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Another exciting year has come and gone here at DSstar, and we would like to
take this opportunity to thank all of our readers for joining us for our
seventh volume. We hope you all have a great holiday season, and we look
forward to spending another year with you. Look for the first issue of
volume eight on January 6th, 2004! -- The DSstar Team
-- IN THIS ISSUE --
Features
- Storage Innovations
NEW ADDONICS HARD DRIVE KITS TRANSFORM SATA DRIVES
Addonics Technologies announced a pair of Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive
kits, which can transform any SATA drive into a hot-swappable, removable or
external drive solution.
DECRU SHIPS DataFort T520 TO SECURE DATA FOR TAPE BACKUP
Decru Inc, a leader in networked storage security, announced that it has
begun shipping Decru DataFort T520, an enterprise-class security appliance
that provides encryption, authentication and logging capabilities for tape
backup environments.
FUJITSU DELIVERS 2.5-INCH SATA HDD W/ NATIVE COMMAND QUEUING
Fujitsu 2.5-inch Serial ATA mobile hard disk drives offer increased
performance and reduced power consumption, benefits that are especially
important to manufacturers of portable, battery operated products like
laptop computers.
LightSand LAUNCHES STORAGE GATEWAY FOR TRANSPORTING FC
LightSand, a leading provider of storage connectivity products, announced
the immediate availability of the S-155B Storage Gateway. This new gateway
enables organizations to interconnect Fibre Channel storage systems over
existing fiber optic infrastructure across town or cross-country.
LSI LOGIC ACCELERATES LEADERSHIP IN DVD RECORDER MARKET
The DMN-8602 leverages the industry-leading integration of the DiMeNsion
8600 (DMN-8600, the industry's first single-chip DVD recorder solution) that
has been designed into consumer products from customers such as Apex
Digital, JVC, Lite-On IT, LG Electronics, Samsung and Zenith.
MARANTI NETWORKS LAUNCHES CoreSTOR PRODUCT LINE
As the industry's first fully integrated, network storage services
controller, the Maranti CoreSTOR system enables rapid deployment of
heterogeneous storage infrastructures, delivering centrally managed,
high-performance storage services from any storage device to any server in
the network.
ONSTOR TRANSFORMS FILE SERVICES MARKET WITH NEW SOLUTION
The ONStor SF4400 SAN filer delivers the industry's only single hardware
and software platform designed to manage enterprise-wide files services on
open SAN storage.
PERIPHERAL ENHANCEMENTS ADDS MP3 TO DiskGO! PRODUCT LINE
Peripheral Enhancements Corp announced the launch of an MP3 player with a
built-in USB flash drive. The new product is the latest addition to the
company's fast-growing DiskGO! consumer product line.
PHOENIX LAUNCHES FirstWare RECOVER PRO NETWORK
This new product enables automatic scheduling and central management of
backup and recovery functions in newly deployed and installed base
computers.
SMC USB ADAPTER WITH FLASH DRIVE IDEAL FOR MOBILE COMPUTING
The new SMCWUSB32EZ Connect 2.4GHz 11Mbps Wireless USB Flash Drive
combines the ease-of-use and convenience of USB-enabled PCs with the
benefits of 11Mbps wireless operation in this full-featured solution for
networked SOHO and mobile computing environments.
SONY SHIPS BLUE LASER-BASED PROF. DISC FOR DATA PRODUCTS
Sony Electronics is shipping its first generation of Professional Disc for
DATA optical storage drives, automated devices and media to OEMs and system
integrators.
SteelEye COST OF DEPLOYING FAULT RESILIENT LINUX ON IBM
SteelEye is the first to enable users of IBM xSeries servers running Linux
to achieve the highest levels of availability and data protection, while
minimizing their total cost of ownership through the deployment of low-cost,
host-based technology to achieve RAID configuration of data.
SYBASE UNVEILS REPLICATION SERVER 12.6
The enhanced symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support in Replication Server
12.6 maximizes hardware resource utilization and gives applications with a
real-time data requirement the capability to handle high transaction volumes
with low latency.
VERITAS EXTENDS WINDOWS LEADERSHIP
VERITAS Software Corp, a leading storage software provider, announced the
availability of VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.0 for Windows, storage
management and virtualization software that integrates with Microsoft
platforms to flexibly manage storage in Windows environments.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
BROCADE GAINS MARKET SHARE ACROSS SAN INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET
The Dell'Oro report, issued on Dec. 3, noted that Brocade increased its
share of the director segment, measured by ports sold, from 30.4 percent to
32.2 percent, and increased its share of the fabric switch segment from 66.7
percent to 69.7 percent.
EMC CENTERA ACHIEVES KEY GROWTH MILESTONES
Centera's rapid adoption highlights its position as the fastest-growing
storage platform in EMC history and underscores its role as a critical
component of EMC's information lifecycle management strategy.
