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- Storage Innovations
ADDONICS ALLOWS 3.5" DRIVE TO BE USED LIKE HOT-SWAP CARTRIDGE
The Addonics Console Drive is one of the most flexible hard drive
enclosure solutions on the market. It can turn a standard 3.5-inch IDE hard
drive into either an external hard drive or a removable hard drive
cartridge.
BROADCOM ANNOUNCES IMPROVES RAID THROUGH DISTRIBUTED SPARING
Distributed sparing reduces the impact of problems that can result when a
disk drive failure occurs by fully utilizing all of the storage drives in a
RAID-configured system.
EMC ANNOUNCES IMPROVED CENTERA PERFORMANCE, FUNCTIONALITY
This new release enables organizations with compliance requirements to
simplify information retention and disposition management, as well as
address strict European Union and emerging U.S. privacy laws concerning
personal data.
DYNAMIC NETWORK FACTORY ANNOUNCES 100TB LINUX-BASED NAS FAMILY
In the StorBank family of Network-Attached Storage systems, RAID storage
is supplied by affordable Serial ATA, Parallel ATA and high-performance
Ultra320 SCSI or Fibre Channel drives, in systems that can scale up to 100TB
or more.
NEC LAUNCHES INTEL ITANIUM 2 PROCESSOR-BASED BLADE SERVER
Designed to meet the needs of Fortune 1000 enterprises, research
institutions and universities, the Express5800/1020Ba Blade server is ideal
for running high performance analytical applications such as genome mapping,
weapons research and financial market simulation.
OVERLAND ANNOUNCES iSCSI OPTION FOR NEO SERIES TAPE LIBRARIES
Users can leverage existing Ethernet infrastructures, skill sets and
management tools to back up data directly to any NEO library, creating a
low-cost storage solution.
StorCase LAUNCHES InfoStation 16-BAY 3U SATA RAID ENCLOSURE
In performance tests, this SCSI-to-SATA enclosure has demonstrated
comparable results to that of traditional SCSI enclosures. StorCase
SCSI-to-SATA products have also already been proven in the field as critical
components in demanding data access applications such as HD video editing.
StorageTek EXPANDS ILM OFFERINGS WITH StreamLine SL8500
The SL8500 is the first offering in StorageTek's next-generation
StreamLine family of enterprise information lifecycle management solutions
offering unmatched consolidation capabilities, high availability,
performance and scalability, while minimizing the footprint in the data
center.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
ADIC, CGG ANNOUNCE GLOBAL RESELLER AGREEMENT
The agreement allows CGG to deliver on-site collaborative workflow and
policy-based data management products and services to organizations in the
oil and gas industry.
GlassHouse ACQUIRES TWO U.K.-BASED STORAGE PROVIDERS
The acquisition of Source Consulting and Sagitta Performance Systems,
expected to close within several weeks, adds 300 clients to the GlassHouse
roster and increases the company's storage services and consulting resources
for U.S. and European customers.
INTRANSA SELECTED BY INGRAM MICRO AS IP SAN PROVIDER FOR ASIA
Intransa announced that a leading sales, marketing and logistics company,
Ingram Micro, has finalized an agreement in its Asia Pacific region to
immediately begin distributing the company's IP SAN IP5000 system.
AXS-One, RedFile ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
The demand for active archiving and open solutions for records retention
is being driven by companies' rising volumes of real-time, data-based
communications and regulatory compliance mandates, including Sarbanes-Oxley,
HIPAA and SEC17a-4, and the persistent threat of litigation.
TROIKA ANNOUNCES ACHIEVE CHANNEL PARTNER PROGRAM
To date, six companies have joined Troika's Achieve Channel Partner
Program, including United States and international-based value added
resellers and distributors Future2000, Infocube, Proven Technologies, Seven
Group, Technology Integration Group and Zycko.
- Enterprise Data Insights
EXTERNAL DISK STORAGE SYSTEMS REVENUES UP; EMC, HP DOMINATE
EMC took the leadership position from HP in the external disk storage
systems market, propelled by a 26 percent year-over-year revenue growth rate
and now claiming 20.2 percent revenue market share in 1Q04. HP came in
second with 18 percent revenue share followed by IBM with 12 percent share.
STORABILITY GSM CITED AS KEY TECH IN 451 GROUP REPORT ON ILM
Storability's GSM provides customers with a clear picture of their storage
assets, types of data they have, how it is being stored and how users access
the data. This information is critical in developing ILM policies, setting
value to the data and determining how the data is eventually managed.
EMC DETAILS ILM STRATEGY AT ANNUAL ANALYST DAY
EMC executives reviewed the company's record of delivering innovation and
execution, updated its 2004 outlook and reiterated its previously stated
outlook for the current quarter, and detailed EMC's product development and
business strategies for information lifecycle management (ILM).
NEXT-GENERATION CLUSTERING COMES TO WINDOWS DATA CENTER
By Steve Norall, PolyServe Inc
An emerging option for Windows enterprises is a technology solution new to
the Windows data center known as shared data clustering. This solution
provides total cost of ownership (TCO), manageability and fault-tolerance
benefits previously available only to Linux and UNIX enterprises.
GARTNER POSITIONS CommVault AS ENTERPRISE BACKUP/RESTORE LEADER
According to Gartner, vendors in the Leaders' Quadrant have a clear vision
of the enterprise backup and restore market's direction and are actively
building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.
FOTANGO SELECTS IBM TO HELP CONSUMERS MANAGE DIGITAL PHOTOS
The IBM infrastructure provides the basis for expanding to more than 1
billion files and is designed to help photographic enthusiasts and Canon
customers upload, store, organize and print digital images online more
efficiently.
MOBIUS, EMC UNVEIL COMPLIANCE ARCHIVING, RETRIEVAL SOLUTION
The EMC Proven Content Archiving and Retrieval Solution (CARS) with Mobius
is an architecture and implementation service that provides the benefits of
central online document and records management at lower cost and complexity.
NetApp DEMONSTRATES CONTINUED MARKET GROWTH
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, year
over year the company grew revenue in the worldwide networked storage market
22.3 percent versus the market growth of 17.5 percent.
NEXSAN PROVIDES STORAGE FOR BIG-TIME VISUAL EFFECTS DATA
The InfiniSAN ATAboy2 from Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative
storage solutions, provides the backbone for storing vast amounts of data
generated by the Moving Picture Company (MPC) for the digital effects used
in a variety of film projects.
VERITAS EXTENDS LINUX SOLUTIONS TO ITANIUM 2-BASED PLATFORMS
VERITAS is increasing its commitment to making Linux enterprise-ready and
extending its broad Linux platform support to both IA-32 and Itanium-based
architectures. VERITAS OpForce software was the first VERITAS product to
support Itanium architecture on Linux.
WESTERN DIGITAL ENTRUSTED WITH RESTORATION OF CLASSIC MOVIES
Lowry Digital Images employs a battery of 600 Power Mac G5s with dual
processors and a massive storage complex built using hundreds of WD Caviar
SE 250GB SATA hard drives. The firm currently has 370TB of on-line storage
capacity and expects further growth this year.
Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
BluePoint Data Storage Reports 200 Percent Revenue Increase
AMCC Appoints Tom Tullie As Chief Operating Officer
- People & Positions
Xiotech Names Former Dell Executive Karl Schubert EVP, CTO
Brocade's Top North American Sales Executive Joins Maranti
Nexsan Expands Executive Team With Two Industry Veterans
Quantum Announces CFO Transition
Top Seagate Exec Takes Helm At Confio
SNIA Taps Engenio's Julie Ryan To Chair Conference Committee
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