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MONTH ARTICLES
1 Brocade humming at Rhapsody
1 Fiscal year results of ADIC: sales of $364.7 million (+26%) and net loss of $10.8 million
1 Western Digital has purchased a disk drive plant in Thailand owned by Fujitsu
1 60 Freedom 9900s per month for Europe, on banks of Loire river
1 IBM prefers LSI to its own Mylex
1 Company's profile: LSI Logic Storage Systems
1 Fujitsu advanced to second place behind Seagate in enterprise hard disk drives
1 According to Understanding Solutions, the DVD-R media is booming
1 The end of CD/DVD-ROM, according to Toshiba
1 HDDs place in the consumer field, according to IDC
1 Metrum-Datatape has changed its name to Sypris Data Systems
1 Storage Area Network Essentials, the most complee book on SAN
1 Library with over 10,000 DVDs from Swisstorage
1 The first interoperable SAN
1 From NetApp, the first enterprise backup system based on disks, not tapes
1 Europe imposes anti-dumping fines on Taiwan for CD-Rs
1 Quantum has acquired a licence of Overland Data VR2 technology
1 Lots Technology continues to work on optical tape drive
1 Remote storage market to top US$19 billion in 2005, says Analysys
1 Ten years ago: 1991 wasn't a good year for the storage industry either
1 Document: Who bouth whom in 2001?
1 First global storage networks experiments (MAN, WAN, FCIP, iFPC)
1 2001, a year to forget
2 2001 FY results of Vixel: sales of $21.8 million (-34%), net loss of $21.9 million
2 2001 FY results of Veritas Software: sales of $1,492 million (-36%), net loss of $651 million
2 2001 FY results of Ultratech Stepper: sales of $130.7 million (-11%), net loss of $17.8 million
2 2001 FY results of Tricord Systems: sales of $270,000 (-36%), net loss of $23.6 million
2 2001 FY results of StorageNetworks: sales of $123.6 million (+156%), net loss of $225 million
2 2001 FY results of StorageTek: sales of $2,045 million (-1%), net income of $67 million
2 2001 FY results of SST: sales of $294 million (-40%), net loss of $29 million
2 2001 FY results of SanDisk: sales of $366.3 million (-39%), net loss of $298 million
2 2001 FY results of OTG Software: sales of $64.9 million (+24%), net loss of $7.6 million
2 2001 FY results of Ontrack Data: sales of $55.87 million (+5%), net loss of $ 100,000
2 2001 FY results of Nidec: sales of Yen 249.2 billion (+80%), net income of Yen 10 billion
2 2001 FY results of McData: sales of $344.4 million (+38%), net loss of $8.7 million
2 2001 FY results of Maxtor: sales of $3,797 million (+40%), net loss of $646.4 million
2 2001 FY results of M-Systems: sales of $44.7 million (-52%), net loss of $41.8 million
2 2001 FY results of LSI Logic: sales of $1,785 million (-35%), net loss of $992 million
2 2001 FY results of Lexar Media: sales of $73.6 million (-16%), net loss of $47.5 million
2 2001 FY results of Legato Systems: sales of $243 million (+5%), net loss of $81.5 million
2 2001 FY results of Komag: sales of $283 million (-21%), net loss of $296 million
2 2001 FY results of JNI: sales of $75.8 million (-27%), net loss of $13.5 million
