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STORAGE PARTNERS RALLY AROUND DATA PROTECTION SERVER
Designed to address the growing need for businesses of all sizes to easily
recover data, Data Protection Server will simplify and reduce the backup and
recovery process. DPS is designed to provide robust data protection for the
Windows Server System family, reducing complexity and improving operational
efficiency for Windows customers.
SUN EXPANDS STORAGE FAMILY WITH BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION
Sun announced the availability of the Sun StorEdge 6920 and the Sun
StorEdge 9990 arrays, providing never before seen control of physical
assets, ease of allocation and massive consolidation abilities on two
different classes of storage.
ARKEIA RAISES BAR IN DATA PROTECTION FOR LINUX ENTERPRISES
The new Arkeia v5.3 features support for NDMP network-attached storage
(NAS) devices and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) technology
embedded in MS-Windows 2003 servers, as well as incorporates enhancements to
existing elements in the award-winning data protection solution.
ATEMPO DELIVERS TIME NAVIGATOR REPORTER
As part of the Time Navigator data protection platform, Time Navigator
Reporter helps companies ensure that all their business-critical data is
safe, whether that data is stored across the room or across the globe.
CreekPath LAUNCHES SOLUTION TO HELP ACHIEVE BUSINESS VALUE
CreekPath announced the launch of the CreekPath Path to Value solution, a
combination of the CreekPath Storage Operations Management suite and an
established delivery methodology that helps enterprise customers rapidly
achieve business value from their storage infrastructure investments.
EMC EXPANDS ILM FOR PeopleSoft, CUSTOM APPLICATIONS
A key element in EMC's portfolio of information lifecycle management
solutions, DatabaseXtender enables organizations to gain more control over
their information resources by automatically identifying and relocating
inactive data to various storage tiers as its value and service level
requirements change.
EqualLogic ADDS WINDOWS AUTO-SNAPSHOT MGR TO PeerStorage ARRAY
With Auto-Snapshot Manager for Windows, instant, point-in-time copies can
be automatically created and stored for the rapid and reliable backup and
protection of data. Data is preserved on a disk in a usable format for rapid
recovery.
FalconStor IPStor SOFTWARE ADDRESSES COMPLIANCE, ILM
FalconStor continues to invest resources in the development of enterprise
class services that will set a new standard for network storage solutions,
while addressing the growing complexities and costs associated with storage
management for both networked and direct attached storage across Fibre
Channel and IP/iSCSI.

BREECE HILL, FRONT PORCH TO PROVIDE DIGITAL ARCHIVE IN A BOX
Breece Hill and Front Porch Digital jointly announced that they will
combine Front Porch's DIVArchive archive management application with Breece
Hill's iStoRA 4000 hardware platform. The new "Archive in a Box" storage
solution is ideally positioned to meet the start-up digital archive needs of
small to medium broadcast facilities.
LINKSYS EXPANDS LINE OF NAS DEVICES WITH 250GB SOLUTION
The new Linksys NAS appliance offers 250GB of IDE hard drive storage space
that stands upright for small spaces or lies flat on the desktop. Storage
capacity can increase to 500GB by adding an additional 250GB drive to the
empty second drive bay.
LiveVault ANNOUNCES AUTOMATIC OFFSITE VAULTING
For organizations that have replaced tape backup systems for the
reliability of disk-to-disk appliances, LiveVault AutoOffsite provides the
critical functions disk backup servers lack by ensuring an organization's
data is safely stored at a remote location, archived and available for
immediate recovery.
LSI LOGIC INTRODUCES LATEST VERSION OF MyStorage SOFTWARE
MyStorage 2.0 enables administrators to locally or remotely manage LSI FC
HBAs and features 3 click installation. The software provides simple point
and click interface for monitoring FC connections and devices, upgrading
firmware, event logging and health and diagnostic summaries.
AMERICAN MEGATRENDS RELEASES StorTrends iTX, ManageTrends
American Megatrends Inc, a provider of storage and computing innovations
worldwide, announced it has released for shipment to customers StorTrends
iTX, IP Storage software, and ManageTrends, a Storage Management Suite.
NetApp LockVault SOFTWARE PROVIDES UNIFIED BACKUP, COMPLIANCE
LockVault delivers powerful backup, disaster recovery, and data permanence
capabilities for unstructured data, enabling customers to address both
backup and compliance challenges with a single comprehensive solution.
OVERLAND STORAGE INTRODUCES REO 9000
The newest addition to the REO family, the REO 9000 provides fast backups
and near-instantaneous restores for up to 9.6TB of data, making it an ideal
choice for larger organizations that need to ensure business continuity.
VERITAS EXTENDS STORAGE MANAGEMENT OFFERINGS
The AIX-based additions include 4.0 versions of VERITAS Storage
Foundation, VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC, VERITAS Storage
Foundation for Databases (DB2 and Oracle), VERITAS Storage Foundation
Cluster File System, VERITAS Cluster Server and VERITAS Volume Replicator
software.

