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MONTH ARTICLES
1 IDC report: hot Czech disk storage market to hit 10PB in 2007
1 Top ten storage predictions of IDC for 2008
1 Seagate closes one of its Irish plant, in Limavabady, County Londonderry, manufacturing aluminim disk substrates
1 Hitachi, Fujitsu and Toshiba together for a new conglomerate in HDDs? The potential consequences of such a deal
1 IBM shipped its 10,000th SVC controller in 3,400 installations
1 IBM venturing into storage grid for CAS with ByCast
1 Pat Clarke CEO of Tandberg Data
1 HH LTO-4 drive available at Quantum (sames specs as HP's unit)
1 Tandberg Storage has confirmed HH LTO-4 for 1Q08
1 IBM and SiliconSystems into flash blades
1 A record 832GB 2.5-inch flash drive from BITMICRO for 3Q08
1 EMC first to enter enterprise flash drives, with STEC
1 Imation: Ulysses' last voyage
1 500GB into a 2.5-inch Samsung HDD on two disk platters
1 The first half-terabyte notebook drive revealed by Hitachi GST, but with three disk platters
1 Five new 1.8-inch HDDs by Toshiba
1 The most surprising HDD announcement for the new year: a tiny 1.3-inch device from Samsung
1 Storage start-ups: investors tight-fisted in 2007
1 Georges Teixeira, Datacore's CEO:" We will provide framework to integrate SAN and NAS"
2 Plasmon to raise 10 million sterling pounds
2 Hitachi GST finally becoming profitable
2 Managed Data Holdings has acquired Data393
2 Double-Take Software acquired TimeSpring for $8.3 million
2 Start-up Fabrik has acquired G-Technology
2 The ICT Group has got its hands on other French company DataBase-Bank
2 Atempo picks up Lighthouse Global Technogies
2 Rocket Software acquires assets of Arkivio
2 WiebeTech purchased by CDU-DataPort
2 Another Dell storage acquisition: The Networked Storage Company in UK
2 TeraCloud bought Asterion
2 Out of stealth mode, Atrato gets $18 million
2 U.S. Patent Office in favor of Convolve against Seagate
2 Riverbed countersues Quantum on de-dup patent
2 NetApp and Redshift Research report: 65% of midsize European enterprises are not properly prepared for data loss
2 JRIA report: No glowing future for recordable media, save blue ray discs and memory cards
2 Flash drive now for desktop PCs also, like here on the HP-Compaq ultra-slim dc7800
2 NetApp prepares for the succession of the old guard
2 Brocade DCX: Rolls Royce of switches
2 Imation Odissey becoming a removable-removable drive
2 Third generation of Iomega REVs to come
2 WD at 320GB on one 3.5-inch disk platter
2 Storage blogs, rather a bore
2 From 2006 to 2007, fewer mergers and acquisitions, and at lower prices
3 HP registered $977 million revenue in storage for 1Q08
3 $2.4 billion for Dell storage during last fiscal year
3 Phoenix-like, Raidtec rises from its ashes as Arystor
3 Allstar team heading new SSD start-up Pliant Technology
3 Silicon Mountain Holdings acquired IP of an unidentified storage software developer
3 TeraCloud acquires and becomes Estorian
3 Brocade signed a definitive agreement to get Strategic Business System
3 Broadcom has got its hands on Sunext Design for $48 million
3 LSI definitivey acquired the HDD semiconductor business of Infineon
3 Smart Modular Technologies completes the acquisition of Adtron for $35 million
3 Arrow to purchase European VAD LOGIX for Euro 120 million
3 EMC insistent on Iomega acquisition
3 TheInfoPro report: Which niche storage technology vendors are causing a shift in provider landscape?
3 IDC report: Worldwide removable HDD market will increase at a 65% CAGR rate
3 IDC report: Worldwide storage software market growing contineously since 17 quarters
3 ONStor report: Green data centers are far from a reality for both European and U.S. companies alike
3 IDC report: strong growth for the worldwide disk storage market, but HP lags
