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DIEGO - October 12, 2006 - Overland Storage, Inc. today reported that
it had been notified by Dell of its intent to terminate the supply
agreement originally announced last November. Under the agreement,
Overland expected to supply Dell with two different automated tape libraries
recently developed by Overland. Shipments had yet to commence, but were expected
to begin in the near future. Overland noted that the expense to date related
to preparation for the Dell business had been significant, and that it would
immediately cease spending on the program. ""Although the Dell business represented an important revenue opportunity, the margins were low relative to our branded business, and the resource commitment was high" said Christopher Calisi, president and CEO of Overland. We will now concentrate on improving our product quality and customer service levels and on launching a complete new line of ULTAMUS and REO disk-based appliances." ...Overland profile, ...Dell profile, disk to disk backup, Tape Libraries Editor's comments:- the tape market has been suffering from a spate of bad news and fractures this month. The market is saying "no more tape!" It would be an uphill battle for Dell to attempt shifting these products. Bilbao, Spain - October 12, 2006 - Lortu Software S.L. announced today an agreement with UK based DataSafe Services Ltd. Under the terms of this agreement a customized version of Lortu's Kondar Byte-level Delta Patching software has been included as a component in DataSafe's iBUS software. Standard backup applications use an incremental or differential backup procedure that stores the entire file that has changed since the last backup, even if only a single byte of data has changed in that file's structure, regardless of how large the file is. Kondar on the other hand, analyzes the content of files and saves only the modified data, which means the backup file could be 10 to 100 times smaller than a standard backup file. Kondar is also very fast. It creates these incremental backups at a throughput of around 100Mbps. ...Lortu Software profile, ...DataSafe Services profile, Backup Software, online backup Editor:- October 12, 2006 - a new article was published today on STORAGEsearch.com called - "a Short History of Disk to Disk Backup." We've been reporting on the enterprise D2d market since the concept first began. This article plots the main events in the market transition from the heady days when tape backup was at its height - through to the situation now where most corporate data is backed on using disk to disk backup. And D2d, this month (October) is the #1 most popular subject that our readers are searching for. ...read the article, Hard disk drives, Backup Software See also:- book:- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian SAN JOSE, Calif. - October 11, 2006 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and UPEK, Inc. today introduced a reference design to protect data on external hard disk drives by adding biometric security via fingerprint recognition technology. The reference design delivers the industry's strongest security by authenticating fingerprint matches on-board the external hard disk systeminstead of on the PC, ensuring no data is passed between the HDD and PC until a match has occurred. The new CY4661 reference design uses UPEK's TouchStrip fingerprint authentication solution along with Cypress's USB controller to address the growing need for secure personal information and enterprise data on portable drives. The reference design enables manufacturers of HDDs to add biometric security that only allows those with a registered fingerprint to access data on the drives. It features match-on-chip, hardware-based authentication for the strongest data and privacy protection available. ...Cypress profile, ...UPEK storage chips, Storage Security Las Vegas, Sun Forum - October 11, 2006 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced a joint development agreement with FalconStor Software which will provide Sun with exclusive features for its enterprise virtual tape library. The new products will be compatible with Sun's Solaris OS. ...FalconStor profile, ...Sun profile, SPARC Product Directory Phoenix, AZ - October 11, 2006 - White Electronic Designs Corp today announced its intent to pursue MIL-PRF-38534 Class K certification in Q107. Class K is the highest reliability level provided for in MIL-PRF-38534 and intended for space applications. ...White Electronic Designs profile, RAM, Military Storage Editor:- October 11, 2006 - nice evocative article about the perils of traditional tape backup today in the SharkTank column of Computerworld. That article talks about the 1980s - which reminded me about my own scary tape backup experience at the beginning of the same decade with a faulty tape drive in an HP 64000 microprocessor development system. My backup tape broke. So I put in the previous day's backup tape - which broke too. Luckily I had the sense not to insert my 3rd backup (or kick the floor standing system box) before calling a service engineer. The fault was an LED sensor which was supposed to stop the tape at the end of the rewind. The whole multi user computer system only had a hard disk capacity of 5M - which is smaller than some web ads today. See