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MONTH ARTICLES 1 Cover story: New intelligent switches froml Brocade and Cisco will be at the heart of storage networks 1 Cover story: Horoscope 2003 1 Ancient history: a jukebox of 128 magnetic ridid disks 1 Is there a ceiling for hard disk drive? 1 HGST from one-inch to highest-end enterprise drives 1 From HGST, a 1.8-inch HDD, the Travelstar Compact C4K40, up to 4OGB with 20GB per platter 1 From HGST, the Travelstar A4K20, a 20GB 2.5-inch HDD for automotive applications 1 HGST prepares a 4GB one-inch Microdrive for the end of 2003 1 From HGST, a 3.5-inch 15,000rpm HDD up to 73.9GB 1 The arrival of FireWire 800 1 First PC with S-ATA from MicronPC 1 All rewritable DVD standards in one box 1 TEAC launches its first DVD burner 1 Mike Cannon leaves Maxtor, replaced by Paul Tufano 1 Two big hardware projects at Iomega: a 2GB 1.8-inch FDD and a 35GB 2.5-inch removable HDD 1 From 250 to 267 storage start-ups 1 Who bought whom in 2002 1 IDC report: worldwide external disk storage fall 24% in 2002 1 Stratecast Partners report: the storage leaders 1 Fujiwara-Rothchild report: Writable DVD drive for PCs moves toward multi-format support 1 Seagate IPO: all for the financiers, little for the company 1 EMC transfers some software activity to Diligent 1 Philips moves its optical business to Taiwan 1 With the acquisition of Precise Software and Jareva Technologies, Veritas moves beyond storage 1 Agere Technologies has defintively acquired RedSwitch 1 ADIC fiscal year results: sales of $337.6 million (-7%) and net income of $1.5 millon 2 Cover story: Light bounce during the 4CQ2002 for the storage industry 2 "Cover story: An exclusive interview with Rick Beluzzo, Quantum's CEO:"" Our strategy is to be a leader in data protection""" 2 RioSpring, a new one-inch manufacturer using Chinese facility from GS Microdrive 2 Samsung in S-ATA HDDs from 40GB to 160GB 2 Western Digital anounces Raptor, the first in 3.5-inch S-ATA HDDs at 10,000rpm (36GB capacity) 2 Western Digital began shipping 7,200rpm HDDs with 80GB per platter (120 to 250GB) 2 IBM LTO-2 drives at 200/35 and listed at $6,200 2 IDC report: only 24% of European users' storage budgets to increase in 2003 2 Global Touch report: enterprise storage and switches market better in U.S. than in Europe 2 Quantum acquired startup SANlight for $8.5 milliion 2 Some M4 Data assets owned by Quantum sold to Pinetree Peripherals for $350,000 2 MKE to produce Toshiba's hard disk drives 2 Several executives of Veritas have been sued by at least seven U.S. law firms 2 QPS revival via newly-created DPS 2 CA has acquired all the assets of Netreon 2 Philips and Benq have established a 51%/49% joint-venture to produce DVD+RW drives, Philips Benq Digital Storage 2 Oak Technology has transfered its optical storage business to Sunplus Technology 2 ManagedStorage International acquired for $6 million all the assets related to Datavault storage services business of SSP Sanrise 2 Veeco will ultimately not acquire competitor FEI 2 Natvan acquired Certus Data 2 Two new start-ups: Datacentertechnologies and DeepFile 2 Veritas will ne longer sell its ServPoint NAS ans SAN software 2 Emtec Magnetics under Chapter XI 2 Tandberg will subcontact its SLR drives to Kitron, also in Norway 2 Yamaha will withdraw from the CD-R/RW drive business 2 DPHI Acquisitions could be interested in buying bankrupt DataPlay's assets 2 Distorded figures: Seagate's response 2 Fiscal year results of Archos: sales of $60.1 million (+61%) 2 Fiscal year results of Dot Hill: sales of $46.9 million (-17%), net loss of $34.3 million 2 Fiscal year results of EMC: sales of $5,438.4 million (-23%), net loss of $118.7 million 2 