3 Gartner report: The best place for EMC and NetApp in the Magic Quadrant for mid-range storage enterprise in 2H07
3 IDC/EMC report: 281 exabytes for the digital universe in 2007, 60% CAGR
3 Following EMC, Sun to enter enterprise flash SSD
3 Sun continues to invest in tape: the T9840D at 75GB and a new SL3000 library (56/3,000)
3 A tape library with SAS interface, by PivotStor
3 Iomega's REV from 70GB to 120GB
3 WD shipping desktop HDDs at 640GB on two platters
3 Hitachi GST follows the competition with a 2.5-inch HDD with 160GB per disk, up to 320GB
3 Fujitsu, the third manufacturer to enter 500GB notebook drives after Hitachi GST and Samsung
3 The first 1.8-inch HDD at 5,400rpm, from Toshiba
3 80 million CD-Rs and DVD-Rs seized in Asia since December 2007
3 Storage giants absent, small fish breathe easier
3 RAID on CMC, Daxon, Lead Data and ProMedia by German police at CeBIT
4 Megatable: The list of 1,395 online backup providers in the world
4 Gartner report: Corporate email hosting is poised for explosive growth
4 IDC report: Worldwide online backup services market to reach $715 million by 2011
4 SAP founder and chairman invests in SmApper
4 IDC report: data loss prevention emerges as a critical component to organizations
4 Recommind/Osterman Research report: Employee habits increase potential litigation exposure
4 TrendFocus report: HDD units increased 15% to 502 million units in 2007, with revenue at $33 billion
4 More than 1,000 online backup providers in the world
4 Vern LoForti, president and CEO of Overland:" We have our own data de-dup in development."
5 ONStor report: Green data centers are far from a reality for both European and U.S. companies alike
5 CMS Peripherals distribute flash keys to enterprise SAN/NAS
5 Mtron knows how to control flash disks effectively
5 50%/50% joint venture between EMC and Digital China
5 $30 million for Datacore
5 HP plans to buy Tower Software
5 PHNS has acquired AmeriVault and will operate with Network Technology Group
5 Novell completed the acquisition of PlateSpin
5 Cisco has completed the acquisition of Nuova for a price up to $678 million
5 Iron Mountain purchased DocuVault
5 EMC finally acquires Iomega for $213 million
5 IBM definitively gets Diligent and FilesX
5 Phoenix Technologies has completed the acquisition of BeInSync
5 Dell finalized the acquisition of MessageOne
5 Avnet plans to acquire Horizon Technology for $156 million in cash
5 Vault USA acquired MoreStor Vault
5 Comeback for Finis Conner, not in storage
5 Ultrastar 15K450 from Hitachi GST: enterprise 3.5-inch HDD, 113GB/disk, 450GB, 15,000rpm
5 Jupiter J9250/9160 and Venus 9250/9160 from ExcelStor: 3.5-inch, 250GB/disk, 160GB or 250GBGB, one platter only, 7,200rpm, ATA and SATA
5 VelociRaptor from WD: 3.5-inch form factor with a 2.5-inch mechanism, 150GB/disk, up to 300GB, 10,000rpm, SATA
5 Travelstar 7K320 from Hitachi GST: 2.5-inch, 160GB/disk, up to 320GB, 7,200rpm
5 MHZ2 BS & BK from Fujitsu: 2.5-inch, 125GB/disk, up to 250GB, 5,400 or 7,200rpm, built for 24-hour operation
5 MHZ2 BJ series from Fujitsu: 2.5-inch, 160GB/disk, up to 320GB, 7,200rpm
5 Financial fiscal year results of Nidec: sales of $5,382million ($4,589 million in 2006, +17%) and net income of $341 million ($250
5 Financial fiscal year results of Western Digital: sales of $5,468 million ($4,341 million in 2006, +26%) and net income of $585 million ($396 million in 2006)
5 Financial fiscal year results of Hitachi GST: sales of $5,563 million ($4,867 million in 2006, +14%) and loss of $386 million($375 million in 2006)
5 Financial fiscal year results of EMC: sales of $13,230 million ($11,155 million in 2006, +32%) and net income of $1,667 million ($1,228 million in 2006)
5 Fiscal year results of Seagate Technology: sales of $11,360 million (+23%), net income of $913 million
5 2007 hit parade: and the growth goes on...
