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INDEX

MONTH ARTICLES
1 Symantec acquires Veritas: security and storage more than just friends
1 The first perpendicular hard disk drive: a 40-80GB 1.8-inch device from Toshiba
1 More on the 0.85-inch 2-4GB hard disk drive from Toshiba
1 6GB into the new one-inch hard disk drive from Cornice
1 A record 80GB into 1.8-inch hard disk drive from Hitachi GST
1 A record of 120GB for the capacity of the Fujitsu's new 2.5-inch hard disk drive
1 New Hitachi GST low-cost destop hard disk drives at 40 and 80GB with SATA II 3Gb/s interface
1 Seagate being enable to ship its 500GB disk drive, Hitachi GST now first in record half-terabyte HDD with the Deskstar 7K500
1 LTO extends roadmap to compete with DLT-S
1 Hitachi GST has sued GS-Magicstor for infringements of several HDD patents
1 IDC report: external disk storage systems post sixth consecutive quarter of year-to-year growth
1 The Japan Recording-Media Industries Association report: recordable DVDs propel recording media business
1 IDC report: worldwide storage software surpassed $1.9 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time
1 TheInfoPro report: storage spending priorities in 2005 are SATA drives, IP-based SANs and archiving solutions
1 The Diffusion Group report: NAS will be popular in media-sharing home networks
1 Regional changes help drive the disk storage markets of Central and Eastern Europe
1 EMC gets SMARTS for $260 million
1 GlassHouse Technologies has acquired Fortified Technologies
1 Falcon Technologies International invests in write-once DVD production in Arab Emirates
1 Care4Data and subsidiary Sentinel in bankruptcy
1 New storage software start-up Scentric
1 Candera has closed its doors
1 A new enormous European storage market: archiving data to fight against terrorism
2 "An excusive interview of Alain Andreoli, former president and CEO of Xiotech:"" We will be a software player by mid-year"""
2 McData and CNT: complementary competitors
2 The EMC-ization of McData?
2 Western Digital enters into one-inch HDD with a 6GB model
2 Maxtor to cease its 2.5-inch HDD program
2 Sony launches the AIT-2 Turbo (80/12)
2 Xiotech's president and CEO Alain Andreoli canned!
2 Brocade's chairman and CEO Greg Reyes out!
2 Document: who bought whom in 2004
2 Document: lots of financial funding for storage start-ups in 2004, but very few entrepreneurs
2 Venture capitalists hand out wads of cash
2 Calimetrics ceases ops
2 New Star Digital, formerly Infodisc, acquired Intermedia
2 Iomega had made an investment in ByteTaxi
2 Sonic Solutions has completed the purchase of Roxio's consumer software division
2 AmeriVault acquired Certified Backup
2 The products of Prassi Software have been acquired by Easy Digion Relations KK
2 Financial fiscal year results of Dot Hill: sales of $239.3 million (+28%) and net income of $11.5 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of EMC: sales of $8,229 million (+32%) and net income of $871 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of Imation: sales of $1,129 million (+5%) and net income of $42.9 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of Iomega: sales of $328.7 million (-16%) and net loss of $36.7 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of Komag: sales of $458.4 million (+5%) and net income of $16.4 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of LSI Logic: sales of $1,700 million (+0%) and net loss of $464 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of Maxtor: sales of $3,796 million (-7%) and net loss of $181.9 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of SanDisk: sales of $1,777 million (+65%) and net income of $266.6 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of StorageTek: sales of $2,224 million (+2%) and net income of $191.0 million
2 Financial fiscal year results of Veritas: sales of $2,042 million (+17%) and net income of $411.4 million
2 Toyo Kohan to produce glass disks in China
3 2004 hit parade: EMC moves ahead of Seagate, once again world's leading storage company
3 Editorial: the case for CAS
3 Hitachi GST push its one-inch Microdrive to 6GB
3 Seagate has pushed its one-inch HDD ST1 from 5GB to 6GB
