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- Storage Innovations
ABERDEEN UNLEASHES 2TB IDE HOT-SWAP BACKUP MONSTER
Aberdeen LLC is proud to unveil the revolutionary all-inclusive BlackWatch
storage and backup hybrid server solution. This "Backup Monster" can support
2TB of IDE hot-swap disk storage.
ADAPTEC TEAMS ON FIRST SERIAL ATTACHED SCSI SOLUTIONS
Adaptec Inc, a global leader in data storage access solutions, has
announced an initiative with leading hard disk drive manufacturers Fujitsu,
Hitachi, Maxtor and Seagate to deliver the industry's first Serial Attached
SCSI solutions and drive market adoption through co-marketing.
FIA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF POPnetserver 4600
FIA Inc (First Intelligent Array) has announced its new POPnetserver 4600
family of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) systems that are designed to
support up to 1TB of storage capacity in a 1U form factor.
MARVELL INTRODUCES NEW 3 GBPS SERIAL ATA II PRODUCT
Marvell, a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband
communications and storage solutions, has introduced the 88SA8050 bridge
chip, the industry's first 3 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Serial ATA II
solution enabling the highest throughput SATA storage systems available.
NISHAN SWITCHES FEATURED IN MS DEMONSTRATION AT SNW2003
Nishan Systems has demonstrated its IPS 4300 IP storage switch together
with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 software, providing device discovery
capabilities within IP storage environments using the Internet Storage Name
Service (iSNS) protocol.
OTHER WORLD RELEASES ITS FIRST FireWire 800 PRODUCTS
Other World Computing (OWC), a leading provider of products and services
for the Macintosh marketplace, has launched its Mercury Elite Pro FW800
series of storage solutions, OWC's first products to support the new IEEE
1394b FireWire 800 standard.
PROMISE TECH UltraTrak RM15000 SUBSYSTEM HITS 3TB IN ONLY 3U
Promise Technology Inc has introduced the UltraTrak RM15000 ATA RAID
storage subsystem, a new high-capacity addition to the UltraTrak family of
server-class storage solutions.
NEW FlashDisk 2 Gb FC RAID ARRAY FROM WINCHESTER SYSTEMS
Winchester Systems Inc has introduced a new high performance 2 Gb Fibre
Channel RAID disk array called the FC-8000 Performer Series. The FlashDisk
Performer Series meets multiple application requirements from high-speed,
low cost direct attached storage to multi-server NAS or SAN configurations.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
ALACRITECH ANNOUNCES OEM PARTNERSHIP WITH IOMEGA
Alacritech Inc has announced an OEM partnership with Iomega Corporation.
Iomega will integrate the Alacritech 1000x1 Single-Port Gigabit Ethernet
Server and Storage Accelerator into its newly announced next generation
network-attached storage (NAS) server, the Iomega P850m to provide mid-sized
enterprises with superior price/performance.
iQstor ANNOUNCES EXPANDED CHANNEL PROGRAM
iQstor Networks Inc, developer of integrated Fibre Channel Storage Area
Network (SAN) solutions, announced the U.S. expansion of its worldwide
channel partner program in advance of the company's iQ1000 Storage System
release.
NeoScale SECURES $12 MILLION IN SECOND ROUND FUNDING
NeoScale Systems Inc announced recently that it has secured $12 million in
second round equity funding led by Sevin Rosen Funds with strong
participation from current investors. These investments bring NeoScale's
total financing to $25.5 million.
StoneFly NETWORKS AND LEGATO TEAM UP
StoneFly Networks and LEGATO Systems Inc have teamed to provide seamless
disk-to-disk backup and restore capabilities in IP-based storage area
networks (IP SANs) and standard Ethernet networks.
- Enterprise Data Insights
AppIQ IMPLEMENTS SNIA SMI-S
AppIQ, leading the open management revolution, has collaborated with HP to
validate the interoperability of AppIQ Solution Suite with HP StorageWorks
enterprise arrays via the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA)
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).
GARTNER SHOWS SHAKEUP IN NAS MARKET
According to Gartner Dataquest's recent report "Network-Attached Storage
Market Share, 2002," BlueArc Corporation, a leader in high performance,
highly scalable network-attached storage (NAS), continues to build its
presence in the storage market at the expense of traditional NAS vendors. In
stark contrast to the revenue decline in the overall NAS market, BlueArc
achieved growth of 350.2 percent during 2002, proving it to be the NAS
market's fastest growing vendor.
STUDY: EDGES OF MAGNETIC TAPE KEY TO BOOSTING DATA DENSITY
Ohio State University engineers have examined in unprecedented detail a
key manufacturing step that could improve one of the worlds most popular
data storage materials: magnetic tape.
NEW EMC AUTOMATED NETWORKED STORAGE GAINS TRACTION IN Q1
Organizations around the world are embracing EMC's broad new portfolio of
automated networked storage solutions to reduce information technology
costs, manage complexity and protect their information. In announcing
financial results for the first quarter of 2003, EMC Corporation has
highlighted a sampling of customer wins achieved during the three-month
period as tangible evidence of the information storage leader's growing
momentum.
PAPSTAR REDUCES STO MGMT COSTS WITH DataCore SANsymphony SW
DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open-storage
networking software, recently announced that it has added PAPSTAR, a German
distribution and services provider, to its ever-expanding global customer
base.
END-USER REPRESENTATION AT SNW SPRING 2003 REMAINS ROBUST
With a comprehensive agenda featuring IT end-user and industry leader
sessions and speakers, SNW Spring 2003 registered 1,071 storage buyers,
integrators, press and analysts, as of April 15, 2003. This compares to 621
registrants in the same demographic present at SNW Spring 2002 in Palm
Desert, Calif. Total registration for the event (as of April 15, 2003) was
1,784, excluding event production staff.
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Short Takes
- Financial Watch
StorageTek Announces First Quarter Revenue And EPS Growth
CA Revenue Grows As Competitors Wane, Says Gartner
Imation Q1 2003 EPS Rises 31% to $0.59
Maxtor Corp Announces First Quarter 2003 Financial Results
Overland Storage Posts Record Results For Q3 Of Fiscal 2003
SanDisk Announces Q1 2003 Earnings: Record Units And MB Sold
- People & Positions
David Multer Named Vice President Of Software Engineering
Exabyte Appoints Mike Stears As VP Of Supply Chain
Overland Storage Appoints John Mutch To Board Of Directors
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