- Financial Plays Of The Week
CA, NetApp TO DELIVER STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Computer Associates International Inc and Network Appliance Inc announced
plans to extend their existing relationship by helping customers address
data protection requirements resulting from Internet security threats,
storage and server consolidation, and other business-critical initiatives.
DECRU, CISCO TEAM ON STORAGE, SAN SECURITY
Decru Inc announced that it is working with Cisco Systems to deliver
mutually qualified, highly secure storage networking solutions to enterprise
and government customers.

LSI LOGIC MegaRAID ADAPTERS, HBAs SHIPPING W/ ION SERVERS
ION Computer Systems builds custom servers and workstations for corporate
users, embedded applications and high performance computing.
LSI LOGIC STORAGE ADAPTERS NOW AVAILABLE AT FRY'S ELECTRONICS
LSI Logic Corp announced that its market-leading storage adapters will now
be available at Fry's Electronics stores, an electronic retailer providing
small and mid-size businesses and high-tech professionals with technology
products and solutions. MegaRAID SATA and SCSI adapter kits and SCSI HBAs
will be sold.
VERITAS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF E-MAIL ARCHIVING LEADER KVS
Through the acquisition, VERITAS extends its storage software market
leadership with industry-leading products to store, manage, backup and
archive corporate e-mail and data, enabling organizations to quickly address
regulatory compliance while driving down storage management costs.

- Enterprise Data Insights
SNIA IP STORAGE FORUM HITS THE ROAD WITH IT EDUCATIONAL SERIES
The IP Storage On-the-Road Seminar Series educational events are free,
half-day presentations that include strategic and technical sessions
conducted by storage forum experts, leading analysts and key vendors. In
addition to hearing first hand customer case studies and best practices,
attendees will receive deployment advice from industry experts.
DATA STORAGE INDUSTRY SEEN GAINING FASTER THAN OTHER IT SEGMENTS
Total data storage-related industry revenues are expected to increase
approximately 5 percent for full-year 2004, says Standard & Poor's Equity
Research in a new, semiannual study of the industry.
NEW REPORT ANALYZES ENTERPRISE DISK BACKUP PRODUCTS
The report, "Enterprise Disk Backup: Getting It All Together," evaluates
the new breed of disk-based systems that aim to speed backup and recovery
for large enterprises. It includes data tables that compare 19 products from
11 different vendors against more than a dozen performance criteria,
including capacity, network interfaces, disk types supported and price.
IBM-POWERED SAN STORES COLLECTION OF 2 BILLION IMAGES
The collection of property document images and ownership information in
the 210TB storage area network (SAN) powered by IBM products is so large
that if all of the documents were laid out to form a continuous paper feed,
they would extend from the earth to the moon and back, 12 times over.
ILM HIGHLIGHTS VALUE OF TAPE TECHNOLOGY
ILM provides a platform for dramatic cost savings, and highlights the
ongoing demand for tape storage technologies as part of a multi-tiered
storage hierarchy, according to Maxell Corp of America.
INTRANSA PROVIDES IP SAN TO MANAGE 140TB OF ENTERPRISE DATA
Intransa, a provider of intelligent information storage, delivery and
management over IP, announced that the company has closed a deal with a
financial information provider to deploy an IP storage area network (SAN) to
manage 140TB of enterprise data.
ISILON IQ STORES LARGEST ARCHIVE OF GEOGRAPHIC REFERENCE INFO
Isilon Systems announced at Storage Decisions Fall 2004 that the
University of California Santa Barbara's (UCSB) Alexandria Digital Library
(ADL) has deployed Isilon IQ for the storage and management of one of the
world's largest geographically referenced data libraries.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS SELECTS KASHYA TO PROTECT DATA
With an infrastructure that consists of heterogeneous servers,
heterogeneous storage and a wide range of online services, AIP needed a data
protection solution that would deliver data replication that was server- and
storage-independent.
MARANTI CoreSTOR INTEGRATED IN MSFT PARTNER SOLUTIONS CENTER
Through testing that has been performed at the MPSC over the past 18
months, Maranti CoreSTOR has enabled the MPSC to define stage and deploy
data center storage solutions that rapidly validate their enterprise
applications.
EXPERIAN TARGETS INFORMATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT WITH EMC
Experian, a U.S. credit bureau and provider of demographic data and
database marketing services, has dramatically cut costs and increased
efficiency by recognizing that information at various points in its
lifecycle requires different levels of availability, performance and
management functionality.