3 GS Magic's incredible roadmap
3 The first video camera with embedded hard disk drives, from NHJ
3 Hard disk-based voice recorder for big talkers, from Sanyo
3 Why CD-Rs and DVD+Rs in France cost twice as much as in Germany
3 DVD6C lower royalties
3 Hardware-based encryption and compression appliance for tape, from NeoScale
3 Overland's software to D2D-backup multiple sites
3 Technology: Deciding between SATA and SAS
3 TrendFOCUS: Miniature disk drives to fuel industry growth in 2005
3 Vasnon Bourne: For European users, compliance and governance are not forcing the data storage issue
3 IDC: WW email archiving applications market grew nearly sixfold in two years
3 Ciprico adds Huge Systems to its shopping cart
3 Incentra Solutions acquired Star Solutions
3 GlassHouse acquired PowerPM
3 Mass Storage News has acquired jobstor.com
3 Rackable Systems plans to raise $85 million in an IPO filed with the SEC
3 FY financial results of Bell Microproducts: sales of $2,827.8 million (+27%), net income of $11.3 million
3 FY financial results of Datalink: sales of $93.3 million (+2%), net loss of $3.1 million
3 FY financial results of Exabyte: sales of $102.1 million (+8%), net loss of $9.9 million
3 FY financial results of FalconStor Software: sales of $28.7 million (+70%), net loss of $5.9 million
3 FY financial results of Interphase: sales of $35.0 million (+8%), net income of $1.7 million
3 FY financial results of Intevac: sales of $69.6 million (+92%), net loss of $4.3 million
3 FY financial results of M-Systems: sales of $347.6 million (+167%), net income of $24.2 million
3 FY financial results of Magnecomp International: sales of $232.5 million (+15%), net income of $12.3 million
3 FY financial results of Rimage: sales of $70.8 million (+32%), net income of $9.1 million
3 FY financial results of SST: sales of $449.2 million (+52%), net income of $23.9 million
3 FY financial results of Tandberg Data: sales of $105.8 million (-5%), net loss of $2.8 million
3 FY financial results of Marvell: sales of $1,244.6 million (+49%), net income of $141.7 million
3 FY financial results of McData: sales of $399.8 million (-4%), net loss of $20.9 million
4 A better-than-expected CeBIT 2005
4 IBM reveals revolutionary storage technology: the Milipede
4 CeBIT figures: to audit or not to audit, that is the question
4 After Toshiba, Samsung out with 0.85-inch hard disk drive (4GB)
4 120GB notebook hard disk drive from Fujitsu
4 Up to 120GB notebook hard disk drive from Samsung
4 Excelstor launches a 3.5-inch 80GB hard disk drive with a chip providing several innovative functions
4 400GB 3.5-inch hard disk drives from Samsung
4 Following Seagate, Fujitsu in 2.5-inch enterprise hard disk drive up to 73.5GB and 10,025rpm
4 AT CeBIT, consumer electronics products full of hard disk droves
4 At CeBIT, three mobile phones with Cornice's hard disk drives
4 At CeBIT, four digital cameras with hard disk drives
4 At CeBIT, several GPS systems with hard disk drives
4 At CeBIT, a TV with an HDD-based PVR integrated as an option from LG Electronics
4 A new LTO drive manufacturer, Tandberg, with an half-height unit, the 420LTO (200/24)
4 NEC trying to push in Europe its own LTO automation products
4 At CeBIT, prices of writable optical discs still down
4 Twelve new optical disc makers at CeBIT
4 IDC report: +3.2% growth for worldwide disk storage system revenue in 2004
4 Gartner report: Worldwide external disk storage revenue increased 5% in 2004
4 IDC report: worldwide storage software market, led by EMC and Veritas, grew 16% in 2004
4 iSuppli report: By 2009, hard disk drives in about half of all MP3 shipments
4 Dell'Oro report: Worldwide FC market at $176 million in 4Q04
4 Undertanding & Solutions report: Writable DVD market in Western Europe
4 Coughlin Associates report: 900 times increase in required digital storage capacity in next 6 years
4 Gartner report: HDD revenues from consumer electronics products growing 13% in 2004 to 36% in 2008
4 "Interview of Fidelma Russo, VP quality engineering and storage appliance at Sun:"" We'll dig in out own field first"""
4 Breece Hill to resell Sony PDD optical drives
5 "Interview of Dan Warmenhoven, NetApp's CEO: ""Never an exclusive iSCSI product"""
