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INDEX

MONTH ARTICLES
1 With the acquisition of Maxtor for $1.9 billion, above all Seagate gets market share
1 Seagate's acquisition since 1988
1 Maxtor's milestones
1 From Cornice, Dragon series: one-inch HDDs at 8 and 20GB
1 Cornice signed a long-term patent agreement with Hitachi GST
1 Western Digital Raptor from 74GB o 150GB, always at 10,000rpm, with SATA interface
1 BDT confirmes as OEM of HP for tape automation (MSL2024, LTO, 1-2/24, 2U)
1 Imation in email archiving with Intradyn and Exabyte
1 JRIA report: WW recordable DVD demand approaches level of CD-R
1 Fujiwara-Rothschild report: Ritek number one in recordable optical discs in 3Q05
1 Gartner report: in 3Q05, 6.8% growth in external controller-based disk storage revenue. EMC remains leader
1 Gartner report: AsiaPac excluding Japan external storage revenue drops in 3Q05
1 EVault, software vendor as well as storage provider
1 Fiscal year results of Caminosoft: salesof $2.64 million (+112%) and loss of $0.77 million
1 Fiscal year results of Xyratex: sales of $679.6 million (+48%) and net income of $42.2 million
2 Start-ups in 2005: Cornice and the rest
2 Acquisitions in 2005: a record-breaking 69
2 Who bought whom in 2005
2 Imation buys a second brand name, Memorex, for $335 to $375 million
2 EMC acquired Internosis and Acxiom, this latter for $30 million
2 IBM has acquired CIMS Lab
2 Tacit Networks snapped up Mobiliti
2 Xiotech buys the assets of Daticon for around $16 million
2 Amerivault has acquired one of its competitor, CapitalBackup
2 Quest Software appropriated AfterMail for up to $30 million
2 Odixion has been sold to Headway Technology and Dastor
2 MediaMotion has bought Digital Valley
2 2005 funding for storage start-ups
2 Caringo, a new start-up in CAS
2 New 2.5-inch HDD at 60GB per disk and up to 120GB from Samsung
2 New 2.5-inch HDD at 60GB per disk and up to 120GB from Toshiba
2 New 2.5-inch HDD at 60GB per disk for a total capacity of 120GB from Western Digital
2 Western Digital with a new 500GB 3.5-inch SATA hard disk drive with four platters
2 Fujitsu in 1.8-inch HDDs in mid-2007 with the help of Cornice
2 Qualstar signs for Imation's Ulysses disk cartridge
2 Former Veritas CEO Gary Bloom leaves Symantec
2 Special technical report: HD-DVD just an evolution, Blu-ray an innovation, according to Jean-José Wanegue
2 IDC report: Western European disk storage system market grew 7% from 3Q04 to 3Q05
2 IDC report: Prices drop, revenue jumps, and capacity surges in a Central and Eastern Europe hungry for storage
2 Park Associates report: Nearly 10 million U.S. households will install network storage devices by 2010
2 "Computer Support Italcard in ""liquidazione"""
2 25GB of storage from Streamload on the Web, for free
3 So-so CeBIT
3 Iomega and Dot Hill replace CEOs Werner Heid and Jim Lambert, Komag seeks new head to replace T.H. Tan
3 TrendFOCUS report: 381 million hard disk drives sold in 2005
3 IDC report: Email archiving market growing at 34.5% CAGR through 2009
3 IDC report: In 2005, Hewlett-Packard number one for total disk systems, EMC for external ones
3 Gartner report: EMC continues to largely leads the pack in the worldwide external controller-based disk storage market
3 IDC report: AsiaPac - excluding Japan - external disk storage systems growing 22% in 2005
3 IDC report: IBM and NetApp fastest-growing companies in storage software, a market dominated by EMC
3 Analysys International report: Boom of China storage system market
3 Databeans report: Digital mass storage IC market to grow 8% in 2006
3 iSuppli report: Hard disk drives for the mobile-phone market will rise at a CAGR of 400% from 2005 to 2009
