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- Storage Innovations
AmKard DIGITAL STORAGE CARD TECHNOLOGY SLASHES ASSEMBLY COSTS
Using new proprietary design and manufacturing processes, including
leadframe-based fully transfer molded production, AmKard packaging solutions
present memory card suppliers with significant cost savings over traditional
lidded memory card assembly.
BREECE HILL TO DEMO STORAGE, RETRIEVAL ARCHITECTURE FOR SMBs
Breece Hill's new Information Storage and Retrieval Architecture (iStoRA),
which is a disk-to-disk-to-removable storage platform for small and medium
business (SMB) customers, will include Avail Integrity software.
BULL LAUNCHES NETWORK STORAGE SOLUTIONS DEDICATED TO HPC
Through its collaboration with DataDirect Networks, Bull has chosen to
validate and integrate the Best of Breed S2A Silicon Storage appliance line
from DataDirect Networks with its NovaScale scalable Linux Cluster.
FilesAnywhere ADDS NEW DIMENSION TO ONLINE FILE STORAGE
The innovative feature, called FileViews, provides a new categorized
indexing and search functionality using a standard web browser, which no
other storage provider has.
IOMEGA, BDT PRODUCTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO DEVELOP RRD TECHNOLOGY
The two companies envision a broad range of breakthrough autoloader
products, from full height 5.25-inch single drive products with 280GB of
native storage capacity to multi-drive 4U configurations with over 4 TB of
native storage.
LSI LOGIC STORAGE SYSTEMS, MAXTOR DEMO SATA FOR ENTERPRISES
LSI Logic Storage Systems uses Maxtor MaXLine Serial ATA hard drives for
enterprise application environments that require lower cost storage without
sacrificing the availability, manageability, data integrity and
software/hardware features currently achieved with Fibre Channel based
storage systems.
MARANTI NETWORKS JOINS MICROSOFT PARTNER SOLUTIONS CENTER
The MPSC is a facility designed to bring together world-class technology
companies dedicated to the rapid development of secure, end-to-end
networking solutions required by Microsoft customers to maintain a
competitive advantage in today's marketplace.
MAXTOR, LSI LOGIC TEAM FOR FC-TO-SATA ENTERPRISE STORAGE
Maxtor Corp announced that its MaXLine Serial ATA hard drives have been
certified by LSI Logic Storage Systems for use with its new Fibre Channel
-to-SATA enterprise-class storage solution.
GATEWAY SATA RAID ENCLOSURE HELPS STORE 2 TB FOR UNDER $6,000
Gateway announces much-needed relief for cash- and resource-strapped IT
managers with the launch of the Gateway 840 SATA RAID Enclosure. A
value-priced, high-capacity storage device, the Gateway 840 is a 2U
rackmount appliance that attaches directly to servers.
SOFTEK ANNOUNCES COMPREHENSIVE DATA REPLICATION STRATEGY
All Softek replication solutions are platform independent and
interoperable across, and between, any storage array hardware architecture,
eliminating vendor lock-in.
TRITTON UNVEILS 120GB NAS SOLUTION WITH PRINT SERVER
Addressing the growing need for additional network storage in small and
medium-sized business, home and work group markets, the T-NAS provides 120GB
of instant, secure storage with an MSRP of $349.
Viking InterWorks INTRODUCES EnthusiX PC3200 MEMORY MODULES
Viking's EnthusiX will launch with 256MB and 512MB, PC3200(DDR400)
registered memory modules intended for use with AMD64 processors, including
the AMD Athlon 64 FX and AMD Opteron processors.
IOMEGA RRD REMOVABLE HDD CHALLENGE TO TAPE
The Rev is an alternative to tape back-up systems and archival storage
rigs for SMEs and enterprise workgroups. Iomega will bundle back-up software
that copies and compresses -- effectively doubling the drive's native 35GB
capacity, it says -- the files that need backing up.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
DOT HILL SIGNS NTT DATA SYSTEMS AS DISTRIBUTOR IN JAPAN
NTT Data Systems, a subsidiary of the NTT Group, is marketing Dot Hill's
SANnet II storage solutions to its varied customer base including
telecommunications providers, enterprises, universities and government
agencies.
EMULEX COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF VIXEL
Emulex Corp announced that it has completed its acquisition of Vixel Corp.
Emulex acquired Vixel through a cash tender offer for $10 a share, and a
subsequent merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary with and into Vixel.