6 SanDisk acquired MusicGremlin
6 Arrow Elecronics completed the acquisition for European VAD LOGIX
6 For $123 million, Symantec completed the acquisition of online backup provider SwapDrive
6 Finisar spun-off its SAN monitoring and testing business
6 GlassHouse Technologies purchased UK IT consulting firm TPP Group
6 IDC report: replication software market shifting with higher growth expected from host-based and network appliance-based replication
6 SteelEye Technology: C-level executives prioritizing business continuity protection
6 Overland Storage/Excillio Group: capacity and utilization planning, the most important challenge for the year
6 ESG report: large organizations experiencing explosive growth in log data collection
6 F5 Networks report: storage virtualization market set to more than double in the next two years
6 Seagate/Harris Interactive report: many U.S. consumers fail to protect their priceless information
6 Gartner report: WW storage management software revenue increased 12% in 2007
6 iSuppli report: troubling signs for NAND flash slowdown in 2008
6 CCID Consulting report: Lenovo has the largest sale volume in Chinese mobile hard disk market in 1Q08
6 TrendFOCUS report: all HDD makers are expanding production capacity in 2008
6 Dell'Oro report: overall FC storage networking and Ethernet switches sales declined during 1Q08 from 4Q07
6 IDC report: WW disk storage system capacity shipments continue to double very two years
6 Gartner report: WW external controller-based disk storage market grew 6.6% in 2007 and 10.2% in 1Q08
6 IDC report: 8% growth in the WW disk storage systems in 1Q08
6 After being successful with Seagate, Convolve filed a suit against Dell, WD and HGST for motion control technology associated with vibration of the HDD actuator arm
6 ProStor pushed its RDX 2.5-inch cartridge from 300GB to 500GB
6 Dell storage revenue down sequentially 3% though EqualLogic acquisition
6 Seagate the first with SFF drive at 300GB
6 WD finally has notebook HDD at 7,200rpm and a 3.5-inch 1TB device with only three platters
6 1.8-inch 5,400rpm HDD from Toshiba et 160GB
6 What's the difficulty in putting 7,200rpm and 15,000rpm drives in the same chassis? It's the heads, not the spin speeds