NEXSAN DISK-BASED STORAGE SOLUTIONS APPEAL TO THOMPSON HINE LLP
Nexsan Technologies announced the adoption of its ATABeast and ATAboy2
disk solutions by the law firm of Thompson Hine LLP to manage data across
its life cycle and as part of the firm's centralized storage infrastructure
to ensure business continuity.
PLASMON SHIPS MORE THAN TWO PETABYTES OF UDO IN FIRST 10 MONTHS
Plasmon offers UDO libraries, drives and media through distribution
channel partners, system integrators and other OEMs. The two petabyte
milestone figure excludes shipments by Hewlett Packard, one of Plasmon's key
OEM partners, which also offers a family of UDO optical libraries as part of
its Storageworks product line.
PRINCETON SOFTECH PROVIDES ILM DATA COMPLIANCE SOLUTION
Princeton Softech announced its solution for the IBM TotalStorage Data
Retention 450, designed to address the needs of PeopleSoft users for
long-term management of their business-critical financial and enterprise
data to help meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
QUANTUM EXTENDS DLTtape PRODUCT ROADMAP
With this new roadmap, Quantum continues to demonstrate its market
leadership by offering a range of tape products that protect
entry-to-enterprise-level customers' data through its entire lifecycle.
FORBES.COM DRIVES BUSINESS CONTINUITY STRATEGY WITH REVIVIO
The Revivio CPS, which integrated seamlessly and nondisruptively into
Forbes.com's existing storage environment, is able to restore data in the
event of loss, corruption or disaster within seconds -- versus the hours,
days or even weeks Forbes.com competitors currently face with traditional
systems.
SAND SEARCHABLE ARCHIVE DEPLOYED BY ATOS ORIGIN
SAND Technology announced that Atos Origin will deploy SAND Searchable
Archive software in a critical data warehouse management application for the
Rail Settlement Plan (RSP), which is part of the Association of Train
Operating Companies (ATOC), in the United Kingdom.
STANDARDS FOR CAS ADVANCED BY INDUSTRY COMPETITORS, SNIA
Eighteen Content Addressable Storage proponents will share a consensus
vision for industry standards in the areas of data archiving and regulation
compliance at the ILM Solutions 2004 Conference and Expo.

Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
Overland Storage Announces Plan To Outsource Manufacturing
NeoPath Networks Raises $12 Million In Series B Financing
- People & Positions
Roy Sardina Joins Storactive's Board Of Directors
Startup Precision I/O Names Derek Proudian CEO

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