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- Storage Innovations
ATMEL INTRODUCES NEW RAD-HARD 4 Mb SRAM FOR SPACE APPS
The AT60142E is the solution to applications where fast computing is as
important as low power consumption, such as aerospace electronics, portable
instruments or embarked systems.
BakBone TO SHOWCASE INNOVATIVE DATA BACKUP SCENARIOS
BakBone's flagship backup and recovery software solution, NetVault 7, is
helping companies meet current and future data protection needs through its
highly flexible, modular architecture that delivers proven reliability and
high performance.
BiTMICRO UNVEILS 2.5M IOPS, 16GB/S E-DISK SAN FC SOLUTION
The E-Disk SAN SZF Fibre Channel solid state disk drive storage solution
establishes a new category of high I/O density storage solutions ideal for
applications with high processing and high bandwidth requirements.
DOCUMENTUM EXTENDS ECM WITH NEXT-GENERATION VIRTUAL REPOSITORY
With the Documentum Virtual Repository solution, customers can discover
and assimilate all content types, from multiple data sources, such as
repositories, file servers, Web sites and enterprise applications, and apply
the full range of Documentum content services to the content.
DataCore LAUNCHES SOFTWARE TO CONVERT PCs INTO DISK SERVERS
SANmelody holds great appeal for companies that typically purchase
application -specific Windows and Linux servers when they run out of disk
drive bays. The software is available immediately for download from
DataCore's new online Web store for as little as $1,200.
EMULEX, SEAGATE, XYRATEX FIRST TO SHOWCASE 4 Gb/s FC SOLUTION
The three companies will display their respective 4 Gb per second products
in a fully operational, live working demonstration at this week's CeBit 2004
Trade Exhibition in Hannover, Germany.
FASTORA INTRODUCES NEW LINE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE DAS SERVERS
Fastora's new DAS Series directly connects to an existing server to
deliver instant, reliable, high performance storage without having to
replace or upgrade existing hard drives.
IBM ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH IN AUTOMATED STORAGE OPTIMIZATION
The new IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is designed to help companies
better control the rise in consumption of storage hardware, while
maintaining system uptime that can lower costs across the enterprise.
EMULEX ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR FORTHCOMING INTEL PROCESSORS
As a member of Intel's early developer program, Emulex ensures its driver
technology will be deployed in conjunction with Intel's delivery of the
64-bit extensions.
BakBone ANNOUNCES COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT FOR ORACLE 10g
Using NetVault's Application Plugin Module (APM) designed specifically for
Oracle's database technology, BakBone provides the ability to backup and
restore Oracle Database 10g.
PowerFile, PoINT SOFTWARE ANNOUNCE OPTICAL STORAGE SYSTEMS
The PowerFile optical storage library combined with PoINT software
addresses the needs of organizations that are faced with data storage
compliance issues but cannot afford large-scale enterprise solutions offered
by most vendors.
QUANTUM SETS NEW STANDARD FOR TAPE AUTOLOADER CUSTOMERS
The Quantum SuperLoader autoloader is the first to reach the impressive
milestone of more than two million mean swaps between failure (MSBF) -- a
standard measurement of reliability among tape automation products.
SimpleTech ANNOUNCES HIGHEST CAPACITY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
400GB SimpleDrive External Hard Drives provide enough capacity to store a
combination of 6,500 hours of high quality digital music, 7,200 digital
photos, 16 hours of digital video, 72 digital games and 120 software
programs.
SPSS INTRODUCES NEW VERSION OF SURVEY SOFTWARE
SPSS Data Entry enables occasional surveyors, data entry departments,
small businesses and medium-sized organizations to create surveys and
efficient online forms. SPSS Data Entry also allows for the collection of
more accurate data for analysis.
3ware INTRODUCES ITS FASTEST RAID CONTROLLERS YET
The new Escalade controllers, based on the company's innovative StorSwitch
switched RAID architecture, provide up to 3.6TB of fault tolerant storage
per controller and deliver in excess of 400MB per second sequential RAID 5
reads and over 110MB per second RAID 5 sequential writes.
VERITAS DELIVERS NEW ADVANCES IN DISASTER RECOVERY SOFTWARE
VERITAS Software Corp announced VERITAS Cluster Server 4.0 and VERITAS
Volume Replicator 4.0, integrated high availability and disaster recovery
software with unique new features that provide capabilities to test, plan
and validate disaster recovery scenarios, without disrupting customers'
applications.