3 BridgeHead Software report: UK archiving lags behind US
3 BridgeHead Software report: Archiving can eliminate an entire year of primary storage capacity growth
3 Macarthur Stroud International report: Backup and archiving are the storage technologies to watch
3 Dell'Oro Group report: 4Gb/s HBA sales to eclipse 2Gb/s by late summer 2006
3 EMC graps Authentica
3 Hewlett-Packard purchases Outerbay
3 QLogic ventures into Infiniband with PathScale
3 Brocade acquires NuView
3 Dynamic Network Factory snaps up StoneFly
3 Adaptec sells its former Eurologic activity to Newisys
3 Atempo picks up Storactive
3 Big Vault into Digi-Data
3 Micron Technologies will buy flash card maker Lexar Media
3 Microsoft has acquired the iSCSI IP of String Beam Software
3 Emag Solutions has sold off its UK media division to Orion Storage Solutions
3 Arrow Electronics has gotten its hands on storage VAD Skydata
3 PMC-Sierra has completed the $425 million acquisition of Avago Technologies
3 Active Circle invents grid backup
4 What if optical technology had no future?
4 StorageNewsletter acquires Mass Storage News
4 Mobile phone makers not in hurry to use disk drives
4 Quantum comeback in removable disk drives
4 Seagate at 12GB in one-inch HDD using PMR technology
4 A 200GB capacity record in a 2.5-inch HDD from Fujitsu
4 500GB on three 3.5-inch platters on desktop HDD from Hitachi GST
4 Quantum has the highest capacity mid-range drive, the DLT-S4 (800/60), on market, but it's DLT
4 From Tandberg, an half-height LTO drive, the 220LTO (100/16) for less than $1,000
4 The Sony's AIT-3eX 8mm tape drive at 150/18
4 Exabyte is testing a new idea: the VXA-172 is a tape drive that can be upgraded
4 Iomega launches a desktop loader for eight REV disks
4 CD-R prices go up!
4 VAT sales tax fraud in Paris
4 File names visible on flash key from Royal Consumer Information Products
4 Imation's USB key in bracelet form
4 Exanet has a working NAS global file namespace
4 TDK stops recordable optical disc manufacturing, closes Luxembourg plant
4 BDT reveals itself bit by bit
4 Details of the Microsoft/Iomega/Bytetaxi deal
4 Hitachi GST plans to produce half of its HDDs in Shenzhen
4 Nanomagnetics on the auction block
4 ADIC to buy Rocksoft for its de-duplication software
4 Napatech has acquired some network assets of Xyratex
4 Mount10 sold its system integration business to SVA
4 Siahu has acquired another storage start-up, Tripylon
4 Harris Interactive/Iomega report: good computer file backup habits are stil hard to come by in U.S.
4 IDC report: 2006 will be a watershed year for the SMB storage market
4 Evans Data report: SAN and clustering to experience significant growth
4 IDC report: worldwide email archiving application market will grow at a CAGR of 34.5% through 2009
4 Seagate and Cornice reached a partial settlement to their lawsuits
4 CommVault tries to go public
5 Cover story: There is no ideal media for archiving
5 The first PMR desktop HDD, with an all-time record capacity of 750GB, from Seagate
5 The first PMR enterprise HDD, with record capacity of 300GB for a 15,000rpm unit, from Seagate
5 Encryption coming for tape
5 Sony's SAIT-2 at only 800/45
5 Computer Output Microfilm revival?
5 Ten years of continuous MP3 music on a 5TB RAID from Wiebetech
5 After Europe, India goes protectionist
5 By acquiring ActionFront, Seagate ventures into hard disk drive repair services
5 Crossroads taps TapeLabs
5 Another two for EMC: Kashya and Interlink
5 Emulex acquired Aarohi Communications for $39 million
5 Packeteer has acquired Tacit Networks
5 Incentra Solutions has purchased NST
5 Acronis acquired its German distributor
5 Joint-ventures suddenly hip in optical disc drive manufacturing
5 SNIA down in 2005
5 BakBone Software delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange
5 iSuppli report: hard disk drive shipments achieve record increase in 2005
5 Freeman report: tape library revenue up, units down in 2005
5 Enterprise Strategy Group: confidential data is most vulnerable on laptop computers
5 2005 hit parade of storage companies: leaders EMC and Seagate solidified their positions