5 IBM with NetApp to halt EMC: any chance?
5 New Seagate's Momentus notebook disk drives at 60GB per disk, and at 4,200 and 5,400rpm
5 Numisda, a wireless HDD from the Data Storage Institute
5 O-Mass to push its tape cartridge to 2TB
5 Universal Disc, apparently the one and only writable CD/DVD manufacturer in Africa
5 Kooky carousel for 100 optical discs from Opdicom and Imation
5 JVC developed the first double-layer DVD (DVD-RW), at 8.5GB
5 MP3 USB watches from Xonix and others
5 Portable RAIDs from Wiebetech, Allmedia, Excel Meridian Data, MicroNet, ThinkCP
5 Nexsan acquired AESign Evertrust to compete with EMC's Centera
5 Tandberg continues to invest in disk appliances with the acquisition of Computer Design Group
5 Finisar gets InterSAN and I-TECH
5 Cisco treated itself to start-up Topspin Communications for no less than $250 million
5 Hewlett-Packard acquired Schlumberger Business Continuity Services
5 Incentra has got its hands on PWI Technologies
5 Ibas nabs Vogon in attempt to derail Ontrack
5 SBE has signed to acquire PyX Technologies
5 Synstar-Hopen merged with APX
5 Kingston Communications has acquired Technika UK
5 OpenTech Systems announced the acquisition of Implement and Consulting Services
5 SST in NAND with the acquisition of Actrans Systems, based in Taiwan
5 Gartner report: the WW storage management software industry grows 12% in 2004
5 Fiscal year results of Incentra: sales of $13.2 million (+35%), net loss of $10.4 million
5 Fiscal year results of Lexar Media: sales of $681.7 million (+6%), net loss of $75.5 million
5 Fiscal year results of Mount10: sales of Euro 11.6 million (-18%), net loss of Euro 4.1 million
5 Fiscal year results of nStor: sales of $10.3 million (+32%), net loss of $9.8 million
5 Fiscal year results of Veeco: sales of $390.4 million (+40%), net loss of $62.6 million
5 Fiscal year results of CNT: sales of $366.3 million (+3%), net loss of $110.6 million
5 NetApp acquires VTL specialist Alacritus for $11 million
5 New 2U LTO-2 autoloader (1/8) from HP
6 "Interview of Tom Georgens, president and CEO of Engenio:"" Why wouldn't we get HP as an OEM"""
