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INDUSTRY TEAM ACHIEVES DATA STO BREAKTHROUGH

EMC TO BUY LEGATO FOR $1.3 BILLION

SURVEY: ADOPTION OF STORAGE NETWORKS CONTINUES UNABATED

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Storage Innovations

AC&NC RAISES THE STORAGE PERFORMANCE BAR WITH NEW SATA RAID
AC&NC announced its next generation JetStor III SATA RAID array supporting business critical applications with superior data protection and the unprecedented performance of Serial ATA disk drives.

APRICORN INTRODUCES EZ WRITER FOR PLAYING/BURNING DVDs & CDs
Apricorn, a leader in innovative easy-to-use portable data storage and transfer products, has released EZ Writer, an ultra portable optical drive weighing just 12 ounces and measuring a mere 3/4" x 5 1/2" x 5 1/2".

INDUSTRY TEAM ACHIEVES DATA STO BREAKTHROUGH
Sprint, along with Hitachi Data Systems and strategic alliance partner Cisco, has achieved a technical breakthrough that could have major implications on how customers deploy effective business continuity strategies. The telecommunications giant, along with its partners, has successfully tested asynchronous data replication over an IP network, using Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) technology at a distance of more than 3,600 miles.

HP TO STREAMLINE STORAGE MGMT WITH NEW DEVELOPERS PROGRAM
HP has introduced the first developers program completely based on an open, industry-standard interface across storage hardware and software. The HP SMI-S Developers Program facilitates partner development of technologies based on the Storage Management Interface Specification (SMI-S), a secure and reliable interface that allows storage management systems to identify, classify, monitor and control physical and logical resources in a network storage environment.

IOPlus OFFERS BIG PUNCH, SMALL SIZE WITH GIGABYTE PocketDisk
IOPlus Inc, a manufacturer of USB computer peripheral products, has raised the stakes in the portable drive space with the announcement that the company is now shipping a one-gigabyte-sized PocketDisk.

PNY DEBUTS NEW VERTO HIGH-SPEED MEMORY
PNY's powerful Verto 512MB memory modules are individually quality tested with leading motherboards and chipsets. The module includes an integrated heat spreader for superior heat dissipation -- a benefit for extreme, intense game play.

POGO LINUX AND MySQL AB TO DELIVER 1ST MySQL DBASE APPLIANCE
Two open source companies, Pogo Linux Inc, a Linux hardware vendor, and MySQL AB, developer of a popular open source database, have announced a partnership to build the first MySQL database appliance, a pre-configured, fully-integrated hardware/software offering optimized for speed and value.

PowerFile LAUNCHES 1-TERABYTE OPTICAL STO LIB FOR MAC OS X
PowerFile Inc, a leading provider of optical storage library solutions, announced the immediate availability of the only optical storage libraries available for Mac OS X: the C200 MFX and R200 MFX.

SimpleTech RELEASES NEW 120GB HIGH-SPEED USB 2.0/FireWire HD
SimpleTech Inc, a leading provider of Flash-based storage, as well as custom and standard memory solutions, enters the external desktop storage market with the introduction of the 120GB SimpleDrive high-speed USB 2.0/FireWire hard drive, delivering the ideal solution for fast and easy storage expansion, system backup or file update.

StorageTek D220 REDUCES DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT BURDEN
StorageTek (Storage Technology Corp), a storage services and solutions expert, has announced the immediate availability of the latest in a line of robust disk storage devices designed to reduce the impact of escalating storage demands on companies.

StorageTek EXPANDS VIRTUAL STORAGE MANAGER CAPABILITIES
StorageTek (Storage Technology Corp), a storage services and solutions expert, now offers a newly enhanced Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) virtual tape solution, featuring performance and connectivity enhancements that extend the value and power of StorageTek's VSM platform.

BMW & MINI MEMORY WATCHES HAVE PERSONAL DATA STO CAPABILITY
Forget burning a CD to hold your data. Now come a pair of new watches that are the latest word in personal data storage. BMW and MINI jointly announce their own versions of a Memory Watch that features an integrated USB port and holds up to 128 megabytes (MB) of data via an internal memory card.

