Australasian distributor Digistor has signed a deal with IBM to onsell its TotalStorage NAS 100 hardware, using the marketing gimmick of likening the device to a pizza box.
McData will pitch the new device in its Sphereon range of Fibre Channel switches to what it calls the "mid-range market" of storage area network users.
IBM's quarterly results, which showed what amounted to parity in its storage business, gave a nice polish to what was a largely positive week for tech stocks in general, including storage.
Quantum has said it will spin off its network attached storage business into a separate company called Snap Appliance which will merge with a third independent company.
Australian storage vendor executives are in the midst of some furious back-room lobbying in planning for the establishment of a local chapter of the Storage Networking Industry Association.
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has joined with Documentum, Plumtree Software and Oblix to create an integrated package of technologies for rapid Web application deployment.
Hawaii-based Pihana Pacific is celebrating its three-way merger by taking its storage service provider business to Singapore in a deal with a local ISP.
Seagate Technology Holdings has re-emerged from a period of over two years of being a private company by filing to relist its shares, in a move that could herald M&A activity in the depressed storage sector.
An expert from the Record Management Association of Australia (RMAA) has warned that Australian records managers are not ready for terrorist attacks, in the wake of the Bali bomb blasts on the weekend.