EMULEX EXTENDS LEADERSHIP POSITION IN CHANNEL
In its first fiscal quarter ended in September, Emulex's channel revenue
grew 68 percent from the previous year to 43 percent of net revenues.
STORAGE INDUSTRY INTEGRATORS JOIN ONStor PARTNER PROGRAM
Developed to enable systems integrators to address the growing demand for
storage consolidation and business continuance solutions, the ONStor
Business Partner Program supports integrators throughout the entire sales
cycle to accelerate enterprise-class file services adoption.
PERMABIT OFFERS CAS TO AVNET HALL-MARK RESELLERS
Permabit announced that Avnet Hall-Mark, a value-added distributor of
enterprise servers, storage, software and services, will integrate and
support Permabit's new Permeon storage software for its reseller partners
throughout North America.
QUANTUM DLT VS160 STRENGTHENING IBM eServer xSeries
By positioning the IBM 40/80GB DLTVS half-high tape drive in the
entry-level market, IBM is leveraging the addition of the DLT VS160 to
expand the family of DLTtape solutions offered within the xSeries storage
portfolio.
ROCKET PURCHASES StorageNetworks STORos StorageManager LINE
StorageNetworks has dissolved and is in the process of liquidating. Rocket
will use the STORos product line to bolster its already significant
offerings in the storage management and data center management markets.
TACIT NETWORKS ANNOUNCES KEY CUSTOMER WINS
Tacit Networks, a leader in real-time global information sharing,
announced new customers Mullin Consulting, and NorthPoint Software and
Services. Tacit's customer base now includes companies in the defense,
technology, oil and gas, and consulting industries.
- Enterprise Data Insights
3PAR UTILITY STORAGE CHOSEN BY AMS FOR MISSION CRITICAL APPS
A Fortune 1000 business consultant and systems integrator to the
government, financial services and communications industries around the
globe, AMS selected 3PAR to support mission-critical timekeeping,
purchasing, CRM and messaging applications for its more than 6,000
employees.
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND IT: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND PROMISE
Knowledge Management, like knowledge itself, can be difficult to define.
While there have been numerous writings on the subject in the last decade,
comprehensive overviews of the subject are few.
MANUAL DEFRAGS LEAD TO BOTTLENECKS, COST COPORATIONS MILLIONS
Findings indicate where sites rely on the built-in manual defragmenter,
routine maintenance is not getting done resulting in system slows and
performance bottlenecks.
LIFE AT THE EDGE -- PROTECTING ENTERPRISE DATA
Here's a recipe for disaster: Take large and growing volumes of critical,
file-based data, stir in widely distributed networks and users, then add
remote offices with poor or nonexistent backup plans and minimal IT
resources. The result -- valuable enterprise data is at serious, and
continual, risk.
DISK STORAGE SYSTEMS MARKET STABILIZES, ACCORDING TO IDC
Worldwide disk storage systems factory revenues were $4.8 billion in the
third quarter of 2003 (3Q03), down 0.3 percent compared with the third
quarter of 2002, according to IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly
Tracker.
OSTA TO EXPAND SCOPE OF RECENT JOINT DVD COMPATIBILITY STUDY
By implementing a second phase of testing in conjunction with major DVD
drive and media manufacturers, DVDA, NIST and OSTA are continuing their
partnership by providing an impartial process for measuring and improving
compatibility to assist DVD media and drive manufacturers in achieving the
goal of 100 percent compatibility.
TIME WARNER TELECOM PROTECTS AGAINST DATA LOSS
Time Warner Telecom is providing its Fibre Channel Storage Transport
Service to link Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's main data
center with its disaster recovery site.
LTO ULTRIUM FORMAT BUCKS STORAGE TREND
Certance, HP and IBM Corp continue to see strong acceptance of the LTO
Ultrium format as evidenced by the format's 2:1 penetration versus the SDLT
format based on the Gartner Dataquest, Tape Drive Review and Forecast June
2003.
TECH LEADERS ESTABLISH ALLIANCE TO PROMOTE USB FLASH DRIVES
New organization to educate consumers about the myriad of uses for USB
flash drives and the compelling lifestyle benefits they offer.
VMware EXPANDS INTEROPERABILITY WITH LEADING SAN VENDORS
VMware Inc, a global leader in virtual infrastructure software for
Intel-based systems, announced that VMware ESX Server has successfully
completed comprehensive interoperability testing with the industry's leading
storage area network (SAN) vendors.
Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
Emulex Offers $450 Million Of Convertible Subordinated Notes
MicroStrategy Files Suit Against Crystal Decisions
- People & Positions
ProClarity Adds New Board Members, Executive Appointments
Quote Of The Week
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