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MONTH ARTICLES 1 The first and incredible 0.85-inch hard disk drive, from Toshiba, with 2GB and 4GB capacities 1 For IDC, storage continues to be an area of investment in Europe 1 2GB Storage Element from Cornice with 2GB, one head, in a one-inch form factor hard disk drive 1 GS-Magicstor/RioSpring one-inch HDD up to 4.8GB 1 Document: first form factor introduction 1 USB key without flash but with hard disk drive from Digitalway 1 Western Digital's external drive with push-button and flash card reader 1 Hewlett-Packard testing 2.5-inch HDD with 3Gb SCSI and SAS interfaces from Fujitsu 1 The first 2.5-inch HDD with serial ATA, from Fujitsu 1 Hitachi GST first to embark in enterprise HDD with 4Gb FC interface 1 Iogear launches a mouse with flash memory 1 IDC: disk systems market stabilizes in 3Q03, price declines moderate 1 Storage software market grows modestly from 2Q03 to 3Q03 1 Dell'Oro Group: FC switches sales soften during 3Q03 1 IDC: UK and Hewlett-Packard lead Europe 1 Peripheral Research: disk drive, components market on the increase in 2003 1 The Yankee Group: digital video recorders will reach 24.7 million homes by year-end 2007 1 Who bought whom in 2003 1 Only two storage start-ups in 2003 1 Document: 2003 funding for storage start-ups 1 2004 datebook 1 Veritas acquires Ejasent for $59 million 1 EMC buys VMware for $625 million 1 IBM acquired Green Pasture Software 1 Red Hat is venturing into storage with the purchase of Sistina Software 1 Komag will purchase Trace Storage Technology's Malaysian disk substrate factory 1 Plasmon has acquired the source code of HSM software from Grau Data Storage for Euro 1 million in a stock transaction 1 StorageEngine and its CEO accused of fraudulent activity 1 Maxoptix stops to manufacture 5.25-inch magneto-optical drives 2 "Interview of Nigel Stret, CEO of Plasmon:"" UDO is the most secure compliance technology""" 2 China's love affair: recordable optical disc manufacturing 2 128 known manufacturers of writable optical media in the world 2 List of the manufacturers of writable optical discs licensed by Philips 2 Tandberg Storage works on its own LTO drive 2 Certance finally in LTO-2 2 Adaptec gets virtualization from Elipsan 2 Broadcom in disk array with RAIDCore 2 Quest Software acquires Aelita Software for $115 million 2 eMag Solutions acquired data conversion company Computer Services Inc. 2 Plasmon's UDO vs. Sony's PDD 2 First form factor introductions (updated) 2 Fiscal year results of Dot Hill: sales of $187.4 million (+300%) and net income of $12.1 million 2 Fiscal year results of EMC: sales of $6,236.8 million (+15%) and net income of $496.1 million 2 Fiscal year results of FalconStor: sales of $16.9 million (+59%) and net loss of $7.4 million 2 Fiscal year results of Imation: sales of $1,163.5 million (+9%) and net income of $82.0 million 2 Fiscal year results of Interphase: sales of $32.5 million (+29%) and net loss of $0.8 million 2 Fiscal year results of Intevac: sales of $36.3 million (+7%) and net loss of $12.3 million 2 Fiscal year results of Iomega: sales of $391.3 million (-36%) and net loss of $18.9 million 2 Fiscal year results of Komag: sales of $438.3 million (+53%) and net income of $36.0 million 2 Fiscal year results of Lexar Media: sales of $412.3 million (+137%) and net income of $39.9 million 2 Fiscal year results of LSI Storage Systems: sales of $423.3 million (+26%) 2 Fiscal year results of M-Systems: sales of $130.1 million (+101%) and net income of $0.9 million 2 Fiscal year results of Maxtor: sales of $4,086.4 million (+8%) and net income of $102.3 million 2 Fiscal year results of SanDisk: sales of $1,079.8 million (+99%) and net income of $168.9 million 2 Fiscal year results of StorageTek: sales of $2,182.6 million (+7%) and net income of $148.9 million 2 Fiscal year results of Tandberg Data: sales