GATEWAY ENTERS SAN MARKET WITH HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS ALLIANCE
Gateway marks its first entrance into the multi-billion-dollar storage
area network (SAN) market by announcing an alliance with Hitachi Data
Systems that will enable Gateway to sell Hitachi Thunder 9500 V Series
modular storage systems and associated software.
IMATION OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR PROFITABLE GROWTH
Citing continued strong demand for data storage capacity across business
and consumer applications, Imation Corp outlined its strategy for profitable
growth by leveraging its position in the data storage removable media
industry.
KODAK TO PROVIDE ON-SITE SERVICE FOR NEXT GENERATION DiMeda
Under this agreement, Kodak Service & Support will provide three levels of
24-7 and Help Desk support for Ciprico's DiMeda family of products,
including its newest offering, Advantage On-Site.
SST, SANYO TO EXPAND FLASH PARTNERSHIP TO CHINA
SST and SANYO reiterated their commitment to continue developing the
foundry capabilities of Grace and HHNEC with more advanced process
technologies to serve the evolving needs of Chinese design houses and
customers worldwide.
StorageTek PARTNERS WITH INDUSTRY LEADERS TAPE DRIVE MEDIA
Under these agreements, Fujifilm and Imation will work independently to
develop media to support StorageTek's premier, enterprise-class tape drive
offerings.
XIOtech LAUNCHES DIMENSIONAL PARTNER PROGRAM
The Dimensional Partner Program is a back-to-basics approach that enables
value added resellers (VARs) to increase revenues and margins while
differentiating themselves in a crowded market.
- Enterprise Data Insights
PROTECTING YOUR DATA, REDUCING COSTS WITH NETWORKED STORAGE
Industry analysts predict that the market for affordable networked storage
will grow to exceed $5 billion over the next four years -- as companies of
all sizes need to manage, access and store data associated with their
products and/or services.
DataDirect S2A TO POWER SANDIA'S RED STORM SUPERCOMPUTER
With more than 110 Gigabytes per second of raw bandwidth, DataDirect's S2A
storage system will provide Cray and Sandia with the highest storage
networking bandwidth in the world.
PROTECTING E-MAIL DATA IN REAL TIME: PART II
As organizations' requirements for reliable high-availability systems
increase, their tolerance for downtime decreases. These factors, coupled
with the falling cost of disk subsystems, are the catalyst for an emerging
new strategy for data protection.
LUSTRE HELPS POWER THIRD FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER
The 1,152 node, 11.2 teraflops peak, Multiprogrammatic Capability Cluster
(MCR) integrates LLNL's Cluster High Availability Operating System (CHAOS)
and Cluster File Systems Inc's Lustre File System to provide a powerful
research platform.
ORACLE DATABASE 10g ON LINUX SETS WORLD PERFORMANCE RECORD
The record-setting benchmark is the result of collaboration between
Lenovo, a Chinese hardware manufacturer and member of the Oracle
PartnerNetwork, and Oracle's China Development Center in Beijing and Server
Technologies Group in Redwood Shores, Calif.
PANASAS SHATTERS STORAGE BANDWIDTH RECORDS
Panasas Inc, in a joint effort with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),
announced that the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster has achieved more
than 10 gigabytes per second of sustained data bandwidth for highly parallel
Linux cluster applications.
NEW PLASTIC MEMORY TECHNOLOGY UNVEILED
A new memory technology promises to store more data at less cost than the
expensive-to-build silicon chips used by popular consumer gadgets including
digital cameras, cell phones and portable music players.
PROMISE TECHNOLOGY LEADS IN ATA RAID FOR IA SERVERS
The report reflects Promise Technology's third consecutive year as the
leading supplier of ATA RAID with a whopping 83 percent market share.
SNIA, INCITS TO STANDARDIZE STORAGE MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
Action puts SNIA's SMI-S Specification on fast track to status as American
national standard.
GROWTH EXPECTED FOR StorageTek INFO LIFECYCLE MGMT STRATEGY
Just weeks after delivering its 13th straight quarter of year-over-year
earnings growth and unveiling the industry's most innovative tape automation
solution in the past 15 years, StorageTek told financial analysts that the
company will continue to deliver on its promises to customers.
ZENON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLEMENTS EqualLogic's PEERSTORAGE ARRAY
The PeerStorage solution provides ZENON increased storage capacity, while
reducing management, support and maintenance costs, to easily handle the
company's growth of information.
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Emulex Strengthens Senior Management Team
Informatica Selected For IDC's Software Leadership Council
Imation CEO Bill Monahan Announces Plans To Retire
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