5 IDC report: hard disk drive industry to continue breaking records
5 Fiscal year results of Adaptec: sales of $310.1 million (-16%) and net loss of $148.4 million
5 Fiscal year results of AMCC: sales of $261.8 million (+3%) and net loss of $148.4 million
5 Fiscal year results of Moser-Baer: sales of $380.2 million (+28%) and net income of $0.1 million
5 Fiscal year results of Nidec: sales of $4,868 million (+11%) and net income of $371.2 million
5 Fiscal year results of QLogic: sales of $494.1 million (+15%) and net income of $283.6 million
5 Fiscal year results of Symantec: sales of $4,143 million (+60%) and net income of $165.9 million
6 Cover story: Quantum to acquire ADIC, more questions than answers for the Q&A deal
6 Cover story: in mid-randge SANs, FC 4Gb/s replacing 2Gb/s
6 60GB per platter on the new ST18, the first 1.8-inch HDD from Seagate
6 80GB per disk and up to 160GB for the Hitachi GST's Travelstar 5K160, a 2.5-inch PMR HDD
6 From Seagate, the Momentus 7200.2, a 2.5-inch HDD at 7,200rpm and up to 160GB
6 From Seagate, the Momentus 5400.2, a 2.5-inch HDD at 5,400rpm and up to 160GB
6 From Seagate, the Momentus 5400PSD, a 2.5-inch HDD up to 160GB with a 256MB flash memory
6 From Seagate, the Savvio 10K.2, a 2.5-inch HDD at 10,000rpm and up to 146GB
6 From Toshiba, the MK2035GSS with a record 200GB into a 9.5mm 2.5-inch HDD
6 New Jupiter Venus from ExcelStor, 3.5-inch desktop HDDs up to 160GB on one platter
6 From Samsung, the SpinPoint T133, a 3.5-inch HDD up to 400GB with 133GB per disk
6 Imation and Tandberg (with ProStor) also in disk drive cartridges
6 Bountiful offering of autoloaders and small libraries
6 IDC report: External disk storage systems down 11% from 4Q05 to 1Q06
6 Gartner report: worldwide external controller-based disk storage market
6 Storage chief Canepa leaves warmth of Sun
6 Seagate to lay off minimum 6,000 employees, all from Maxtor
6 Kasten Chase in bankruptcy
6 At BridgeHead Software, no hardware, no apps, just protected DLM middleware
6 KLA Tencor to get ADE
6 Double-Take gobbles up European distributor
6 Collective will add consultants to MTI
6 Iron Mountain acquires interest in Mody Access Info
6 nLayers into EMC
6 LSI Logic sells semiconductor facility
6 MDY into CA's hands
6 NextiraOne acquired by ABN AMRO Capital
6 BlueArc at $204 million!
6 Hitachi Group still the world's leading storage company, with yearly sales of more than $10 billion
6 Fiscal year results of Finisar: sales of $364.3 million (+30%) and $24.9 million loss
6 Fiscal year results of Lasercard: sales of $39.9 million (+40%) and $0.8 million net income
6 Fiscal year results of MTI Technology: sales of $155.0 million (+40%) and $8.0 million net loss
6 Fiscal year results of NetApp: sales of $2,066.5 (+29%) and $266.5 million net income
6 Fiscal year results of Quantum: sales of $834.3 million (+5%) and $41.5 million net loss
6 History: nearly 2.5 billion hard disk drives shipped from 1976 to 2006
7 Infiniband clustered storage no longer a dream, according to Isilon Systems
7 From Toshiba, a video server with flash, no HDD
7 Pillar expands its line of software for NAS/SAN Axiom hardware
7 Iomega's REV from 35GB to 70GB
7 Juan Rodriguez non longer chairman of Exabyte, company for sale
7 IDC report: entry-level and midrange external disk storage segments record strong growth in AsiaPac
7 IDC report: double-digit growth for the worldwide storage software market
7 The 451 Group report: emerging software drive a shift to next-generation data protection
7 Gartner report: worldwide FC SAN switch revenue increased 20% in 1Q2006
7 TheInfoPro report: 2006 is the year of NAS optimization
7 Gartner report: worldwide application acceleration market at $344 million in 1Q2006
7 Coughlin Associates report: more data backed up on disk than on tape in 2006
7 Gartner report: 80% of portable media players with flash, 20% with disk drives
7 TheInfoPro report: storage professionals target automation homegrown activities and underutilized assets to boost productivity
