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- Storage Innovations
AGERE ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH SUITE OF HDD PRODUCTS
Agere has developed read-channel and hard disk controller standard
products with customized performance for each storage market, including
enterprise, desktop, mobile and consumer electronics.
EMC DELIVERS NETWORKED STORAGE BREAKTHROUGH
Based on a unique EMC patent-pending design and technology, the CLARiiON
AX100 is a customer-installable networked storage system capable of storing
up to 3TB of information with integrated functions for simple management and
advanced protection.
ENGENIO UNVEILS FIRST STORAGE PRODUCT UNDER NEW IDENTITY
The 2822 storage controller offers an affordable enterprise storage entry
point without sacrificing scalability or high-end functionality. It
integrates 2 Gb per second Fibre Channel connectivity, low-cost SATA disk
drives and powerful storage management.
HP WINDOWS-BASED NAS SYSTEMS ALLOW FOR MAJOR CONSOLIDATION
Small- and medium-size business (SMB) customers can consolidate the number
of file, print and Exchange servers -- enabling improved operational
efficiency and reduced costs and management complexity by consolidating
storage by as much as 50 percent.
IBM HELPS ALLEVIATE SINGLE-VENDOR BURDEN
The IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS) V2.1 has been enhanced to
support IBM and a wide range of non-IBM storage area network (SAN) attached
storage devices, including devices from EMC, HP and Hitachi, and helps
customers easily share millions of data files through a software layer.
IOMEGA ANNOUNCES NEW ADDITIONS TO NAS PRODUCT LINE
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 a convenient desktop form
factor.
FIFTH-GEN. LSI LOGIC EXPANDER IC LEADS ENTRY INTO SAS MKT
Customers and OEMs will see the first fully-functional Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) expander silicon in LSI Logic product demonstrations this week at
the Computex tradeshow.
MAXELL LAUNCHES 5X DVD-RAM MEDIA
Maxell's latest DVD-RAM product is ideally suited for multimedia storage,
software title production, large file storage, data transfer and library
systems, as well as high-capacity archival storage.
SPIDER NETWORK SYSTEMS POISED TO REVOLUTIONIZE SAN MARKET
Spider Network Systems has announced a strategic collaboration with
Galazar Networks to offer storage area network providers with a solution
that will enable them to better utilize available bandwidth and improve
their service offering.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
CommVault SIMPLIFIES DATA MANAGEMENT FOR SMBs WITH HP
As part of an agreement between CommVault and HP, the award-winning
CommVault QiNetix software suite is available for HP StorageWorks NAS 1200s
and 2000s devices and leverages Microsoft's new Windows Storage Server 2003
feature pack for management of Exchange storage.
DELL, EMC EXPAND PARTNERSHIP
The companies unveiled a new entry-level networked storage system and
announced that Dell will offer backup and replication software from EMC's
LEGATO Software division.
FalconStor, SYSTEMAT PARTNER IN LUXEMBOURG, BELGIUM MARKETS
FalconStor Software Inc announced a collaboration with SYSTEMAT, an
integrator of storage solutions based in Brussels, to deliver Virtual Tape
Library, iSCSI Storage Server and Backup & BareMetal Recovery turn-key
appliances, powered by FalconStor's flagship product IPStor software.
PolyServe, MICROSOFT TO DELIVER SOLUTIONS FOR DATA CENTER
The alliance is aimed at delivering fault-tolerant, modular computing to
the enterprise data center. Modular computing allows customers to pay as
they grow by adding compute, storage or network capacity and performance to
applications on an as-needed basis with no disruption of service.
NEXSAN GOES PRIME TIME WITH NEW ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION
Companies who are and will benefit from Nexsan's InfiniSAN storage
solutions include those involved with animation and special effects,
graphics, digital film and video, music and voice, post-production
facilities and high-definition producers.
PROCERA NETWORKS ACQUIRES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF EZYTE
Ezyte offered products and services for system performance management of
packet switching networks, high performance routers, Internet architecture,
wireless Internet and storage systems.
QUANTUM, NOVELL ENHANCE RELATIONSHIP
Quantum Corp announced that it has expanded its relationship with Novell
and extended its membership in Novell PartnerNet and DeveloperNet programs,
laying the groundwork for enhanced marketing and technical development
cooperation with Novell as the company expands its Linux initiatives.
TACIT NETWORKS SECURES $16.9 MILLION IN SERIES B FUNDING
JPMorgan Partners led the oversubscribed round, with participation by new
investor CTTV Investments LLC, the venture capital division of
ChevronTexaco, and follow-on investments from all of the existing Series A
backers Canaan Partners, RRE Ventures and SAS Investors.
- Enterprise Data Insights
ALLANT GROUP SIMPLIFIES WITH 3PAR UTILITY STORAGE
With 3PAR Utility Storage, Allant consolidated numerous applications
(including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and SAS) from multiple storage
devices onto a single cost-effective InServ Storage Server.
CA ILM STRATEGY TRANSCENDS STORAGE
CA's ILM strategy enables customers to elevate their IT operations from
merely managing storage device capacity to effectively aligning information
assets across the enterprise with the business.
STUDY: DVD-RAM DRIVES PROVIDE MOST SECURE DEFECT MANAGEMENT
A new whitepaper, "Defect Management Capabilities of Various DVD
Technologies" by Media Sciences, an internationally recognized, independent
testing laboratory, outlines an investigation into three formats of
rewritable DVD drives and media including DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and +RW.
TRI-AD SELECTS EqualLogic IP SAN ARRAY TO SECURE FUTURE
TRI-AD needed to migrate from its direct-attached storage to a more
flexible, higher capacity storage solution that would deliver high
availability and reliability and selected EqualLogic's PeerStorage array.
QUANTUM RESEARCH DETAILS DISK-BASED BACKUP DEPLOYMENTS, ROI
With the goal of developing an in-depth educational tool to help customers
understand the emerging disk-based backup market and justify the technology
investment, Quantum approached Taneja Group, a leading storage industry
analyst firm to conduct independent interviews with Quantum DX-Series users.
SUN SYSTEM SETS WORLD RECORD RUNNING SYBASE ON TPC BENCHMARK
The Sun Fire V440 cluster beat the HP Proliant DL in price performance
offering by 7 percent, and the IBM eServer xSeries 445 by 39 percent. Sun
outperformed offerings by HP and IBM in Total System Cost over a three year
period by 29 percent and 72 percent, respectively.
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Short Takes
- Financial Watch
ONStor Launches In UK With Scalable NAS Solutions
Front Porch Digital Moves To Protect Shareholder Interests
Schaeffer's Option Activity Watch Features VERITAS
- People & Positions
BakBone Software Names Ken Hudak VP Of Customer Support
QLogic Names Tony Massetti Chief Financial Officer
AMCC Appoints PowerPC Veteran VP, GM Of Embedded Products Group
Compaq Co-Founder Rod Canion Joins BlueArc Board of Directors
COPAN Appoints Storage Industry Leader As VP Of Sales
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