6 Microsoft and Samsung launch 'flashy' hard disk drives
6 Quantum/Certance pushes its half-height LTO-2 tape drive from 20 to 26MB/s
6 Hitachi GST launches the Travelstar 7K100, a 7,200rpm notebook HDD up to 100GB on two platters
6 The Toshiba Gigabeat F41, the first MP3 player with perpendicular recording HDD (Toshiba's one-inch 40GB HDD)
6 Nokia puts HDD in its camera phone
6 Exabyte in D2D2T with the E-Z D2D2T solution and the help from Adaptec and Bakbone
6 Quantum's new M2500 LTO/SDLT tape library in competition with StorageTek's SL500
6 An index engine
6 Yosemite wants to play with the big kids, in an already crowded market
6 Showa Denko expands disk media production
6 Brocade invests in Tacit and acquires Therion
6 Toshiba buys Panasonic HDD center in Fremont, CA
6 Procom NAS assets acquired by Sun
6 Veritas discreetly acquired Datacenter Technologies
6 Juniper Networks got his hands on Peribit Networks and Redline Networks
6 Quest Software bought Imceda Software
6 IDC report: IBM and HP hold the top spots of the worldwide branded tape drive market
6 Freeman report: Tape library revenue up 13% in 2004, driven by LTO
6 Dell'Oro report: Cisco gains share in the modular switch segment
6 Fiscal year results of Adaptec: sales of $475.0 million (+5%), net income of $2.0 million
6 Fiscal year results of Entrada: sales of $4.1 million (-34%), net loss of $3.9 million
6 Fiscal year results of LaserCard: sales of $28.5 million (+67%), net loss of $8.9 million
6 Fiscal year results of Hitachi Maxell: sales of $1,887 million (-5%), net income of $13.9 million
6 Fiscal year results of Moser-Baer: sales of $311.1 million (-15%), net income of $13.4 million
6 Fiscal year results of MTI Technology: sales of $132.6 million (+59%), net loss of $15.8 million
6 Fiscal year results of NetApp: sales of $1,598 million (+37%), net income of $225.8 million
6 Fiscal year results of Nidec: sales of $4,504 million (+75%), net income of $310.2 million
6 Fiscal year results of Plasmon: sales of $81.7 million (-10%), net loss of $16.9 million
6 Fiscal year results of QLogic: sales of $571.9 million (+9%), net income of $157.6 million
6 Fiscal year results of Quantum: sales of $794.2 million (-2%), net loss of $3.5 million
6 Ritek transfer European CD-R facilities to Vietnam
6 MPO lays off 129 of its 750 employees
7 Will the sun shines for StorageTek, acquired by Sun Microsystems for $4.1 billion?
7 StorageTek: the end of a storage monument
7 New one-inch HDD from Seagate, the ST1.2, up to 8GB
7 New 2.5-inch HDD from Seagate, the Momentus 5400.2 FDE, up to 120GB, with encryption
7 First PMR HDD from Seagate, the 2.5-inch Momentus 5400.3, up to 160GB
7 The EE25 from Seagate, a 2.5-inch 40GB HDD designed for difficult environment
7 The LD25 from Seagate, a low-cost 2.5-inch 40GB HDD designed for AV players, videogame console (Xbox 36) and low-profile PCs (Mac mini)
7 The Seagate's Barracuda 7200.9, a 3.5-inch HDD up to 500GB on four platters
7 From Maxtor, a 3.5-inch HDD up to 500GB on four platters
7 IDC report: Worldwide HDDs will increase at a CAGR of 15.6% from 2004 to 2009
7 Gartner report: 1Q05 external controller-based disk storage revenue resumed healthy growth
7 Partial agreement between Seagate and Cornice on HDD patent's litigation
7 NetApp secures Decru for $272 million
7 Agilisys completed the acquisition of CTS Corp.
7 Xyratex has acquired Oliver Design for $17.2 million
7 Rocket Software acquired Servergraph for around $10 million
7 RAID acquired some assets of Aviv
7 Does Iomega still believes in REV?
7 Asahi returns with disk substrates
7 FY results of Finisar: sales of $280.8 million (+51%), net loss of $112.8 million
8 Tape's ultimate advantage is removability, so what about disk libraries?
8 New 2.5-inch Travelstar 4K120 from Hitahi GST, at 60GB per disk, and up to 120GB
8 HP in USB DAT drives
8 New SAIT-1 library (2/20) in 5U form factor
8 New 1U LTO-2 autoloader (1/8) from Tandberg
8 10Gb/s iSCSI SANs are arriving
8 IDC report: EMC passes NetApp for NAS in 1Q05!
8 Businesss Communications report: Global data storage materials to reach nearly $39 billion by 2010
8 Macarthur Stroud International report: European SAN market will grow 13.5% yearly from 2004 to 2007
8 AMI-Partners report: SMB storage spending exceeds $10 billion in 2004 and will double by 2009
8 The Enterprise Storage Group report: Tape libraries replaced by disk-based solutions