2 2001 FY results of Iomega: sales of $834 million (-36%), net loss of $93 million
2 2001 FY results of Interphase: sales of $28.7 million (-48%), net loss of $9.6 million
2 2001 FY results of Inrange Technologies: sales of $261 million (+12%), net loss of $17.7 million
2 2001 FY results of Imation: sales of $1,176.5 million (-5%), net loss of $1.7 million
2 2001 FY results of FalconStor Software: sales of $5.6 million (-36%), net loss of $10.1 million
2 2001 FY results of Exabyte: sales of $158 million (-29%), net loss of $35 million
2 2001 FY results of EMC: sales of $7,091 million (-20%), net loss of $508 million
2 2001 FY results of Dot Hill Systems: sales of $56 million (-54%), net loss of $43 million
2 2001 FY results of Cypress Semiconductors: sales of $819 million (-36%), net loss of $407.4 million
2 2001 FY results of Caminosoft: sales of $370,000 (+0%), net loss of $2.7 million
2 RBC report: Protecting data through SAN is a priority of U.S. companies
2 Datacomm Research: Wireless will extend storage networks to new markets
2 Aberdeen Group: Storage management will grow to $21 billion in 2005
2 IDC: Disk storage system market declines an astounding 18.3% in 2001
2 Startup's profile: Alacritech
2 Distrilogie will also resell servers
2 IBM SSG has a new storage softare division
2 Quantum Technology Ventures, an investor in storage networking
2 Juan Rodriguez replaces Bill Marriner as interim CEO at Exabyte
2 Eastman Kodak has discontinued its production of CD-Rs and CD-RWs
2 After Europe, South Korea is now taxing Taiwanese CD-Rs 51.72%
2 The Vendotto Microserver, a small all-in-one low-cost NAS from TEAC
2 New 2.5-inch hard disk drive from Toshiba: 20GB per platter, up to 40GB, the first 9mm-high unit rotating at 5,400rpm
2 New 1.8-inch hard disk drive from Toshiba: 10GB per platter, up to 20GB, 4,200rpm
2 "An exclusive interview with George Texeira, president & CEO of Datacore Software:"" We have around 500 customers at a $75,000 average price per license"""
3 Fiscal year results of CNT: sales of $187.0 million (+6%), net loss of $1.3 million
3 Fiscal year results of Veeco Instruments: sales of $449.3 million (-19%), net income of $10.3 million
3 Fiscal year results of Tandberg Data: sales of $106.3 million (-7%), net loss of $11.1 million
3 Fiscal year results of SmartDisk: sales of $70.2 million (-27%), net loss of $74.6 million
3 Fiscal year results of Rimage: sales of $38.9 million (-22%), net income of $4.8 million
3 Fiscal year results of Intevac: sales of $51.5 million (+43%), net loss of $16.8 million
3 Fiscal year results of Datalink: sales of $124.8 million (-9%), net loss of $.5 million
3 Fiscal year results of Bell Microproducts: sales of $2,007.1 billion (+11%) and net loss of $4.7 million
3 Optware, a Japanese startup with the idea of a 1TB optical disc based on holography
3 McData tries to switch off Brocade
3 Onaro, a startup in storage networking software
3 Storage over IP startup NetConvergence has closed its doors
3 Eurologic, from Ireland, and Hermes Softlab Group, from Slovenia, have created a new storage software venture, StorScape
