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- Storage Innovations
ADIC ANNOUNCES GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF PATHLIGHT VX 2.0
Pathlight VX 2.0 is the first open system backup product to combine the
capacity and characteristics of disk and tape in a single, unified system,
using advanced policy-based data management technology to provide total
system capacities up to 3,000TB.
APPLE Xsan LETS CISCO DEPLOY MASSIVE E-MAIL ARCHIVING SOLUTION
Cisco Systems will deploy the Apple storage environment to archive the
company's global e-mail communications, thus ensuring compliance with
government regulatory requirements and internal risk management policies.
ATEMPO ANNOUNCES TIME NAVIGATOR ENTERPRISE EDITION FOR MAC OS
Time Navigator Mac OS X Server is the only high-performance,
highly-scalable enterprise data protection solution for Mac OS X that
enables companies to seamlessly integrate Mac OS X into heterogeneous
network storage environments to achieve unparalleled data-recovery
performance.
AVAMAR GRANTED PATENT FOR DISK-BASED DATA PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY
The new patent provides coverage for Avamar's redundant array of
independent nodes (RAIN) technology, which protects data stored in the
Avamar Axion backup solution.
QUALSTAR ANNOUNCES LTO 3 EQUIPPED TAPE LIBRARIES
Qualstar's TLS-Series and RLS-Series tape libraries and TeraLoader
autoloaders provide customers with a particularly broad range of capacity,
performance and format options. Shipments will begin by the end of the
month.
WINCHESTER UNVEILS NEW MID-RANGE TIERED STORAGE ARRAY
Winchester Systems unveiled a new data storage array capable of
supporting
up to four Fibre Channel hosts and 43TB of primary and secondary storage.
Aimed at mid-range storage environments, the FlashDisk FC-3400 is a fully
redundant storage system that supports both Fibre Channel and SATA disk
technology.

- Financial Plays Of The Week
ONARO, CISCO COLLABORATE TO MANAGE CHANGE IN STORAGE NETWORKS
The integration of Onaro's SANscreen Predictive Change Management
software
with the Cisco MDS 9000 offers enterprise customers the combined benefits
of
Cisco's award-winning storage networking technology and Onaro's risk-free
solution to manage change, scale, migrate and consolidate storage area
networks (SANs).
CISCO, EMC TO OFFER FILE STORAGE CONSOLIDATION SOLUTION
EMC and Cisco have agreed to develop an OEM agreement, which will enable
Cisco to sell and support the EMC NS Series/Integrated NAS solutions.
Cisco
plans to offer these NAS solutions together with the recently introduced
Cisco File Engine to provide a solution ideally suited for enterprise
storage consolidation over wide-area networks.
ARTEC, DIGI-DATA FORM PARTNERSHIP
Digi-Data formed an exclusive partnership with ARTEC Computer to
distribute Digi-Data's highly scalable STORM RAID ARRAY in Germany, Sweden
and Austria.
INTRANSA SIGNS STRATEGIC CHANNEL AGREEMENT WITH RedBridge IT
Intransa announced the signing of a strategic channel agreement with
RedBridge IT. This partnership will provide RedBridge IT and Intransa
customers with the industry's most scalable, high-performance IP SAN
family
of network storage solutions for small, mid-tier and enterprise customers.
QLogic SWITCHES, SOFTWARE AVAILABLE FOR Xserve RAID SYSTEMS
QLogic SANbox 5200 stackable switches, SANbox2-64 modular chassis
switches
and SANsurfer software for Mac OS, combined with Xserve RAID storage, make
it possible for Apple to offer storage networks with leading-edge price,
performance, scalability and ease-of-use.

- Enterprise Data Insights
BYTE AND SWITCH INSIDER PEERS INTO ARCHIVING PLANS
Regulatory concerns and exploding data growth have led to a renaissance
of
sorts in archiving practices, but those same issues have also complicated
the solutions and IT decisions surrounding this important market,
according
to a new report from the research service Byte and Switch Insider.
OPEN CYBER UNIVERSITY USES DATACORE TO OPEN UP IBM STORAGE
SANsymphony provided a centrally managed storage solution that opened up
flexibility, enhanced productivity, greatly simplified administration and
optimized disk utilization across the different types of storage.
STORAGE, COMPUTING SPACE TO CONSOLIDATE IN 2005
Nearly 67 percent of executives polled believe that consolidation will
increase during the balance of the year and be one of the leading trends
of
2005. Twenty-two percent of those polled expect to see a greater number of
technology companies from other sectors entering the market, followed by a
slowdown in IT spending.
GLOBAL BANK RELIES ON McDATA FOR DISASTER RECOVERY
Netherlands-based Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG) has consolidated its
storage assets, reduced data backup windows by up to 60 percent and met
the
government's disaster recovery requirements using McDATA Corp's Intrepid
Directors and Eclipse SAN Routers.
SANRAD'S V-SWITCH HELPS UNIVERSITIES DIGITIZE ETHNOMUSIC VIDEOS
SANRAD announced that its V-Switch is helping the University of Michigan
and Indiana University in Bloomington permanently preserve libraries of
videotape documenting musical and dance traditions from around the world
in
digital format before the content is lost forever due to degradation of
age.
IDC SAYS ZANTAZ IS THE LEADER FOR EMAIL ARCHIVING REVENUE
According to IDC's Worldwide Email Archiving Applications 2004-2008
Forecast and 2003 Vendor Shares Market Analysis Report, ZANTAZ had a
leading
35 percent revenue market share for its hosted and onsite e-mail archiving
solutions.

Top Of The News
Short Takes
- Financial Watch
AppIQ Closes 2004 W/Fourth Consecutive Record Quarter
BluePoint Announces 100 Percent Revenue Growth In 2004
Datalink Announces Improved Fourth Quarter Earnings
Netezza Secures $15 Million In Fourth Round Financing
- People & Positions
FalconStor Software Elects Steven Bock To Board Of Directors
Tacit Networks Expands Team W/ New VP Of Worldwide Sales

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