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ADTX ANNOUNCES SERIAL ATA ArrayMasStor L SERIES
The new ADTX SATA fibre channel and ultra SCSI RAID subsystems include the
ArrayMasStor LM fibre single and dual controller, Array MasStor L-HP fibre
single and dual controller and the Array MasStor L-HP SCSI single and dual
controller.
AGILENT INTROS STORAGE AREA TESTER MODULES
The Agilent 1733A SAN tester's 4 Gb per second functionality builds on the
existing platform of the Agilent 1730A and 1730B, and the new modules fit in
the same platform as the existing 1 and 2 Gb per second.
ALACRITUS DEMOS CHRONOSPAN CDP W/ BROCADE FABRIC APP PLATFORM
Alacritus Software, an innovator in disk-based data protection solutions,
demonstrated the Chronospan Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Solution with
the Brocade Silkworm Fabric Application Platform at Storage Networking
World.
ATEMPO INTRODUCES STORAGE ASSESSMENT SERVICE
Storage Assessor provides IT managers with a non-intrusive way to rapidly
gain insight into the performance, status and utilization of network
hardware, software and connectivity.
BakBone, SNAP TO PROVIDE COMPLETE BACKUP, RESTORE SOLUTION
BakBone's NetVault 7 for GuardianOS v3.0 will back up and restore data
that resides on Snap Servers to locally attached tape drives or libraries.
This powerful combination delivers enhanced data protection and enterprise-
class functionality that can scale to meet the demands of any size IT
environment.
BROCADE DELIVERS OPEN FABRIC MGMT BASED ON INDUSTRY STANDARDS
Brocade Open Fabric Management Services is Brocade's first production
release of an external management agent for Brocade switches compliant with
the version 1.0.2 of the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification
(SMI-S).
CIENA REDUCES COST OF CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN DATA CENTERS
CIENA's Dynamic Bandwidth Assignment allows multiple enterprise
applications or data center protocols to dynamically share the same Wide
Area Network (WAN) bandwidth by consolidating traffic using priority
weighting.
CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES DDR2 MEMORY AVAILABILITY
DDR2 is the next evolution in DDR memory technology and features
advancements in voltage, density and design to achieve speeds beyond the bus
speed limitation of current DDR.
DECRU EXTENDS STORAGE SECURITY WITH DataFort 2.0 PLATFORM
Significant new features in the DataFort 2.0 platform include Storage VPN
features for secure Web-based file access, Transparent Rekeying for NAS,
hardware-accelerated compression for tape encryption and CryptoShred secure
deletion.
EMC INTROS CLARiiON DISK LIBRARY
Combining the power and reliability of CLARiiON technology with
cost-efficient ATA disk drives and 100 percent compatible tape library
emulation, the CLARiiON Disk Library offers customers a proven, easy-
to-deploy solution for rapid backup and recovery requiring no changes to
existing applications or procedures.
FilesAnywhere BACKS UP FILES, ALLOWS SECURE ACCESS VIA WEB
FilesAnywhere can also synchronize folders between locations, share files
and entire folders with anyone, track changes and even store different file
versions automatically.
FINISAR INTRODUCES NEW NETWORK ANALYZER PLATFORM SOLUTIONS
These solutions allow customers to more efficiently design, develop and
analyze SAN components and storage solutions.
HIFN SAMPLES FIRST SECURITY PROCESSORS FOR SANs
Hifn announced at Storage Networking World that general sampling has begun
on the HIPP III 4300 and 4350 Storage Security Processors; the first IPsec
security processors designed to meet the specific requirements of IP Storage
applications, including iSCSI, FCIP and NAS.
HP DRIVES DOWN COST OF STORAGE AREA NETWORKING
HP announced innovative storage solutions designed to help customers drive
down storage area network (SAN) cost and simplify SAN integration and
management based on industry standards.
IMATION TERA ANGSTROM TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS TB-CLASS TAPE MEDIA
The cartridges utilizing Tera Angstrom technology will be in capacities of
400 gigabytes and higher; Imation expects to deliver multi-terabyte
cartridges within the decade.
INCIPIENT DEMOS FABRIC-BASED STORAGE APPLICATIONS AT SNW
Incipient showcased a business application that uses Microsoft Windows
2000 with Internet Information Server (IIS) and a Microsoft SQL Server 2000
database running on logical volumes provided by the Incipient Distributed
Virtualization Engine (DVE).
ISILON INTRODUCES IQ 1440, 2250 CLUSTERED STORAGE SYSTEMS
The new Isilon IQ products double the total aggregate throughput of
Isilon's previous generation of products, introduced only six months ago.