3 JMR has completed the acquisition of Trimm Technologies
3 Veritas bought the Kernel Group
3 XDrive has acquired FreeDrive
3 LSI Design & Integration scoops up one-inch HDD maker Halo Data Devices
3 Legato to buy OTG Software
3 Recordable DVD Council report: 754% growth in recordable DVD drive sales for 2002, but prices are going down
3 IRMA report: Wordwide CD-R demand will grow 13% in 2002
3 IDC report: Solid but unspectacular growth of the storage services market through 2005
3 Dataquest/Gartner report: Worldwide storage services market will reach $41 billion by 2005
3 Akara report: Business continuance priorities will move mission critical data outside the building
3 IDC report: 2001, a year of survival for the hard disk drive market
3 iSuppli report: 28.3% decline for the flash market
3 Veteran Makmann hops from nStor to Network Storage Solutions
3 A portable NAS from Quantum for $549
3 Archos offers MP3 recorder with camera module
3 New 2.5-inch HDD from IBM: 20GB per platter, up to 40GB, 9.5mm high, 5,400rpm
3 Editor's note: Way to go, Joe! (usage of September 11 as a marketing opportunity)
3 New DVD generation defined, the rewritable Blue-ray Disc, up to 27GB
4 Aberdeen Group report: Worldwide storage spending of $56 billion in 2001 and $102 billion in 2005
4 Gartner/Dataquest report: EMC sustained its lead in front of Veritas in the storage software market
4 Aberdeen Group report: Storage managemnt software spending to reach $21.2 billion by 2005
4 TrendFOCUS report: HDD industry hit bottom in 2001
4 ExcelStor to manufacture IBM desktop disk drives
4 Cambex has definitively acquired Super PC Memory
4 Lefthand Networks has bought Norh Fork Networks
4 Tandberg in susbsystems by acquiring Land-5
4 Integrix launches a new company, IQstor Networks
4 New European HQ for Castlewood with the help of Mindflight
4 Benchmark has sales of $70 million in 2001
4 Seagate has created Design Service Centers in Shakopee, MN, Longmont, CO, and in Singapore
4 Small fourth quarter looms for Quantum
4 Pioneer has shipped 800,000 of its DVD-R/-RW DVR-A03 drives
4 Sanyo has developed blue-violet semiconductor 405nm laser diode
4 Document: The 2001 data storage worldwide industry ranking: (EMC maintains its number one position ahead of Seagate
4 Tape drive maker Quantum in tapeless backup with the new DX30
4 NetApp NearStore R100: a success story?
4 InPhase promises shipments of an holographic drive for 2004
4 Seagate's Hornet (20/1), the last Travan drive
4 Towards a new standard, iVDR for removable 2.5-inch hard disk drives
4 At CeBIT, USB tiny flash drives going to 2GB
4 At CeBIT, 2GB switches a gogo (Inrange, McData, QLogic)
4 At CeBIT, USB 2.0 everywhere but at Intel
4 At CeBIT, NAS becoming a commodity
4 Four European CD-R manufacturers discovered at CeBIT: Advanced Digital Media, Euro Digital Disc, Sky Media and Creation Optical
4 Vivastar makes a fool of itself with a DVD-R/RAM OEMed from Panasonic
4 The first erasable optical disc drives with Mount Rainier specs
4 First DVD-R/-RW/-RAM Multi drives from Hitachi-LG and Panasonic
4 Launch of DVD+R: did we need this?
4 The first 60GB per platter hard disk drive, the SpinPoint V60, from Samsung, and a new 7,200rpm 4GB per disk unit
4 Quantum announces the SDLT 320 (160/12), with 45% more capacity and tranfer rate than the SDLT 220
4 CeBIT 2002: Show sags, technology too
5 Fiscal year financial results of Quantum: sales of 1,087.8 million (-23%), net income of $45.8 million
5 IDC report: The total worldwide storage market in 2001 estimated at $58 billion
5 In-Stat/MDR report: USB remains king of PC and peripheral interfaces
5 EMC quietly sells Groupe MCI to 3S Informatique
5 Peabody Capital Partners to acquire Globus Storage Technologies
5 Ontrack Data finally finds a buyer: Kroll
5 Compaq's Howard Elias heads storage at HP organization
5 "An exclusive interview with Matt Massengill, chairman and CEO of Western Digital:"" It wouldn't surprise me if IBM/Hitachi will exit the desktop business"""
5 A single storage solutions group for Quantum, including tape automation products and NAS solutions
5 IceCube arhitecture: IBM's response to EMC Centera and NetApp Nearstore
5 New credo for EMC with Centera: content addressed storage
5 Exabyte' roadmap privileges VXA technology
5 The first wireless disk drive from Toshiba
5 Toshiba, first in 30GB per disk 2.5-inch HDD
5 HDD firsts from IBM
5 IBM, now driving diskless, transfers its HDD activity to a 70/30% venture led by Hitachi
6 Fiscal year results of QLogic: sales of $344.2 million (-4%), net income of $70.7 million
6 Fiscal year results of NetApp: sales of $798.4 million (-21%), net income of $3.0 million
6 Fiscal year results of Gadzoox Networks: sales of $21.8 million (-25%), net loss of $46.6 million
6 Fiscal year results of Drexler Technology: sales of $20.7 million (-17%), net income of $5.2 million
6 Fiscal year results of Daisytek International: sales of $1,185.0 million (+17%), net income of $10.9 million
6 Fiscal year results of Adaptec: sales of $418.7 million (-28%), net loss of $196.2 million
6 In-Stat/MDR report: Hard disk drives answer call for greater capacity in consumer electronics products
6 Freeman Reports: Tape library market snubs economic slump, LTO steals spotlight
6 Peripheral Concepts report: NAS growth rate exceeds SAN
6 Imation and Quantum settle on DLT cartridges
6 MKE lays off 1,600 workers in Singapore
6 Computer Support Italy has acquired the Mitsui's writable optical disc factory in Ensisheim, France
6 Maxoptix has decided to change the name of its subsidiary BreeceHill Technologies to PeAk Storage Solutions
6 What the new storage Hewlett-Packard is keeping or dropping after the merger with Compaq
6 Axsys Technologies exits storage business, selling all stock in its Teletrac subsidiary to Storage Test Solutions
6 Iomega will probably sell its only manufacturing plant in Penang, Malaysia, to Venture Manufacturing
6 DRS Technologies sold its tape head manufacturing activity in an MBO to Ahead Magnetics, a company operating as AheadTek