7 AT&T report: U.S. firms unprepared for man-made or natural disasters
7 Qlayer, a likely Belgian success story to watch
7 Synerway to raise Euros 3 million
7 Cutting Edge creates ANStor64
7 Iron Mountain gets Australian Digiguard
7 EMC out of control! Three more acquisitions: RSA at $2.1 billion in cash, Akimbi and ProActivity
7 In Australia, Enstor bought by Storage Dynamics
7 NetApp sells its NetCache appliance to Blue Coast Systems for $24 million
7 ViaWest has acquired Fortix
7 Plasmon's situation deteriorating
8 This list will give you goosebumps: nearly 89 million people affected by data lost or stolen
8 Hard disk drive manufacturer ExcelStor focused on Chinese market
8 Ingrian Networks/Access Intelligence/InfoTech report: role of encryption in safeguarding data is growing
8 Gartner report: rash of personal data thefts shows Social Security numbers can no longer be sole proof of identity for enterprises
8 New kind of hybrid hard disk drive from Digi-Data to come
8 Sony from AIT-4 (200/24) to AIT-5 (400/24)
8 Calendar of storage events from September 2006 to November 2007
8 Once more another Atempo CEO: Neal Alter succeeds Rick Wojcik
8 Taneja Group report: 48% of users to deploy file classification strategy
8 SteelEye Technology: on business continuity, Europe and America learn only from their own most recent experiences
8 SNIA Europe report: reliability as a key requirement for their storage infrastructure
8 Park Associates report: sales of home media servers at 50 million units by 2010
8 Gartner report: annual failures rates of PCs are improving, but manufacturers can do better
8 Santa Clara Consulting Group report: Blu-ray and HD DVD markets to exceed $28 billion by 2010
8 What a surprise: Iomega in managed services with its acquisition of CSCI !
8 CA gets CDP with XOsoft
8 CreekPath finishes lamentably in hands of Opsware
9 Pointsec report: UK companies see risk of removable media but still turn a blind eye
9 "Interview with Tom Mendoza, president of NetApp: ""IBM approached us, we did not approach them"""
9 History: at 50, hard disk drive has never been so in peril, even if retirement is still a long way
9 Gartner report: strongest yearly growth for NetApp
9 Fiscal year results of Emulex: sales of $402.8 million (+7%), net income of $40.6 million
9 Fiscal year results of LaCie: sales of Euros 351.8 million (+24%)
9 Fiscal year results of Qualstar: sales of $21.7 million (-14%), net loss of $1.7 million
9 Fiscal year results of Overland Storage: sales of $209.0 million (-11%), net loss of $18.3 million
9 Fiscal year results of Seagate Technology: sales of $9,206 million (+22%), net income of $840 million
9 Fiscal year results of Western Digital: sales of $4,341million (+19%), net income of $395.9 million
9 Much activity in de-duplication
10 "Interview with Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate. On Maxtor:"" It was buying market share for a cheap cost"""
10 New 1.8-inch HDDs at 40 and 80GB with length reduced to 71mm, by Toshiba
10 First PMR
10 Incentra Solutions' Front Porch Digital sold to a fund managed by Genuity Capital Partners for $38 million
10 Incentra got Tactix for $3.6 million
10 GlobalSPACE has acquired Availl for $9.6 million
10 MBO for Glasshouse Technologies' UK storage harware and software business, to become Storpoint Data
10 Phoenix Computers acquired by U.S. investor Clarey Technology Group
10 Lumenate acquired Stonebridge
10 Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software
10 Xyratex acquires Japanese distributor Jastam Trading for $1.5 million
10 RISC Group acquired the French BESDI
10 Papst wins lawsuit against Minebea
10 Copio Software, a new name in the storage industry
10 Brokers like storage at last? IPO from Double-Take Software, Isilon, Mellanox, completed by CommVault and Riverbed
11 EMC buys mainly growth, NetApp only technology
11 Gartner report: IBM, HP, EMC go 1-2-3 in worldwide storage services
11 IDC report: In the wordwide storage software market, NetApp, IBM and CA up
11 IDC report: SMBs across Southeast Asia to invest $630 million on storage in 2006