of $111.9 million (+5%) and net income of $4.1 million 2 Fiscal year results of Veeco: sales of $279.3 million (-7%) and net loss of $9.7 million 2 Fiscal year results of Veritas: sales of $1,771.1 million (+18%) and net income of $274.2 million 3 Cover story: 2003, year of the storage industry recovery 3 Cover story: 2003, year of the storage industry recovery 3 10,000rpm enterprise hard disk drives from HGST up to a record 300GB (Ultrastar 10K300) 3 The first enterprise hard disk drive into a 2.5-inch form factor: the Savvio (up to 73.4GB) from Seagate 3 More about IBM's one-terabyte tape drive project 3 Philips will not pursue its 1GB tiny optical disc drive using Blue-ray laser technology 3 Infiniband gets momentum for super clusters 3 After buying JNI, AMCC to acquire 3ware for $150 million 3 Cisco completes the acquisition of Andiamo for $750 million 3 Xyratex acquires ZT Automation 3 MPO acquired some assets of Emtec Consumer Media 3 IntraDyn acquired some assets of Computer Data Strategies 3 Broadcom acquired storage patents of Cirrus Logic 3 Zantaz acquired email management software company Educom TS 3 Tacit Networks purchased the intellectual property of Attachsoft, also known as AttachStor 3 Distrilogie into network security software with the acquisition of Varcity 3 eSys, the rising force in worldwide disk drive distribution 3 IDC report: SAN will dominate NAS and DAS in nearly all vertical U.S. markets by 2007 3 IDC report: Total disk storage systems market posted 1% growth to $20 billion in 2003 3 Gartner report: 6% growth in worldwide external controller-based disk storage in 2003 3 Document: The 2003 data storage worldwide industry ranking 3 Tandberg Data offers itself to Norman, which refuses, then loses Quantum exclusivity contract in Europe and Asia 3 Fiscal year results of SST: sales of $295.0 million (+7%), loss of $65.2 million 3 Storage Engine under Chapter XI 3 Fiscal year results of McData: sales of $418.9 million (+26%), net income of $24.3 million 3 Hitachi GST now profitable 4 Cover story: CeBIT, is it worth it? 4 DVD recorders at CeBIT: 8X, 16X to come 4 Double layer DVD some time this year 4 At CeBIT, price of recordable optical discs continues to plummet 4 Capacity evolution for Pretec's CompactFlash cards 4 Listen to MP3 files off your USB player on your car stereo, by MagaForce 4 Walk Office from MPIO: software suite on a flash key today. Tomorrow your complete configuration? 4 USB flash key ... in a swiss Army knife, from the Swissbit Group 4 The first 2.5-inch hard disk drive at 50GB per platter, the MHU2100AT with a 100GB total record capacity, from Fujitsu 4 The HGST Travelstar 4K40 does not focus on performance but on reliability (100G non operating shock) 4 Samsung enters in 2.5-inch hard disk drives 4 Wordwide record of 400GB into the HGST Deskstar DK400 hard disk drive with 5 platters rotating at 7,200rpm 4 First 10,000rpm HDD at 300GB on 4 platters, by Fujitsu 4 First 15,000rpm HDD at 147GB on 4 platters, by Fujitsu 4 Sony's AIT-4 (200/24) takes on LTO-2 4 ICD report: 18% year-to-year growth for the storage software market in 4Q2003, 8% from 2003 to 2004 4 JRIA report: write-once DVDs, the fastest segment of the optical disc market 4 "Interview of Jim Lambert, president and CEO of Dot Hill:"" We acquired Chaparral to control our own destiny""" 4 Fiscal year financial results of CNT: sales of $360.9 million (+71%), net los sof $24.1 million 5 Cover story: USB, Firewire, ATA, SCSI, SATA, SAS, FC, FATA, do we really need them all? 5 Toshiba follows Fujitsu with a 100GB 2.5-inch notebook HDD 5 What if Iomega's new 35GB hard disk cartridge drive was reliable? 