6 Computer Access purchases Verisys
6 Intersil has completed the acquisition of Elantec Semiconductor
6 McData has sold its HBA business to TidalWire
6 Fujitsu Softek acquires the SAN management software group of Vixel
6 ADIC in tape virtualization with V-Stor
6 Tom Ward, new Exabyte's CEO and president
6 Brocade and Cisco split, switch partners
6 Overland into storage software with the help of Astrum Software and Prisa Networks
6 Iomega gets back to NAS with low cost units coming from FIA
6 IBM demos 1TB tape technology in 3590-type cartridge
6 Iomega ceased production of Jaz removable HDDs at the end of 2001
6 Ritek's subsidiary MicroStor, maker on one-inch HDD, has closed its doors
6 Hitachi's new DK23EB 2.5-inch hard disk drive: 40GB with 20GB per platter, 9.5mm high, 5,400rpm
6 Hitachi's new DK23EA 2.5-inch hard disk drive: 30GB per platter, up to 60GB, 9.5mm high, 4,200rpm
6 Fujitsu's MAS enterprise drive: 18GB per platter, up to 73GB, 15,000rpm
6 Fujitsu's MAP enterprise drive: 36GB per platter, up to 147GB, 10,025rpm
6 Seagate's Cheetah 15K.3 enterprise drive: 18.4GB per disk, up to 73.4GB, 15,000rpm
6 Seagate's Cheetah 10K.6 enterprise drive: 36.9GB per disk, up to 146.8GB, 10,000rpm
6 European disk systems market declines 14% in 2001, Compaq number one
7 Fiscal year results of Plasmon Plc: sales of $94.3 million (-11%), loss of $8.8 million
7 Fiscal year results of MTI Technology: sales of $117.9 million (-27%), loss of $59.6 million
7 Fiscal year results of BakBone Software: sales of $9.9 million (+98%), loss of $18.8 million
7 Fiscal year results of ADE: sales of $81.8 million (-18%), loss of $23.1 million
7 Hurwitz Group report: SRM will be a $1.47 billion industry by 2005
7 Peripheral Research report: 2001 was a slow year for data storage test, metrology and process companies
7 ZapThink report: Market for XML data storage technologies to increase to $4 billion by 2005
7 Philips' figures on the European rewritable CD/DVD drive market
7 Santa Clara Consulting Group report: CD-R/RW drives grew 41% in 2002, media increase 51%
7 TheInfoPro report: How storage vendors are regarded by investors and users
7 IDC report: SRM software market surpasses 2001 estimates as demand remains strong
7 Pionner Consulting report: total worldwide SAN equipment market to reach $84 billion in 2007
7 Moser Baer expands in Europe with a new CD-R and DVD-R plant in Germany
7 The next IBM's Shark: the Lightning 9900V from Hitachi?
7 714 registered participants at Cannes' SNW Europe
7 StorAlliance, a new French company to help U.S. storage startups to sell their products in Europe
7 Tandberg Data US renamed InoStor
7 Solectron has acquired Magnetic Data Technologies
7 Hitachi has launched Hitachi Storage Software, following its acquisition of Comstock Systems
7 The Hitachi/IBM hard disk drive alliance slowly moves forward
7 Will there be space in 2003 for Plasmon's UDO, a 30GB 5.25-inch writable optical disk drive?
7 50% more capacity for IBM 3590H tape drive (60/14)