Fiscal year results of FalconStor: sales of $10.6 million +89%), net loss of $11.5 million 2 Fiscal year results of Imation: sales of $1,066.7 million (-5%), net income of $75.1 million 2 Fiscal year results of Inrange: sales of $223.6 million (-14%), net loss of $14.4 million 2 Fiscal year results of Iomega: sales of $614.4 million (-26%), net income of $34.7 million 2 Fiscal year results of JNI: sales of $38.4 million (-49%), net loss of $34.6 million 2 Fiscal year results of Komag: sales of $286.7 million (+2%), net loss of $270.5 million 2 Fiscal year results of Legato Systems: sales of $261.9 million (+8%), net loss of $228.8 million 2 Fiscal year results of LSI Logic: sales of $1,816.9 million (+2%), net loss of $292.4 million 2 Fiscal year results of M-Systems: sales of $64.8 million (+45%), net loss of $5.5 million 2 Fiscal year results of McData: sales of $328.3 million (-5%), net loss of $10.0 million 2 Fiscal year results of Maxtor: sales of $3,779.5 million (+0%), net loss of $334.1 million 2 Fiscal year results of SanDisk: sales of $541.3 million (+48%), net income of $36.2 million 2 Fiscal year results of StorageTek: sales of $2,039.6 million (-0%), net income of $110.0 million 2 Fiscal year results of StorageNetworks: sales of $94.9 million (-23%), net loss of $76.6 million 2 Fiscal year results of Tandberg Data: sales of $112.1 million (-18%), net loss of $25.3 million 2 Fiscal year results of Veritas Software: sales of $1,505.6 million (+1%), net income of $57.4 million 2 Fiscal year results of Vixel: sales of $20.6 million (-6%), net loss of $9.7 million 3 "Cover story: An exclusive interview with John Kelley, president & CEO of McData:"" I had more trouble with [Brocade's] marketing spin and hype than we have had with their product""" 3 Microsoft joins DVD+RW Alliance: big deal or not? 3 HyperSCSI, a rival for iSCSI? 3 META Group: storage constitutes 12-15% of total IT budgets 3 META Group: NAS market to consolidate through 2006/2007 3 Freeman Reports: Super tape drive shipments double in 2002, SDLT gains share 3 Santa Clara Consulting Group: CD-R/RW is the leading removable storage technology 3 IDC: steady growth of Asia/Pacific disk storage systems in 3Q2002 3 Patrol Storage Manager: BMC throws in towel 3 Global Data Media, a joint venture between Imation and Moser Baer 3 Constellation 3D filed for Chapter XI 3 Mount10 ended its FY2002 with sales of Euro 22.6 milion (-35%) 3 HDS ends fiscal year with $2.1 billion revenue 3 Pierre Fournier has founded PikaOne 3 Avcom has ceased all its operations 3 Start-up Rasilient Systems 3 Cobuilder EMEA just launched 3 IBM has taken a minority participation in Siliquent Technologies 3 Imago has sold Storage Expo to Reed Exhibitions 3 Ducument: The 2002 data storage worldwide industry ranking (78 public companies listed), Seagate number one in front of EMC 3 2002 revenues of BenQ: $2,687 million (+58%) 3 2002 revenues of Ritek: $571.5 million (-15%) 3 2002 revenues of CMC Magnetics: $539.9 million (-1%) 3 FY results of Bell Microproducts: sales of $2,105 million (+5%), net loss of $2.9 million 3 FY results of Cypress: sales of $774.7 million (-5%), net loss of $249.1 million 3 FY results of Veeco Instruments: sales of $298.9 million (-33%), net loss of $123.7 million 3 FY results of SST: sales of $274.7 million (-7%), net loss of $15.1 million 3 FY results of Moser Baer: sales of $154.2 million (+92%), net income of $45.2 million 3 FY results of Exabyte: sales of $133.2 million (-16%), net loss of $29.1 million 3 FY results of Magnecomp: sales of $124.3 million (+7%), net income of $11.5 million 3 FY results of Datalink: sales of $86.5 million (-31%), net loss of $5.4 million 3 FY results of Rimage: