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GETTING THE TRUTH OUT OF YOUR DATA WAREHOUSE

IOMEGA BACK IN THE SADDLE?

HP AND HITACHI EXTEND MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR RELATIONSHIP

Features

Storage Innovations

RETAIL SERVICES LEADER RUNS BUSINESS ON UTILITY STORAGE
3PAR announced that UniquE Solutions, a leading supplier of turnkey IT solutions for retail service agencies like Lowe's and Toys R Us, has purchased and been running its business on the 3PAR InServ Storage Server for several months now.

ADAPTEC DEMONSTRATES SERIAL ATTACHED SCSI PROTOTYPE CHIP
Adaptec and Seagate show major milestone in development of next-generation storage technologies.

EXAVIO REDEFINES THE NATURE OF DIGITAL STORAGE
Exavio Inc announced that they have launched their first product offering -- the Exavio ExaVault Media storage system. Exavio's mission is to deliver low cost, high performance storage and intelligent streaming solutions.

FirewireDirect UNVEILS ULTRA III FireWire 800 STORAGE SYSTEM
The new Ultra III 800 employs the Oxford 922 FireWire 800 chip, and has a dual USB 2.0 and FireWire interface. It has a Titanium styled chassis, ships with FireWire and USB cables, installs easily with no special drivers and includes drive formatting software for both Windows and Mac.

I-TECH ANNOUNCES THE POWERFRAME STORAGE TEST SYSTEM
The PowerFrame combines I-TECH's hardware and software capabilities into a modular analysis system. The PowerFrame is scheduled to support the following storage protocols: 1-, 2-, 4-, and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel, 1.25-Gbps Gigabit Ethernet, and 1.5-, 3-, and 6-Gbps SAS.

MAXTOR SHOWCASES ENGINEERING SAMPLES OF SAS DRIVES
Maxtor's MaXLine family of Serial ATA disk drives are the only Serial ATA disk drives designed for multi-user, 24 x 7 operation in low I/O storage applications.

PROCOM INTRODUCES NEW WIRELESS NETWORKING APPLIANCE
TaurusT, an ultra-compact, all-in-one networking appliance that can deploy complete wireless hot spots just about anywhere, such as small businesses, schools, hotels, libraries, malls, airports, convention centers and at home.

PROMISE INTRODUCES AFFORDABLE RAID 5 HARDWARE
The FastTrak S150 SX4 sets a new standard in RAID 5 HBA architecture by replacing the high-cost traditional IO processor on the RAID HBA with a low-cost, high-performance Promise RAID 5 ASIC that integrates a RAID 5 XOR engine and cache memory controller.

SANZ OFFERS FREE CONSULTATION FOR StorageNetworks' CUSTOMERS
Following the announcement of the wind-down of StorageNetworks' operations and liquidation of its business, SANZ offers customers a chance to improve infrastructure and utilization.

SEAGATE, FELLOW TECHNOLOGY LEADERS SHOWCASE SAS TECHNOLOGY
Seagate, along with Adaptec, HP and Intel are among those that showed key SAS technologies and highlighted their support for SAS development at HP World 2003.

SIMTEK UPDATES INVESTORS ON NEW 1 MBIT nvSRAM DEVELOPMENT
Initial silicon testing exceeds expectations; sample shipments on track for third quarter.

Financial Plays Of The Week

HP AND HITACHI EXTEND MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR RELATIONSHIP
The HP StorageWorks XP family -- designed for enterprise-class data centers -- combines Hitachi's high-end disk array technology with exclusive HP-developed software, solutions and services.

THIN-FILM MEDIA TO BE USED WITH HITACHI DESKSTAR HARD DRIVE
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies qualifies Komag as second source supplier of hard disk drive media.

LUMINEX AND KLADANN FORM ALLIANCE FOR MAINFRAME STORAGE
Kladann will offer Luminex's Virtual/BLUE 3990 controller to mainframe data centers throughout Brazil.

MAXTOR ENHANCES RESELLER MARKETING PROGRAMS
Value-added programs help resellers stay competitive in the storage market.

SPINNAKER NETWORKS EXPANDS OPEN STORAGE OPTIONS
Spinnaker Networks is expanding open storage connectivity options for its SpinServer NAS gateways, enabling SpinServer customers to consolidate and share Fibre Channel-based storage systems from IBM across all file- and block-based applications.

VERITAS SOFTWARE AND NETWORK APPLIANCE JOIN FORCES
Joint heterogeneous solutions offer customers advanced data protection, high availability, and storage resource management to ensure business continuity.

Enterprise Data Insights

IOMEGA BACK IN THE SADDLE?
The Removable Rigid Disk, which is capable of storing 35GB, could be a cheaper, faster alternative to tape-based backup applications.

LEADING EUROPEAN FINANCIAL COMPANY SELECTS SANavigator
McDATA's SANavigator storage management software and Intrepid Director have been deployed in BHW's two data centers in Hameln, Germany.

DataDirect HELPS NCSA IN DEVELOPING THIRD FASTED COMPUTER
DataDirect worked closely with Dell and NCSA to help design a cluster architecture capable of delivering 17.7 Teraflops of processing power and over 140 Terabytes of storage.

SNIA LAUNCHES SMI-Lab3 PROGRAM
Developers' Demonstration is the industry's first storage management interoperability conformance testing program.

INDUSTRY FIRST COULD IMPROVE CUSTOMERS' CONTINUITY EFFORTS
Sprint, Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems team to achieve data storage breakthrough.

GETTING THE TRUTH OUT OF YOUR DATA WAREHOUSE
By Gary Mehler, Director of Software Development, SAS
This article will explore how upgrading a data warehouse is possible through a couple of new metadata services that significantly impact improve the efficiency and manageability of the extract, transform and load (ETL) process -- multi-user planning, and ETL/data quality integration.