5 Bill Watkins named CEO of Seagate 5 Plasmon acquired Raidtec 5 AMCC has purchased from IBM the intelllectual property and a portfolio of assets associated with IBM's 400 series of embedded PowerPC standard products 5 Documentum acquired Xerox's askOnce business unit 5 Transtec concluded the acquisition of Triple Stor 5 Nvidia has acquired the technology assets of iReady 5 Freeman Report: tape library market down in 2003, LTO only bright spot 5 For Philips, DVD+ beats DVD- 5 Archivas, a start-up in archiving of fixed content documents 5 Mendocino Software, a start-up in continuous backup software 5 Storage once gain interests stock market 5 Softek without Fujitsu 5 Atempo invests in U.S. 5 Xiotech invests in Europe 5 Fiscal year results of Applied Micro Circuits: sales of $131.2 million (+29%), net loss of $104.9 million 5 Fiscal year results of QLogic: sales of $523.9 million (+19%), net income of $133.7 million 5 Fiscal year results of Quantum: sales of $808.4 million (-7%), net loss of $62.0 million 5 Sky Media Manufacturing to open a Euros 100 million recordable optical discs plant in Novo Mesto, Slovakia 5 Digital Valley to set up a DVD-R plant near Caen, in France 5 SYSDM, a start-up in backup reporting software 6 Cover story: an exclusive interview of Greg Reyes, chairman and CEO of Brocade: « It’s unclear to me at this time how Cisco is committed» 6 RISS from Hewlett-Packard: better, but pricier, than EMC’s Centera 6 Document: Grid storage 6 Company’s profile: Xiotech and its Magnitude 3D mid-range SAN 6 300GB 10,000rpm and 147GB 15,000 enterprise hard disk drives from Maxtor 6 DVD-Rs for 18 cents at Computex Taipei ! 6 New LTO autoloaders from NEC 6 New Magnum 6x60 LTO library from Exabyte 6 Hewlett-Packard infringed three EMC’s patents 6 Imation has a new CEO, Bruce Henderson 6 IDC: Wordlwide external disk systems in 1CQ04: EMC wins, HP lost 6 IDC: Worldwide storage software grows 23% in 1CQ04 6 Dell'Oro Group: FC switch and HBA market down 3% sequentially 6 Kroll bought by Marsh & McLennan 6 Transtec acquired a 44% stake in LapiStor 6 Hitachi GST HQ to move to San Jose’s Evergreen District 6 Disk drive makers at war over gray market 6 Fiscal year financial results of BakBone Software: sales of $27 million (+50%), net loss of $3.1 million 6 Financial results of Hitachi Data Systems: sales of $2,490 million (-2%) for fiscal year ending in March 2004 6 Fiscal year financial results of NetApp: sales of $1,170+3 million (+31%), net income of $152.1 million 6 Fiscal year financial results of Plasmon: sales of $90.2 million (-17%), net loss of $7.8 million 7 Cover story: Poor 2Q04 likely for storage industry 7 Cover story: The missing ILM links (editorial) 7 Seagate sets record with 500GB in NL35 hard disk drive (3.5-inch, four 125GB platters, 108Gb per square inch) 7 Today's record capacities in hard disk drives 7 Record capacity by Seagate into a one-inch HDD, the ST1: 5GB on two platters 7 1.8-inch HDD from GS Magicdrive: 40GB 7 New 2.5-inch Seagate's Momentus HDD up to 100GB, the 5400.2 at 5,400rm and the 7200.1 at 7,500rpm for notebooks 7 New 3.5-inch desktop HDD from Maxtor, the MaXLine III, up to 300GB on 3 platters turning at 7,200rpm 7 New 3.5-inch desktop HDD from Seagate, the Barracuda 7200.8 up to 400GB on 3 platters turning at 7,200rpm 7 The DB35, a 3.5-inch HDD from Seagate, up to 400GB, for video applications 7 Two new enterprise HDDs from Seagate: the Cheetah 10K.7 (10,000rpm, up to 300GB) and the Cheetah 15K.4 (15,000rpm, up to 146GB) 7 Imation into terabyte technology to counterattack the Japanese 7 Roadmap of the tape drive manufacturers 7 StorageTek entirely revamps its tape libraries with the StreamLine series (models SL8500 and SL500) 7 A 1U autoloader for half-inch cartridges designed and manufactured by Tandberg 7 Maxtor's CEO Paul Tufano a millionnaire four times over 2003 7 Seagate and Western Digital vs. Cornice: two giants sue small firm 7 Emulex and QLogic have resolved all their ongoing patent litigation 7 Gartner report: EMEA enterprise storage revenue to grow 4.1% per year until 2007 7 SNIA Europe report: European users