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- Storage Innovations
AppIQ DEFINES STORAGE UTILITY MGMT WITH SolutionSuite 2.0
AppIQ has announced release 2.0 of AppIQ Solution Suite which is
witnessing broad customer adoption in the Financial, Insurance and Media
Markets including Nielsen Media Research, Boston Stock Exchange and The
Weather Channel among others.
ASACA AND SGL TEAM TO PROVIDE DATA STORAGE FOR AVID USERS
ASACA Corporation and Software Generation Limited (SGL), teamed together
to announce combined support for Avid users that will enable video editors
and media asset managers to easily create, share and archive gigabyte-sized
digital files.
FUJIFILM INTRODUCES USB DRIVE 2.0, ADDING NEW 1GB CAPACITY
To provide users with fast, high-capacity storage for documents, photos,
music and videos, the Computer Products Division of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A
Inc is shipping the Fujifilm USB Drive 2.0.
I/OMagic INTRODUCES USB FLOPPY DRIVE WITH 7-N-1 MEDIA READER
I/OMagic Corporation, a leading developer and marketer of data storage and
digital entertainment devices, introduced a unique new device for computer
users on the go -- a USB 1.1 external floppy drive with integrated 7-n-1
media reader called the "DataStation."
MEDEA SHIPS FireFly FireWire STORAGE SOLUTIONS
Medea Corporation, a leading manufacturer of ATA-based storage solutions
for rich media and streaming applications, announced that the company has
begun shipping FireFly, an innovative FireWire-based storage solution for
content creation applications.
OVERLAND STORAGE SRM PRODUCT IMPROVES NAS MANAGEMENT
Overland Storage, a leading provider of storage solutions, announced
enhanced Storage Resource Management (SRM) functionality for Network
Attached Storage (NAS) devices from Network Storage Solutions (NSS).
StoneFly OFFERS FREE FarStone VIRTUAL CD/DVD LIBRARY
StoneFly Networks Inc, an innovator of Internet Protocol (IP)-based
storage provisioning appliances, has announced a promotion with FarStone
Technology Inc, an international software company specializing in security
and CD/DVD products.
EMC ROLLS OUT NEW HIGH-END STORAGE GEAR
EMC Corp has announced two new offerings in its Symmetrix high-end line of
data storage products, adding to a product line that has won back market
share from rivals International Business Machines Corp (IBM).
TEXAS MEMORY SYSTEMS LAUNCHES FASTEST RAID CACHE EVER
Texas Memory Systems Inc has released the RamSan-330 external storage
cache. The RamSan-330 turbo charges storage by caching the most popular data
and distributing it at maximum rates of 3 gigabytes per second bandwidth and
250,000 I/Os a second.
UDO FORUM SIGNALS ARRIVAL OF NEW ARCHIVE STORAGE TECH
Plasmon kicked off the next step in the future of archival data storage
recently by convening the UDO Developers Conference. A new high-density
optical media and drive technology, Ultra Density Optical (UDO) provides a
new standard for long term archival storage.
WINCHESTER SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES "Pay-As-You-Grow" SCALABILITY
Winchester Systems Inc has introduced a new robust, high performance
storage solution called FlashDisk OpenSAN. This new generation of two
Gigabit "end-to-end" Fibre Channel product is designed for midrange to
enterprise storage environments requiring extremely high performance,
scalability and leading-edge connectivity.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
AVAILANT AND DOT HILL PARTNER FOR VALIDATION OF SANnet II FC
Availant, a provider of availability management services, and Dot Hill, a
provider of storage networking solutions, announced their partnership for
validation testing of Dot Hill's hardware for operability in an HACMP (high
availability cluster multiprocessing) for AIX environment.
D&H TO DISTRIBUTE DANTZ RETROSPECT PRODUCT LINE
Dantz Development Corp announced it has selected D&H Distributing, a
leading national computer products distributor, to help fulfill rapidly
increasing demand for Dantz Retrospect backup and restore software, widely
used in small and midsize businesses.
DOT HILL COMMENCES TRADING ON NASDAQ STOCK MARKET
Dot Hill Systems Corp announced that it will begin trading today on The
NASDAQ Stock Market under the ticker symbol HILL.
NEC TO SELL nStor's FIBRE CHANNEL RAID STORAGE SYSTEMS
NEC Corporation will release for sale, on August 20, 2003, a 2Gbit Fibre
RAID storage system based on nStor Corporation's 4320F 2Gbit Fibre RAID
product. nStor Corporation is an innovative developer of storage-network
technologies and is a wholly owned subsidiary of nStor Technologies Inc.
STORServer AND SPECTRA LOGIC SIGN OEM AGREEMENT
STORServer -- a storage protection leader in Backup Appliances -- has
formed an OEM (original equipment manufacturing) agreement with Spectra
Logic to incorporate the company's full line of high-density tape libraries
into STORServer's S Series Backup Appliances.
SUN AND TECH DATA STRENGTHEN DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
Sun Microsystems Inc and Tech Data Corporation are expanding their
distribution agreement to more aggressively drive Sun technology solutions
to midsize enterprises across the United States.
DISK DRIVE MAKER WESTERN DIGITAL WINS READ-RITE ASSETS
Disk drive maker Western Digital Corp said recently that a bankruptcy
court had approved the sale to it of virtually all of former big rival
Read-Rite Corp's assets for $95.4 million in cash.
- Enterprise Data Insights
FCIA ANNOUNCES SANmark SCD-4001 TEST SUITE AVAILABILITY
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) has announced the
availability of the SANmark Conformance Document (SCD), SCD-4001 v1, for end
device discovery and management.
GRID COMPUTING CENTER KARLSRUHE INSTALLS 70 TB DISK SPACE
by Uwe Harms
The Computer Center at Research Center Karlsruhe is the German Tier 1
Center for the CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider) data. There will be up to 10
such centers around the world. In July GridKa (Grid Karlsruhe) installed 70
TeraBytes disk space, which will be extended in different steps to 340
TeraBytes.
POWER AND STORAGE: THE HIDDEN COST OF OWNERSHIP
Mr. Fred Moore, renowned storage engineer and renowned author in the
storage and high-tech industry, stated that the availability of electricity
will become increasingly critical. Mr. Moore also predicts that by 2010,
over 50% of power consumed in the United States will be by computer
technology.
Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
FalconStor Announces 72% Revenue Increase In Q2 2003
Seagate Announces Pricing Of Secondary Common Shares
- People & Positions
Data Domain Welcomes Former VERITAS Exec To Board
Maxtor Names Robert Edwards As Chief Financial Officer
Dr. James G. Deak Joins NVE Corporation
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