Financial Plays Of The Week

INVIO ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE OEM AGREEMENT WITH McDATA CORP
Invio Software Inc, providing innovative software to centrally control and automate enterprise data storage operations, announced a licensing agreement with McDATA Corporation, a worldwide leader in open, ultra-high availability storage networking solutions.

DOT HILL & UNIADEX SIGN SANnet II SUPPORT AGREEMENT
Dot Hill announced that its subsidiary in Japan has entered into an agreement with Uniadex to provide maintenance service for Dot Hill's SANnet II family of storage networking solutions. Uniadex will offer 24-hour, 365-day comprehensive support including installation, preventive maintenance, and spare parts management for SANnet II products for Dot Hill customers in Japan.

EMC TO BUY LEGATO FOR $1.3 BILLION
EMC Corp, which makes computers that store data, said recently that it would buy Legato Systems Inc for $1.3 billion in stock in a deal that EMC said would expand its portfolio of storage software.

IBM DELIVERS BROCADE'S NEW ENTERPRISE FABRIC OS
Brocade Communications Systems Inc (Brocade), a leading provider of infrastructure for Storage Area Networks (SANs), announced that the Brocade Enterprise Fabric Operating System is available worldwide through IBM.

STORAGE COMPUTER RETAINS iCapital FINANCE
Storage Computer Corporation announced it has engaged iCapital Finance Inc of Irvine, California as its investment banking consulting firm to assist the Company in structuring financing, provide access to capital resources, identify candidates for marketing and distribution alliances, and advise the Company's Directors and management on other strategic decisions.

BODACION SELECTS SANnet II FOR HYDRA WEB SERVICES APPLIANCE
Dot Hill announced that it has been selected as the storage technology partner of Bodacion Technologies. Bodacion will integrate Dot Hill's highly reliable SANnet II Fibre Channel (FC) with its HYDRA secure Web services appliance.

Enterprise Data Insights

HP OUTFITS PERRY ELLIS WITH SERVERS, STORAGE AND SERVICES
HP has implemented solutions to build the foundation of an adaptive enterprise at Perry Ellis International, a leading licensor, designer and marketer of high-quality menswear with $1.5 billion in retail sales in 2002.

SURVEY: ADOPTION OF STORAGE NETWORKS CONTINUES UNABATED
International Network Services Inc (INS), a leading vendor-independent provider of global network consulting and security services, has announced the release of a new report, which found that storage networks will soon contain half of all centralized stored data.

NSPE HONORS LSI LOGIC STORAGE SYSTEMS
At a ceremony on July 13, 2003, at the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Annual Convention and Exposition in San Antonio, Texas, LSI Logic Storage Systems, a leader in delivering technology that enables high performance, highly scalable storage for the open enterprise, will be presented with the NSPE's 2003 New Product Award in the large company (200 to 9,999 employees) category.

IAC'S ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE SIG RELEASES WHITE PAPER
In it's effort to provide actionable, real world advice for public sector agencies, the IAC's Enterprise Architecture Shared Interest Group (EA SIG) has released a white paper entitled, "Business Line Information and Data Modeling: Standards Based Architecture to Support Federated Data Management".

PUBLISHING FIRM PRESSES FORWARD WITH ADVANCED STO SOLUTION
FalconStor Software Inc announced that Oppermann GmbH, a leading printing and publishing firm, has implemented SANCenter, an appliance from eSeSIX Computer powered by FalconStor IPStor software.

SPINNAKER PROVIDES STO POWER FOR RESEARCH AT SALK INSTITUTE
Spinnaker Networks, the leading supplier of next generation, distributed storage systems, announced that its SpinServer network attached storage (NAS) solution has been deployed at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies to aid in brain cell and systems research in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory.

SuSE LINUX POWERS STORAGE SYSTEM FOR EUROPEAN SPACE LAB
SuSE Linux has announced a new 2.4 million euro engagement with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) on a high-performance storage system for Columbus -- the European space lab project.

WINDOWS POWERED NAS UNIT SHARE CONTINUES TO GROW
Microsoft Corp announced that new data from the analyst firm IDC shows impressive growth for Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances built on the Microsoft Windows operating system.