6 A visit to the world's 32nd largest HPC: France's CEA Tera-10
6 HPC: a new storage paradigm
7 Corrections concerning the article:" A visit to world's 32nd largest HPC: France's CEA Tera-10"
7 Does anybody still do holography? 23 companies filing patents recently
7 Bull and Fujitsu Siemens in talks
7 Seagate deeply restructures (disk and media) component manufacturing
7 Eric Kelly, the guy behind Overland's acquisition of Adaptec's Snap
7 ABI Research report: network storage to be fastest growing home networking category
7 IMS Research report: video surveillance storage market to exceed 3.3EB by 2012
7 ABI Research report: video surveillance market poised for $46 billion of explosive growth
7 IDC report: active archiving to become more integral to information management initiatives
7 TrendFOCUS report: SSDs not a factor today, but may replace tens of millions of HDDs in th future
7 BridgeHead Software/eMedia report: businesses feel the 'crunch" as backups get out of control"
7 AMI Partners report: U.S. medium businesses to invest $7.8 billion in storage and security this year
7 ONStor report: Europe behind U.S. in virtualization adoption
7 Applied Research-West/SanDisk report: organizations at risk from unsecured USB flash drives
7 IDC report: disk-based data protection and disaster recovery projects to drive storage spending in Europe
7 TrendFOCUS report: 18% CAGR through 2012 for external HDD market overview
7 TheInfoPro report: 50% of storage production environments at F1000 targeted to be virtualized by 2009
7 IDC report: data protection, recovery and replication driving storage software market
7 Traveen Asthana, director of Dell Storage:" We continue to target acquisitions, on the software side."
7 Hitachi GST with 1TB HDDs on 3 disks
7 WW record capacity of an HDD: 1.5TB (on 4 platters), by Seagate on 7200.11 desktop model
7 Toshiba 2.5-inch unit at 400GB
7 Seagate Momentus notebook HDDs at 500GB, 5,400 or 7,200rpm
7 HP and Sony working on next generation DAT320 drives (160/12)
7 IBM TS1130 (1000/160) is the first GMR tape drive
7 From Sun, WW tape capacity for a day (1000/120)
7 Tape revival? If so, for how long? New announcements from IBM, Sun and HP/Sony
7 Dell and EMC bear each other (up): with two different strategies
8 Rackable to divest its RapidScale storage business
8 The R&D facility of Seagate in Milpitas, CA is up for sale
8 Imation to close Camarillo, CA plant
8 Dot Hill to acquire RAIDCore and NAS IP of Ciprico, under Chapter XI
8 Thales UK made a cash offer for the capital of nCipher
8 Double-Take bought emBoot
8 In South Africa, Vodacom purchases 51% of StorTech
8 DataPlay acquires DaTARIUS and resume operations
8 WD now back in disk controllers
8 Brocade gets Foundry Networks for $3 billion
8 Adaptec taps start-up Aristos Logic for $41 million
8 An interview with Steve Murphy, CEO of Plasmon
8 Consumer Electronics Assoc. report: Americans are not properly backing up their data
8 IDC: EMEA HDD growth at 19% in 2Q08 from 2Q07
8 KRC Research/Hitachi GST report: Average value of stored data has reached $1,660 per person
8 Permabit report: Secondary disk storage surpasses tape and optical as arriving destination of choice
8 IDC: storage software market records $3 billion in 2Q08
8 IDC report: 17% yearly growth for the WW external disk storage systems in 2Q08
8 Research and Markets report: 51% of consumers said 1TB HDD would be useful to them
8 iSuppli report: Insatiable demand carries HDDs through recession
8 Apparently Fujitsu, Hitachi GST, Hoya and Showa Denko looking deeply at patterned media
8 Hitachi GST demonstrated 610Gb per square inch magnetic recording on disks
8 The first 2.5-inch HDD at 10,000rpm, the WD VelociRaptor (at 300GB)
8 Hitachi GST HDDs for video recorder applications
8 Plasmon soon relegated to storage industry achives?
9 Dot Hill finalized the acquisition of Ciprico RAID software and NAS IPs for $3.25 million
9 Sony acquired all of the NEC's holdings in Sony NEC Optiarc
9 Interview with Tandberg Data's McClain Buggle, product manager for disk and software: Why RDX is so expensive? Ask Dell
9 Databarracks report: companies have a false sense of confidence in their backup solutions
9 Coughlin Associates report: HDD industry expected to spend 9% of total revenue on capital equipment from 2007 to 2013
9 Pew Internet & American Life Project report: 5% of Americans backup HDD to an online site
9 PerfectBackup.co.uk report: small business backup in UK: the shocking facts
9 Symantec/Applied Research West report: virtualization driving organizations to reevaluate DR plans
9 CCID Consulting report: 5.6 million mobile storage devices sold in China in 2Q08, Aigo and Lenovo ahead
9 IDC report: EMEA external disk system market increased 20% from 2Q07 to 2Q08, reaching $1.8 billion
9 Gartner report: WW external controller-based disk market grew 19% in 2Q08
9 i365, new Seagate company replacing Seagate Services
9 Start-up greenBytes out of stealth mode
9 First NAS from Overland
9 First hardware product from Oracle, with HP storage
9 500GB on two platters on the new notebook HDD by WD
9 250GB 1.8-inch HDD from Toshiba
9 New silicon media for very-long term archiving
9 The market for RDX and its competition
10 All the 500GB 2.5-inch HDDs
10 Largest-ever Dell EqualLogic order by JAIST
10 HP to OEM LSI storage virtualization appliance fo EVA
10 $15 million raised by Intransa, ¤11.5 million by Crocus, and $10.7 million by Zetta
10 New UK start-up in archiving software: Tarmin
10 $4.5 million received by TimeSight
10 Virsto, a start-up in server virtualization and storage management
10 Axxana, a storage start-up to follow, focused on disaster recovery
10 Showa Denko and Hoya to merge rigid disk operations
10 With LeftHand acquisition, HP finally becoming serious in iSCSI
10 WD (or Toshiba) to acquire Fujitsu's HDD business?
10 With the DL2000, Dell seeks to simplify backup on disks
10 Super Talent with SSD at $2.33 per gigabyte
10 $12.3 per gigabyte for Intel 32GB SATA SSDs, in Q1,000
10 HDS in SSD with Transcend, HP with STEC and LSI for controllers
10 2.5-inch 80GB HDD for in-car navigation by Toshiba
10 Phil Soran, chairman, CEO & president of Compellent:" If you look at how we do the dynamic block architecture, it's second to none."
