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Features
- Storage Innovations
ALACRITUS & RHAPSODY TO DEVELOP DISK-BASED VTL LIBRARY
Storage innovators Alacritus Software and Rhapsody Networks announced that the two companies are working together to develop a disk-based Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution that utilizes the performance of intelligent storage networking devices.
EMC OFFERS OPEN PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT STORAGE CONSULTING
EMC Corporation a world leader in information storage, announced a major expansion of its professional services portfolio to include open, platform-independent storage consulting through its newly formed Information Solutions Consulting group.
IBM ENTERS LOW-END OF DATA STORAGE MACHINE MARKET
International Business Machines Corp may have won its share of the data storage market with its high-end "Shark" machine, but the world's largest computer maker wants to catch small fish, too.
InPhase NAMED R&D 100 BY R&D MAGAZINE FOR RECORDING MEDIA
InPhase Technologies, a leader in holographic data storage development, announced that it has won R&D Magazine's 2002 R&D 100 Award for the development of its stable, high-performance holographic data storage media.
NCSA EXPANDS LEGATO SOLUTION TO MANAGE 1.5 PETABYTES
Legato Systems Inc, announced NCSA (the National Center for Supercomputing Applications), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has expanded its DiskXtender Unix Edition license capacity from 500 terabytes to 1.5 petabytes.

- Financial Plays Of The Week
EMC & ACCENTURE FORM INFORMATION SOLUTIONS CONSULTING
EMC Corporation, a world leader in information storage, announced a major expansion of its professional services portfolio to include open, platform-independent storage consulting through its newly formed Information Solutions Consulting group. These new professional services offerings are being developed through an innovative, five-year "business transformation outsourcing" agreement with Accenture.
ADAPTEC SWEEPS SCSI AD ZERO CHANNEL RAID DESIGN
Adaptec Inc, a global leader in data storage access solutions, announced that three of its Ultra160 SCSI RAID controllers and a zero channel RAID card have swept design wins for a new family of MicronPC rackmount and pedestal servers as strong demand for high-density servers and zero channel products continues.
- Enterprise Data Insights
NEW STORAGE ARCHITECTURES DRIVES FILE SYSTEM RESEARCH
Distributed, shared or clustered file systems have become central components of many storage devices, and many technologies that have languished within academic research labs for years are now getting their moment in the sun.
COMPUTING STORAGE RESEARCH -- WHAT'S IN, WHAT'S NEXT?
Computing published the findings of the first stage of its research into storage trends, conducted in conjunction with independent storage and data management specialist Sagitta.
SPSS & DUKE UNIVERSITY JOIN TO ADVANCE USE OF DATA MINING
With the recent high-profile successes resulting from the Human Genome Project, the attention being paid to bioinformatics is perhaps surpassed only by the voluminous amounts of data being generated by the Project and associated research.
STORAGE ACCESS LAUNCHES DEDICATED DISASTER RECOVERY
Storage Access Technologies Inc, a provider of data storage services, announced the launch of the Business Continuance Network (BCN), the industry's first disaster recovery network that is fully dedicated to supporting business continuance and disaster recovery strategies.
CA'S UNICENTER FOR IMS HELPS REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY
Computer Associates International Inc, announced Unicenter Database Management Solutions for IMS for z/OS and OS/390 Release 4.3. This new product and enhancements will improve performance, data availability and DBA productivity, and reduce the complexity and cost of managing IMS database environments.

Top Of The News

Short Takes
- Financial Watch
Dot Hill Expects Revenue Growth In Q2, 2002
IBM's Soon-To-Be Sold Unit Lost $515M In Last Five Quarters
Rasvia Opens New Corporate Headquarters In Silicon Valley
- People & Positions
EMC Appoints Storage Veteran Mark Lewis To Management Team
Unisys Appoints Veteran Industry Executive Stephen Olyha

Quote Of The Week
"Companies are struggling to keep pace with storage demands. And because today's RAID systems are consuming a significant portion of IT budgets, companies are looking for more innovative, cost-efficient storage solutions." -- Mike Wentz, Senior Director, Product Marketing, 3ware

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