11 IDC report: Unit pricing of disk storage downwards in AsiaPac
11 IDC report: Disk-based data protection to generate more than $50 billion over the next five year period
11 IDC report: revenue growth and capacity soars in Czech market for disk storage
11 In-Stat report: Solid state drives to challenge hard drives in laptop market
11 IDC report: VTL market will double over the next five years
11 ABI Research report: Digital media backup will drive the nascent consumer network storage market to nearly $1.2 billion by 2011
11 ILTA/Unitrends report: Law firms agree disaster recovery plans are critical but worry about lack of funding
11 AIIM report: A third of the UK's largest companies admit email chaos
11 The Radicati Group report: 183 billion emails per day in 2006
11 Dell'Oro report: FC to meet same problems as 10Gb Ethernet
11 EMC in de-dup with Avamar
11 LSI in virtualization with StoreAge
11 StorCase closed its doors, some assets acquired by CRU-DataPort
11 NetApp in replication with Topio
11 Enigma to be acquired by Softek
11 SimpleTech has acquired virtual all assets of Gnutek
11 Pointsec bought by Check Point
11 NovaStor purchased other German firm Dynavisions
11 Overland, laying off, discontinues development of Zetta technology
11 Clash between Seagate and eSys
11 Fiscal year results of Brocade: sales of $750.6 million (+31%), net income of $67.6 million
11 Fiscal year results of Ciprico: sales of $11.9 million (-10%), net loss of $3.7 million
11 Fiscal year results of HiFn: sales of $43.8 million (-4%), net loss of $8.7 million
11 Fiscal year results of Hutchinson: sales of $721.5 million (+14%), net income of $20.5 million
11 Fiscal year results of Innovex: sales of $173.1 million (+14%), net loss of $17.0 million
11 Storage Expo: up in UK, down in France (comparison with SNW in U.S.)
12 LSI with Agere: good chip (but not cheap) combination
12 The first 1.8 HDD at 100GB, but with a 8mm height, from Toshiba
12 A software-based hard drive firewall from DriveSentry
12 M5, brave new player in tape automation
12 Breece Hill not anymore a tape automation manufacturer
12 Hi-Stor now in data classification and archiving appliance
12 Former Maxtor CEO C.S. Park, golden parachutist
12 JRIA report: In the recordable optical media market, CDs plummet and DVDs grow less quickly
12 IDC report: EMC increases its worldwide market share in disk storage systems
12 IDC report: More growth in CEMA than in EMEA for external disk systems
12 Gartner report: Stronger growth for NetApp, HP only big vendor to lose market share in external disk systems
12 IDC report:12th consecutive quarter of growth for storage software
12 TheInfoPro report: Backup redesign is top storage initiative with 25% of Fortune 1000 organizations
12 IDC report: tape storage market growing 8% in China in 2005
12 Peripheral Concepts report: CDP extends beyond data protection
12 Peripheral Concepts report: VTL gaining ground in the SMB backup
12 PowerFile report: Archiving issues faced by VARs and end users
12 Freeform Dynamics/CA report: Security and storage are the business Achilles heel in Europe and Middle East
12 IDC report: Storage virtualization to emerge as a critical competitive battleground
12 EMC/Quocirca report: Businesses go back to infrastructure basics to drive companies forward in UKand Ireland
12 eMedia/BridgeHead report: Compliance only third priority as archiving driver
12 A3 Communications report: The top storage analysts in Europe
12 Symantec got CDP vendor Revivio for only $20 million
12 Iron Mountain as greedy as ever
12 Capital Growth Systems got CentrePath for $7 million
12 Zantaz has bought long-time partner Singlecast
12 Arrow Electronics has definitefely acquired the assets of UK-based InTechnology for 41 million pounds
12 Xyratex has acquired some assets of start-up Ario Data Networks
12 After $251 million in operating losses in 2005, Hitachi GST plans another $343 million shortfall in 2006
12 UbiStorage designs peer-to-peer backup
12 Innovacom invests Euro 2.5 million in Agematis
12 BlueArc will help HDS in NAS