LSI LOGIC FIRST TO SAMPLE FULLY-FUNCTIONAL SAS HBAs
The HBA SAS sampling extends the opportunity for system, server and
workstation equipment manufacturers to test with the first fully-functional
SAS host bus adapter available in the market today.
MS ANNOUNCES STORAGE INNOVATIONS, INVESTMENTS
Microsoft announced a new feature pack for Windows Storage Server 2003,
part of Windows Server System, as well as new storage innovations to provide
simpler and more economical management of Fibre Channel and Microsoft
Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) storage area networks in
Windows.
1 BEYOND ANNOUNCES POWERFUL, COST-EFFECTIVE SHARED SAN
1 Beyond Harmony is the industry's first Shared Storage Area Network
capable of supporting multiple streams (from 2 to 32 editing, compositing
and on-air systems) of full resolution 10-bit uncompressed HD video.
PANASAS SHOWCASES STORAGE LEADERSHIP AT ClusterWorld 2004
In addition, Panasas Solutions Architect Bruce Moxon was a featured
presenter for the Petroleum & Geophysical Exploration track, presenting
"Scalable Shared Storage for Clustered Seismic Processing Applications."
PERMABIT CUSTOMER WINS PRESTIGIOUS STORAGE AWARD
The award was specifically within the Industry Regulation Compliance and
Corporate Governance category. Only two companies were honored in this
category based on compliance initiatives that met or exceeded regulations as
specified by the SEC, Patriot Act, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, DoD and CFR.
SEAGATE EXTENDS SERIAL TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP WITH SNW DEMO
Seagate Technology, a leading provider of disc drive products and
technologies, revealed its latest industry-first demonstration showing
interoperability between multiple Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA
(SATA) disc drives all running within the same storage array.
SGI DELIVERS InfiniteStorage DATA LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SERVER
Virtualizing multiple storage assets with different price and performance
capabilities, the DLM Server ensures data is always available to users,
applications and administrators without the complexity and delay of
traditional archiving approaches.
SNAP APPLIANCE LAUNCHES GuardianOS
Together with Instant Capacity Expansion (I.C.E.) and Snap Server Manager
(SSM), the GuardianOS becomes one of the most powerful software solutions
for easily deploying, provisioning, configuring, and managing a distributed
enterprise storage network from a central location.
SPECTRA LOGIC INTRODUCES ENTERPRISE LIBRARY IN DISGUISE
The new Spectra T120 automated tape library provides incredible storage
density in only 14U and the same rich features found in the Spectra T950
tape library, where a single frame holds almost 1,000 tapes.
STORServer ADDS TO SUITE OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY APPLIANCES
STORServer's Lifecycle Management (LM) Appliance accommodates the
increasing demands on companies for storing large amounts of data and
implementing management policies, particularly data that is
compliance-related (such as HIPPA, Sarbanes Oxley and DOD 5015.2).
STORABILITY DEMOS GLOBAL STORAGE MANAGER'S SMI-S CAPABILITIES
Convinced that the SMI-S standard will improve the interoperability of
storage management solutions and reduce costs for end-users, Storability
Software has continuously enhanced GSM's functionality to ensure SMI-S
compliance with available SMI-S Providers.
TOSHIBA TAKES NAND TO 4-GIGABIT LEVEL USING 90nm PROCESS TECH
Fabricated with 90-nanometer (nm) process technology, the new chip offers
double the capacity of Toshiba's present largest single-die NAND flash
memory, and will realize higher capacity flash memory cards capable of
supporting a wide range of applications.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
AGERE, TROIKA CREATE ALLIANCE TO BRING FC PRODUCTS TO MARKET
The companies will bring to market new Fibre Channel storage networking
solutions built for optimizing data management and protection applications
and adding intelligence to the storage network.
EM MICROELECTRONIC LEVERAGES SST SuperFlash TECHNOLOGY
This new agreement extends the companies' existing licensing relationship
whereby EM Microelectronic has been using SST's 0.5-micron SuperFlash
technology since October 2001.
FalconStor ANNOUNCES OEM AGREEMENT WITH EMC
FalconStor Software Inc, a leading developer of network storage
infrastructure software solutions, announced that EMC Corp, a world leader
in information storage and management, has licensed tape emulation
components of FalconStor's IPStor software to utilize in the new EMC
CLARiiON Disk Library.
LUMINEX, ViON AGREE TO BRING OPEN SYSTEMS DISK STORAGE TO GOV'T
The companies have entered into an agreement which will enable ViON to
provide to its mainframe government customers Luminex's Virtual/BLUE (V/B)
3990 mainframe DASD control unit.