7 New 80/8 Benchmark tape drive VS160 uses a non-Quantum DLT-type cartridge
7 Philips demos Blu-ray technology on a 1GB 3cm optical disc
7 The fist 1U tape automation product, from Sony (using 8mm AIT drive)
7 LSI offers a disk-to-disk backup solution with removable drives
7 IBM's iBoot, first attempt at iSCSI hard disk drive
7 New 3.5-inch HDD from Maxtor, the Atlas 10K IV: 36 to 146GB, 10,000rpm
7 200GB, a world record for any king of hard disk drives, from Western Digital, using 66.6GB per platter and 3 disks (ATA, 7,200rpm)
7 Seagate with a new 60GB per disk HDD, up to 120GB, with Serial ATA interface
7 A new consumer 3.5-inch HDD, 20GB, one head, 19.5mm high, from Seagate
7 "An exclusive interview with Steve Duplessie, Enterprise Storage Group:"" [The best CEO] would be Greg Reyes of Brocade. The worst? I've got to be the only person on the planet that calls Cisco's John
8 Fiscal year results of Seagate: sales of $6,087 million (-5%), net income of $153 million
8 Stor2b, a software distributor, in judicial liquidation
8 Tandberg Data closed its UK office
8 DinoStor, a new division of Global Automation
8 Qualstar acquired power supply maker N2Power
8 Front Porch Digital to acquire DIVarchive software and solutions from ManagedStorage International
8 CNT has acquired UK-based BI-Tech Solutions
8 Veeco Instruments will buy competitor FEI
8 IBM's Mylex for LSI
8 EMC lands big fish as CTO: Mark Lewis
8 New ADR2.60 (30/2.5) and ADR2.120 (60/4) tape drives from OnStream
8 New 2.5-inch MHS series HDD from Fujitsu: 30GB per platter, up to 60GB
8 An old startup: Neartek
8 The last great IPO: StorageNetworks: however...
8 Two spectacular flops: Sanrise and Cereva Networks
8 Document: What on earth are all 199 of these storage startups doing?
9 Fiscal year results of Western Digital: sales of $2,151.2 million (+10%), net income of $65.4 million
9 Fiscal year results of Qualstar: sales of $37.6 million (-27%), net income of $2.8 million
9 Fiscal year results of Overland Storage: sales of $163.4 million (+5%), net income of $4.5 million
9 Fiscal year results of Auspex Systems: sales of $28.9 million (-44%), net loss of $50.0 million
9 A Beatles song on storage
9 New Remote Direct Memory Access Consortium to provide RDMA over TCP/IP
9 QPS under Chapter XI
9 Constellation 3D has probably stopped its operations
9 Swiss CD-R maker Vivastar disappears
9 CacheVision, the subsidiary of Seagate and Thomson Multimedia, disappears in February 2002
9 Imation invests a few bucks in O-MaSS
9 Maxtor detach MaxAttach, ceasing its NAS business
9 Microsoft star Rick Beluzzo now CEO of Quantum, replacing Mike Brown
9 IDC report: Storage software market will double to reach $13.6 billion by 2006
9 Fujitsu to replace defective desktop hard disk drives
9 France to tax HDDs in TV and audio consumer devices
9 New Atlas 15K from Maxtor: 15,000rpm, Ultra320, up to 73.4GB
9 New line of ATA HDDs from Maxtor based on 80GB per disk: Fireball 3, DiamondMax Plus 8 and 9, DiamondMax 16, and MaXLine II up to a WW record of 320GB
