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- Storage Innovations
ACTEL, INICORE DELIVER TURNKEY DESIGN SOLUTION TO L-3
The silicon, software, IP and design services provided by Actel and
Inicore, a member of Actel's Solution Partner Program, enabled L-3 Targa
Systems to achieve first-time product success, while also providing the
added benefits of rapid time-to-market and reduced overall design costs.
DYNAMIC NETWORK FACTORY INTROS TaskMaster 16000 RAID SERIES
Dynamic Network Factory introduced the TaskMaster 16000 RAID series, which
offers storage capacities from 288GB to 6.5TB utilizing Ultra320 SCSI hard
drives for high volume, fail-safe data storage applications.

EMC INTRODUCES LOW-COST NAS GATEWAY FOR WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS
The new EMC NetWin 110 NAS Gateway, based on the Microsoft Windows Storage
Server 2003 platform, is a cost-effective solution for customers looking to
implement NAS for the first time or expand the capabilities of a storage
area network by enabling it to perform NAS functions as well.
HITACHI INCREASES MICRODRIVE PRODUCTION
In 2004, Hitachi GST plans a substantial manufacturing expansion for the
4GB Microdrive product at its Thailand facility. This development is being
spurred by the proliferation of hard disk-based storage in consumer
electronic devices, especially portable digital music players.

IBM FURTHERS IT AUTOMATION WITH ADVANCED STORAGE PROVISIONING
The new solution helps organizations automate at their own pace and
reduces the amount of valuable time required to provision additional
capacity to keep up with growing storage demands.
LATEST INFORTREND SATA RAID SUBSYSTEMS SIMPLIFY EXPANSION
The A16F-R1211 offers simpler expansion options and fully featured
redundant RAID controllers for increased system availability, no single
point of failure, and failover/failback capabilities.

IOMEGA SHIPS 160GB EXTERNAL DESKTOP HARD DRIVE
Designed for the desktop with fast 7200 RPM performance and "touch-free"
backup software, the new external HDD 160GB Desktop Hard Drive gives users a
simple and complete solution for managing music, photos, video and other
data files.
MARVELL ANNOUNCES MICROPROCESSORS UTILIZING ARM ARCHITECTURE
Marvell, only the second company to announce a product family based on the
full ARM architecture, is using the new processor family in Marvell
system-on-chip (SoC) products.

MICROSOFT DELIVERS ENHANCEMENTS TO COMMERCE SERVER 2002
Feature Pack 1 includes new catalog and discount management business user
interfaces, improved IT professional experience, and enhanced payment and
catalog item sequencing features.
SONY UNVEILS 23GB PER DISC ProDATA DRIVES
The high capacity and high performance ProDATA drives are designed
specifically for professional storage applications, such as document and
medical imaging, e-mail archival, enterprise content management, multimedia
projects, graphic design and audio/video editing/authoring.

- Financial Plays Of The Week
CERNER, EMC TO DELIVER ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD SOLUTIONS
As an offering of its Cerner Millennium architecture, Cerner will offer
EMC Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON and EMC Centera networked storage systems, as
well as EMC ControlCenter family of management software to healthcare
providers as part of its EPR solution.
DELL, CommVault TO PROVIDE APPLICATION, RECOVERY SOLUTIONS
To address the needs of smaller organizations and branch offices, Dell and
CommVault worked together to develop GalaxyExpress, a suite of data
protection software that provides easy-to-use basic network backup and
restore capabilities for networks with up to 25 clients.

GlassHouse ACQUIRES CycleBridge TECHNOLOGIES
GlassHouse Technologies Inc, a provider of independent storage consulting
and services, announced the acquisition of CycleBridge Technologies, a
Framingham-based consultancy providing data management and integration
expertise to technology and healthcare organizations.
LOGIX DELIVERS DataCore SERVER SOLUTIONS ACROSS EUROPE
The products are being promoted to the thousands of Logix resellers across
Europe that target the small to medium sized business market.

SUN ANNOUNCES SUN CLUSTER OPEN STORAGE PROGRAM
As part of the program, Sun is working closely with storage vendors,
including EMC, IBM and Network Appliance, to enable the self-certification
of their respective storage arrays.
VMware, IBM EXTEND STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
As part of the agreement, IBM will offer VMware VirtualCenter, VMware
VMotion, VMware ESX Server and VMware Virtual SMP software products on the
IBM eServer xSeries and BladeCenter systems worldwide.

- Enterprise Data Insights
FIVE CRUCIAL STEPS FOR SMB DATA PROTECTION
While some business owners have insurance policies to keep them afloat in a
pinch, many are not prepared for unexpected disasters such as a fire, flood or
e-mail viruses.
AVNET INTEGRATES HP, CISCO TECHNOLOGIES FOR EXEMPLA HEALTHCARE
Because its SAN had to work with existing technologies, including the
hospital's Cisco-based IP network and other HP hardware and services,
Exempla turned to Avnet Enterprise Solutions, HP's No. 1 Provider of SAN
Solution Services, and a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, for help.
HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMPROVES CARE, REDUCE COSTS WITH EMC
Centera ensures the authenticity of patient records and provides Saint
Raphael, a 511-bed academic health science center affiliated with Yale
University School of Medicine, with online access to information to speed
decision making and maximize patient care.

CORPORATE, LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF E-MAIL MGMT A SERIOUS ISSUE
Only by implementing a comprehensive e-mail archive strategy, and
technology that can effectively enable that strategy, can organizations
mitigate the risk e-mail presents in the Information Age.
SANZ INSTALLS 28TB IP SAN WITH EqualLogic PeerStorage ARRAYS
The DoD intelligence organizations, which cannot be named for security
reasons, are using EqualLogic's PeerStorage array solutions to create
IP-based SANs in heterogeneous environments requiring enterprise-class
reliability and full-featured management capabilities.

HP SURVEY SHOWS BUSINESS PROSPECTS IMPROVING FOR SMBs IN U.S
Seventy-nine percent of those surveyed agreed that for most SMBs to
survive in today's economic conditions, they need to be technologically on
par with, if not superior to, larger corporations.
'LOGICAL' ISSUES IMPEDE REMOTE DATA STORAGE
A storage provider with a broad product portfolio that address all
transport protocols will ensure that a storage extension solution is the
best performance, lowest cost solution to move data between data centers.

RACKABLE SYSTEMS NO. 1 INTEL SERVER INTEGRATOR
Rackable Systems Inc announced it has been ranked as Intel Corp's largest
server integrator customer in North America for 2003. Leading the market in
both sales volume for CPUs and motherboards, Rackable Systems is also the
largest channel customer of Intel motherboards worldwide.
ZANTAZ GRID-BASED ARCHIVING SOLUTION WINS AWARD
ZANTAZ announced that the Digital Safe secure archiving service received a
Crossroads A-List Award from Open Systems Advisors (OSA).

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- Financial Watch
HP Announces Strong Fourth Quarter Results
nStor Technologies Reports First Quarter Results
Brocade Reports Second Quarter Results
- People & Positions
Iomega Announces Resignation Of CFO
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