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- Storage Innovations
3PAR DOUBLES BEST PERFORMANCE WITH X-SERIES STORAGE SERVERS
3PAR, a leading provider of Utility Storage, announced the shipment of its
new InServ X-Series Storage Server. With the performance-enhanced
capabilities of the InServ X-Series, new and existing customers can double
the consolidation headroom of the industry's most broadly scalable
enterprise array.
AMI SHOWCASES BIOS, IPMI, KVM OVER IP BLADE TECHNOLOGIES
American Megatrends Inc (AMI), a leading provider of storage and computing
innovations worldwide, announced it will demonstrate BIOS, IPMI and KVM over
IP technologies that help to enable and provide value-add to server blades
at the Server Blade Summit held this week at the Wyndham San Jose (Calif.).
ASACA DEMOS LARGEST BLUE LASER-BASED LIBRARY
A flexible, standards-based library, the new blue laser TeraCart provides
the capacity and fast random access to files necessary for organizations to
gain compliance with a barrage of new government regulations designed to
improve data retention policies.
BiTMICRO INTRODUCES HIGHEST DENSITY 2.5-INCH SSD
The 2A66 offers yet unparalleled advances in flash drive solid-state disk
storage technology, rendering BiTMICRO's E-Disk product line synonymous to
high performance, reliability and durability.
DOCUMENTUM DEMONSTRATES MAINFRAME-SCALE PERFORMANCE
Documentum, a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM),
announced that the company has successfully demonstrated the mainframe-level
performance and scalability of the Documentum 5 ECM platform, with a
billion-object repository benchmark.
EMC TO DEVELOP SOFTWARE FOR McDATA INTEL. SWITCH PLATFORM
In addition to basic virtualization and presentation capabilities,
intelligent switch platforms will provide a foundation for new value added
services like data mobility, dynamic routing and others.
FileMaker 7 LINE BOASTS NEW ARCHITECTURE
FileMaker Pro 7, for Windows and Mac OS X, has been redesigned using a
modern, streamlined relational architecture, which enables users to simplify
information management by storing multiple tables within a single file.
FUJIFILM ANNOUNCES SHIPMENT OF DAT 72 CARTRIDGES
DAT 72 improves upon the already extremely popular and cost effective DDS
format by providing an even higher level of capacity, performance and
reliability.
FUJITSU ENTERPRISE HDDs SHOWCASE INDUSTRY LEADING TECHNOLOGY
Fujitsu's MAT series hard disk drive is the industry's first 75 Gigabits
per square inch 4-platter enterprise design to deliver 300GB of storage
capacity in a 10K RPM 3.5-inch form factor.
400GB HARD DRIVE MAKES HITACHI CAPACITY KING
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced the world's
highest capacity 3.5-inch ATA hard drive, the 400GB Deskstar 7K400. The new
drive has been designed for audio video (AV) and ATA nearline environments,
where large capacities and a lower per-gigabyte cost are key requirements.
INFORTREND SHIPS SLEEK, AFFORDABLE RAID STORAGE DEVICE
Ideal for applications requiring maximum configuration flexibility, the
dual-single (also called dual independent) models feature two Fibre
controllers with up to eight or 12 ports, any or all of which may be
configured as either host or drive ports.
iQstor DEBUTS AFFORDABLE, INTELLIGENT SATA SYSTEM FOR SMBs
With the new iQ1200 Storage System, iQstor marks two firsts for the
industry: first to market with a SATA product that features embedded data
services and SATA storage in one 3U chassis; and first to market with a 1TB
storage solution for under $10,000.
JAAG LAUNCHES DATA STORAGE APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS FOR SMBs, SMEs
This family consists of three unique lines of easy-to-use appliances
including solutions for tape and library backup, data protection, tape
migration and data replication (local and remote); featuring applications
from Diligent Technologies, NovaStor and Fujitsu-Softek.
MaXXan DEMOS LATEST VIRTUAL TAPE SOLUTION
The system utilizes Fibre Channel protocols to back up and restore data
from a disk-based virtual tape at ultra high speeds while maximizing
reliability by eliminating robotic mechanical failures and physical tape
media errors.
McDATA TO DEMO SAN MGMT, INTERNETWORKING SOLUTIONS AT CEBIT
McDATA's demonstration will be on display in its booth for the duration of
the show, March 18-24, and will show visitors the unparalleled benefits of
McDATA's industry-leading family of products for storage utilization,
security, centralized management and internetworking.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
ACTONA TECHNOLOGIES ATTRACTS $10 MILLION IN SERIES C FUNDING
The funding will be used to fuel the company's rapid expansion of its
sales, marketing, customer service and business development efforts.
EXANET, KPG ENTER INTO AGREEMENT FOR DISTRIBUTION OF ExaStore
Exanet has signed an agreement with Kodak Polychrome Graphics for
worldwide distribution to the graphic arts market of Exanet's ExaStore,
representing a $300 million potential annual revenue opportunity.