8 TheInfoPro report: Serial ATA drives still hottest technology
8 BakBone Software: Tape no longer the backup medium of choice in UK
8 IDC report: India and China projected to grow despite tape drive market decline in AsiaPac
8 Special feature: More than 350 different consumer electronic models with hard disk drives
8 Coughlin Associates report: 40% of HDDs used in consumer electronic applications by 2010
8 In-Stat report: Booming MP3 player market tops $4.5 billion
8 Park Associates report: Portable multimedia players with HDDs will reach only 17% of U.S. on line households by 2010
8 EchoStar has invested $9 million in Archos
8 Broadcom acquires Siliquent Technologies for $76 million
8 Bell Microproducts has acquired Brazilian distributor Net Storage Computers
8 Moser-Baer has abandoned its plan to build an optical disk manufacturing plant in Thuringen, Germany
8 Western Digital entered into a settlement and licensing agreement with Papst Licensing
9 SNW Europe in Frankfurt, Germany: Amerika-am-Main
9 4GB one-inch hard disk drive with only one disk head from Cornice at $65 in Q10,000
9 Mikey Microdrive 3K8, a one-inch hard disk drive from Hitachi GST at 6GB and 8GB with two heads
9 120GB on the 2.5-inch hard disk drive from Fujitsu on two platters
9 160GB on the 2.5-inch hard disk drive from Fujitsu on three platters (12.5mm high)
9 A 2.5 inch 30GB hard disk drive for the automotive market from Toshiba
9 3.5-inch desktop hard disk drive from Samsung up to 250GB on two platters
9 Caviar RE2 and SE16 from Western Digital: 3.5-inch hard disk drives at 400GB on four platters and at 7,200rpm
9 Editorial: Apple is killing the one-inch hard disk drive market with its iPod nano at 2GB and 4GB using flash chips
9 Carte Orange from LaCie: USB card with 4GB and 8GB HDD at $100 and $150 respectively
9 Imation and Mountain Engineering to reveal Ulysses: a disk drive into a LTO cartridge being read by an emulator
9 Matt Massengill replaced by Arif Shakeel as CEO of Western Digital
9 CEO Tom Georgens leaves Engenio as LSI restructures
9 Gartner report: All major vendors except Sun with dougle-digit revenue growth in 2Q2005
9 iSuppli report: Seagate expands lead in hard disk drive market
9 Dell'Oro Group report: Enterprise storage propels growth in FC HBAs
9 IDC report: External disk storage systems growth continues on the strength of network storage systems
9 IDC report: Worldwide storage software market sustains double-digit growth in 1Q2005 and 2Q2005
9 EMC continues to harvest firms with Maranti and Rainfinity
9 Seagate in home backup servers with the acquisition of Mirra
9 AOL to acquire Xdrive
9 Simpletech has acquired Memtech SSD
9 Overland now in primary disk storage with the acquisition of Zetta Systems
9 Stordata buys A2P
9 DCC acquires AB Computing, to be integrated into Distrilogie
9 Xyratex acquired nStor
9 QLogic has sold its disk and tape drive controller business to Marvell Technology
9 ADIC wants Overland who is going to lose OEM Hewlett-Packard
9 Storage Computer has shut down operations
9 Quantum closed its Irish plant
9 French companies Digital Valley and Hexalis in judicial recovery
9 Fiscal year financial results of Overand Storage: sales of $238.1 million (-1%) and net income of $4.6 million
9 Fiscal year financial results of Qualstar: sales of $25.1 million (-20%) and net loss of $0.4 million
9 Fiscal year financial results of Seagate: sales of $7,553 million (+21%) and net income of $707 million
9 Fiscal year financial results of Western Digital: sales of $3,639 million (+19%) and net income of $198.4 million
9 Fiscal year financial results of private company EVault: sales of $24 million with a 10% net profit
9 CDP attracts investors
9 Inkra Networks has closed its doors
10 "Interview of Werner Heid, president and CEO of Iomega:"" We'll see a shift to network media recorders"""
10 VXA-320 (160/12), twice as good as VXA-2 (80/6), but can it save Exabyte?
10 A microactuator for better positioning accuracy, from NGK Insulators
10 Freeman reports: LTO is only growing major technology in flat compact tape drive industry
10 Strategy Analytics report: First decline in DVD player revenues projected
10 Hall and Partners/M-Systems report: 80% of respondents are using their USB flash drive for personal use
10 Harris Interactive/Maxtor report: Most U.S. computer users walk a digital tightrope
10 "BridgeHead Software report: ""Compliance... what?"""