sales of $46.6 million (+20%), net income of $6.5 million 3 FY results of Interphase: sales of $25.1 million (-13%), net loss of $5.9 million 3 Dell'Oro Group report: SAN switch worldwide sales grow 15% in 2002 3 Maxtor to add China plant 4 Cover story: At CeBIT 2003, S-ATA and USB 2.0 serial killer interfaces 4 -10% or -18% exhibitors at CeBIT 2003? Our count: -19% 4 Record number of storage exhibitors at CeBIT 2003 4 Virtualization in a blade for directors at CeBIT 2003 4 At CeBIT 2003, plethora of S-ATA devices already, most hail from Taiwan 4 Switches penetrate more and more into storage products at CeBIT 2003 4 DDS Generation 5 arrives at CeBIT 2003 4 New autoloaders, libraries and jukeboxes at CeBIT 2003 4 Flash devices at one gigabyte and more at CeBIT 2003 4 The first true multi-standard DVD recordable drive from LG Electronics at CeBIT 2003 4 HD-Burn from Sanyo: 1.4GB on a single CD-R/RW disc 4 Wild and wacky market for optical recordable discs at CeBIT 2003 4 New makers of recordable optical discs at CeBIT 2003 4 Sony's V-Disk at 23.3GB on 5.25-inch phase-change disk at CeBIT 2003 4 New one-inch 1.5GB HDD from Cornice 4 New one-inch 2.4GB HDD from RioSpring 4 New 2.5-inch MHT20XXX HDD at 40GB per disk, up to 80GB, from Fujitsu 4 Tandberg postpones launch of its SLR140 (70/5) 4 Megan Media plans to produce 7.5 million CD/DVD-Rs per month 4 3Ware from iSCSI to switched RAID 4 What's behind InoStor RAIDn 4 EMC finally in D2D backup race with ATA Clariion 4 IDC report: worldwide disk storage systems grew 12% sequentially in 4Q2002 4 SNIA Europe report: 29% of European storage users consider adopting virtualization 4 In-Stat/MDR report: Consumer electronic manufacturers shifting gears to boost PVR sales 4 Eurologic's RAID activity now in Adaptec's orbit 4 Tech Data expands in France with Almatec-Gigatrend 4 Broadcom acquired the assets of bankrupt Gadzoox Networks 4 Aprilis acquired 16 holographic patents owned by Holoplex Technologies 4 Solunet Storage reached agreement to combine with Storage Area Networks 4 O'Dixion in receivership 4 Exabyte delisted from Nasdaq 4 Start-up iStor Networks 4 TrueSAN Networks has ceased all activities 4 InfinitySwitch and Land15 are merging 4 Showa Denko will expand its hard disk media production in Singapore 4 SNIA Europe and FCIA Europe finally merged 5 Cover story: Love burns bright between EMC and Microsoft, but for how long? 5 Cover story: StorageTek wants royalties for Quantum's SDLT technology, but does it deserve them? 5 First hard disk drive that plugs into Ethernet, from XiMeta Technology 5 Start-up Exavio in brief 5 Start-up FibreStream in brief 5 Start-up RenewData in brief 5 Zambeel has closed its doors 5 Gartner report: worldwide storage management software market declines for the first time in 2002 5 Japan Recording-Media Industries Association report: in 2003, the worldwide production of recordable CDs and DVDs will increase 18% to 8 billion discs 5 CNT acquires Inrange for $190 million 5 EMC's lucky 13th acquisition: Astrum Software 5 InTechnology expands in Europe, acquiring Allasso 5 Seagate's tape drive business becomes Certance: only a name change? 5 Auspex, first into NAS, won't be last out 5 The first ever 1GB tape drive was an 8mm Exabyte unit 5 Fiscal year results of Quantum: sales of $870.8 million (-15%), net loss of $263.0 million 5 Fiscal year results of QLogic: sales of $440.8 million (+28%), net income of $103.5 million 6 Cover story: Hitachi, a shy and retiring streamroller 6 HDS growing quietly 6 No surprise with new Hitachi GST strategy 6 Beginning of the end for 3.5-inch form factor? 