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LEADING VENDORS LAUNCH NEW FLASH MEM COMPANY

BlueArc SECURES $47 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING

McDATA DEMONSTRATES NEXT-GENERATION INTELLIGENT PLATFORM

Features

Storage Innovations

CERTANCE INTRODUCES LTO ULTRIUM 1 BASED AL810 AUTOLOADER
Certance, a world leader in innovative, cost-effective data protection for companies of all sizes, announced availability of the LTO Ultrium 1 based AL810 autoloader, designed to provide powerful, yet easily operated data protection for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).

DPS NOW SHIPPING DUAL FORMAT/DUAL INTERFACE DVD BURNER W/ DDR
Digital Peripheral Solutions Inc (DPS) announced it is shipping its new Que! DVD 2i dual format dual interface drive with direct-to-disk recording (DDR).

LSI LOGIC'S FIRST LogicStor SOLUTION RECOVERS DATA IN A SNAP
LSI Logic Storage Systems, a leader in delivering technology that enables high performance, highly scalable storage for the open enterprise, has announced the first solution in its new LogicStor partner solutions program.

FirewireDirect UNLEASHES LATEST PORTABLE FIREWIRE USB 2.0 HD
FirewireDirect.com Inc has announced the introduction of their newest series of 2.5" hard drive based storage devices, the MachIV.

McDATA DEMONSTRATES NEXT-GENERATION INTELLIGENT PLATFORM
McDATA Corporation announced that it has demonstrated a new intelligent switch platform for storage networking that will reduce costs and improve the performance of storage networks.

MonoSphere DELIVERS LATEST RELEASE OF MonoSphere STO MANAGER
MonoSphere Inc has announced the general availability of the MonoSphere Storage Manager (MSM) v2.0 product suite with enhanced features offering businesses improved data protection, data movement, reporting, notification, and expanded operating system support across heterogeneous storage environments.

SanDisk INTRODUCES CRUZER MINI EMBEDDED USB FLASH DRIVE
SanDisk Corporation introduced Cruzer Mini, an embedded USB 2.0 hi-speed "key chain" flash drive about the size of a lipstick case. Cruzer Mini is one of the world's smallest flash memory drives and uses the latest USB interface technology to achieve the maximum data transfer rates possible today.

STMicroelectronics ANNOUNCES FIRST 90nm NOR FLASH TECHNOLOGY
STMicroelectronics, one of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, has announced the world's smallest NOR Flash memory cell designed for low voltage and high performance applications.

NEW TASKMASTER 4160 JBOD OFFERS 160GB TO 1,000GB CAPACITIES
Dynamic Network Factory, a leading provider of affordable RAID and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) solutions, introduced the TASKMASTER 4160 JBOD.

SONY, CA COLLABORATE TO OFFER COMPLETE WORM TAPE SOLUTIONS
Sony Electronics Inc and Computer Associates International Inc (CA) announced complete storage solutions with write-once read-many (WORM) functionality that combine Sony's WORM-enabled family of desktop and slim-line AIT StorStation autoloaders and libraries with CA's WORM-ready BrightStor ARCserve Backup software, and Sony's AIT WORM tape media.

Financial Plays Of The Week

LEADING VENDORS LAUNCH NEW FLASH MEM COMPANY
AMD and Fujitsu Limited have announced the formation of a new Flash memory semiconductor joint venture that will market its solutions under the new Spansion global product brand name.

BlueArc SECURES $47 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING
At the conclusion of a quarter marked by record revenue and customer growth, BlueArc Corporation has secured an additional $47 million in funding that will further promote the company's rapid expansion in the network attached storage (NAS) market.

IBM ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF CISCO STORAGE MODULE
IBM has taken another step toward helping customers lower their cost of storage networking by becoming the first vendor to offer the Cisco MDS 9000 IP Storage Services Module.

