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- Storage Innovations
ASACA TO SHOWCASE FireFly DM DIGITAL VIRTUAL LIBRARY AT NAB
On April 7th at NAB's booth # SL521, ASACA, a 30-year high-density storage solutions leader, will demonstrate the new FireFly DM series digital virtual library, an evolution in video storage.
HYNIX RELEASES 1ST COMMERCIALLY APPLICABLE MEGA-LEVEL FERAM
Hynix Semiconductor Inc has announced the successful introduction of its commercially applicable FeRAM (Ferroelectric RAM), a non-volatile, low power, high-density and high speed memory ideal for next-generation mobile and SoC (System on Chip) applications.
InoStor INTRODUCES NEXT EVOLUTION OF RAID
InoStor has announced RAIDn, a revolutionary means of protecting 24/7/365 storage. Available for licensing now, RAIDn will deliver unparalleled reliability without sacrificing performance or capacity and at an affordable price point -- unavailable in conventional RAID schemes available today. The patent-pending technology is positioned to radically change the way businesses deploy RAID across storage networks by ensuring that mission critical databases are available even when multiple concurrent drive failures occur.
McDATA DEMONSTRATES OpenTrunking AND SANtegrity ZONING
McDATA Corporation has announced at CeBIT 2003 an evolution to a higher intelligence in storage networking. Starting now, McDATA has made available to customers two new technology advancements that greatly increase the performance and security of storage networks. McDATA's OpenTrunking and hardware-enforced SANtegrity Zoning increase the intelligence already found in McDATA storage networking solutions.
PRINCETON SOFTECH EXPANDS ACTIVE ARCHIVING TO HP-UX/CENTERA
Princeton Softech, a pioneer and leader in active archiving technologies, has announced the general availability of Princeton Softech's Archive for Servers 5.1 with support for Hewlett-Packard's widely used HP-UX UNIX operating environment.
PROCOM TO DEMONSTRATE ENHANCEMENTS TO NetFORCE AT CeBIT 2003
Information technology professionals from all over Europe will have a chance to experience the latest advancements in storage solutions when Procom Technology demonstrates its newly enhanced NetFORCE(R) series network-attached storage (NAS) filers at CeBIT 2003 in Hannover, Germany, March 12-19.
SEAGATE DEMONSTRATES INDUSTRY'S 1ST SAS STORAGE SOLUTION
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is making its way into the arena as Seagate Technology begins demonstrating its SAS technology with HP at CeBIT. The event marks the first time that products using SAS are being shown in live functional demonstrations.
SimpleTech ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY STANDARD 4GB DDR MEMORY MODULE
SimpleTech Inc, a leading provider of Flash-based storage and custom and standard memory solutions, announces the 4GB DDR memory module, which incorporates the company's patented IC Tower stacking technology to deliver the highest capacity currently available in a single unit module. The four-bank DIMM is offered in a standard 184-pin configuration, providing the ideal solution for high-end servers supporting memory-intensive applications.
SPECTRA LOGIC DOUBLES FC SPEEDS WITH SECOND G2 F-QIP
Spectra Logic Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high-performance tape libraries for data protection and backup, has announced the release of a second-generation Fibre Channel Quad Interface Processor (G2 F-QIP), which integrates 2GB Fibre Channel in its enterprise tape libraries. End users can deliver faster backup and restore speeds of 175 megabytes (MB) per second (compressed), which more than doubles the speed of the first generation F-QIP.
StorageTek PLANS UPGRADES FOR BladeStore
StorageTek announced recently that it is accelerating the release of enhancements to BladeStore during the second and third quarters. Enhancements include the addition of replication and mirroring to the existing BladeStore implementations and will allow customers to put both the industry leading D-Series arrays into the same configuration as the BladeStore.
SuperMicro TO UNVEIL SERIAL ATA STORAGE AND SERVER SOLUTIONS
SuperMicro Inc, a leader in the design and manufacture of server solutions and motherboards, announced it will showcase two Serial ATA RAID solutions at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. On display will be the SW7033A-T, a high-end mini-tower server/workstation, and SuperMicro's new SC942 storage chassis complete with 15 Serial ATA drives.
