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CLARA, Calif - November 6, 2007 - Intel Corp today announced a new NAS
storage platform for the home. The
SS4200x
supports upto 4x 3.5"
hard disk drives in a "customizable
and consumer-friendly shell design" and is available with or without
software. For example the fully loaded Intel SS4200-E includes software from
EMC to create a flexible
NAS appliance. Integrators can customize the storage system with various validated 3rd party software solutions to create easy-to-use and reliable data protection solutions for small business, home office and the home. It is also an ideal platform for Windows Home Server. The new products will be available in December, starting at $500. ..Intel profile Editor's comments:- in the 1990s Sun Microsystems introduced the world to pizza box servers and storage. You'll recognise what inspired Intel's new box design next time you save left over chile in your freezer. Boston, Mass - November 6, 2007 - Seanodes today announced the closure of a $6.5 million funding round that will propel the company's expansion of its Shared Internal Storage concept to customers worldwide. Seanodes software allows customers to reclaim unused internal disk space within existing application servers and make that capacity available as a high performance virtualized storage pool, eliminating the need for costly and complex conventional SAN and NAS products. ...Seanodes profile FREMONT, Calif - November 6, 2007 - Mendocino Software today announced that Kathleen Holmgren, a former top storage executive at Sun Microsystems, has been named the company's new President and CEO succeeding Steve Colman who now takes over as Chairman. Holmgren joins Mendocino after more than 2 decades at Sun where she most recently was Senior VP of Sun's Disk Systems Business and played a key role in Sun's integration of StorageTek. Holmgren also formed the original Storage Product Group at Sun and grew it into a major strategic business for the company. She graduated with highest honors with a Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo and an MBA from Stanford University. ...Mendocino profile, ...Sun profile, ...Sun bio (2002) - Kathleen Holmgren, Storage People |
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| Editor:- November 6, 2007
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STORAGEsearch.com today updated its monthly list of the top subjects
viewed by storage searchers in October. The top 5 subjects were:- (1) - Disk to disk backup - no change (2) - Hard drives - up 1 place (3) - Solid state disks - down 1 place (4) - 2.5 inch SSDs - no change (5) - NAS - no change Overall site readership grew 10% and pageviews grew 25% compared to September. For a complete listing of the top 20 storage searches and top 20 storage articles see market research. Editor's comments:- in the first week in November "hard disks" has moved upto the #1 slot for the first time in over a year. In my article How Solid is Hard Disk's Future? I explained why the hard disk market would continue its fast revenue growth despite the loss of design slots due to SSDs. And we've seen that confirmed in recent reports from HDD oems. It would be wrong to say that the hard disk market is striking back. It's not a zero sum game. Round Rock, Texas - November 5, 2007 - Dell has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EqualLogic for approximately $1.4 billion in cash. EqualLogic was the 2nd largest iSCSI company based on shipments according to a May 2006 report by IDC. iSCSI SAN technology represents (one of) the fastest growing parts of the storage business. "Our customers will be dealing with the largest increase in data we have seen in our history over the next few years," said Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell. "Leading the iSCSI revolution will help Dell accelerate IT simplification and virtualization and will drive the Dell value proposition into more areas of the enterprise storage business." ...Dell profile, ...EqualLogic profile Editor's comments:- the price paid by Dell for EqualLogic is more than the whole iSCSI market's revenue in the past year. So the multiple paid for growth potential was staggeringly high. Other comments:- Bill Chambers, president and CEO, LeftHand Networks commented "Today's Dell/EqualLogic announcement clearly validates the market for iSCSI SANs and sets a premium valuation for the market leaders. It also establishes LeftHand as the largest independent iSCSI SAN vendor." Seoul, Korea - November 5, 2007 - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is sampling faster 1.8" and 2.5" 