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NETEZZA TAKES ON TERADATA - GET IT RIGHT!

SIX STORAGE LEADERS DEPLOY HIGHLY SECURE, SELF-MANAGING SAN

MICROSOFT AND PANASONIC INTRODUCE HighMAT MEDIA STORAGE

Features

• Storage Innovations
  
  AVAMAR TO SHOWCASE AXION AT STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD
  Avamar Technologies Inc, a leading provider of innovative secondary storage solutions, will showcase Axion, its scalable appliance for enterprise data backup, restore, and archival storage at Storage Networking World, through October 30, 2002, at the Renaissance Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida.
  
  StorageTek CHANGES THE ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION STORAGE
  StorageTek has come out of nowhere to take the enterprise disk market to a new level. Say hello to BladeStore.
  
  EMC UNVEILS NEW ENHANCEMENTS IN ITS WideSky DEVELOPERS SUITE
  EMC Corporation has unveiled major advances in its WideSky Developers Suite offered through the EMC Developers Program. These new advances further EMC's goal of enabling software and hardware developers, along with customers, to build truly open, interoperable automated networked storage environments that reduce costs, streamline management, and improve business agility.
  
  LightSand AND StoreAge TEAM UP TO COVER THE DISTANCE
  LightSand Communications and StoreAge Networking Technologies have announced a partnership that provides customers with high-speed wide area data movement between multi-vendor storage devices. The combined solution provides a vendor-neutral approach that enables customers to centrally manage the replication, migration, consolidation and backup of data across unlike storage devices in geographically separate locations.
  
  QUANTUM ANNOUNCES GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF QUANTUM DX30
  Quantum Corp, a leading provider of data protection systems, has announced the general availability of the Quantum DX30 -- the only disk-based backup system that emulates a tape library.
  
  SIX STORAGE LEADERS DEPLOY HIGHLY SECURE, SELF-MANAGING SAN
  Six leading storage and storage networking companies recently announced the deployment of a highly secure, self-managing Storage Area Network (SAN) that maximizes application and data availability while automating virtually all aspects of storage management.
  
  StorageTek STRENGTHENS ITS VIRTUAL STORAGE MANAGER SYSTEM
  Life in the data center is going to get a little easier and more cost effective with enhanced software from StorageTek.

• Financial Plays Of The Week
  
  CANDERA ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH IN-Q-TEL
  Candera Inc, a developer of network-based storage management platforms, has announced that it has entered into a joint product development agreement with In-Q-Tel, a private, non-profit venture firm funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  
  CSK FIELD SERVICES FORMS ALLIANCE WITH FalconStor
  FalconStor Software Inc recently announced an alliance with the Field Services Co of CSK Corporation to deliver enterprise storage services enabling high data availability and business continuity.
  
  EXABYTE THIRD QUARTER RESULTS REFLECT BROAD IMPROVEMENT
  Exabyte Corporation has reported financial results for the third quarter of 2002, reflecting broad improvement compared with the second quarter brought about by higher revenues and effective implementation of the Company's restructuring program.
  
  FalconStor, StorageTek AND SANZ TEAM TO PROVIDE STORAGE
  FalconStor Software Inc announced recently that it has teamed with StorageTek and Storage Area Networks to deploy FalconStor's IPStor and StorageTek switches and disks as the network storage infrastructure at a large financial services company to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.
  
  McDATA EXPANDS EUROPEAN COVERAGE BY OPENING OFFICE IN ITALY
  McDATA Corporation, a world leader in open, ultra-high availability storage networking solutions, has expanded its focus on the European market with the opening of a sales office in Peschiera del Garda, Italy.
  
  NETREON ADOPTS EMULEX HBAnyware CENTRALIZED MGMT SUITE
  Emulex Corp and Netreon Inc have announced a collaboration to incorporate support for Emulex's recently announced HBAnyware management suite into Netreon's SANexec Designer solution.

• Enterprise Data Insights
  
  ASTUTE BETS ON CUSTOMIZABLE LOGIC FOR NEXT-GEN STO DEVICES
  by William Fellows for the451.com
  Astute Networks has unveiled its storage silicon chipset, Pericles, designed for use in new classes of network storage processing devices built by OEMs. Astute joins Trebia and Silverback in announcing products for the next-generation network storage device market.
  
  MICROSOFT AND PANASONIC INTRODUCE HighMAT MEDIA STORAGE
  by Martyn Williams
  Panasonic and Microsoft have jointly developed a new way to store, access, and retrieve digital multimedia stored on recordable optical discs. The technology, called HighMAT, for high performance media access technology, spells out a common way to store data such as digital music, photos, and video and also specifies the way in which devices can access this media.
  
  NETEZZA TAKES ON TERADATA - GET IT RIGHT!
  by William Fellows for the451.com
  Netezza's challenge to Teradata is on the market. The company has begun shipping its Performance Server 8000 Series, a high-end massively parallel processing data warehouse engine designed for handling very large business intelligence requirements. Netezza says Teradata has had the space to itself for far too long and still hasn't got it right.
  
  WISTRON DEPLOYS FalconStor TECHNOLOGY AT SOUTH CHINA FACTORY
  FalconStor Software Inc announced recently that Wistron Corp, formerly Acer Inc's Design, Manufacturing, and Services department, has implemented IPStor at its South China factory located in the city of Zhongshan, to consolidate data in their production flow control system, and to maintain high availability of critical data to reduce production downtime.

Top Of The News

• Hardware
  Imation Introduces AIT 3 Data Cartridge
  Memorex Hops Into USB Flash Storage Market
  
  
• Apps & Analytics
  Gnames Advantage Selects KXEN's Predictive Modeling Tech
  Firstlogic/Informatica Sponsor Pieter Mimno's DW Bootcamps
  Storability Signs Sun, Releases Gloabal Storage Manager V3.2
  VERITAS Software Sees Increased Momentum
  
  
• Storage
  NetForce 1750 NAS Filer Approved for Ford Suppliers
  Zhaohua Sci & Tech To Co-Operate With US Spectra Logic In DS
  Syncsort and Novell Present Storage Optimization Web Seminar
  
  
• Networking
  New Rodin Cross-Platform Data Sourcing Module

Short Takes

• Financial Watch
  Evaluator Group Validates DataCore's SanSymphony Platform
  Vixel Corporation Announces Third Quarter 2002 Results
  Imation Profit Soars On Data Boom
  
  
• People & Positions
  Qualstar Appoints Frederic Boyer vice president/CFO
  nStor Adds Veteran OEM Sales Manager

Quote Of The Week

"All data is not created equal..." -- Paul Carr, StorageTek

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