also:- Squeak! - Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market SAN DIEGO - October 10, 2006 - Streamload, Inc. announced today it currently manages more than 750,000 customer uploads per day. The company claims it has far surpassed the 65,000 daily video uploads estimated for YouTube (which Google recently announced it was acquiring). "Online storage is becoming a key component to many widely varied applications" said Steve Iverson, Streamload's president and CEO. ...Streamload profile, online backup and storage MUNICH, Germany - October 9, 2006 - Seagate is showing how its hard drives meet the needs of the digital video surveillance market at a security expo this week in Germany. Seagate says its new 750G SV35 Series hard drives can store 24 days of continuous video recording (at 720 x 480 frames resolution and 30 frames/second). Seagate says it is the only hard drive manufacturer dedicated to the security and surveillance market. ...Seagate profile See also:- BBC article:- "in London, you could be caught on camera up to 300 times a day" ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - October 5, 2006 - SiliconSystems, Inc. has been named the Rising Star in Deloitte & Touche USA LLP's Technology Fast 50 program for Orange County. The Rising Star Award is a special designation, within Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 program, which ranks the 50 fastest growing technology companies headquartered in Orange County, California and surrounding communities. ...SiliconSystems profile, solid state disks Editor:- October 4, 2006 - STORAGEsearch.com reports that in September readership grew 10% compared to the year before period. The top 3 subjects viewed by storage searchers were:-
And it's good news for SSD vendors! Despite dropping down one place pageviews on the main SSD page increased by 50% in September compared to the year before period. The hard disk market has been a boom market in the past two years with double digit revenue growth. That shows no signs of slowing down as HDD makers find that fresh new consumer products offer much greater growth prospects than the tired old PC and server markets. Hard disks are already well on the way to being named STORAGEsearch.com's hot product category of the year. (In previous years SSDs and SATA were so named - based on reader pageviews.) For more information on the top subjects, articles etc see Market research CARLSBAD, Calif. - October 4, 2006 - Arkeia Software announced today Arkeia Network Backup Version 6.0. The new version includes an integrated Virtual Tape Library with support for 1 TB included free. ...Arkeia profile, Backup Software SAN JOSE, CA - October 3, 2006 - BlueArc Corp today announced that its Titan 2000 storage system has been used by visual effects studio Weta Digital. Weta tested Titan with hundreds of thousands of requests and found that the system was able to consistently sustain over 230,000 NFS requests per second. The ability to sustain this level of throughput even as more render nodes were added was an important part of Weta's buying decision. "Titan is able to process and store the visual effects data from our more than 4,000 processors allowing for an accelerated workflow for our artists, removal of major bottlenecks, simplified management and reduced complexity and cost" said Weta's CTO, Milton Ngan. Weta Digital has won 4 of the last 5 Academy Awards for visual effects, including ground-breaking work on The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong. Owning one of the world's top supercomputers, Weta required storage that could keep up with the information generated by its massive server and render farm. ...BlueArc profile Aliso Viejo, Calif. - October 3, 2006 - QLogic Corp today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SilverStorm Technologies, Inc for approximately $60 million in cash. SilverStorm provides end-to-end, high performance interconnect fabric solutions for cluster and grid computing networks. ...QLogic profile, InfiniBand Editor's comments:- past acquisitions by QLogic include - Little Mountain Group, PathScale and Troika Networks . Geneva - October 3, 2006 - STMicroelectronics today announced completion of its portfolio of intellectual property required to design, manufacture, and supply hard disk drive manufacturers with all the ICs needed for the small form-factor drives market. ST's latest IP is the T90LP (Low Power) Read-Channel macro, which enables production of System-on-Chip ICs using ST's 90nm process technology, optimized for notebook and consumer HDD applications that demand very low power consumption. The new T90LP read-channel is designed to operate at data rates between 80 and 550MHz and its power is optimized for use in 0.85- to 1.8-inch form-factor drives. "ST's low power disk drive IP and product portfolio allows manufacturers to pick and choose exactly the right products to meet their requirements across different target applications, from 2.5-inch drives down to 1 inch and below," said Roberto Fantechi, General Manager of ST's Data Storage Division. "Manufacturers also have the cost savings and convenience of using a single vendor for all of their silicon, from the standard devices to the ASICs and high-performance products." ...STMicroelectronics profile, storage chips |
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