- Financial Plays Of The Week
BELL MICROPRODUCTS TO DISTRIBUTE BROADCOM RAIDCore SOLUTIONS
The distribution agreement allows Bell Microproducts to distribute
Broadcom's RAIDCore RC4000 SATA RAID controllers to resellers in the United
States, Canada, Mexico, South America and Europe.
COGNOS ACQUIRES EP ASSETS OF BUSINESS PLANNING SOLUTIONS LTD
Cognos strengthens its CPM and EP leadership and sales channels in Asia
with this acquisition, which closed on Feb. 27. Financial terms of the
acquisition were not disclosed, and the company noted that the acquisition
is not considered a material event.
DataCore PARTNERS LAUNCHING LAN, SAN 'DISK SERVERS'
The value-added offerings address a broad choice of storage expansion and
data protection requirements, ranging from inexpensive entry-level
iSCSI/Ethernet LAN disk servers to very large full-featured Fibre Channel
platforms.
McDATA EXTENDS HP ALLIANCE TO ADVANCE SAN INTEROPERABILITY
Through this agreement, HP customers can now leverage and grow existing
storage area networks (SANs) by deploying McDATA directors as part of a
multi- vendor core for their existing fabrics.
M-SYSTEMS, RENESAS TECHNOLOGY INTENSIFY PARTNERSHIP
As part of this new level of partnership, the companies are porting Mobile
DiskOnChip onto the Solution Engine System Development Platform for the
SH-Mobile Application Processor from Renesas Technology.
FIRSTLOGIC, PROXIX TO DELIVER ADVANCED GEOGRAPHIC SOLUTIONS
The partnership will allow Firstlogic to market and sell the
Proxix-developed geo-spatial technology as an integrated component of the
Firstlogic Information Quality Suite, a full-featured system for customer
and operational data quality management.
DigiStor TO DISTRIBUTE PowerFile SOLUTIONS IN EUROPE
PowerFile and DigiStor offer hardware and software solution bundles with
market leading software such as Jukebox Manager from PoINT Software and
Systems and Media Finder X from Portents Software.
- Enterprise Data Insights
BLUM CHOOSES StoreAge SVM TO PROVIDE ADVANCED SAN MANAGEMENT
Blum selected StoreAge to provide heterogeneous storage consolidation,
asynchronous mirroring, zero-window backup and centralized storage
management, all while significantly lowering administration costs.
MICROSOFT ENT. ENGINEERING CENTER FEATURES BROCADE SWITCHES
The deployment of Brocade SAN solutions in the EEC fulfills requirements
to provide Microsoft customers with a comprehensive, high performance, real
world system environment for enterprise software.
EXCHANGE SUPPORTS BROADER RANGE OF STORAGE SOLUTIONS
Customers now will be able to enjoy the benefits of Internet Small
Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) and network attached storage (NAS)
storage solutions that have qualified for the Designed for Windows Logo
Program.
ESG: HITACHI LIGHTNING 9980V LEADING CONSOLIDATION PLATFORM
The report links many unique features of the Lightning 9980V to real
customer value, including simplified management and reduced costs, while
easily meeting service levels.
SAMSUNG EXPECTS BASIC MEMORY CHIP SHORTAGE
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it expected a global shortage of basic
memory chips later this year as chip makers switch production to more
specialized chips used in cell phones and digital cameras.
SDSC STORAGE SYSTEM ACHIEVES PETABYTE MILESTONE
The world's largest academic production archival storage system, SDSC's
HPSS is capable of warehousing up to six petabytes of data so that users can
manage, access and utilize data-intensive applications at top speed without
interruption.
NEW RACE OF ROBOTS HAS SEAGATE 'DRIVING' BEHIND THE WHEEL
Early on March 13, near Barstow, Calif., some of the most sophisticated
autonomous land vehicles ever assembled will embark on a race across the
Mojave Desert in the DARPA Grand Challenge.
StorageTek BROADENS TAPE DRIVE CONNECTIVITY SUPPORT
With the addition of the dual port FICON interface to the currently
available ESCON and Fibre Channel interfaces, StorageTek continues its
history of being the only supplier of native FICON and ESCON enterprise
class tape drives for IBM zSeries environments.
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Short Takes
- Financial Watch
EMC Extends Storage Software Market Lead In Fourth Quarter
- People & Positions
FCIA Announces New Board Of Directors Members
Teleran Announces New VP Of North American Sales
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