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MOTOROLA SHOWS POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR TO FLOATING-GATE FLASH MEM

MASS STORAGE IN A PEZ-SIZED "DISPENSER"

NEC DEVELOPS HIGH-CAPACITY 512 Kb MRAM

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Storage Innovations

APPLE INTRODUCES Xserve RAID STORAGE SYSTEM
Apple has introduced Xserve RAID, the first 3U rack storage system with a massive 2.5TB storage capacity, blazing performance of up to 400 MB/s and the industry's most aggressive price point of just over $4 (US) per gigabyte.

CISCO INTRODUCES OPEN-API PROGRAM FOR STORAGE ISVS
Cisco has announced a technology development program through which the leading independent software vendors (ISVs) in the SAN management and storage resource management (SRM) industries can integrate their respective applications to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches.

DATARAM 1ST TO RECEIVE INTEL 'ADVANCED' MEMORY QUALIFICATION
Dataram Corporation, a leading provider of server, workstation, and PC memory, announced the immediate availability of the first cost effective one gigabyte (GB) monolithic, low-profile memory module to pass Intel's 'Advanced' Qualification Testing at Computer Memory Test Labs (CMTL).

FalconStor DELIVERS INNOVATIVE SERVICES WITH NEW IPStor
Further strengthening its position as a leader in the development of network storage infrastructure software, FalconStor Software Inc has announced a new version of IPStor, which incorporates advanced functionality designed to deliver the highest availability and the most efficient backup and recovery capabilities available today, while maximizing resources and lowering administrative overhead.

MASS STORAGE IN A PEZ-SIZED "DISPENSER"
IOPlus Inc, a manufacturer of USB computer peripheral products, has announced the availability of the company's newest product, the PocketDisk. A compact and portable mass storage disk that is available in numerous memory configurations (16MB - 512MB) is now shipping at estimated street prices as low as $22.95.

JMR INTRODUCES INNOVATIVE FORTRA IDE STORAGE LINE
JMR Electronics, a leading manufacturer of data storage solutions offering the industry's widest selection of Fibre Channel, SCSI and IDE storage systems, has announced its new Fortra IDE line of storage systems, another first-to-market in JMR's long history of storage innovations.

MaXXan LAUNCHES INTELLIGENT STORAGE SWITCH PLATFORM
MaXXan Systems Inc, a leading developer of next-generation storage networking infrastructure, today announced the MaXXan MXV320 intelligent switching platform and the MaXXan SG100 Storage Gateway products.

MOTOROLA SHOWS POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR TO FLOATING-GATE FLASH MEM
Motorola's research on an advanced class of memory techniques, called thin-film storage, could help the industry find a successor to floating gate-based flash memory, which many believe will not scale to smaller geometries.

OVERLAND SIMPLIFIES LIBRARY MGMT WITH LIBRARY PARTITIONING
Overland Storage Inc, a leading provider of storage solutions, has announced the availability of its patented Library Partitioning Option (LPO), a new advancement in storage management. Partitioning for Overland's Neo Series tape library provides an opportunity to simplify storage management with consolidation.

JOINT DEVELOPMENT DOUBLES PRECISE'S SRM NAS MARKET ACCESS
Precise Software Solutions has announced the release of Precise/StorageCentral SRM 5.1, an enhanced version of the company's industry-leading, policy-based SRM solution. Precise/StorageCentral SRM 5.1 dramatically expands Precise's market reach beyond Windows-based support to support for Network Appliance storage solutions, which support heterogeneous storage environments for a variety of data-intensive enterprise applications.

SUN'S NEW ENTRY-LEVEL STORAGE DELIVERS HIGH DENSITY, VALUE
Sun Microsystems Inc has announced the addition of the value-priced Sun StorEdge 3510 Fiber Channel (FC) array and 3310 NAS product that provide best-in-class storage density, more standard ports for increased configurability, NEBS certification, and Mil-Spec compliance for broader flexibility in installation.

VERITAS SOFTWARE DOUBLES DB2 DATABASE PERFORMANCE ON AIX
VERITAS Software Corporation, the leading storage software company, has announced the availability of VERITAS Database Edition for DB2 for the first time on the IBM AIX platform. VERITAS Database Edition for DB2 integrates core volume management and file system technologies specifically optimized to make DB2 databases perform up to two times faster, more highly available and easier to manage.

