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DOT HILL RELEASES 400GB SATA DRIVE OPTION FOR SANnet II
These new 400GB SATA drives further reduce storage costs and provide
storage capacity up to 4.8TB from just one compact 2U (3.75 inches high)
SANnet II SATA array without optional expansion units.
IBM INTROS FASTEST MIDRANGE TAPE DRIVE BASED ON LTO TECHNOLOGY
The new IBM TotalStorage 3580 LTO Generation 3 Tape Drive features the
industry's fastest data throughput of currently available LTO Generation 3
tape drives, and is an excellent solution for small to mid-sized clients
who require tape storage for data archival, business continuity and regulatory
compliance purposes.
SEAGATE UNLEASHES CHEETAH DRIVES
The Cheetah 15K.4 is the best price-per-performance disc drive in its
class and was designed as the mainstream choice for IT professionals that
require the most reliable and fastest I/O transactions from their
enterprise systems.
XYRATEX DEMOS STORAGE ENCLOSURE BASED ON SAS EXPANDER TECHNOLOGY
The demonstration featured operational IO between SAS Host Bus Adaptors,
expanders and disk drives. Xyratex's 3U 16 drive storage system will house
between 4.8TB of SAS or 8TB of S-ATA storage in a single enclosure -- this
is the storage industry's first fully operational SAS solution.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
INTRANSA OPENS ISRAEL OFFICE, SIGNS DISTRIBUTION DEAL W/ One1
Intransa announced that it is opening its office in Israel and has
appointed Efy Magdasy as director of Business Development. Intransa also
announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement
with One1 Systems.
QLogic, McDATA CO-DEVELOP EMBEDDED SWITCHES FOR BLADE SERVERS
QLogic Corp and McDATA Corp announced they would co-develop an embedded
Fibre Channel switch for blade servers as part of an exclusive multi-year
alliance. The server-embedded and McDATA-interoperable switch blade will
complement McDATA best-in-class Directors, fabric switches and
multi-protocol SAN routers.
- Enterprise Data Insights
INTENSE COMPETITION CHALLENGES BLU-RAY IN MASS MKT
A number of new data storage devices intended for large capacity archival
system applications are already under development. These include
holographic optical discs, 3-D fluorescent multi-layer optical media, and near-field
optical recording among others.
StorCloud TO BUILD UPON HIGH BANDWIDTH SAN INITIATIVE AT SC05
At SC2004, teams of high performance computing experts demonstrated
diverse high performance computing applications using the onsite StorCloud
storage infrastructure. StorCloud looks to build upon its success at
SC2004 with more challenging goals for SC05 in Seattle.
UK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PICKS ATEMPO TO PROTECT 20TB OF DATA
Met Office, the UK's national weather service, has picked Atempo's Time
Navigator to protect terabytes of mission critical data generated from its
continual analysis and forecast of atmospheric conditions.
DataCore PUBLISHES HIGH-PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK RESULTS FOR iSCSI
DataCore's announcement marks the first published results for iSCSI
against the very challenging transaction and database style workloads of
the Storage Performance Council's SPC-1 -- the only objective standard for
storage performance comparisons.
MGIC SPEEDS ACCESS TO LOAN ARCHIVES WITH EMC TIERED STORAGE
Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp (MGIC) has launched a comprehensive
information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy based on EMC's tiered
networked storage and information management software.
EUROPEAN TV NETWORK SELECTS FalconStor's IPStor
M6, Europe's advanced television network, implemented FalconStor's IPStor
Enterprise Edition software to optimize storage management costs, increase
data availability, and maximize storage efficiency by centralizing
administration of its storage resources.
REPORT ANALYZES EVOLUTION OF THE NAS MARKET
Rapid evolution in the market for network-attached storage (NAS) has
spawned a range of new products that drastically change the deployment of
NAS in today's networks, according to a detailed new report from the
subscription research service Byte and Switch Insider.
Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
CNT Reports Third Quarter Results
McDATA Announces Third Quarter 2004 Results
- People & Positions
Xiotech Executive Joins Board Of Blade Systems Alliance
Isilon Names John Briant VP Of Manufacturing And Operations
David B. Wright Elected To AMCC's Board Of Directors
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Last Week's Top 5 Articles
- THE EVOLUTION OF DATA PROTECTION: FROM BACKUP TO ILM
- SUN ANNOUNCES NEW SOLARIS 10 STORAGE SOLUTIONS
- AVAMAR ANNOUNCES ENHANCED AXION VERSION 2.1
- Seagate Delivers World's Highest Capacity PC Hard Drive
- Engenio To Guide Exchange Backup, Recovery
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