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STORAGE, COMPUTING SPACE TO CONSOLIDATE IN 2005

BYTE AND SWITCH INSIDER PEERS INTO ARCHIVING PLANS

CISCO, EMC TO OFFER FILE STORAGE CONSOLIDATION SOLUTION

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Features

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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