WESTERN DIGITAL ANNOUNCES FIRST 10,000 RPM SERIAL ATA HD
Western Digital Corp announced recently that it is entering the enterprise hard drive market with an Enterprise Serial ATA product called WD Raptor. The new hard drive offers systems builders and storage vendors enterprise-class specifications: 1.2 million hours MTBF, 10,000 RPM, 5.2 milliseconds (ms) average seek time and a five-year warranty.

Financial Plays Of The Week

Argo21 PARTNERS WITH DataCore IN JAPAN
DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software, has announced a partnership with Argo21, a systems integrator with well-known repair and maintenance bases across Japan.

DOT HILL EXTENDS NAS AGREEMENT WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS
Dot Hill announced recently that it has extended its multi-year product purchase agreement with Sun Microsystems, Inc. The existing agreement, first announced in May 2002, has been extended to include a new private-labeled network attached storage (NAS) product designed and engineered by Dot Hill to Sun Microsystems' specifications and manufactured by Solectron Corp.

SISTINA SECURES $10 MILLION IN FUNDING TO ADVANCE POSITION
Sistina Software, a premier storage infrastructure software company delivering data-sharing solutions for enterprise and technical computing customers, announced recently that it has secured a round of financing from top venture capitalist firms for $10 million.

SPINNAKER LAUNCHES DEDICATED RESELLER PROGRAM
Spinnaker Networks has unveiled a comprehensive reseller program, providing VARs with an unprecedented opportunity to capitalize on the breakthrough distributed storage technology embodied in the company¹s SpinServer 3300 line of enterprise storage solutions.

Enterprise Data Insights

ARKEIA BACKUP PROTECTS VITAL MEDICAL DATA AT OXFORD CENTER
In the highly complex world of medical research, computers play a vital role in areas like data compilation and mathematical modeling. The protection of such data, its convenient storage and retrieval, is essential to such operations.

BlueArc POWERS HPC LABS AT PENN STATE AND RICE UNIVERSITY
BlueArc Corporation, a leader in high performance, highly scalable network attached storage (NAS), announced recently that its SiliconServer Architecture has been adopted by a growing number of university Supercomputing labs, including Penn State and Rice University.

DOT HILL TO DEMONSTRATE HEALTHCARE STO SOLUTIONS AT HIMSS
Dot Hill will display its latest storage solutions including SANnet II and Axis Storage Manager at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition. The exhibition takes place February 10-13, 2003, at the San Diego Convention Center.

NEC DEVELOPS HIGH-CAPACITY 512 Kb MRAM
NEC announced recently at the 2003 International Solid-State Circuits Conference the successful development of 512-kilobit (Kb) cross-point magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) comprising a simple CP-type cell structure that enables high-density data storage. MRAM is expected to be used extensively as next-generation memory in mobile telephones, laptop computers and other computers because of its speed, nonvolatility, low power and high density.

MEDICAL IMAGING THRIVES WITH RORKE DATA AND StorageTek
StorageTek and Rorke Data have formed an alliance aimed at improving the medical industry's access to secure, scalable, open and flexible data storage solutions. Smaller-sized health care organizations with specialized HIS and RIS needs will now have easy access to centralized data through the comprehensive data storage solutions made available with this new health care industry alliance.

U PENN ADOPTS SPSS INC'S DATA/TEXT MINING SOLUTION
The University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute is the first Ivy League adopter of SPSS Inc's integrated data mining and text mining solution. The Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute will be using SPSS Inc's Clementine and LexiQuest Mine solutions to analyze disease processes, with the objective of improving patient outcomes.

STORACTIVE TAPS STORAGE INDUSTRY VETERANS TO FORM BOARD
Storactive Inc, a leader in true real-time data protection technology, has announced the formation of its Board of Advisors, a council of leading storage-industry experts who will advise Storactive on storage technology innovation and help guide the company's future direction.

TERADATA ANNOUNCES SUCESS OF DATA-MART CONSOLIDATION PROGRAM
Signaling a trend in business intelligence, Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, has announced the success of its Data-Mart Consolidation Program, with its customers consolidating more than 400 disparate Oracle, IBM DB2 and Informix data marts into Teradata enterprise data warehouses. Data marts are analytical systems designed to address limited business needs, but they do not provide an integrated view of enterprise information.

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