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AGERE DEVELOPS FASTEST PREAMPLIFIER CHIP FOR LOW-POWER HDDs
Developed specifically for 2.5-inch mobile HDDs, Agere's new TrueStore
PA7700 preamplifier IC offers exceptional performance, with read/write
speeds topping 1.2 Gb per second while consuming half the power of
previous-generation Agere chips.
CMS PRODUCTS SHIPS 100GB ABSplus ULTRA PORTABLE BACKUP SYSTEM
The ABSplus product line is the industry's first comprehensive all-in-one
software and hardware solution providing users with complete backup, restore
and disaster recovery capabilities and a bootable hard drive.
AmeriVault LAUNCHES E-MAIL ARCHIVING VIA CONNECTED CORP SOFTWARE
By combining AmeriVault's substantial storage infrastructure and
Connected's ArchiveStore/EM e-mail archiving technology, organizations can
enjoy automated off-site archiving, rapid legal discovery capabilities for
e-mail records and operational efficiencies.
ENGENIO OPENS UP NEW STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR WINDOWS
Engenio and QLogic have collaborated to integrate the Engenio VDS Provider
with the QLogic SANsurfer VDS Manager application for Microsoft Windows
Server 2003. SANsurfer functions as a graphical software foundation for
allocating and administering storage in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
environment.
GLOBALSTOR EXPANDS CAPACITY OF NAS/iSCSI SERVERS TO 9.6TB
Incorporating as many as 24 400GB hot-swappable SATA hard drives,
ExtremeStor-iNAS400 provides IT managers with up to 9.6TB of scalable
fault-tolerant storage and low-cost, high-performance iSCSI file access in a
single, consolidated centralized storage management solution.
NitroAV PREMIERS 'AFTERBURNER' SERIES FOR SONY ProDATA DRIVES
Based on blue laser technology, the AfterBurner stores up to 23GB of
native capacity per rewritable or write-one, read-many (WORM) single sided
media, delivering an advanced optical storage and archiving solution for
professional data-intensive applications.
RAID INC RELEASES RAVEN iSCSI STORAGE SUBSYSTEM
The Raven subsystem utilizes two independent iSCSI/Gigabit Ethernet host
interface ports and can accommodate up to 6TB of storage capacity in a
compact 3U form factor.
ST. BERNARD OPEN FILE MANAGER 9.3 SUPPORTS 64-BIT PLATFORMS
Open File Manager is enterprise-class software that enables your backup
application to back up files that are open and in use, ensuring business
continuity and protection of mission-critical data.
VERBATIM INTRODUCES 2.1GB STORE 'N' GO USB HD DRIVE
Compatible with both USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 ports, users can immediately drag
and drop up to 2.1GB of files to the high-speed 4200 rpm 1-inch hard drive.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
IBM GLOBAL SERVICES INKS MULTI-NATIONAL DEAL WITH CreekPath
CreekPath Systems, an independent software vendor, announced a global
resale and services agreement with IBM Global Services. This agreement
provides the CreekPath Suite as part of IBM's storage software portfolio to
customers from the SMB market to the Fortune 500.
DataCore TO OEM CAMBEX HIGH AVAILABILITY FAILOVER SOFTWARE
Cambex Corp announced that Cambex and DataCore Software have entered into
an agreement under which DataCore will distribute Cambex's Dynamic Path
Failover (DPF) software for use with DataCore's SANsymphony and SANmelody
products to provide high-availability storage solutions in IBM AIX
environments.
TECH DATA, EMC ESTABLISH AGREEMENT FOR GOV'T IT CONTRACTS
Tech Data will distribute EMC CLARiiON networked storage solutions, EMC
Centera content addressed storage systems and EMC software to resellers
targeting federal IT contracts.
FINISAR ANNOUNCES PURCHASE OF ASSETS OF DATA TRANSIT
By adding Data Transit products such as Bus Doctor and PacketMaker for SAS
and SATA to the Finisar product line, the company will be able to offer the
most comprehensive list of SAN test and monitoring tools.
ADSI PARTNERS WITH HI-STOR TO DELIVER STORAGE PROTECTION TOOLS
The immediate focus of the partnership will be on the global release of
Hi-Stor's innovative StorSentry software, which monitors the real-time
performance and reliability of storage devices and media during the backup
and archive process.
IMATION LICENSES LTO ULTRIUM FORMAT GENERATION 3
The LTO Ultrium format generation 3 offers twice the storage capacity over
generation 2, with an increase to 800GB compressed (assuming a 2:1
compression) and transfer rates of up to 160MB compressed (assuming a 2:1
compression).
IOMEGA ANNOUNCES OEM DEAL WITH PROMISE FOR NEW IOMEGA REV DRIVE
Iomega Corp announced an OEM agreement for distribution of Iomega 35GB REV
Drives in China and Taiwan with Promise Technology Global Solution Group.
REV drive products, which currently include USB 2.0, FireWire, and ATAPI
models, sold under this agreement will be branded Promise REV drives.
JMR ELECTRONICS, SANRAD ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
SANRAD Inc and JMR Electronics announced that JMR and SANRAD will deliver
a comprehensive IP SAN solution to resellers for SME and enterprise users.
As a part of this agreement, JMR will join with SANRAD to promote IP SAN
solutions directly to JMR's channel VARs and Integrators.
- Enterprise Data Insights
MAKING THE MOST OUT OF MOUNDS OF DATA
By Mary Crissey, SAS
As organizations continue to become more sophisticated and collect more
electronic records, the task of analyzing data becomes much more daunting.
Fortunately, operations research, along with business intelligence software
and data warehouses, has matured to the point of giving companies more
precise information and insight than they've ever had before.
DISCREET, DataDirect, SGI MARKET HIGH-PERFORMANCE SHARED STORAGE
The new high-performance Storage Area Network is being developed to
address the growing demand for more cost effective, real-time solutions
capable of handling multi-user collaboration for 2K and 4K film projects, as
well as high definition and standard definition programming.
E! DEPLOYS DATA WAREHOUSING SOLUTION FROM SUN, METAPA
The combined Metapa and Sun solution at E! Networks can integrate both
detailed online and offline operational data into a single, consolidated
data warehouse capable of supporting sophisticated business level reporting
and analysis.
HP, CERTANCE TO EXTEND ROADMAP FOR DIGITAL AUDIO TAPE FOR SMBs
The extended product roadmap runs through 2010 and includes three future
product generations beyond the current, fifth-generation product called
DAT72. SMB customers rely on the volume-leading DAT format for backup and
restore of critical business data to ensure protection and availability in
the event of problems with primary disk storage systems.
IBM SENDS TECHNOLOGY TO UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MIS DEPARTMENT
The grant will support the development of on-demand stored data. Eller MIS
researchers, with the help of IBM, plan to find ways to automate the
allocation of data storage across the UA campus.
OVERLAND LEADS IN TERABYTES SHIPPED THIS YEAR, ESG SAYS
The report, which highlights the success of the REO 4000 high-performance
disk-based backup and recovery appliance, states that Overland Storage has
"smartly combined D2D backup, iSCSI and S-ATA drives within an appliance
that has a price/performance ratio that is hard to beat."
IT PROVIDER CUTS COSTS BY 74% W/ CA INTELLIGENT STORAGE MGMT
Computer Associates International Inc announced that xwave, an Aliant
company and one of Canada's largest IT services firms, has reduced its
annual offsite tape storage costs by 74 percent and improved the reliability
and performance of its data protection processes with BrightStor CA-Vtape
Virtual Tape System.
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