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- Storage Innovations
NEW InoStor APPLIANCES PROTECT AGAINST MULTIPLE DRIVE FAILURES
Available in 1U and 2U form factors, with storage capacities starting at
480GB scaling up to 4.8TB, InoStor's new InteliNAS devices offer
front-loading, hot-swappable SATA hard disk drives supporting RAID 0, 1,
4, 5 and 0+1 as well as InoStor's RAIDn.
LINUX NETWORX RELEASES NEW CLUSTERED STORAGE SYSTEM
The key benefit of Xilo is its ability to pool capacity from separate
storage devices into a large resource, allowing large files to be
distributed across multiple storage devices for increased efficiency. Xilo
also permits scalability in both throughput and capacity to meet
customers'future storage needs.
PROCOM'S NEW SATA-BASED NAS FILER PROVIDES UP TO 1.6TB STORAGE
Procom Technology introduced an entry-level NAS filer that combines the
company's industry-proven enterprise-class operating system with a
hardware platform that deploys best-of-breed components in a 1U-high enclosure to
provide up to 1.6 TB of storage capacity.
SiliconStor ANNOUNCES TRUE ACTIVE-ACTIVE MULTIPLEXER CHIP
SiliconStor Inc, a provider of storage technology focused on the Serial
ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) markets, announced the
industry's first true Active-Active Multiplexer chip.
VERITAS EXTENDS CAPABILITIES OF SERVER PROVISIONING SOFTWARE
VERITAS Software Corp extended the capabilities of VERITAS OpForce
distributed server provisioning software to include software application
discovery and configuration.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
CNT REMAINS FICON LEADER WITH UltraNet MULTI-SERVICE DIRECTOR
This fourth-generation director builds on CNT's strength in FICON/zSeries
environments and, with up to 256 non-blocking ports, is the only director
on the market that can match the scale offered by new FICON- based server and
storage systems.
HP/BROCADE REDUCE SAN COSTS FOR BLADE SYSTEMS BY OVER 50 PERCENT
As part of an agreement between the companies, Brocade's SAN switching
capability will be fully integrated into the HP BladeSystem architecture.
This provides customers with flexible SAN connectivity and can reduce
fabric infrastructure costs by greater than 50 percent by eliminating fabric
switch infrastructure components and cables no longer necessary in a HP
BladeSystem environment.
COMPANIES TO DELIVER SANs FOR LATIN AMERICAN BROADCAST MARKET
Rorke Data announced a strategic partnership with Techex Inc and Fission
Software Inc to integrate Rorke's ImageSAN solution into eight Televisa TV
stations located throughout Mexico.
- Enterprise Data Insights
UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY OF MAID
By Aloke Guha, Founder/CTO, COPAN Systems
Most data ultimately moves to tape due to its superior scalability and
affordability, since tape costs three to five times less than even the
lowest priced disk technology. As a result, companies have to manage data
both on accessible, protected disk and on slower and more labor-intensive
tape. To fill this gap, the MAID (massive array of idle disks)
architecture is being introduced.
EXANET DEMONSTRATES EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY
Exanet Inc, a developer of distributed network-attached storage (NAS)
solutions, has once again achieved a record-breaking operations-per-second
(OPS) result on the industry-standard SPEC SFS benchmark with its
network-attached storage (NAS) solution.
SANDIA NATIONAL LABS LEVERAGES OPEN TEXT FOR DIGITAL ASSET MGMT
Open Text Corp, a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
software, said that Sandia National Labs plans to implement its Artesia
Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to manage its digital content,
including a large store of historical images.
SAS' M2004 BECOMES WORLD'S LARGEST DATA MINING CONFERENCE
By Wayne Thompson, SAS
M2004 -- with the help of four distinguished data mining thought leaders,
10 session track topics and more than 45 speakers representing the
corporate, government and academic worlds -- featured "best practices" in
the field, as well as some of the latest technological advances.
THE TOLLY GROUP RELEASES REPORT ON PERFORMANCE OF SAN PRODUCTS
The Tolly Group this week published its inaugural report focusing on
hands-on testing of storage area network (SAN) technology. The report,
commissioned by Maranti Inc, examines the performance of the vendor's
CoreSTOR 2000 network storage controller.
Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
Network Engines Announces Fourth Quarter, Year-end Results
- People & Positions
Crossroads Accepts Resignation Of Board Members
BakBone Software Names James Johnson As President, CEO
Joseph Young Becomes Finisar Senior Vice President
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Last Week's Top 5 Articles
- IBM UNLEASHES NEXT GENERATION STORAGE SOFTWARE FOR EMC SYSTEMS
- TACIT NETWORKS' PRESIDENT: INDUSTRY LIMITED ONLY BY IMAGINATION
- SNW Honors Three EMC Customers With 'Best Practices' Awards
- Isilon Extends Leadership In Clustered Storage Reliability
- CNT ANNOUNCES SAN-BASED HETEROGENEOUS DATA REPLICATION SERVICES
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