10 Jim Welsh, senior VP & GM, branded products & CE at WD:" Our target is really to remain in the consumer business."
11 French Oodrive acquired Belgian BlueBackup
11 enChoice has bought CYA Technologies
11 Front Porch Digital has acquired SAMMA Systems
11 Barracuda Networks has completed the acquisition of BitLeap
11 Effective April 1, 2009, Fujitsu will acquire Siemens' 50% share in Fujitsu Siemens Computers
11 Tandberg Data acquires sister firm Tandberg Storage
11 Pillar Data report: Users still struggle with storage issues as server virtualization continues to grow
11 COPAN Systems report: IT departments grapple with persistent data
11 TheInfoPro report: Brocade, Compellent, Data Domain and NetApp gaining ground
11 Proofpoint and Osterman Research report: IT executives remain resistant to email archiving demands
11 ABI Research report: Consumer NAS market growing, but continues to face significant challenges
11 IDC report: Storage-as-a-service capacity growing from 174PB in 2007 to 2.1EB in 2012
11 Informa Telecoms & Media report: DVR/PVR sales to quadruple over the next five years
11 Santa Clara Consulting Group report: WW tape cartridge sales amounted to $321 million in 2Q08, LTO being the largest segment
11 IDC report: Strong surge in mobile class fuels growth in 3Q08 EMEA HDD market
11 Santa Clara Consulting Group report: WW USB flash drive shipments increased 9% from 1Q08 to 2Q08
11 Bill Evans replaces Alain Pechon as CEO of Arkeia
11 Ryal Popa dead
11 IBM TS2900 autoloader produced by NEC
11 New Fujitsu SAS HDDs: 300GB/10,025rpm, 147GB/15,000rpm
11 Toshiba at 500GB in 2.5-inch HDD with two platters
11 Hitachi GST at 500GB in 2.5-inch HDD with two platters
11 Fujitsu at 500GB in 2.5-inch HDD with two platters
11 Interview with Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate:" We screwed up the notebook? Butwe went from 160 to 500 in twelve months. On two disks."
12 Higher capacities for SSDs than HDDs in 2.5-inch form factor
12 eSATA + USB flash keys
12 Seagate reduces warranty from 5 o 3 years for all desktop and notebook HDDs
12 IBM TS3100 (2/24) and TS3200 (4/48) LTO libraries with HH SAS drives
12 Addonics: a NAS for $55
12 Imation increases prices on its optical and magnetic media by 10 to 15%
12 Editor's note:" I rescued a hard drive."
12 Research and Markets report: China is the world's largest maker of USB flash drives
12 iSuppli report: 4Q08 HDD shipments to be flat or down
12 IDC report: WW enterprise storage system semiconductor market will grow to $1.3 billion by 2012
12 CCID Consulting report: China external disk market grew 43% from 2Q07 to 2Q08
12 Coughlin Associates report: From 2008 to 2014, 16X growth in capacity shipments per year
12 Santa Clara Consulting Group report: WW tape cartrige sales down 6% from 2Q08 to 3Q08
12 Trust Catalyst and Thales report: Third of organizations don't know of they will encrypt their tapes
12 IDC report: 9% growth in external disk storage systems market despite economic slowdown
12 IDC report: WW storage software market: 12% revenue growth in 3Q08
12 Quantum not in compliance with the New York Stock Exchange
12 Dell and EMC extend global alliance until 2013
12 TheInfoPro report: EMC, NetApp, IBM, and HDS have replication that work best with server virtualization for F1000
12 SNIA formed Storage Technology Online Community
12 Crossroads Systems settled patent litigation
12 Rumor of Western Digital buying Fujitsu HDD business resurfaces
12 Finally, the acquisition of Foundry Networks by Brocade is done, for $2.6 billion
12 PLX Technology definitively acquired Oxford Semiconductor
12 Steek purchased Amiz.fr
12 Second storage acquisition for French ICT: Intradot
12 Mainline Information Systems completed the acquisition of Cornerstone Systems
12 Storage industry definitively affected by the crisis
12 Interview with Joel Schwartz, senior VP and GM, common storage platform operations, EMC:" Because it's clear the one thing I can say about IBM's strategy, they're not committed to anything."