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- Storage Innovations
SUN ANNOUNCES NEW SOLARIS 10 STORAGE SOLUTIONS
At its Network Computing '04Q4 (NC04Q4) launch, Sun Microsystems
announced new storage offerings designed to help enterprise customers simplify and
improve data management, protection and compliance.
AVAMAR ANNOUNCES ENHANCED AXION VERSION 2.1
Responding to input from the company's mid-tier and enterprise customers,
Axion v2.1 delivers improved manageability with enhanced remote monitoring
capabilities, enhanced reporting and improved integration capabilities.
ACRONIS DELIVERS FULL ENTERPRISE STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Acronis Inc launched Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 8.0 and Acronis
True Image Corporate Workstation 8.0. Both packages, which employ Acronis'
advanced disk imaging technology, are available immediately in order to
help IT managers protect and manage servers and workstations throughout the
network.

ADDONICS ANNOUNCES 4-PORT, PCI-X SATA II RAID CONTROLLER
Addonics Technologies announced its SATA II PCI-X RAID controller -- an
integrated, 4-port bus adapter for high performance storage applications,
which require maximum I/O performance, RAID data integrity and low CPU
usage at a lower cost.
NetApp ENHANCES ENTERPRISE gFiler STORAGE SYSTEMS
Network Appliance Inc announced that the NetApp enterprise gFiler storage
systems now provide Fibre Channel data access, and fully leverage the new
enterprise storage virtualization capabilities in Data ONTAP 7G for
multi-vendor storage environments.
ONStor ENHANCES VIRTUAL SERVER INTELLIGENCE TO EXTEND SCALING
ONStor Inc announced the expansion of intelligent features included on
the SF4400 family of scalable NAS solutions, to deliver an enhanced virtual
server feature set for businesses seeking to deploy highly scalable and
simple-to-manage NAS infrastructures.

- Financial Plays Of The Week
ENGENIO, AppIQ FORGE OEM, CO-DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE TO MANAGE SANs
The two companies will co-develop Storage Area Network (SAN) management
solutions that initially focus on the key area of optimizing the
performance of the entire SAN, from host server to storage system.
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS TO RESELL BROCADE SilkWorm SAN SWITCHES
Certified for operation with the Hitachi Thunder 9500 V Series, the
Lightning 9900 V Series, and the newly introduced Hitachi TagmaStore
Universal Storage Platform, the SilkWorm 4100 SAN switches provide faster
data transfer rate than competitive switches, plus full backward
compatibility with the world's largest installed base of SANs.
HP SCALABLE STORAGE CLUSTER POWERED BY PolyServe MATRIX SERVER
The new HP Scalable Storage Cluster, powered by PolyServe Matrix Server,
is a fully integrated server, storage and software solution for
cost-effective, high-performance, network-based file services in high
performance computing (HPC) applications.

JMR ELECTRONICS SELECTS HITACHI DESKSTAR FOR ITS PRODUCT LINE
JMR Electronics announced that it will integrate 400GB Hitachi Deskstar
7K400 hard drives into its Fortra family of Serial ATA (SATA) storage
systems.
SAN VALLEY SIGNS ACAL AS A MASTER DISTRIBUTOR
SAN Valley Systems and ACAL Storage Networking announced they have signed
a contract that enables ACAL's network of resellers and systems
integrators
to distribute SAN Valley's products in Europe, Middle East and Africa
(EMEA).

- Enterprise Data Insights
THE EVOLUTION OF DATA PROTECTION: FROM BACKUP TO ILM
By Francois Gauthier, CTO, Atempo
Systems designed for basic backup/restore or disaster recovery operations
often lack the architectural flexibility and scope enterprises need as
regulatory requirements drive them to adopt information lifecycle
management (ILM) strategies.
KOREA'S LARGEST IP SELECTS BakBone, STANDARDIZES ON LINUX
Daum Communications Corp has chosen BakBone's NetVault software to
provide enterprise level data protection and high availability of critical
customer data to its more than 37 million users.
CROSSWALK SUCCESS SHOWS NEED FOR MID-MARKET STORAGE SOLUTION
Crosswalk announced that eight new channel partners have joined its
reseller program in the first month since the company's launch. In
addition,
the company announced Arrow Electronics as its primary North American
distributor.

EMC CENTERA SUCCESS CONTINUES: OVER 1000 CLIENTS, 30 PB SHIPPED
EMC Corp announced that more than 1,000 customers have purchased its
pioneering EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) platform, and it
has shipped more than 30 PB (30,000 TB) of capacity since Centera's
introduction.
SCHENCK DEPLOYS EqualLogic iSCSI SOLUTION
EqualLogic announced that Schenck Business Solutions has deployed
multiple PS100E storage arrays to replace its Fibre Channel architecture within its
storage area network (SAN).
STORAGE VENDORS TARGETING SMBs AS AREA FOR GROWTH
In the past year, vendors from across the storage industry have targeted
the small and medium business (SMB) segment as an area for considerable
growth. Most SMBs rely on basic internal server disks or direct-attached
storage for storing data.

Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
HP Reports Fourth Quarter 2004 Results
NetApp Announces Results For Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2005
Applied Micro Circuits Corp Announces Restructuring Plan
nStor Technologies Reports Third-Quarter Results
nStor Sells Stonehouse Technologies For $6.7 Million
- People & Positions
Maxtor Appoints Michael Wingert As President, COO
ZANTAZ Names Steven Klei As CFO, Senior Vice President
Data Domain Names David Sangster As VP Of Operations
Silicon Image Announces Resignation Of Directors

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