ZyLAB LEVERAGES XML TO ENHANCE DS AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT
ZyLAB, a developer of document imaging and full-text retrieval software, announced recently that it has enhanced its ZyIMAGE data storage and records management & archival product suite by incorporating XML as the data format to store scanned and electronic documents.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
BELL MICROPRODUCTS EXPANDS RELATIONSHIP WITH EMC
Bell Microproducts Inc, a leading value-added provider of storage products and solutions, announced recently that it has expanded its relationship with EMC Corporation enabling it to distribute EMC's line of CLARiiON Networked Storage Systems in the Americas.
iQstor SIGNS RESELLER AGREEMENT WITH SKYWAY TECHNOLOGIES
iQstor Networks Inc, developer of integrated Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, announced that it recently signed a master reseller agreement with Skyway Technologies Ltd to resell, service and support its full line of integrated SAN solutions in Hong Kong, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea and India.
MaXXan ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN EXPANSION
MaXXan Systems Inc, a leading developer of next-generation storage networking infrastructure, has unveiled its international expansion plans and announced the opening of its first European office in the United Kingdom.
TrueSAN, SGI FORGE ALLIANCE TO OPTIMIZE SANs IN HPC ENVIRONS
TrueSAN Networks Inc has announced a strategic alliance with SGI to integrate TrueSAN's Cloudbreak storage networking software with SGI Total Performance storage systems. With this alliance, both companies will collaborate on bringing the advanced storage management capabilities of the Cloudbreak software to SAN infrastructures based on SGI storage solutions.
- Enterprise Data Insights
CA URGES HONG KONG TO GET CONTROL OVER STORAGE COSTS
Computer Associates International Inc (CA) has announced the launch of BrightStor Storage Resources Manager (SRM) in Hong Kong as an enabler to provide storage efficiency for enterprises and meet the prerequisite to the growing market of Network Storage in future.
ILLUMINATA REPORTS STRONG POTENTIAL FOR SISTINA GFS
Sistina Software, the premier storage infrastructure software company delivering data-sharing solutions for enterprise and technical computing customers, has announced that a recently published Illuminata research report acclaimed the Sistina Global File System (GFS) as a valuable enabler for managing enterprise blade-based computing.
ENERGY GIANT'S CONSOLIDATION FUELS VISIONARY STO SOLUTION
Network Appliance announced recently that it has successfully delivered of a significant new data storage solution to Norwegian energy company Statoil. As part of a major redesign of its IT systems architecture Statoil integrated more than 15,000 Windows 2000 workstations and more than 500 UNIX workstations into one company-wide infrastructure with Network Appliance solutions providing the networked data storage access.
BROCADE REVEALS FIRST 7 STO MANAGEMENT ISVs UP ON RHAPSODY
By William Fellows for the451.com
Brocade has announced a first group of seven storage management software applications available for its Silkworm fabric application platform (also known as the Rhapsody switch). The company says this puts it ahead of rival Cisco. It isn't touting the multiprotocol (IP as well as FC) capabilities of the switch, since that doesn't serve Brocade's near-term interests. IP is also a long-term threat.
BANKERS INTEGRATION GROUP TAPS SBC TO POWER ONLINE FIN DBASE
SBC Communications Inc announced recently that Bankers Integration Group has chosen SBC E-Services to provide managed services across its enterprise. The California-based company will utilize SBC PremierSERV Data Center Hosting and Storage Area Network (SAN) services to enhance its operations as an application service provider in the finance and insurance industries.
BlueArc POWERS DATA STORAGE FOR NeoGenesis PHARMACEUTICALS
BlueArc Corporation, a leader in high performance, highly scalable network attached storage (NAS), announced recently that NeoGenesis Pharmaceuticals Inc has adopted its SiliconServer Architecture for the storage and recovery of research data critical to the drug discovery process. In addition, BlueArc announced that it has established a Bio-IT Practice to help organizations cope with the storage and management of an ever-increasing amount of data.
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IPR Appoints Deirdre Wielgus As Chief Operations Officer
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