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Features
- Storage Innovations
AT&T WEB HOSTING OFFERS INCENTIVES TO CUSTOMERS
Customers will be able to select from a comprehensive set of integrated
networked storage services, ranging from simple off-site tape back-up and
recovery to managed storage area network services with remote data
replication and load balancing between two sites.

NEW LOOK AND STUNNING PERFORMANCE DISTINGUISH MEMOREX DEVICE
Featuring the slimmest profile and sporting a unique, ergonomic silver and
black design, the new Memorex Flash drive is a high speed device that is
perfect for storing data, digital photos, video and MP3 files in style.
NETWORK ENGINES AND BOCADA DELIVER BackupReport Appliance
The BackupReport Appliance delivers a centralized view of all critical
backup activity across multiple servers, backup products, operating systems
and storage technologies.

OVERLAND GETS ENLARGED
Overland Storage In will announce the biggest tape library in its history
with the 500-cartridge NEO 8000, which the company hopes will let it cut
intothe market share of Advanced Digital Information Corp and Storage
Technology Corp at the high end of the midrange space.

RICOH SETS NEW BENCHMARK WITH 8X DVD+R MEDIA
Unveiled at the IFA trade show in Berlin, the new 8x speed DVD+R media
allows 4.7GB of data to be burned in less than 8 minutes while maintaining
backward compatibility with previous generation writers.
SanDisk TAKES FLASH MEMORY TO THE EXTREME
The SanDisk Extreme cards deliver a minimum write speed of 9 megabytes per
second and a minimum read speed of 10 megabytes per second while
withstanding some of Earth's most extreme conditions.

DISASTER RECOVERY WITH A DAILY BENEFIT
Scan-Direct, based in Dallas, provides clients instant, online access to
fully redundant data and image archives located thousands of miles apart
which improve customer service, boost productivity, and provide an excellent
disaster recovery and business continuity plan.

SEAGATE CE HARD DRIVES USING STREAMING INDUSTRY STANDARD
Seagate's new CE hard drives are based on industry standards, rather than
proprietary solutions, built from the ground up to be compatible with the
new ATA/7 streaming commands standards.

- Financial Plays Of The Week
AMCC AGREES TO ACQUIRE JNI CORPORATION
The acquisition, expected to close in the fourth quarter of this calendar
year, has been approved by the boards of directors of each company and is
subject to the approval of stockholders of JNI Corporation, as well as other
customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

INNO MICRO TO DISTRIBUTE AND SELL nStor PRODUCTS IN JAPAN
Inno Micro, a privately held integrator and distributor based in Japan,
has executed an agreement to sell and distribute nStor's full range of
storage products in Japan.

ALLIANCE BRINGS MicroStrategy TO OVER 300,000 CUSTOMERS
MicroStrategy signed an OEM agreement with UFsoft Co Ltd. As China's
largest independent software firm, UFsoft has been devoted to the
development, marketing and servicing of enterprise software since 1990.

- Enterprise Data Insights
C2C RELEASES ARCHIVE ONE CAPACITY 2.3
New features include integration with standard anti-virus solutions (in
case any archived e-mails contain a virus), the ability to restore an e-mail
back into the mailbox and an architecture that supports distributed Exchange
implementations.

ENTOPIA BRANCHES OUT FROM KM TO CONTENT INTEGRATION
By Nick Patience For the451.com
Entopia is branching out from its knowledge management roots to take on
the content integration market, which for some customers might be largely
the same thing.
Fibre Channel SAN MARKET: GROWTH TO EXCEED 30 PERCENT
Worldwide FibreChannel SAN interconnection hardware revenue topped $522
million in the first half of 2003 and will reach $1.1 billion by the end of
the year, representing a 22 percent growth from 2002, according to
Infonetics Research's worldwide market share and forecast service.

HEALTH CARE GROUP IMPLEMENTS BUSINESS PLAN WITH BROCADE SANS
To address its rapid data growth and high-availability requirements,
Liberty Heatlh Care Group's Technology Services team has deployed a
core-to-edge SAN solution consisting of Brocade SilkWorm 3800 and SilkWorm
2800 fabric switches.

Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
ManagedStorage Reaches EBITDA Positive Results
Sun Outpaces Disk Storage Systems Market
- People & Positions
ARCHOS Appoints Rabbani To President, Chief Operating Officer
AppIQ Leads Charge In Open Standards For Storage Management
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