MEMPILE RAISES $11.6 MILLION
Kodiak Venture Partners led the investment, and was joined by Israel Seed
Partners, JVP, Hitachi CSK, Portview Communications Partners, Alta Berkeley
Venture Partners of London and initial investor Millennium Materials
Technology Fund.
NANOCHIP RECEIVES $20M IN FUNDING, EXPANDS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Nanochip will use the proceeds from this investment round to fund
continued development and initial manufacturing of the company's first
commercially available products.
- Enterprise Data Insights
NEW NAS GATEWAY FUELS EMC NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE GROWTH
According to IDC, EMC claimed the No. 1 NAS spot in the fourth quarter and
maintained its leadership position for the full-year of 2003. EMC's traction
continues with new market-leading performance measurements for the recently
announced NS700 NAS system, published on the SPEC SFS Web site.
FINISAR, UNH-IOL PARTNER FOR SANmark QUALIFICATION TESTING
The SANmark program provides several levels of Fibre Channel compliance
testing required for reliable, high-speed communication in typical SAN
environments that include host adapters, hubs, switches, storage subsystems
and SCSI-to-Fibre Channel bridges.
EXT. DISK STORAGE MARKET POSTS LARGEST GROWTH IN TWO YEARS
Although favorable exchange rates were a leading factor in the strong
result, demand for disk storage systems picked up in the fourth quarter,
resulting in 52 percent year-over-year growth in external disk storage
systems petabytes.
MEMORY CHIP MAKERS ON DEFENSIVE AS TIDES TURN
Rambus, which licenses technology that speeds up computer memory, said the
decision (the dismissal of antitrust charges against the company) not only
clears its name but also will be helpful should it decide to launch its own
antitrust suits against chip makers.
SVM PROVIDES CENTRALIZED STORAGE MANAGEMENT, CONTINUITY
SEIKO EPSON chose SVM to provide centralized storage management and
improve the level of data protection, while significantly lowering
administration costs. The installation was accomplished in cooperation with
Computer Dynamics Corp StoreAge's partner in Japan.
STARZ IMPLEMENTS EMC BUSINESS CONTINUITY SOLUTION
As new titles are acquired, Starz uses EMC AVALONidm software to
automatically send copies of the movie files to storage on a Sony PetaSite
near-line tape archive located at the primary site in Englewood, Colo., and
a duplicate to the CLARiiON CX600 with ATA archive at the restoral site over
25 miles away.
FileNet, SUN ESTABLISH MILESTONE FOR ENTERPRISE CONTENT MGMT
Together, Sun and FileNet, running FileNet BPM on Solaris Operating System
on the Sun Fire 6800 and V480 servers in combination with Sun StorEdge 3310
arrays, achieved a record performance load of 6.3 million transactions per
hour, more than double previous results.
TDWI STUDY: BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MGMT ACTIVITY RAMPING UP
According to TDWI research, only 13 percent of respondents have
implemented a BPM solution. However, another third (33 percent) are under
construction or in the planning/design phase, and another third are
exploring whether to implement a BPM solution.
RECORD SOLID STATE DISK SALE BY TEXAS MEMORY SYSTEMS
Texas Memory System's OEM, Dynamic Solutions International, which has over
18 years of experience delivering solid state disk solutions to the
Enterprise, installed a 2.5TB Tera-RamSan at a customer site to accelerate
critical database applications, metadata and to maintain a technological
edge.
STORAGE RESOURCE MGMT TOP STORAGE SPENDING PRIORITY IN 2004
TheInfoPro (TIP) has released Wave 3 of its seminal study of the Storage
Networking and Storage Management market. Leading the way in the popular
"Technology Heat Index" was Storage Resource Management (SRM), followed by
Disk to Disk for Back up and Capacity Forecasting tying for the second spot.
CITY OF CAMBRIDGE BOOSTS IT OUTPUT WITH UTILITY COMPUTING
Cambridge, Mass., has slashed the time it takes to identify and cope with
problematic database transactions by 92 percent after enlisting VERITAS
Indepth for SQL Server application performance management software in its
PeopleSoft implementation.
Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
HP No. 1 In Total Disk Storage For Seven Consecutive Quarters
Cognos Acquires Softa
- People & Positions
SAND Brings Veteran Telecom Leader Onboard
IntelliReach Appoints Visionary To Board Of Directors
Rhoads, Whitlark Bring Predictive Analytics Experience To PI
AppIQ Demonstrates Deep Commitment To SMI-S Standard
Documentum CMO David Milam Joins AIIM Board Of Directors
VERITAS Software Names Arthur Matin EVP, Worldwide Sales
Thomas Prohofsky Joins I-TECH As Director Of Product Dev.
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