9 The MK6022GX from Toshiba, a 2.5-inch HDD up to 60GB with 30GB platters, 5,400rpm, and 9.5mm high
9 Can Iomega's new 750MB Zip position itself opposite C-RWs?
9 With the acquisition of Benchmark, Quantum regains monopoly over DLT
9 "An exclusive interview with ReiJane Huai, COB, president and CEO of FalconStor:"" Virtualization now has a negative perception. Our aim is to provide high availability"""
10 DataPlay closed its doors
10 PowerHouse Studios has signed a letter of intent to assume the control of Agaté Technologies
10 Agilent acquires the remaining interest in RedSwitch
10 Global Information Distribution acquires the North American operations of Grau Data Storage
10 Iomega sells its Penang, Malaysia plant to Venture Corp. Ltd. for $8 million
10 EMC acquires Prisa Networks and some assets of Cereva and Sanrise
10 Sun Microsystems acquires Pirus Networks
10 Cisco Systems acquired Andiamo Systems
10 IBM acquires Trelllisoft
10 No more HDD assembly plant in Europe
10 Quantum, LSI and MTI expand in Ireland
10 New Deskstar 180GXP from IBM at 60GB per disk: 30.7 to 185.2GB, 7,200rpm
10 Maxtor's push-button backup
10 From 199 to 250 storage startups and counting
10 Media Mastr enters in the manufacturing of reel-to-reel tapes
10 IBM withdraws its 3570 Magstar MP tape subsystems
10 StorageTek T9940B hits records 200/30
10 Harris Interactive/Imation report: Attitudes and behavior towards what Americans store on CDs and floppies vary with age and gender
10 Santa Clara Consulting Group report: Modest financial growth for DVD recorders in 2Q2002
10 Santa Clara Consulting Group report: CD-R/RW disc and writer market decline in 2Q002
10 Freeman Reports report: Compact tape market recovery, after two year decline
10 Access Markets International Partners report: Accelerated growth for the small and medium business data storage market
10 iSuppli report: Cold hard disk drive industry expected to warm up in 2003
10 IDC report: Worldwide disk storage systems climb only 1% in 2CQ2002
10 Peripheral Concepts report: Slow revenue in storage networking in spite of strong demand for storage capacity
10 Special market report issue: No recovery in 2002. And 2003?
11 Hutchinson Technology FY financial results: sales of $390.7 million (-3%) and net income of $15.0 million
11 Ciprico FY financial results: sales of $31.4 million (-5%) and net loss of $6.5 million
11 Storage distrib TidalWire bought by Network Engines
11 Veritas buys SRM software from NTP Sofware and sells desktop and mobile software division to Sonic Solutions
11 Adaptec acquires Tricord remains
11 Showa Denko to buy disk business of competitor MCC
11 Quantum spins off Snap NAS division
11 Put up or shut up, said DataCore to EMC
11 New ATG has ceased all production of 12-inch WORM disk and drives
11 Storage startups suffer, even expire like Siros and Omegaband
11 Evans Research report: 51% of Canadian business have suffered data loss
11 Qualstar/Carrey report: Tape is key on future storage networking
11 First HDD laboratory, from IBM in San Jose, turns 50 years
11 CD turns 20 years
11 D2D backup: everyone is getting in on the act
11 $1 million to OEM Microsoft Windows Powered NAS with SAK
11 Sudden French passion for NAS
11 Sony's S-AIT (500/30) postponed to February 2003
11 Record 40GB per disk on new IBM Travelstar 80GN 2.5-inch hard disk drives, up to 80GB, and 7,200rpm to come
11 The USB 2.0 revolution
11 Flash keys toll the floppy dell
12 Fiscal year results of Crossroads Systems: sales of $34.0 million (-10%), net loss of $25.5 million
12 Fiscal year results of Brocade Communications: sales of $562.4 million (+10%), net income of $59.7 million
12 Fiscal year results of Procom Technology: sales of $25.0 million (-40%), net loss of $24.4 million
12 AG Edwards report: Hitachi Data Systems gaining on EMC
12 Web-Feet Research report: Flash memory market to rebound slightly in 2002
12 Peripheral Research report: Rigid disk drive component demand hit a five-year low
12 IDC report: Worldwide disk storage systems revenues decline 3% in 3Q2002, HP number one in front of IBM and EMC.
12 Stockage 2002 vs. Storage Expo 2002
12 Iomega in data recovery services
12 Emtec restructuring
12 60/80GB per disk HDD boosts Maxtor, which still lays off
12 Synology, Taiwan's NAS software leader
12 Asaca into disk-to-disk backup
12 Data Média/Dexxon controls the Noblet Group and its Japel subsidiary
12 After Pirus Networks for $160 million, Sun Microsystems acquires Terraspring for 35 million
12 Iomega in flash keys
12 A highly practical RAID calculator from Procom
12 Post-Benchmark acquisition, new roadmap for Quantum DLT/SDLT
12 First LTO-2 drive (200/30) from Hewlett-Packard
12 The first 80GB per disk HDDs from Seagate, 5,400 and 7,200rpm, up to 160GB
12 "An exclusive interview with Howard Elias, VP & GM of HP's Network Storage Solutions:"" We intend to be profitable in 2003"""
12 Finis Conner: one last card up his sleeve, StorCard