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| LaCie Launches
Fingerprint Protected HDD
Hillsboro, OR - June 21, 2005 - Today LaCie unveils the revolutionary LaCie SAFE Mobile Hard Drive with cutting-edge biometric technology. Fingerprint authentication grants access to the drive. Thanks to embedded software, no installation is needed on the host computer making this storage solution completely mobile, user-friendly and secure. Compact SAFE drive casing created by Porsche Design GmbH is small enough to fit comfortably in a shirt pocket or bag. "With our new SAFE Mobile hard drive, people can now transport important data without concerns," says Marie Renouard, LaCie Product Manager. "SAFE drives are absolutely secure and only accessible by registered and authorized fingerprints. Biometry is based on unique human identity traits that are far more secure, convenient and user-friendly than passwords or smart-card protection." Up to five different users can be registered with customized access privileges such as read/write or read-only. LaCie SAFE Mobile Hard Drives are immediately available in 40GB or 80GB capacities. ...LaCie profile, Storage Security, Removable Disks FirmTek Ships PCI-X SATA for Mac Union City, California - June 21, 2005 - FirmTek, LLC announced today the immediate availability of their newest Serial ATA host adapter: the four-port SeriTek/1VE2+2 featuring external and internal ports. The SeriTek/1VE2+2 is designed with a 133MHz PCI-X interface to deliver extreme Power Mac G5 performance with high-performance compatibility on all other PCI-based Macintoshes with data transfer rates of up to 150MBytes/sec or 1.5Gbits/sec per port. It features direct booting from any attached hard drive or volume, hot-swap capability, support for native Mac OS X RAID 0/1 (mirroring or striping), and it works with OS 8, OS 9, and OS X 10.1.5 and later on any PCI bus-based machine intended to run those OSs. ...FirmTek profile, Serial ATA (SATA) Memtech Announces Hornet 16GB 2.5" SSD Livermore, CA - June 20, 2005 - Memtech announced today the launch of its latest product - the AT2560 Hornet, an extremely low profile, high performance, 512Mbyte to 16Gbyte drive. The Hornet, with impressive endurance and an 8-year warranty, is designed for Military and Industrial Environments were down time and failure is not an option. Each drive is guaranteed for life and goes through Memtech's rigorous five-step EnduroTest. process. This test process includes read-write data integrity testing at temperatures as low as -40°C and as high as +85°C. The Hornet, with integrated ECC data protection, a Kicker Hold Up Circuit, rugged design, smoother data flow, and ability to withstand 1,000G operating shock and 15G operating vibration illustrates why Memtech is the leader in Highly Reliable Solid State Flash Drives. The low profile Hornet with 12GB in 9.5mm and 16GB in 12.5MM is a perfect solution for laptops or any height constrained application. ...Memtech profile, Solid State Disks Mellanox Ships 60Gb/s InfiniBand Heidelberg, Germany - June 20, 2005 - at the International Supercomputer Conference today Mellanox Technologies Ltd announced immediate availability of industry-standard, double data rate InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter silicon and PCI Express cards, along with switch silicon that supports 20Gb/s server-to-server and server-to-storage connectivity and 60Gb/s switch-to-switch I/O connections over a single copper cable. These solutions offer twice the bandwidth of current 10Gb/s InfiniBand solutions and up to ten times the price/performance of competing interconnects. "The production availability of InfiniBand DDR solutions signals a new era of clustered computing and storage performance," said Eyal Waldman, President and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. "20Gb/s and 60Gb/s I/O technology is in lock-step with emerging multi-core CPU server architectures and widely deployed PCI Express in-the-box interconnect." With compute clusters growing in size from hundreds to thousands of nodes, demand has increased for a unified network to contain costs and improve manageability. Driving 20Gb/s on a single 4X InfiniBand cable and 60Gb/s on a single 12X cable reduces cable requirements by over 40% and increases cluster manageability for multi-thousand node, non-blocking clusters. Mellanox has shipped in excess of 500,000 10Gb/s InfiniBand ports into enterprise data centers and high-performance compute clusters. ...Mellanox Technologies profile Microsoft Purchases Northern Storage Suite TAMPA, FL - June 20, 2005 - NORTHERN today announces that Microsoft has purchased an enterprise license of Northern Storage Suite 2005. The terms of the license enable Microsoft to deploy Northern Storage Suite on an unlimited number of servers and manage unlimited capacity. Northern Storage Suite consolidates Northern's entire family of storage software products into one universal SRM solution, integrating disk quotas, reporting, charge-back, automation, and end-user interaction. The suite facilitates smooth migration and easy scalability, enabling users to turn on features as needed in response to changes in their storage environment. Northern Storage Suite 2005 offers NAS support, is cluster-aware, expands storage self-management through an enhanced end-user portal, simplifies multi-server configuration, and more. "Customers are looking for easy-to-manage and reliable storage resource management across Windows environments," said Ben Fathi, General Manager, Windows Server Division. "Microsoft is pleased about Northern's focus and 10-year history in developing and delivering complete storage resource management solutions for Windows environments, making it a good choice for Microsoft's internal deployment" ...Northern profile, ...Microsoft profile Call for Papers - Storage Visions Conference SAN JOSE, CA - June 20, 2005 - The Storage Visions conference, which focuses on digital storage and the entertainment content value chain, announces its call for papers. Those wishing to submit papers can do so online. The tentative agenda for the conference held January 6 & 7, 2006, in Las Vegas, during the 2006 International CES, includes for example:-
Coraid Introduces 4 Disk 1U SATA NAS San Clemente, CA - June 17, 2005 - Coraid Inc. announced today that its SATA line features a new 1U, four disk storage appliance for SATA disks. RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10 can be configured in the new appliance. Coraid's new 1U appliance features 4 hot swap drive bays which accommodate user installed standard SATA disk drives of any size and a dual GigE interface. Fully populated drive bays using 400 GB disk drives provide 1.6 TB of storage. EtherDrive storage appliances use the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol. The simplest, most efficient, and lowest cost means for networked storage. Using Ethernet connections, EtherDrive Storage appears to servers on the network as locally attached disks. A single chassis can provide 200MB/sec. of storage access throughput and because the AoE protocol is so efficient, any host can saturate its Ethernet connections to the storage and still have CPU cycles left for the server's main applications. ...Coraid profile Network Appliance Acquires Decru Sunnyvale, Calif. - June 16, 2005 - Network Appliance, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Decru for approximately $272 million in cash and stock. Decru is a clear market leader in storage security, offering data protection solutions to address a range of needs for enterprises and governments, including regulatory compliance, privacy, secure consolidation, and outsourcing. Decru DataFort appliances protect the core of the storage network by seamlessly inserting a layer of strong encryption, authentication, access controls, and compartmentalization. ...Decru profile, ...Network Appliance profile, (304) Acquired storage companies SiliconSystems Completes Series B Funding ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - June 16, 2005 - SiliconSystems, Inc. today announced the completion of its oversubscribed Series B funding round. The Series B raised consisted of new investors Rustic Canyon Partners and Shepherd Ventures joined by Series A investor Miramar Venture Partners. "SiliconSystems is clearly emerging as the industry leader in the rapidly growing market for solid-state storage technology used by enterprise system OEMs," commented George Kenney, managing partner, Shepherd Ventures. "The company has made phenomenal progress since its founding in 2002. Revenues continue to exceed projections and customer response to its patented and patent-pending SiliconDrive technology has been overwhelming. My firm is highly enthusiastic about its involvement with SiliconSystems as it moves forward to become the dominant supplier in this market." "We are very proud to have Rustic Canyon Partners and Shepherd Ventures participate in our Series B round, as well as to have Miramar Venture Partners return as a Series B investor," said Mr. Hajeck. "Our second round of financing was oversubscribed and we were able to secure more funding than planned due to the strong interest in our company by the venture capital community. Our investors recognize that we have an outstanding team, leading technology, and a unique business opportunity. With the addition of our new investment partners, we can now accelerate our growth at an even more aggressive rate." ...SiliconSystems profile MS SQL Server 2000 Backup Leadership Hoboken, N.J - June 15, 2005 - NSI Software, Inc. today reaffirmed its leadership in protecting Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and announced its support for SQL Server 2005. Worldwide, there are 15,000 Double-Take licenses used with SQL Server. ...NSI Software profile MS SQL Server 2000 Backup Leadership OSLO - June 15, 2005 - Tandberg Data ASA today unveiled the world's smallest rackmount-configured LTO tape autoloader. The 1U formfactor LTO StorageLoader tape automation solution delivers up to 3.2TB compressed storage capacity and a transfer rate of up to 173 GB/hr. by incorporating Tandberg's recently introduced half-height LTO2 tape drive. The Tandberg StorageLoader LTO2 stands apart from existing rackmount autoloaders, as it is the only 1U LTO2 autoloader available with removable magazines. It includes up to 8 data cartridges stored in two removable magazines holding four cartridges each to ensure safe and easy loading of tape media and transport for off-site storage. The tape drive, power supply and fans are all field replaceable without removing the autoloader from the rack thereby reducing total cost of ownership and minimizing downtime. The Tandberg StorageLoader 1U LTO2 is a complete turnkey solution including rackmount kit, SCSI cable, terminator and Ethernet cable, plus a full three-year warranty. MSRP is $4,499. ...Tandberg Data profile, Tape Libraries, Rackmount Storage SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - June 15, 2005 - Seagate Technology today announced that it has swept the PC World 2005 World Class Awards for internal and external hard drives as the magazine honored the 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA NCQ and External Hard Drives and the Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Drive for exemplary design, features, performance, innovation and price. PC World editors selected the Seagate disc drives for honors from among hundreds of products ranging from hard drives and advanced digital cameras to web browsers and antivirus software. Seagate won in three key storage categories: Portable Hard Drive, External Hard Drive and Internal Hard Drive. The World Class Award winners are highlighted in the June 14 issue of PC World. ...read the article, ...Seagate profile, Hard disk drives |
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