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- Storage Innovations
NUCLEUS USB GIVES MASS STORAGE CLASS DRIVER SUPPORT
Accelerated Technology, the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics
Corp, announced mass storage class driver support for the Nucleus USB
software, which provides USB support for the Nucleus Real-Time Operating
System.
ASACA ANNOUNCES WORLD'S LARGEST BLUE LASER LIBRARY
During RSNA, ASACA Corp debuted a new breed of high capacity storage
archive adding support for Sony's new Professional Disc for DATA drives to
ASACA's award-winning family of TeraCart Multimedia Storage System optical
libraries.
ASTUTE, CAVIUM TO DELIVER iSCSI, TCP-OFFLOAD ADAPTERS
The SA1000 SuperHBA accelerators bring together Astute Networks' Pericles
Intelligent Protocol Processor (IPP) and Cavium Networks' NITROX II In-line
Security Processor in a PCI-X add-in card solution.

BiTMICRO DELIVERS RUGGED, HIGHLY SECURE SOLID STATE STORAGE
BiTMICRO Networks continues to provide innovative solutions in the field
of portable and highly reliable solid-state storage solutions with the
introduction of E-Disk Transit.
ESG RELEASES PROFILE OF AppIQ StorageAuthority SUITE
The report examines StorageAuthority Suite's ability to streamline storage
area management operations and comply with the storage industry's Storage
Management Initiative Specification standard.
EXAVIO DEBUTS ExaVault FC MEDIA STORAGE SYSTEM
The Exavio ExaVault FC, the newest offering of the ExaVault line of media
storage solutions, is specifically optimized for media-centric SAN
deployment within the growing and dynamic on-demand digital media storage
environments in the entertainment, broadcast, content creation and delivery
markets.

FUJITSU BROADENS REMOVABLE STORAGE OFFERINGS AT RSNA 2003
Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc expanded its reach in the medical
imaging marketplace with the introduction of the DynaMO 2300 SCSI
Magneto-Optical drive at the Radiological Society of North America 2003
Conference and Exposition.
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS EXTENDS STORAGE CONNECTIVITY OPTIONS
Providing a lower-cost alternative to Fibre Channel SANs, the new solution
from Hitachi Data Systems and McDATA includes the Hitachi Thunder 9570V
modular storage system, the McDATA Eclipse 1620 SAN internetworking switch,
and enablement services.
IOGEAR LAUNCHES SMALL AND HOME OFFICE NETWORKING KIT
IOGEAR's all-in-one solution integrates Network Attached Storage, a
cable/DSL router, an Ethernet switch and Web site hosting capabilities. BOSS
also comes with a Firewall, built-in Virtual Private Networking and File
Transfer Protocol server capabilities.

LightSand STORAGE GATEWAY TRANSPORTS FC OVER DISTANCE
LightSand, a leading provider of storage connectivity products announced
the immediate availability of the S-155B Storage Gateway. This new gateway
enables organizations to interconnect Fibre Channel storage systems over
existing fiber optic infrastructure across town or cross-country.
MEMOREX DELIVERS TRUE 8X8 DVD RECORDING IN DUAL FORMAT DRIVE
The Memorex drive is packed with an impressive list of seventh-generation,
precision DVD recording technologies -- compared to second- or
third-generation technologies in competing units -- assuring consumers the
utmost in performance with each high-speed burn.
NetApp TAKES SCALABILITY, PERFORMANCE TO NEW HEIGHTS
The NetApp FAS980 and FAS980c extend the Network Appliance solutions
portfolio to help customers deploy mission-critical applications on a highly
scalable, high-performance platform, while meeting their demands for simple,
easy to manage solutions.

RAIDTEC LAUNCHES SNAZ PRO NAS AND SAN APPLIANCES
The SNAZ S4 and SNAZ S8 are full-featured high performance file servers
for simultaneous support of Windows and Unix/Linux clients on a LAN.
SONY SHIPS BLUE LASER-BASED PROFESSIONAL DISC FOR DATA DRIVES
Based on blue laser technology, the new Professional Disc for DATA media
stores up to 23GB of native capacity per rewritable or write-once, read-many
(WORM) disc.

SST, POWERCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR TO ADVANCE SuperFlash TECHNOLOGY
The first product under development is a 2Gb flash media with pin-outs and
electrical specifications compatible with industry-standard NAND products.
SST and PSC recently have verified the new-generation SuperFlash memory cell
structure and electrical data.
StorageTek EXPANDS BACKUP/RECOVERY OPTIONS
In an effort to bring customers a wider choice of backup and recovery
software, StorageTek is offering IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli
Software's flagship data protection storage management software.

- Financial Plays Of The Week
CIPRICO ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH DATA DISTRIBUTING
Data Distributing will be Ciprico's medical imaging market distributor for
its DiMeda Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions.
EXABYTE ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH FUJITSU SIEMENS
Fujitsu Siemens Computers will offer Exabyte's VXA-2 Packet Tape Drives,
both internal and external models, as optional storage components for its
popular Intel-based Primergy line of servers.

HITACHI, CROSSROADS LICENSE TECHNOLOGY
Both parties' patents cover the ability to control access from hosts to
storage devices using a variety of protocols. This patented technology
protects data in shared storage environments from unauthorized access and
overwrites by multiple hosts.
KODAK TO DELIVER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
In response to customer demand, Kodak and IBM will offer health care
facilities solutions that combine Kodak's medical imaging products and
services -- such as enterprise archiving and picture archiving and
communications systems (PACS) -- with IBM's storage devices.

CISCO, NetApp TEAM TO DELIVER INTEGRATED STORAGE SOLUTIONS
The strategic relationship aims to deliver storage networking solutions
through technology collaboration, joint sales and marketing activities,
while providing collaborative support to help customers architect, deploy,
and benefit from these solutions.
NetApp, VERITAS TO DELIVER INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS
Network Appliance Inc and VERITAS Software announced their creation of
integrated solutions for data lifecycle management, regulatory compliance
and disk-based data protection, expanding each company's current solutions
portfolios in these arenas.

Top Of The News
Short Takes
- People & Positions
XIOtech Names Alain Andreoli As President, CEO
BlackBall Announces World-Class Advisory Board
Arco Data Protection Systems Appoints Bowen Head Of OEM Sales
Kashya Expands Executive Management Team
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