6 DataBase Bank's ProBackup solution to protect hard disk drives from fire 6 New Fujitsu MHT 20xxAH 2.5-inch HDDs at 40GB per disk, 5,400rpm, up to 80GB 6 The first 7,200rpm 2.5-inch HDD from Hitachi GST, the 7K60 at 30GB, 10ms accesss time, $300, using femto sliders 6 From Hitachi GST, the 4K80, a 2.5-inch HDD with 40GB per platter, up to 80GB, 4,200rpm 6 The 5K80 from Hitachi GST, a 2.5-inch HDD with 40GB per platter, up to 80GB, 5,400rpm 6 TrendFocus report: 2002 worldwide hard disk drive market up 9% in units, down 6% in revenue 6 Peripheral Concepts report: secondary disk playing an increasing role in backup 6 Gartner report: third consecutive year of decline for worlwide tape drive market 6 Freeman Reports: for tape libraries, LTO surpass DLT/SDLT for the first time in 2002 6 Gartner report: worldwide SAN components hardware market up only 3% in 2002, Brocade numer one 6 Gartner report: SAN spending lower in 2003 compared to 2002 6 SNIA-Europe report: storage requirements double in 2002 6 ITCentrix report: SAN and NAS reduce storage management costs by $6.4 billion 6 Dell'Oro Group report: SAN host bus adapters sales grow 8% from 1Q2002 to 1Q2003 6 Hewlett-Packard merges server and storage business 6 U.S. unit of DaisyTek files Chapter XI, Quantum among victims 6 Vicom Systems filed for Chapter XI bankruptcy protection 6 The assets of USDesign and Filelink acquired by Objective Data Storage 6 Silicon Image has acquired TransWarp Networks 6 Paceline Systems' assets sold to Motorola Computer Group 6 IQ Biometrix signed a letter of intent for the acquisition of Network Storage Solutions 6 Iomega beats AMM in court 6 MCE to distribute Adaptec and LSI/Mylex 6 Moser-Baer will also pay EC duties for CD-R 6 Start-up Vhayu Technologies 6 Start-up Yosemite Technologies 6 Start-up Copan Systems 6 SmartDisk delisted from NASDAQ 6 Financial results of Adaptec: sales of $408.1 million (-3%), loss of $14.8 million 6 Financial results of NetApp: sales of $892.1 million (+12%), net income of $76.5 million 7 "Interview of Mark Lewis, VP of open software solutions, EMC: ""Many users are tired of the complexity of the Veritas solution""" 7 Seagate re-entering into the 2.5-inch HDD market with a 40GB per disk drive 7 Moree French duties, this time on diskettes! 7 Thomson Multimedia also claims for royalties on recordable DVDs 7 Lot of changes at Bridgeworks, now in FC, tomorrow in iSCSI 7 IDC report: WW disk storage systems shows buoyancy in 1Q2003, driven by open SANs 7 IDC report: Asia/Pacific disk storage systems market slows in 1Q2003 7 Gartner report: worldwide storage management software market to return positive growth in 2003 7 Gartner report: unmanaged storage has hidden costs that can be avoided with storage management 7 Gartner report: worldwide removable flash storage market grew 73% in 2002 7 Japan Recording-Media Industries Association report: flash memory card demand surging 7 SNW Eurostorage could migrate to Germany next year 7 How BakBone Software managed to take on Veritas, CA, Legato and Co. 7 Norwegian Ibas sees itself as Nobel laureate of data recovery 7 Deadhead: Read-Rite goes under 7 Tandberg splits in two: Tandberg Data and Tandberg Technology 7 Nest under judicial liquidation 7 Adaptec acquires ICP Vortex from Intel 7 Mitsui stops CD-R and DVD-R manufactuing 7 Auspex assets sold to NetApp and GlassHouse Technologies 7 Certance announced DDS Gen 5 tape drive 8 "Interveiw of Dan Warmenhoven, CEO of NetApp:"" We're going to be a big partner of Microsoft""" 8 EMC+Legato=hardware+software 8 EMC picks up 50 customers for BMC's Patrol Software 8 Plasmon's UDO ready for September 2003 8 Pionner in DVD-RW and DVD+RW 8 New 2.5-inch with 40GB per disk, 4,200rpm, up to 80GB, from Toshiba 8 New 3.5-inch desktop Deskstar 7K250 from Hitachi GST: 80GB per