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Special Section: SNW, Fall 2004
- Highlights From The SNW Floor
TACIT NETWORKS' PRESIDENT: INDUSTRY LIMITED ONLY BY IMAGINATION
By Derrick Harris, Editor
DSstar editor Derrick Harris was able to speak with Tacit Networks'
president, Chuck Foley, about the news his company generated during SNW,
as well about the talk he gave at SNW about the emergence of Grid
computing -- especially in regard to Grid-based storage.
IBM UNLEASHES NEXT GENERATION STORAGE SOFTWARE FOR EMC SYSTEMS
IBM announced new storage automation and IBM Virtualization Engine
technologies to help enable clients to simplify their infrastructure.
CNT ANNOUNCES SAN-BASED HETEROGENEOUS DATA REPLICATION SERVICES
CNT announced the availability of the UltraNet Replication Appliance
(URA). Enabling new levels of data protection for customers, the URA
provides a complete suite of SAN-based local and remote heterogeneous data
replication services over unlimited distances.

DELL DEMOS AUTOMATIC DATA FAILOVER, RECOVERY ACROSS ATLANTIC
Customers visiting Dell's booth at Storage Networking World this week
observed a demonstration of data failover and recovery from a site in
Limerick, Ireland, to a site near Austin, Texas.
DMTF EXHIBITS IN SNIA ALLIANCE, FORUM PAVILION AT SNW 2004
The DMTF's Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) standards provide the foundation architecture for the
SNIA's Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI- S), delivering
the critical infrastructure necessary to enable interoperable storage
management.
INTRANSA DEMOS ONLY MULTI-VENDOR MODULAR IP SAN ARCHITECTURE
The combination of Intransa's IP SAN IntraStor modular architecture that
uses the SNIA shared storage mode, coupled with Rasilient's RASTOR 4000
storage platform provide a powerful combination to grow and manage the
next-generation of native IP SANs for small business, mid-tier and
enterprise-class customers.

INDUSTRY LEADERS SHOW SIMPLIFIED TIERED STORAGE SOLUTIONS AT SNW
HP, Intel, LSI Logic and Seagate came together at Storage Networking
World (SNW) 2004 to discuss the benefits and challenges of simplified serial
interface tiered storage solutions in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre
Channel environments.
QLogic SWITCHES, HBAs, SOFTWARE INTEGRATED INTO HP SMB SAN KIT
The integrated QLogic products enhance the kit by providing customers
with all-in-one pricing and packaging as well as breakthrough ease-of-use
through a single Small Business SAN Wizard that allows non-experts to install the
entire SAN in minutes.
THE SNIA APPROVES NEW COMMON RAID DISK DATA FORMAT ARCHITECTURE
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) announced the approval
of the Common Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) Disk Data Format
(DDF) architecture.

Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
Overland Storage Announces Fiscal 2005 First Quarter Results
LSI Logic Reports Q3 2004 Financial Results
Iomega Reports Third Quarter Results, Suffers Net Loss Of $16M
Dot Hill Reports Third Quarter 2004 Results
- People & Positions
CreekPath Names Todd Blackmon VP Of Professional Services

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