10 Softek report: Data migration risky, unpredictable and frequent
10 AMI-Partners report: Western European mid-size businesses turning to NAS/SAN for archiving
10 JupiterResearch report: Digital video recorders will be in nearly half of all U.S. households within five years
10 Dragon Slayer Consulting report: IBM, number one in virtualization
10 Hewlett-Packard treats itself to a superb SRM company, AppIQ
10 LSI Logic wins SAS OEM deals
10 Adaptec wants to dump Snap Appliance and Eurologic activities
10 Engenio officially in Infiniband very soon
10 ProStor, a name to watch
10 Europe once again takes on Asian CD-R and DVD-R makers for anti-dumping
10 Fiscal year results of Emulex: sales of $375.7 million (+3%) and net income of $71.6 million
10 Fiscal year results of LaCie: sales of Euros 289.5 million (+36%) and net income of Euros 23.5 million
11 "Mike Worlkman, president & CEO of Pillar Data:"" People who buy our system get Clariion CX700 performance and availability and everything, and get a free NearStor out of it"""
11 Storage Expo UK, the world's biggest storage event, ever
11 ProStor hopes to replace tape with removable disks on servers
11 First home audio stereos with built-in hard disk drive, from Panasonic
11 For $99, a second disk drive to backup PC, from Dell
11 IBM with TS1120 and Sun/StorageTek with T10000A head to head in half-terabyte cartridges for mainframes
11 Quantum still belives in low-end tape drives: announcing the DLT-V4 (160/10)
11 Overland in tier 1, after tiers 2 and 3
11 Adaptec concentrates on SATA and SAS market
11 Yamaha and Fujifilm to compete against HP's LightScribe with LabelFlash label printing system for optical disc
11 EMC completes ILM offering with acquisition of Acartus and Captiva
11 Computer Associates adds iLumin for email archiving
11 QLogic taps Troika
11 ByteTaxi (FolderShare) hops from Iomega to Microsoft
11 Singulus gets Steag Hamatech
11 Mount10 treats itself to NovaStor
11 PMC-Sierra will buy the storage semiconductor unit of Agilent Tehnologies
11 SanDisk has completed the acquisition of Matrix Semiconductors
11 Abtec International acquired by Disk Source
11 Xtore Extreme Storage and Advanced Industrial Computed have merged
11 ADIC wants a marriage with Overland, but at the same time is flirting with Tandberg
11 Datasave and Option+ within the same holding company with the help of MBO Partenaires
11 Hans O'Sullivan acquires 30% of Fibrenetix
11 EMC invests another $5 million into MTI Technology
11 MBO for LapiStor
11 Fiscal year results of Ciprico: sales of $23.2 million (+28%) and loss of $2.4 million
11 Fiscal year results of Hifn: sales of $46.4 million (+10%) and loss of $5.2 million
11 Fiscal year results of Hutchinson Technology: sales of $631.6 million (+34%) and net income of $53.0 million
11 Fiscal year results of Innovex: sales of $200.2 million (+28%) and loss of $26.0 million
12 Editorial: what the storage users want
12 Diligent promises a 25X reduction in D2D backup: what's their secret
12 IDC report: External disk storage achieves record growth in 3Q05
12 IDC report: Worldwide storage software sustains 10% growth from 3Q04 to 3Q05
12 IDC report: Significant growth in small form factor and mobile PC HDDs to boost WW HDD semiconductor market
12 Gartner report: More than 9% sequential revenue growth in 2Q05 for storage systems in AsiaPac excluding Japan
12 Coughlin Associates and Peripheral Concepts report: NAS virtualization to double in 2006
12 Data Management Partners, Toigo and Topio report: Remote replication seen as biggest growth area over next 12 months
12 Dell'Oro Group report: SAN switches shot up 13% sequentially in 3Q05
12 Maxtor report: 65% of users prefer backup on external drive
12 IDC report: MP3 all over the place
12 In-Stat report: Consumer electronics is major growth area for hard drives
12 EqualLogic bets it all on iSCSI SAN
12 Behing Kroll's acquisition of Ibas, a worldwide political gambit
12 Bell Micro, not happy with European ops, acquires another firm, MCE
12 Lasso lassoed by SonicWall
12 Catalyst Enterprises has acquired Ancot
12 Iron Mountain taps LiveVault for electronic vaulting
12 BakBone into CDP with Constant Data
12 Exabyte pays Imation to lower the price of VXA cartridges
12 Finis Conner's venture StorCard throws in the towel
12 Seagate invests in Irish plants
12 Cornice got as much as $97 million
12 Fiscal year results of ADIC: sales of $454.2 million (-0%) and net income of $14.3 million
12 Fiscal year results of Brocade: sales of $574.1 million (-4%) and net income of $43.1 million
12 Fiscal year results of Crossroads: sales of $19.7 million (-24%) and loss of $8.1 million