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS
McDATA Corporation, a worldwide leader in open, ultra-high availability storage networking solutions, has announced its participation with Microsoft Corp in developing the Microsoft Systems Architecture for the Enterprise Data Center (MSA EDC), a pre-tested data center infrastructure implementation that delivers predictable results.

ManagedStorage SECURES $22 MILLION IN PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDING
ManagedStorage International Inc has announced the completion of $22 million in equity funding and the acquisition of substantially all of the assets related to the DataVault storage services business of Sanrise Inc.

MTI BECOMES BROCADE QUALIFIED SUPPORT PARTNER
MTI Technology Corp, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions for more than two decades, announced recently that it has joined the Brocade Qualified Support Partner (QSP) program. The Brocade QSP program is designed to accelerate companies' migration from direct-attached to networked storage by training and authorizing services partners to service and support Brocade products.

Enterprise Data Insights

EGENERA ADDS NAS SUPPORT FOR BLADES, PROMISES MS OS SUPPORT
By John Abbott of the451.com
Egenera, one of the earliest of the blade server startups, released a NAS-only option for its BladeFrame servers at the end of last year. It initially worked on the project with Network Appliance, but says the work is applicable to any network-attached storage devices, not just those from NetApp. Egenera, which has focused on high-end blade servers designed as replacements for monolithic enterprise Unix boxes, is also preparing to add support for Windows Server 2003 (until recently known as Windows .NET Server 2003), which Microsoft plans to launch in April.

THE COST OF EMAIL
By Debbie Moffat
Data storage has become so cheap, why should anyone care about e-mail archive management? After all, it's easy enough to buy additional disk drives for your e-mail servers and move on to more important concerns…right? Wrong. According to the Gartner Group, despite the fact that hardware costs will continue to decline at about 25 percent to 35 percent per year, data storage will eat up the majority of server-related budgets by 2004.

IMATION CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MAGNETIC TAPE TECH
Imation Corp, a worldwide leader in removable data storage media, is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first data storage tape introduced commercially in 1953, and its own half-century as a manufacturer of tape media. Imation also will chart the future of removable data storage media and the mission to get to one-terabyte cartridges by the end of the decade.

SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES TO DRIVE StorageTek REVENUE
Hours after StorageTek pre-announced that Q4 financial results will exceed analysts' expectations, Bobby Kocol, StorageTek chief financial officer, reiterated the company's strategy at the Needham Growth Conference in New York. He said that the company is well positioned to grow its business in 2003 because it has the resources, the products, the services and the presence to address complex business issues better than its competitors.

SNAP APPLIANCE READIES UNIFIED NAS-SAN SYSTEMS FOR THIS YEAR
By John Abbott of the451.com
It's been nearly three months since Quantum announced that is was divesting itself of its low-end Snap network-attached storage business. The resulting new company, Snap Appliance, is now starting to talk about its plans for the future, including a forthcoming line of combined NAS-SAN systems due to be delivered in the second half of the year.