more influenced by brand names than price/performance 7 Freeman report: Hewlett-Packard in front of Quantum in compact tape drive revenues 7 Xyratex, the first storage company to go public in 18 months 7 Egenera filed for an IPO 7 "Hitachi GST puts half-billion dollars in ""mega-manufacturing"" plant in China" 7 After the acquisition of The Storage Group, Custis Preston joins GlassHouse Technologies 7 Cisco buys Actona for $82 million 7 Adaptec acquires some IBM's RAID assets 7 Calendar of storage events from August 2004 to April 2005 7 EMC invests $4 million into MTI Technology 7 IIS Intelligent Information Systes to be liquidated 7 MBO for Raidtec USA 7 SimpleTech closed its Xiran division 8 "Interview of Pierre Cousin, Corporate VP R&D and engineering, StorageTek:"" We want to invest in data collection, data movement and ATA""" 8 Technology report: Flash memories eating up hard disk drives' share 8 Price comparison of flash and hard disk drive 8 The cell phone market, a new eldorado for flash or hard disk drives? 8 A D2D backup solution for less than an autoloader fom Overland 8 Adaptec snaps up Snap Appliance: $100 millon to enter NAS 8 Bell Microproducts acquired UK VAD OpenPSL for $36 million 8 Veritas Sofware to acquire Invio Software for $35 million 8 Fiscal year results of KLA-Tencor: sales of $1,497 (+13%) and net income of $235 million 8 Fiscal year results of Moser-Baer: sales of $326 (+41%) and net income of $78 million 8 Fiscal year results of MTI technology: sales of $83 (+1%) and net loss of $.7million 8 Fiscal year results of Seagate: sales of $6,224 (-4%) and net income of $529 million 8 EMC in tape with ADIC, and why not StorageTek? 9 Editor Privilege: an email to Veritas 9 StorageNewsletter Number 200 9 Veritas acquires KVaulkt (KVS) for $225 million 9 New Travelstar C4K60 from Hitachi GST: 1.8-inch, 20 and 30GB on one platter 9 1.8-inch HDD from Toshiba up to a record 60GB 9 New 2.5-inch HDD from Hitachi GST up to 100GB at 5,400rpm 9 DiamondMax 10 from Maxtor, a 3.5-inch desktop HDD up to 300GB on three platters, rotating at 7,200rpm 9 EMC taps IBM exec Jeffrey Nick as CTO 9 CEO Victor Perez from Chaparral to Panasas 9 CEO Philip Black from LightSand to Nexsan 9 Imation to close its Tucson, AZ tape manufacturing plant 9 Front Porch Digital + ManagedStorage International = Incentra Solutions 9 Finisar has completed the purchase of the assets of Data Transit Corporation 9 LeCroy has gotten his hands on Computer Access Technology Corp. 9 Hewlett-Packard has made an offer to get UK-based Synstar 9 Kumar Malavalli once more investing in a start-up, InMage Systems 9 IDC: external disk storage systems maintain healthy growth in 2Q2004 9 Gartner: Hewlett-Packard ability to recover is uncertain 9 IDC: Worldwide software posts third consecutive quarter of growth 9 Gartner: Strong pockets of growth for storage software 9 Dell'Oro Group: QLogic pulls even with Emulex in HBA revenues 9 IDC/Quantum: European companies have no continuity plans in the event of disaster 9 Fiscal year results of Emulex: revenues of $364.4 million (+18%), net income of $51.1 million 9 Fiscal year results of Overland Storage: revenues of $238.1 million (+22%), net income of $10.6 million 9 Fiscal year results of Qualstar: revenues of $31.5 million (-6%), net loss of $0.7 million 9 Fiscal year results of Western Digital: revenues of $3,046.7 million (+12%), net income of $151.3 million 9 The first mobile phone with an HDD (1.5GB, probably from Cornice) from Samsung 10 Gigastory: six month suspended sentenced for Bisser Dimitrov 10 Tape just won't die 10 New roadmap for Quantum: DLT-S and DLT-V 10 LTO: Certance now in the lead with the first LTO-3 (400/68) unit, the CL 800, and a half-height LTO-2 tape drive, the CL 400H (200/20) 10 Sony with specific anti-DDS units: AIT-1 Tutbo (40/6) and AIT-E (20/6) 10 The LTO roadmap 10 Western Digital enters into 2.5-inch HDD at 40GB per platter, 5,400rpm, and capacity from 40 to 80GB 10 Samsung into 0.85-inch HDD in 4Q2005 10 Dallab entering in HDD manufacturing in Thailand? 