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STUDY: BUYER STAKES HI - NO-BRAINER BUYS GONE!

LeftHand NETWORKS HELPS STORE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE

SAP EYES SMALLER MARKETS AS RIVALS FIGHT TO MERGE

Features

Storage Innovations

3PAR PUTS STORAGE ON A DIET WITH THIN PROVISIONING
3PAR, a leading provider of Utility Storage, recently announced that it has begun shipments of 3PAR Thin Provisioning with the latest version of its InForm storage operating system.

AXS-One ENHANCES AXSPoint W/ INTEGRATION OF EMC CENTERA CAS
AXS-One Inc, a leading provider of e-business solutions, announced recently that it has completed the integration of its AXSPoint product line with EMC Corporation's Centera and Centera Compliance Edition content addressed storage (CAS) systems.

BakBone ANNOUNCES FIRST PostgreSQL DATABASE BACKUP SOLUTION
BakBone Software, a global provider of storage management software, has announced the release of a new NetVault Application Plugin Module(APM) for PostgreSQL databases.

BRIGHTSTOR MOBILE BACKUP 4.0 SETS NEW CRITICAL DATA STANDARD
Computer Associates International Inc (CA) has announced the availability of BrightStor Mobile Backup 4.0, an innovative backup solution designed to remove the barriers that typically prevent IT organizations from applying best practices data management to critical mobile devices.

CERTANCE DELIVERS 5TH GEN DDS TAPE SOLUTIONS WITH DAT 72
Certance, a world leader in cost-effective data protection for companies of all sizes, has announced the immediate availability of its DAT 72 tape drives and TapeStor DAT 72 bundled solutions.

HDS TO DELIVER SAN DIRECTOR SWITCHES WITH BROCADE FABRIC OS
Brocade Communications Systems Inc and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced that new features for the SilkWorm 12000 Director -- enabled through enhancements to the Brocade Fabric Operating System (Fabric OS) software -- are available worldwide, except in Japan, through Hitachi Data Systems.

HP BROADENS STORAGE PLATFORM FOR THE ADAPTIVE ENTERPRISE
HP has expanded its StorageWorks portfolio with new and enhanced storage systems, software, solutions and tools that increase application uptime, data recovery speeds and customer choice. The expansion strengthens HP's ENSAextended strategy by continuing to deliver controllable, resilient and extensible storage solutions.

IOMEGA ANNOUNCES NEW SUPER DVD ALL FORMAT 4X INTERNAL DRIVE
Iomega Corporation, a global leader in data storage, has announced one of the first DVD drives to support all major DVD and CD formats, including DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, and DVD-RAM.

LUMINEX ANNOUNCES NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR MAINFRAME DISK STORAGE
Luminex Software Inc, a leading supplier of data distribution, archiving and storage products, has announced new disk controller technology that unites S/390-class mainframes with open systems disk storage systems.

TOSHIBA and SanDisk ANNOUNCE NEW NAND CELL ARCHITECTURE
Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk Corporation have announced development of a high density NAND flash memory cell structure that allows fabrication of 4-Gigabit (Gb) NAND flash memory using the 90-nanometer (nm) design rules.

NuView LEVERAGES THE POWER OF NetApp MANAGE ONTAP SDK
NuView Inc and Network Appliance Inc have announced that their co-developed VFM (Virtual File Manager) software will leverage the NetApp Manage ONTAP Software Developers' Kit (SDK) to enhance its virtualization, data movement and reporting capabilities and further simplify the management and deployment of NetApp storage infrastructures.

QUANTUM LAUNCHES PRISM XTENDED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE
Quantum Corp has announced a set of new tape automation product features, services and programs known as the Prism Xtended Solutions Architecture, that encompasses the entire customer experience -- from purchase to integration to everyday operation and long-term ownership.

SimpleTech INTRODUCES NEW EMBEDDED USB FLASH DRIVE
SimpleTech Inc, a leading provider of Flash-based storage, as well as custom and standard memory solutions, announces the immediate availability of its embedded USB Flash Drive, combining solid-state memory and a USB connection for fast and easy data storing and sharing from any computer with a USB port.

TidalWire EXPANDS DISTRIBUTION TO INCLUDE INFO SECURITY
TidalWire, the distribution arm of Network Engines, announced recently that it has broadened its distribution capabilities to address the growing enterprise requirements for information security products in networked storage environments.

Financial Plays Of The Week

CAEN ENGINEERING ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF CaenAV
Caen Engineering Inc has announced the creation of CaenAV. CaenAV is a subsidiary of the 27 year-old storage company whose primary focus will be the high-end digital video and audio markets, specifically catering to fibre channel, SCSI and IDE RAID solutions for the SD and HD markets.

McDATA AND StorageTek ENHANCE FICON STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS
McDATA Corporation and StorageTek have announced that StorageTek has contracted to resell McDATA's Sphereon 3232 FICON fabric switch with in-band FICON management, otherwise known as Control Unit Port (CUP).

