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COMPANIES/SAN USERS LIKELY TO REPORT LOST DATA

BLUE-SKY PROJECTS BECOME BIG BLUE PRODUCTS

MEMOREX ANNOUNCES DVD+RW/+R SUPER COMBO DRIVE

Features

• Storage Innovations
  
  BakBone SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES VAULTSHARE
  BakBone Software, a global provider of storage management software, announced the availability of their newest Application Plugin Module VaultShare, an Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS) support module that provides support for StorageTek automated libraries.
  
  IBM UNVEILS STORAGE SOLUTIONS FOR MANAGING LIFE SCIENCES
  Introduced at the Drug Discovery Technology 2002 conference, the storage networking solutions offer a pre-tested combination of IBM storage, servers, services, database and storage management software.
  
  IMPERIAL'S SANaccelerator LIVES UP TO NAME, SAYS eWeek LABS
  Imperial Technology, the company accelerating application performance, earned a rating of Excellent for both Usability and Performance for its recently announced SANaccelerator in a review entitled "Imperial Unit Ably Lives Up to Its Name" in the July 29 issue of eWeek.
  
  StorageNetworks ENHANCES STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
  StorageNetworks Inc, a leading provider of storage management software and services, announced enhancements to its STORos platform and its STORos StorageManager software. This software, coupled with StorageNetworks industry leading process methodologies and professional services around networked storage, enables the enterprise storage utility, a solution that permits IT organizations to deliver the highest quality storage services to their internal customers.
  
  WINCHESTER SYSTEMS AND SANBOLIC JOIN FORCES
  Winchester Systems announced that it is offering Kayo, the volume sharing software from Sanbolic Inc with their new low cost "SAN-In-A-Box" solutions. FlashDisk SAN-In-A-Box eliminates the costly components of traditional switched Fabric SANs, while providing a simple and affordable way to get full SAN capabilities.

• Financial Plays Of The Week
  
  SHANGHAI TELECOM IDC AND FALCONSTOR PARTNER
  FalconStor Software Inc, a leading provider of network storage infrastructure software, announced an agreement with Shanghai Telecom to collaborate on providing high data availability, quick disaster recovery, and highly efficient and reliable storage services to customers of Shanghai Telecom Internet Data Center (IDC).
  
  HITACHI GETS EU'S OK FOR IBM HARD DRIVE BUSINESS
  One of Japan's largest electronics makers, Hitachi, won the European Commission green light to buy IBM's loss-making hard disk drive business for $2.05 billion.
  
  M-Systems AND ACCELERATED TECHNOLOGY TEAM UP
  M-Systems, a leader in flash disk data storage products, and Accelerated Technology (AT), the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics Corp, are cooperating to support mass data storage within mobile platforms from Texas Instruments (TI).
  
  QUANTUM ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH COMPUTER ASSOCIATES
  Quantum Corp, a leading provider of data protection and network storage systems, announced an agreement with Computer Associates that boosts the compatibility between each company's high-performance storage solutions.
  
  SAND AWARDED $3M CRM ANALYTICS & DATA WAREHOUSING CONTRACT
  Sand Technology, a leading provider of enterprise-class analytical solutions, has been awarded the contract to implement a central data warehouse and the Sand Customer Insight Solution for Singlepoint, the largest independent mobile phone airtime provider in the United Kingdom.
  
  SPECTRA ANNOUNCES NEW AGREEMENTS WITH CANADIAN RESELLERS
  Spectra Logic, an industry-leading manufacturer of high-performance tape libraries for data protection and backup, announced four Canadian resellers agreements with Axidata, Care Factor, DAR-ProLan and Stoneworks Technology.
  
  StoreAge TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERS WITH BakBone SOFTWARE
  StoreAge Networking Technologies, a leading provider of Enterprise SAN Management software, announced interoperability certification between StoreAge's SVM (Storage Virtualization Manager) and BakBone Software's flagship backup and recovery software, NetVault.

• Enterprise Data Insights
  
  MANY COMPANIES & SAN USERS LIKELY TO REPORT LOST DATA
  ActionFront Data Recovery Labs announced the findings of an Evans Research Corporation end-user study of Canadian Data Storage users regarding data loss and recovery.
  
  IBM STORAGE: BLUE-SKY PROJECTS BECOME BIG BLUE PRODUCTS
  By William Fellows, the451.com
  IBM has lifted the lid on three of the more important storage technologies that it's currently working on. IBM fellow and Storage Systems Institute director Jai Menon describes them as autonomic storage (which has specific software and hardware objectives), grid-enabling StorageTank for use in data or storage grids, and extending IBM Global Services' block virtualization managed storage service.
  
  CORE OFFERS HELP FOR KEY AREAS OF DATA WAREHOUSING
  Core Integration Partners Inc, a leading provider of data warehouse analytics and integration services, announced an innovative package of services that will provide targeted analysis and project improvements at any of the key stages of a data warehouse project.
  
  INNOVATION DATA ANNOUNCES EXPANDED SUPPORT FOR S/390 LINUX
  Innovation Data Processing, a market leader in storage management products, recently announced that FDR/UPSTREAM has expanded its support for S/390 Linux to now include new online agents for the Oracle and DB2 database management systems.
  
  XIOtech OFFERS COMPREHENSIVE BACKUP & RESTORE SERVICES
  From accidentally deleted files to a disaster that wipes out a data center, businesses today need to be prepared to restore data and applications quickly and effectively.

Top Of The News

• Hardware
  Avid Technology Selects Infortrend Corporation's ATA RAID
  Dot Hill Announces Interoperability With INRANGE's FC/9000
  Memorex Announces DVD+RW/+R Super Combo Drive
  Overland Tape Libraries Qualified By EMC As E-Lab Tested
  Pirus Networks Switch Receives Brocade Verification Interop
  U.S. Design Certifies Plasmon's D-Series JukeBoxes
  QLogic HBAs & Switches Certified With StorageTek Tape Drives
  VERITAS Delivers First Cluster File System For Oracle9i
  
  
• Apps & Analytics
  Breakthrough ANTs Data Server Now Available
  Fair, Isaac Completes Merger With HNC Software
  NRG Energy Chooses FalconStor Technology
  Oracle Announces Wide-Scale Support From Storage Providers
  
  
• Networking
  Ixia Announces Fibre Channel Fabric Test Platform For Sans
  Lucent Technologies Metropolis EON Qualified By EMC
  Raidtec Launches NAS File Server SNAZ E6
  Xbridge To Demonstrate Windows-To-Mainframe Data Access

Short Takes

• Financial Watch
  Storage Engine Sells Certain Patents To Veritas
  
  
• People & Positions
  Imation Promotes Russomanno To president Of Data Storage
  Belluzzo Takes Quantum Leap
  SanDisk Appoints Hisao Kushiyama President

Quote Of The Week

"It is a business reality that there is no 'silver bullet' that can solve the enterprise storage challenge." -- Rich Napolitano, president and CEO, Pirus Networks

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