10 Hewlett-Packard licenses its LightScribe technology to print labels directy on disc using drive's laser, first to Verbatim and Imation 10 Overland Storage REO 9000 up to 9.6TB 10 Hi-Stor launches StorSentry, a software to monitor performance and reliability of tape drives and media 10 What the top 5 at Seagate earn? 10 Veritas reorganized into three product groups 10 Al Shugart chairman of BlackBall 10 At last, StorageTek's first ILM acquisition: Storability 10 EMC fills its Dantz card 10 Iron Mountain's Connected 10 KLA-Tencor has got its hands on Candela Instruments 10 Veeco Instruments has completed the acquisition of Manufacturing Technology Inc. (MTI) 10 Avail (able) for Breece Hill 10 Arkeia, the Linux backup company 10 Overland Storage reduces its workforce by 33% 10 Hitachi GST reduces its workforce by 400 people in San Jose, CA 10 Trying to recover, Forum Stockage renamed Forum 3S 10 TheInfoPro report: SATA drives, IP-based SANs and archiving solutions are top storage spending priorities in 2005 10 3,000 to 3,500 Brocade's switch ports at France Telecom 10 Veritas emails back... 11 Cover story: Question for Quantum a its acquiring Certancce for $60 million: which is better: LTO or DLT-S? 11 Editorial: storage harware - a crackerjack surprise? 11 Hitachi GST's 15,000rpm 3.5-inch hard disk drive up to 147GB, but on 5 platters 11 The Seagate's NL35, annnounced at 500GB, now only up to 400GB 11 Jim Johnson replaces Rickart at BakBone 11 Jack McDonnell founds start-up Crosswalk 11 Engenio torn between potential IBM loss and Sun win 11 EMC acquires discretly Allocity 11 Crossroads has purchased all the assets of Teracruz 11 ICD report: worldwide enterprise semiconductor market to pass $1 billion mark in 2005 11 In-Stat/DMR report: hard disk drives to move well beyond the PC 11 Understand & Solutions report: continuing growth of DVD recording 11 IDC report: booming market for MP3 players 11 Standard & Poor report: data storage industry seen gaining faster than other IT segments 11 Reed Exhibitions trying to monopolize storage shows in Europe, and IDG/ComputerWorld in USA 11 Fiscal year financial results of Hutchinson: $470.0 million in sales (-6%), net income of $73.1 million 11 Fiscal year financial results of Innovex: $155.9 million in sales (+2%), net loss of $17.5 million 12 FC 4Gb/s in the starting blocks 12 Editorial: Master key 12 Fujitsu MHV2100AH, a 2.5-inch HDD at 100GB and rotating at 5,400rpm 12 Tandberg switches from Quantum to Exabyte partnership for the new 3800 tape library(8/143 LTO-2) 12 Low-cost SCSI-to-iSCSI bridge from Bridgeworks 12 From Iomega, an autoloader (1/10) for removable disk cartridges 12 Removable RAIDs into a library from Spectra Logic 12 Iomega's REV early highlights 12 LTO-3: all three (HP, IBM, Certance/Quantum) are there 12 Disk and tape together on ADIC's Pathlight 12 NetApp virtualizes 12 Maxtor in financial and human trouble 12 MKE stops definitevely to manufacture HDDs for Maxtor 12 Magnecomp gets 80% of KR Precision 12 EMC takes a 14% stake in Italian firm Terasystem 12 SunGard acquires Inflow for $48 million 12 Iomega founds a buyer for its DCT technology 12 Company's profile: will DataCenter Technologies perform like countryman FilePool? 12 All the storage events in 2005 12 Fiscal year financial results of ADIC: sales of $454.8 million (+7%), net income of $7.2 million 12 Fiscal year financial results of Brocade: sales of $596.2 million (+7%), net loss of $1.3 million 12 Dell'Oro Group: worldwide connectivity SAN market flat quarter-to-quarter 12 Macarthur Stroud: European storage market outlook is strong 12 Fiscal year financial results of Ciprico: sales of $18.1 million (-42%), net loss of $7.4 million