GlassHouse ACQUIRES AUSPEX WORLDWIDE SERVICES & SUPPORT BUS
GlassHouse Technologies Inc, a leading provider of vendor-neutral storage services and consulting, announced that it has been successful in its bid to acquire the worldwide services and support business of NAS storage pioneer Auspex in bankruptcy court proceedings

InVision PAIRS WITH NETWORK STO SOLUTIONS ON HOME LAND SEC
Network Storage Solutions announced that they have entered into an OEM agreement with InVision Technologies Inc, a manufacturer of airport security scanning devices. Under the terms of the agreement, NSS will supply InVision with NAS products for integration into the InVision CTX 9000 DSi, CTX 5500 DS, and CTX 2500 explosives detection systems.

MaXXan SIGNS EUROPEAN RESELLER AGREEMENT WITH COMPUTACENTER
MaXXan Systems Inc, an industry leading provider of intelligent storage networking solutions, has announced a new European reseller agreement with Computacenter, one of Europe's largest IT infrastructure services companies.

PANASONIC SOLUTION TECH TO DISTRO DOT HILL SANnet IN JAPAN
Dot Hill announced recently that its Japanese subsidiary is partnering with Panasonic Solution Technologies Co Ltd (PSTC), a leading system integrator in Japan. PSTC will distribute Dot Hill's SANnet II storage systems to its customers using a variety of applications including groupware, workflow automation, databases and document management.

PROMARK ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF CHAPARRAL TO ITS GSA SCHEDULE
Promark Technology, a premier value added distributor in the United States, announced that it has added Chaparral Network Storage Inc, a developer of specialized appliances that deliver high-performance access to data in rich media environments, to its reseller friendly General Services Administration (GSA) Contract.

SanDisk AND SONY EXPAND SCOPE OF MEMORY STICK COOPERATION
SanDisk Corporation and Sony Corporation recently announced that the two companies have signed a cross licensing agreement.

StorageTek AND FALCONSTOR BOOST STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP
StorageTek (Storage Technology Corp), a storage services and solutions expert, and FalconStor Software Inc, a leading developer of network storage infrastructure software, have forged a strategic alliance covering product, reseller and service offerings for disk replication and mirroring.

WebSideStory PARTNERS TO DELIVER REAL-TIME WEB ANALYTICS
WebSideStory Inc, the creator of HitBox services, has announced partnerships with leading online marketing companies Roving Software Inc, the creators of Constant Contact Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing, and Submitnet, a leader in search engine optimization (SEO) services and consultation.

Enterprise Data Insights

CaminoSoft ANNOUNCES INNOVATIVE NEW MEDICAL STORAGE SYSTEM
CaminoSoft Corp, a leading provider of Storage Management and High Availability solutions, has announced the introduction of MEDISTAR, the company's Medical Enterprise Document and Image Storage, Archiving, and Retrieval System.

LeftHand NETWORKS HELPS STORE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE
LeftHand Networks announced that the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the Rocky Mountain Region's leading resource for informal science education, is utilizing LeftHand Networks' products as the storage solution for its digital library of data and images in the Museum's Space Odyssey exhibition.

LEXUS USES POCKET HARD DRIVE AS MARKETING TOOL
One of the nation's leading luxury automakers is employing the latest high-tech gizmo to introduce its all-new technologically advanced 2004 RX 330 luxury utility vehicle. Lexus recently mailed out 21,000 pocket hard drives -- a portable device no bigger than a lighter, but capable of delivering the power of a second hard drive.

NETWORK APPLIANCE NAMED MARKET LEADER IN CONTENT STO & NAS
According to two Yankee Group storage systems reports in May 2003, Network Appliance Inc was named a market leader in content storage for its NetApp NearStore product line and market leader in network-attached storage (NAS) for it FAS900 series storage systems.

PepsiAmericas TURNS TO EMC FOR COMPLEX DATA CENTER MIGRATION
EMC Corporation announced that its Information Solutions Consulting group (ISC) has completed a successful storage services engagement at PepsiAmericas Inc. The project -- completed ahead of schedule and on budget -- helped PepsiAmericas successfully relocate its complex multi-vendor IT infrastructure to a new facility.

SAP EYES SMALLER MARKETS AS RIVALS FIGHT TO MERGE
According to Eric Auchard of Reuters, Big-business software maker SAP AG of Germany is looking to show off just how small it can become even as rivals Oracle, PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards beat each other up over whether they should merge and grow bigger.

SUN STOREDGE 6320 SHATTERS MID-RANGE PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK
Sun Microsystems Inc announced that the Storage Performance Council (SPC) vendor-independent audited and certified results demonstrated that the Sun StorEdge 6320 system delivered 46% more performance than any competing mid-range storage system.

STORIGEN LANDS EMC DEAL, TARGETS REMOTE BACKUP OPPORTUNITY
By Simon Robinson for the451.com
Storage startup Storigen has announced its most significant partnership to date, divulging details of a strategic pact with industry giant EMC.

STUDY: BUYER STAKES HI - NO-BRAINER BUYS GONE!
According to a new Yankee Group report, "Next-Generation Storage Systems Target Application Requirements and Efficiency," compliance will drive companies in multiple vertical segments to deploy storage systems that better handle nearline backup, archiving, and ongoing access of fixed content.