disk, up to 250GB, 7,200rpm, with ATA or SATA interfaces 8 A watch with USB flash memory integrated from Xonix 8 i-stockage, a new magazine in French 8 Seagate invests in hard disk drive components in Singapore and Northern Ireland 8 Quantum signed an exclusive agreement with Advanced MicroSensors for DLT/SDLT tape heads 8 Dexxon-Data Media acquired Digital Storage 8 With Okapi, Overland invests seriously in diversification 8 Imation gets its hands on parts of Emtec Magnetics 8 OnStream dies another day, this time for good 8 DISC suspends U.S. operations 8 Alditech in bankruptcy 8 Intradot Labs, a new French start-up in backup and recoveryy software 8 Scale Eight has closed its doors 8 Fiscal year results of MTI Technology: sales of $82.4 million (-30%), loss of $11.2 million 8 Fiscal year results of Plasmon: sales of $99.2 million (-2%), loss of $5.6 million 8 Fiscal year results of Seagate Technology: sales of $6,486 million (+7%), net income of $641 million 9 "Interview of Eric Kelly, president & CEO of Snap Appliance:"" You don't want to drive a car without the engine""" 9 CreekPath Systems with top-notch SRM solution 9 IBM with 3592 and StorageTek with T9840C boost mainframes tape drives 9 New one-inch 2GB and 4GB ($499) Microdrives from Hitachi GST 9 New 3.5-inch consumer HDDs from Seagate with 40GB to 160GB capacities 9 New Western Digital's 3.5-inch 10,000rmp SATA drive at 74GB 9 Quantum DX100 will use switched array 9 New McData's Sphereon 4300 switch at $600 per port 9 Elias, Sorenson, and Archibald depart HP 9 IDC report: Worldwide disk storage market declines in 2Q2003, but not in North America 9 IDC report: 9% decline of worldwide storage software market in 1Q2003 9 Infonetics Research report: Wordwide FC SAN interconnection hardware to reach $1 billion in 2003 9 Dell'Oro Group report: SAN market sales bolstered by FC switches 9 Winmark/Quantum report: Few European companies confident in their backup systems 9 NOP Technology/EMC report: Critical information vulnerable to loss for 44% of IT executives 9 McData goes shopping, acquiring Sanera Systems and Nishan Systems, taking a 15% stake in Aarohi Communications 9 Western Digital could not afford to pass on Read-Rite 9 With SANcastle, LightSand now in FC over IP and SONET 9 Financially-troubled JNI in AMCC's hooks 9 Storability, rising force in SRM, with the acquisition of DynamicIT software from ProvisionSoft 9 Ciena has acquired Akara 9 Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard renew their OEM agreement with Hitachi Data Systems for the Lightning disk subsystem 9 StorageNetworks liquidated 9 In France, Neartek, OMP and Tera Systems in judicial receivership 9 Hitachi GST banks more and more on China: HDD assembly with ExcelStor and a new disk media manufacturing plant to come 9 StoragePoint has closed its Web site 9 Trebia Networks appears to have shut its doors 9 Western Digital's fiscal year results: sales of 2,718.5 million (+26%) and net income of $200 million 10 Cobver story: At least, real-time backup and instant restoration 10 Can RRD, a 35GB 2.5-inch removable cartridge disk from Iomega, be a tape killer? 10 Can DCT, a 1.5GB PCMCIA II floppy disk drive from Iomega, be a flash killer? 