64G SATA SSDs. With a sequential write speed of 100MBps and sequential read speed of 120MBps, the SATA II SSD is aimed at the corporate server market. Samsung's new SSD uses only 1/10th the power consumed by enterprise-class 15,000 RPM hard drives. Web-Feet Research estimates that the flash-based SSD market is expected to show 74% compounded annual growth from 2007 through 2012 to reach $10 billion in 2012. ...Samsung profile, the Fastest SSDs Editor's comments:- the new products will change the market perception of Samsung's SSDs which until this announcement were among the slowest in the industry. SUNNYVALE, Calif - November 5, 2007 - Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. today announced its 3rd quarter hard disk drive shipment results. During the 3rd quarter, Fujitsu shipments of mobile hard disk drives surpassed 8.32M units, an increase of nearly 45% from the 2nd quarter, 2007. Fujitsu's enterprise disk volume grew 20% from Q2 to Q3 with shipments totaling 1.81M units. SAS units represented over 60% of Fujitsu enterprise HDD shipments. ...Fujitsu profile REDMOND, Wash. - November 4, 2007 - Microsoft announced that Windows Home Server, a new solution to help families protect and share their digital media and documents, is generally available today. Windows Home Server is a "stay-at-home" server that delivers the benefits of powerful server technology used by many people at work within a simple, easy-to-use solution for the home. It automatically backs up Windows XP-based and Windows Vista-based home computers each night, provides a central place to organize digital documents and media, and includes a free Windows Live Internet address to access the home server from virtually anywhere and share content with friends and family. It also monitors the health and security status of home computers and can stream media to other devices in the home, such as Xbox 360, allowing people to enjoy digital music, photos and videos on their television. ...Microsoft profile, Storage Software Editor's comments:- on the FAQs page for this Microsoft says that its new platform is "simpler / better" than other NAS and backup products. At launch time the new product is only available as an oem installed product - and not as a separate consumer purchasable product. Microsoft's dismal record on software quality suggests that - unless you enjoy wasting your time with flaky software - or are developing add-ons - the safest thing to do with this new platform is wait about 3 years before letting it enter your own home. LAKE FOREST, Calif - November 1, 2007 - Western Digital Corp. today reported that hard drive revenue grew by 37% over the prior-year comparative period on shipments of 29.4 million units, an increase of 29% in unit volume. The company's unit shipments for the first FY quarter included approximately 5.9 million 2.5" hard drives for mobile applications and approximately 3.7 million 3.5" hard drives for use in digital video recorders. ...Western Digital profile, Squeak! - the Fastest Growing Storage Companies , 2.5" SSD Guide Munich, Germany - November 1, 2007 - Qimonda AG today announcedit has shipped the industry's first 512Mb GDDR5 (Graphics Double Data Rate 5) samples to customers. GDDR5 is anticipated to become the next graphics DRAM standard. It will be available with data rates up to 20GBytes / s per component - more than double the bandwidth of GDDR3 memories today and comes with many power saving features. ...Qimonda profile Editor's comments:- numbers related to chip generations don't always go the way you expect. I'm surprised to see that DDR has gone as far as the number "5". I remember Intel's mainstream processor numbers which went from 8080 (first 8 bit), to 8085 (8 bit, single 5V supply) then 8086 (16 bit) then 186 and 286 (the prefix "80" was included but not voiced much). Then after the 386 and 486 they surprised us all with the Pentium - which was easier to trademark than a number. Maybe future generations of DDR will have add-on words - such as "Fast DDR / Ultra DDR" - or animals - like "DDR dragon" I haven't looked into it - but numbers start to lose their sex appeal in product names. Beijing, PRC - November 1, 2007 -EMC Corp today announced the 2nd phase of its significant investment in the Chinese market. EMC officially opened its new R&D center in Beijing and committed to double its planned investments in China over the next 5 years. The investment of $500 million announced in June 2006 is now expected to double, reaching approximately $1 billion through 2012. ...EMC profile | |||||||||||||||||||||
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