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- Storage Innovations
ARCHIVAS UNVEILS BREAKTHROUGH FOR ARCHIVING FIXED CONTENT
The company, which has received $6 million in Series A venture capital
funding, had industry experts buzzing with the launch of its Archivas
Cluster (ArC) solution and the introduction of its world-class management
team.
BROCADE INTRODUCES NEW SilkWorm 24000 DIRECTOR
Designed to meet the most rigorous high-availability, performance and
scalability requirements, the SilkWorm 24000 also delivers an extensible
architecture that is the foundation for an unprecedented range of system
expansion and growth choices for the enterprise customer.
EXABYTE LAUNCHES MAGNUM 6X60 LTO TAPE LIBRARY
The new 20u Magnum 6x60 tape library includes six drives and 60 slots,
providing up to 24TB of capacity and data transfer speeds up to 1.5TB per
hour.
FalconStor SHIPS SOLUTION FOR WINDOWS STORAGE SERVER 2003
FalconStor Software Inc, a leading developer of network storage
infrastructure software, announced availability of iSCSI Storage Server,
powered by IPStor, the first fully-featured, seamlessly integrated solution
designed specifically for the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003
platform.
IOMEGA BRINGS WINDOWS STORAGE SERVER 2003 TO ENTRY-LEVEL NAS
Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, remote office and
department workgroups, Iomega's new NAS servers come standard with Microsoft
Windows Storage Server 2003, an industry first in the entry-level (under
$1,100) category.
NEXSAN ATAboy2 SPORTS HIGH-PERFORMANCE RAID CONTROLLER
The new ATAboy2x incorporates a new RAID controller design, featuring dual
independent 2-gigabit Fibre Channel host ports to deliver up to two-and-half
times the performance of the previous ATAboy2 model.
CUSTOM CONFIGURATION WITH SIMagic FROM ORGA
ORGA has developed a completely new method called SIMagic that allows the
SIM (or USIM) card memory to be freely configured by the end user.
SONY SHIPS 23GB BLUE LASER MEDIA FOR PROFESSIONAL DATA STORAGE
Featuring an extraordinary 23.3GB storage capacity per single-sided disc,
Professional Disc for DATA media provides the storage capacity needed to
fulfill the rigorous demands of data-intensive applications.
SST ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION OF 8-Mbit SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE
Based on SST's proprietary, high-performance SuperFlash technology, the
SST25LF080A is the latest addition to the successful 25 Series of serial
flash memory products.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
CISCO, IBM EXPAND ALLIANCE INTO DATA CENTER
IBM and Cisco said the move would make it easier to manage the servers,
which are known for their ability to be easily expanded or repaired because
they are made up of individual computing modules. A switch directs data
traffic on a network.
COLLOCATION SOLUTIONS ADDS COMDEPOT CONTINUITY SERVICES
The addition of COMDEPOT's Virtual Core to the new Virtualized Business
Continuity Service will enhance Collocation Solutions Mirrored Hot Site
offering for Disaster Recovery IT back-up solutions by automating business
continuity solutions through COMDEPOT's Virtual Core.
EMC TO OFFER NEW BROCADE STORAGE AREA NETWORK DIRECTOR
Designed to the most stringent enterprise data center requirements, the
new EMC Connectrix ED-24000B supports 128 ports in a single domain at 2 Gbit
per second, and features hot code activation as well as fully redundant
power supplies, fans and control processors.
EXABYTE LAUNCHES ExaPartner RESELLER PROGRAM FOR LTO PRODUCTS
The ExaPartner Program provides resellers with the products, pricing
discounts, and technical and sales support that give resellers a more
profitable way to sell LTO tape libraries.
MICROSOFT ACQUIRES ActiveViews' BI FUNCTIONALITY
ActiveViews provides an ad hoc reporting system that takes advantage of
the power of Microsoft .NET and SQL Server Reporting Services to allow users
to easily unlock and explore data stored in a myriad of systems.
SIEBEL, TERADATA ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
Driven by customer needs, the focus of the comprehensive partnership is to
provide enhanced integration and optimization between the Siebel Analytics
products and the Teradata Warehouse.
- Enterprise Data Insights
AVAMAR AXION SOLVES DATABASE BACKUP CHALLENGE AT QUALCOMM
Avamar Axion enabled QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies to streamline its
operations by eliminating the need for the primary storage staging area.
NEW STUDIES SET STANDARD FOR ENTERPRISE BI SCALABILITY
Information Builders unveiled results of a benchmark study jointly
conducted with Unisys Corp, as well as an independent product review
conducted by Howard A. Kanter, a CPA and associate director of DePaul
University's Laboratory for Software Metrics.
LocatePLUS INCREASES INVESTMENT IN EMC CLARiiON CX SOLUTIONS
With this recent upgrade, LocatePLUS' storage infrastructure consists of a
120TB CLARiiON CX600 SAN designed to bring more records into the database to
enrich reporting capabilities and increase the robustness of the company's
online investigative solutions.
LOUDEYE TEAMS WITH DELL, StorageTek, FOUNDRY NETWORKS
The combination of new technology and system advancements to Loudeye's $70
million media operations center significantly expands the speed, efficiency,
volume and capacity of Loudeye's digital media processing, management and
distribution services.
MRAM, FLASH OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMBEDDED MEMORY MARKET
Magnetic random-access memory combines the high storage and low cost of
dynamic RAM (DRAM), high speed of static RAM (SRAM) and the non-volatility
of flash memory to provide a single and unified memory solution.
OPTICAL DISK DEVICE MARKET HAS GONE THROUGH DRASTIC CHANGES
Research and Markets has announced the addition of 2004 Worldwide Optical
Disk Device Market Data Book to their offering. The data in this report
covering the period from 2001 to 2007, provides an overview of the present
market situation and possible trends in the Worldwide Optical Disk Device
Market.
ONARO SOLVES SAN 'COMPLEXITY CRISIS'
Onaro's Predictive Change Management approach transforms the way
organizations manage their SANs and will enable storage availability,
scalability and reliability, reducing the risk present today with the use of
SANs.
SAS, IBM DEMO LEADERSHIP IN DATA MINING INTEROPERABILITY
SAS and IBM are the first companies to deliver production software that
implements an extended version of the PMML 2.1 standard, providing customers
with the capability to rapidly integrate new predictive and descriptive
models in operational systems without manual interference.
SDSC SELECTS FINISAR SAN TOOLS TO TROUBLESHOOT MASSIVE SAN
SDSC is using Finisar's NetWisdom SAN traffic monitoring system to conduct
data collection and trending analysis and to provide end-to-end monitoring
and analysis of all the switches and devices in its SAN fabric.
VENETICA, IBM TO DELIVER NEW INTEGRATION SOLUTION
Under the partnership, customers will be able to extend the reach of
business applications that utilize IBM DB2 Information Integrator to
leverage content from more than 20 common content repositories supported by
VeniceBridge, Venetica's ECI platform.
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Short Takes
- Financial Watch
Emulex Reports Third Quarter Results
FalconStor Announces First Quarter 2004 Financial Results
Iomega Reports First Quarter 2004 Pre-Tax Financial Results
Dot Hill Reports First Quarter 2004 Results
MicroStrategy Reports 31 Percent Year-Over-Year Growth In Q1
M-Systems Reports Record First Quarter 2004 Results
LSI Logic Q1 Revenues Grow 21 Percent Year-Over-Year
- People & Positions
Decru Adds Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn As Strategic Advisor
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