10 100MB in a credit card, by StorCard 10 Historic record: 100GB on a 3.5-inch disk platter by Seagate into a 200GB hard disk drive, the Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 10 A U.S. consortium to increase tape capacity to 33TB 10 IDC report: Worldwide storage software market shows buoyancy in 2Q2003, replication leading the way 10 Gartner report: Worldwide flash market will grow 38% in 2003 10 IDC report: Asia/Pacific disk storage systems market grows 8.1% in 2Q2003 10 Veritas/Dynamics Markets report: Blackouts, threat of terrorism spur disaster recovery planning 10 Semico Research report: DVD recorder market to reach $8 billion by 2007 10 Osterman Research report: Email and archiving practice in the enterprise 10 In-Stat/MDR report: Digital entertainment devices push hard disk drive demand 10 "Interview of Dr. Jun Naruse, CEO of Hitachi GST: ""Revenues of $4.1 billion in 2003 and profitability in 2004""" 10 Imperial Technology seems to have ceased activity 10 Fabric Networks has ceased activity 10 Nippon Sheet Glass has sold its glass disk activity to Hoya 10 Symantec acquires PowerQuest for $150 million 10 AppiQ has bought another start-up, XstormTech 10 Information Lifecycle Management, the new storage vendor credo 11 With Documentum, EMC adds cornerstone to information lifecycle management offering 11 Quantum moves ahead of LTO-2 with SDLT 600. But for how long? 11 Editorial: Hard disk drive manufacturers don't get the respect they deserve 11 Tandberg goes it alone with SLR technology, announcing SLR140 (50/5) and SLR75 (38/4) 11 Certance will not skip LTO-2 11 Open-E has embedded a NAS into an IDE flash card 11 Western Digital will go directly to 120GB per 3.5-inch disk platter 11 An external HDD connected to Ethernet or USB 2.0, from Ximeta 11 Exabyte designs 1U ten-cartridge autoloader for VXA-2 tape 11 Certance offers complete D2D2T solution for only $2,799 11 LSI into enterprise SATA-to-FC disk arrays 11 6GB on a CompactFlash card from Pretec for $7,499 11 Two former IBM employees suing Big Blue, saying that they develop cancer in a disk factory in San Jose, CA 11 Howard Elias lands at EMC 11 HDS also enters document management with the help of Ixos 11 Seagate's bad patch: SEC investigation, amended look-up agreement and pessimistic forecasts 11 Spotlight on start-up RAIDCore 11 Holograhic disk company Polight Technologies closed its doors 11 SANgate Systems becomes Sepaton 11 Wealthy Emulex buys strapped Vixel for $310 million 11 Emulex acquired the technology assets of Trebia Networks for $2 million 11 Fiscal year results of Hutchinson Technology: sales of $499 million (+28%) and net income of $64.5 million 12 "Interview of Veritas CEO Gary Bloom:"" I should send flowers to Joe Tucci, thanking him for validating what I have""" 12 NetApp acquires Spinnaker for core technology, turns to partners (Cisco, Veritas, FileNet, Documentum) for the rest 12 20BG and 40GB into new 1.8-inch hard disk drive from Toshiba 12 Imation chosen to acquire Emtec Magstar assets 12 With the Advanced Imaging acquisition, Veeco has complete disk head slider fab 12 Hewlett-Packard in ILM with Persist Technologies 12 Bell Microproducts has completed the acquisition of Empresas Berny Mayoro, a Mexican distributor 12 Connected entering into email archiving with the acquisition of Archive-it 12 Start-up Storigen Systems probably closed 12 A start-up recently discovered: Cenata Networks 12 Franz Inc. sued Quantum 12 Five exabytes of information created throughout the world in 2002 on physical media, according to the University of Berkeley 12 Chaparral will enter storage virtualization appliances 12 Fiscal year results of ADIC: sales of $424.0 million (+25%) and net income of $12.5 million 12 Fiscal year results of Brocade: sales of $525.3 million (-7%) and loss of $136.2 million 12 Fiscal year results of Ciprico: sales of $31.2 million (-1%) and loss of $3.9 million 12 Fiscal year results of Crossroads Systems: sales of $33.1 million (-3%) and loss of $6.4 million 12 Fiscal year results of Innovex: sales of $153.0 million (+14%) and loss of $3.0 million 12 Imation in bed with Exabyte 12 LSI spins off storage unit, at last 12 Quantum restructures