INTRANSA INKS AGREEMENT FOR SUPERIOR IP5000 MANUFACTURING
Intransa, a pioneer in full-featured, enterprise-class IP-based Storage Area Networks (SAN), announced that it has entered into a manufacturing and testing agreement for its IP5000 Storage System with Celestica Inc, a world leader in electronics manufacturing services (EMS).

InterSAN PATHLINE SAM SOFTWARE INTEGRATES HBAnyware SUITE
Emulex Corporation nd InterSAN Inc have announced that InterSAN PATHLINE software will integrate support for Emulex's HBAnyware management suite.

I/OMAGIC SELECTS ROXIO SW FOR LATEST OPTICAL STO COMBO DRIVE
I/OMagic Corporation announced that it has signed an agreement with Roxio Inc to include Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Basic and Roxio DVDMax software in the new I/OMagic "MediaStation Combo" drive.

MCDATA AND NETWORK APPLIANCE EXTEND PARTNERSHIP
McDATA Corporation and Network Appliance Inc announced recently that the two companies have partnered to deliver solutions to optimize networked storage investments for companies of all sizes.

NEC SHIPS OVERLAND'S NEO WITH STORAGE PRODUCT FAMILY
Overland Storage Inc, a leading provider of storage solutions, announced that NEC has selected Overland's Neo Series tape automation for use with its server systems.

NETWORK APPLIANCE SIGNS LEADING DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS
Network Appliance Inc announced that it has signed distribution agreements with the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics Inc and Avnet Hall-Mark, value-added distributors of enterprise servers, storage, software, and services.

LSI LOGIC SOLVES BUSINESS PROBLEMS W/ PARTNER SOLUTION KITS
LSI Logic Storage Systems has announced the launch of its LogicStor partner solutions program, which includes detailed implementation instructions for tested integrated solutions from industry leaders so partners can quickly deploy solutions that solve end user business problems.

EXABYTE VXA PACKET TAPE DRIVES SELECTED BY KONTRON
Exabyte Corporation has announced an agreement with Kontron America, a subsidiary of Germany-based Kontron AG, that will allow Kontron customers to purchase Exabyte VXA Packet Drives as an internal or external storage solution for Kontron servers and workstations.

Enterprise Data Insights

3PAR SPEEDS DRUG DISCOVERY WITH UTILITY STORAGE
3PAR, a leading provider of Utility Storage, announced that Infinity Pharmaceuticals, a leading drug discovery company, has purchased and installed a 3PAR InServ Storage Server.

THE VENETIAN RESORT-HOTEL-CASINO BETS ON StoreAge
StoreAge Networking Technologies, an innovator in enterprise SAN storage management, announced the recent deployment of its SVM (Storage Virtualization Manager) at The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, NV.

DEGUSSA PUTS DATACORE SANsymphony TO WORK AT CHEMICAL PLANT
DataCore Software announced that Degussa AG, a Dusseldorf, Germany supplier of specialty chemicals, has implemented a storage area network (SAN) at its Wesseling plant based on the SANsymphony storage management platform.

HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN ENROLLS FalconStor's IPStor
FalconStor Software Inc, a leading developer of network storage infrastructure software solutions, announced that Berlin's Humboldt University (HU) has implemented FalconStor's IPStor software for centralized storage management and scalability, as well as high availability for uninterrupted data access.

SAS INTELLIGENCE STO ADDRESSES MAJOR RESOURCE BOTTLENECKS
SAS has announced plans to deliver SAS Intelligence Storage with SAS 9.1. SAS Intelligence Storage is an open, flexible platform that provides a variety of storage options to ensure optimal performance of business intelligence and analytic intelligence applications while keeping the cost of ownership and maintenance under control, and being open and easy-to-administer.

TREBIA NETWORKS PARTICIPATES IN iSCSI PLUGFEST
Trebia Networks Inc, a leader in the development of system-on-silicon solutions for storage networking applications, participated in the recent iSCSI Consortium Group Test Period operated by the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL).