AUSTIN,
Texas - April 12, 2006 - Crossroads Systems, Inc. today announced the
acquisition of Tape Laboratories, Inc. TapeLabs' history of
successful implementations throughout top-tier financial services, healthcare
and telecommunications organizations provides Crossroads with the opportunity to
expand its Business Information Assurance family of solutions into new markets -
benefiting from TapeLabs' established customer base, which includes recognized
leaders such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun/StorageTek and Quantum. TapeLabs'
employees, solutions and brand will be integrated as Tape Laboratories, Inc., a
Crossroads Company.
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Stockholm,
SWEDEN - April 12, 2006 - Pointsec and Hitachi Software
Engineering Co., Ltd. today announced the formation of a new partnership.
As the first step in their collaboration, HitachiSoft has obtained OEM rights
from Pointsec for its flagship product, Pointsec for PC, which protects against
information leakage from lost, stolen or discarded notebooks and PCs through
full-disk encryption. HitachiSoft will distribute Pointsec for PC under the name
"Hibun AE Full Disk Encryption" as part of its Hibun series of
products.
...Pointsec profile,
...Hitachi profile ,
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El Segundo,
Calif. - April 12, 2006 - The global Hard Disk Drive industry set an all-time
record for growth in 2005 according to iSuppli Corp. Global HDD
shipments increased to 376 million units in 2005, up 23% from 2004. iSuppli's
ranking of the top 7 HDD suppliers in 2005 based on factory unit shipments
is as follows:-
- Seagate 28.7%
- Western Digital
17.7%
- Hitachi 15.5%
- Maxtor 14.1%
- Toshiba 8.5%
- Samsung 7.2%
- Fujitsu 6.7%
- Others 1.6%
On the negative side, the HDD supply chain was slow
to react to the explosion in demand, leading to shortages of disk media.
Furthermore, the anxiety level of the HDD market was raised by
Apple's move to switch
from hard drives to
NAND flash memory for its
iPod music players, a development that hurt demand for 1-inch drives. However,
Apple later introduced its HDD-based iPod video, which led to a resurgence in
sales of 1.8-inch drives. Flash memory in 2005 served as a bogeyman for the HDD
industry, with much speculation that hard drives would be displaced by
solid-state memory in consumer-electronics products and other devices.
...iSuppli profile
MILAN,
Italy - April 11, 2006 - Seagate Technology is providing StorCase
Technologies Inc. with hard drives for its InfoStation Enclosure
Solutions. StorCase has selected a wide range of Seagate's 2.5-inch and
3.5-inch hard drives to be included in its reliable and modular backplane
multi-bay storage chassis. ...Seagate profile,
...StorCase profile
BOISE,
Idaho - April 10, 2006 - Micron Technology, Inc. today announced the
production availability of its DDR2 fully buffered dual in-line memory module
(FBDIMM) solutions. Validated in coordination with
Intel, Micron's FBDIMMs
provide new advanced channel features that vastly improve performance in
high-speed, high-density applications such as servers, workstations and
networking equipment. Micron's FBDIMMs are available in densities from 512MB to
4GB and speed grades extending to PC2-5300.
...Micron profile,
RAM
TAIPEI,
TAIWAN - April 10, 2006 - Lite-On IT and BenQ today
announced that they have formed a strategic alliance. Lite-On IT will
acquire BenQ's storage-related assets, including BenQ's ODM customer portfolio
and the rights to use BenQ's technology portfolio. Lite-On IT will also receive
order commitments on BenQ-branded storage products. The transaction is expected
to increase Lite-On IT's global market share to 27%, making it the world's No. 2
optical disk drive
manufacturer.
...BenQ profile,
...Lite-On IT profile
SUNNYVALE,
Calif. - April 10, 2006 - Omneon Video Networks will unveil its new
MirrorTool later this month at NAB2006. In broadcast environments
in which one Spectrum server system is used as the primary machine and a second
Spectrum system is used as a backup, MirrorTool automatically copies ingested
and edited media files to the backup system, duplicating the folder hierarchy as
needed to make it an exact match. When the secondary server is located in an
off-site location, MirrorTool supports disaster-recovery configurations by
enabling a complete rebuild of the primary server contents.
...Omneon profile,
NAB2006
San
Jose, CA - April 10, 2006 - The Network Storage Conference next month
in Las Vegas, NV is pleased to announce a keynote talk by Dave Barth
from Amazon Web Services describing their simple storage service for
software developers. Barth's keynote is scheduled for 1:30 PM on Wednesday,
May 3. Amazon opened up its data storage infrastructure in early March for
virtually any developer or business to use for their own data. Dave Barth, who
managed the development and deployment of Amazon S3 from start to finish, will
describe how they created a state-of-the-art storage environment using
important design principles such as decentralization, asynchrony, autonomy,
concurrency, fault tolerance, controlled parallelism, and symmetry.
"The Network
Storage Conference attracts some of the most forward-thinking and informed
professionals in data storage. We look forward to talking with this group about
how Amazon created such a storage service infrastructure and how it can help
businesses and clients focus on innovation rather than managing storage,"
said Dave Barth, Amazon S3 Product Manager, Amazon Web Services.
...Amazon profile,
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