SOFTEK ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT-LED BUYOUT FROM FUJITSU
Fujitsu continues to be a strategic partner to Softek through multi-year
OEM agreements for distribution of award-winning Softek data availability
and enterprise storage resource management (ESRM) solutions throughout
countries in Asia Pacific and Central Europe.
XIOtech, McDATA TEAM TO DELIVER INTEGRATED STORAGE SOLUTIONS
The combination of the Magnitude 3D and McDATA solutions allows companies
to quickly and cost-effectively deploy and manage an enterprise-class
storage area network (SAN) using existing IT staff eliminating the need for
expensive vendor-centric specialists.
- Enterprise Data Insights
DELL ADVANCES STORAGE STANDARDS WITH PRODUCT CERTIFICATION
Dell participation with SNIA includes board-level leadership, RAID
interoperability standards development, as well as first-ever product
certification for the company's Dell/EMC line of network storage. Dell has
been an active member of SNIA since 1999.
EMULEX ANNOUNCES HBA SUPPORT FOR SMI-S, TEAMS WITH AppIQ
Emulex's implementation, as demonstrated at last week's Storage Networking
World Spring 2004 show with AppIQ, delivers the broadest range of
capabilities in the industry, including the ability to fully configure and
manage all the HBAs in a SAN from a single console.
iVivity, StoreAge EXECUTE BREAKTHROUGH iSCSI STORAGE MGMT
The demonstration shows that by leveraging iDiSX, OEMs have a path to full
iSCSI functionality for their existing Fibre Channel SAN products without
compromising performance or incurring additional costs.
MaXXan DEMOS FOUR STORAGE SOLUTIONS AT SNIA EVENT
MaXXan's demonstrations included switch interoperability with a host of
SAN devices, disaster recovery solutions over a simulated long-distance WAN
connection, storage virtualization across heterogeneous disk arrays, iSCSI
SAN with NAS gateway for NAS/SAN convergence and Fibre Channel over IP for
connecting SAN islands.
MUSTANG ENGINEERING WINS 'BEST PRACTICES IN STORAGE' AWARD
This award recognizes the Mustang DLM solution featuring NuView's File
Lifecycle Manager (FLM), a policy-based data management solution that
manages the lifecycle of files, and Network Appliance storage systems.
OGDEN, UTAH, HONORED WITH 'BEST PRACTICES IN STORAGE' AWARD
The program honors organizations that have applied unique solutions to
overcoming storage challenges. The awards were announced during a special
awards ceremony at Storage Networking World (SNW) in Phoenix.
EMULEX, SEAGATE, XYRATEX DISPLAY 4 Gb/s FC SOLUTION AT SNW
The live, fully-interoperable solution is a result of the three companies'
efforts to merge their respective 4 Gb per second technologies into an
advanced, high performance storage enclosure called a "Switched Bunch Of
Disks."
SGI InfiniteStorage PRODUCTS COMPLY WITH INDUSTRY STANDARDS
SGI is one of the first to pass the rigorous Storage Networking Industry
Association Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP) in order to provide its
customers with the benefits of standardized storage management.
SILICON IMAGE EXPANDS STORAGE DIVISION
Silicon Image Inc, a leader in multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions for
the secure transmission and storage of rich digital media, announced that it
has expanded its storage operations to address storage platforms
opportunities with a revolutionary new Serial ATA (SATA)-based architecture.
DMTF ADOPTION OF ESTABLISHED MANAGEMENT STANDARDS ADVANCES
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has certified products
that use the DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM) and Web Based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) standards. CIM and WBEM are the basis of the SNIA's
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).
SPIRENT FC PERFORMANCE TESTER HIGHLIGHTS QLogic PERFORMANCE
Spirent Communications announced that QLogic Corp has leveraged Spirent's
SmartBits and its Fibre Channel test modules to demonstrate the performance
of the QLogic SANbox 5200 Stackable Fibre Channel Switch with 10Gb per
second inter-switch linking.
StoneFly NETWORKS CUSTOMER, PBS, HONORED BY SNW
PBS, winner in the Innovation and Promise category, was recognized for
maximizing its StoneFly IP SAN to connect stranded servers to a Fibre
Channel SAN, resulting in improved storage utilization, provisioning and
return on investment.
NEW STORAGE PERFORMANCE RECORDS SET
Texas Memory Systems' RamSan-320 achieved an SPC-1 I/O per second rate of
112,491.34 and Price-Performance value of $1.50 at a capacity of 68.719
gigabytes.
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- Financial Watch
Dot Hill Systems Reports Preliminary Results For Q1
Seagate Technology Provides Preliminary Q3 2004 Results
- People & Positions
Softek Names New Leader For Mainframe Solutions Group
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