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- Storage Innovations
ALTERA, MICRON ANNOUNCE DDR400 SDRAM DIMM INTERFACE FOR FPGAs
Proven with Altera's Stratix and Stratix GX high-performance FPGAs and
Micron's DDR400 SDRAM DIMMs, this 400 Mb per second interface speed enables
the implementation of memory interfaces with bandwidths up to 25.6 Gb per
second.
DANTZ ANNOUNCES BUSINESS-CLASS BACKUP USING EXTERNAL HDs
For the first time, inexpensive, high-capacity external hard drives are
practical for backing up SQL, Exchange, and Windows servers, filling a
persistent gap in the market above optical media and below high-performance
tape drives and autoloaders.
SOFTEK DEBUTS STORAGE HEALTH ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
The Softek Storage Health Assessment program offers Softek Synergy Partner
Program members easy-to-use tools, reports and a step-by-step procedures
guide for evaluating storage networks.
ISILON TO EXHIBIT WORLD-CLASS NET. STORAGE SYSTEM AT GSAM03
Introduced publicly last month, Isilon IQ is the industry's first network
storage system designed specifically for digital content-centric businesses,
such as those in media and entertainment, digital imaging, content delivery
and health care.
MAXXAN DELIVERS BREAKTHROUGH IN SAN MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
SANCruiser is designed from the ground up to simplify the management of a
new generation of intelligent storage networks to allow IT administrators to
take complete control of their storage network and its services.
NEARTEK, TSI ANNOUNCE AVAILABILITY OF TAPE STORAGE SOLUTION
TSI's Virtual Tape Solution (VTS) powered by Neartek's Virtual Storage
Engine (VSE2) tape virtualization software will be offered by
Hewlett-Packard's NonStop Enterprise Division for the HP NonStop server
platform.
RAIDCore INTRODUCES INNOVATIVE RAID STORAGE SOLUTIONS
Based on the fast growing Serial ATA (SATA) standard, the RC4000 Series
RAID Controllers are designed to deliver high quality, enterprise-level RAID
storage solutions to all levels of businesses, significantly lowering the
total cost of ownership for using RAID.
SANRAD, SISTINA TO PROVIDE SAN-WIDE SERVER CLUSTERING
As part of SANRAD's ongoing commitment to Sistina and Linux customers,
SANRAD has certified its iSCSI IETF RFC compliant V-Switch 3000 with Sistina
GFS for companies requiring Linux server clustering and file sharing within
a storage area network.
SONY ENHANCES PORTABLE STORAGE W/ FOUR MICRO VAULT PRODUCTS
Leading off the new lineup is the Micro Vault with Fingerprint Access, a
portable storage device that provides the convenience of using a unique
fingerprint identification system to replace passwords or IDs for Web site
access.
StorageTek CHANGES FACE OF TAPE AUTOMATION
Designed to make enterprise tape easy to manage, share and grow, the
SL8500 is the industry's first tape library to provide true mixed media and
interfaces to consolidate enterprise and midrange computing infrastructures
and allow for dynamic upgrades of capacity and throughput.
STORACTIVE LiveServ: CONTINUOUS BACKUP, ZERO-LOSS RECOVERY
Complementary to IT organizations' existing backup processes, LiveServ
overcomes the limitations of traditional tape-based backup products by
eliminating backup windows and recovering recent data up to the moment of
loss.
VERITAS EXTENDS DATA PROTECTION LEADERSHIP WITH NetBackup 5.0
With this new release of NetBackup 5.0 software, VERITAS fulfills its
commitment to bring advanced data protection techniques, faster disk-based
backup, and desktop and laptop data protection capabilities to its flagship
enterprise data protection software.
XIOtech, TEK-TOOLS STRENGTHEN PARTNERSHIP
XIOtech Corp announced the strengthening of its partnership with Tek-Tools
Inc with the launch of version 3.0 of Tek-Tools' Storage Profiler solution
with enhanced support for XIOtech's Magnitude storage solution.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
HUGE SYSTEMS ENTERS RESELLER CHANNEL
After three years of successfully selling its line of content creation
storage directly to end users, Huge will now offer its storage solutions
through the "reseller channel."
NEC TO RESELL McDATA INTREPID DIRECTORS THROUGH HPC DIVISION
Demand for storage systems for use in SANs and similar environments
continues to grow, and this agreement represents a significant sales
expansion potential for McDATA in the Japanese market.
NETWORK APPLIANCE AGREES TO ACQUIRE SPINNAKER NETWORKS
For Network Appliance, this is primarily a software technology acquisition
that reaffirms the NetApp business model and extends NetApp leadership in
scalability, simplicity and total cost of ownership for enterprise storage
systems.
RAIDCore ANNOUNCES $5 MILLION VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT
The investment will support the company's push to bring the advantages of
RAID storage technology to a wider range of users through RAIDCore's
patent-pending Fulcrum Architecture.
SST, HHNEC TO DELIVER FLASH SOLUTIONS FOR SMARTCARD MARKET
Silicon Storage Technology Inc and Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co
Ltd announced the companies have expanded their relationship to enable HHNEC
to serve as a foundry for embedded flash solutions based on SST's 0.25
micron SuperFlash technology.
- Enterprise Data Insights
ADAPTIVE DATA INTEGRATION A KEY REQUIREMENT FOR IT EXECUTIVES
Ninety-four percent of senior IT executives surveyed by Informatica Corp
believe that data integration software that adapts intelligently to changing
information requirements and environments now is, or soon will be, an
important IT requirement.
MUSEUM TEAMS UP WITH LeftHand FOR INNOVATIVE STORAGE SOLUTION
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science was one of the co-winners in the
"Innovation and Promise" category, which they won for their implementation
of LeftHand Networks' storage solution for the digital library of data and
images in the Museum's Space Odyssey exhibition.
SCIENTISTS REPORT DATA STORAGE EXPLOSION
The 5 billion gigabytes of new data works out to about 800 megabytes per
person -- the equivalent of a stack of books 30 feet high -- the study by
UC-Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems found.
LOS ALAMOS RECEIVES "INNOVATION AND PROMISE" AWARD
The award, for "Innovation and Promise," recognizes the role played by the
laboratory, industry partner Panasas Inc of Fremont, Calif., and the
National Nuclear Security Administration in developing secure, object-based
storage and the scalable file systems that use it.
NATIONWIDE INTRODUCES NEXT-GEN. SAN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM CISCO
Nationwide, one of the world's largest building societies, has selected
its Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer director and fabric-class storage
area networking switches and the Cisco ONS 15540 Extended Services Platform
to help deliver its next generation SAN infrastructure.
QLogic NETWORKS ONE OF WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTERS
The cluster will provide computing power to support researchers across the
United States involved with major scientific and engineering projects. These
range from the study of the evolution, size and structure of the universe to
the intricacy of the human genome.
SAS M2003 CONFERENCE DRAWS THOUGHT LEADERS, RECORD CROWD
M2003 featured several prominent keynote speakers and 30 world-renowned
data mining experts. The conference drew a record crowd of more than 610
attendees representing more than 40 states and 20 countries around the
world, and created a unique forum for exchanging new ideas and best
practices.
TDWI ISSUES NEW STUDY: "BUILDING THE REAL-TIME ENTERPRISE"
Study's survey reveals 80 percent success rate for existing real-time
business intelligence solutions; 50 percent of respondents report having a
real-time project either online or planned.
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I/OMagic To Report Profit For Third Quarter 2003
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