The Linear Tape Open (LTO) program has received a major boost with the launch of a new compliance verification process by LTO technology providers Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate.

A new range of DVD-RAM automated libraries targeted at the healthcare, engineering, financial, legal and government sectors, has been released by Plasmon.

Exabyte has entered the storage area networks (SAN) arena, with a new network storage management initiative known as NetStorM.

StorageTek and Innovation Data Processing have integrated their ExHPDM and FDR software, to cut disk-to-tape backup time by up to 50 per cent.

Meridian Data, has released a CD-ROM network server that allows up to 30 CDs to be cached on a single hard disk.

Hewlett-Packard has released a new line of CD drives and software bundles that are suited to a wide range of applications.

The latest move in healthcare is to apply contemporary information management techniques for not only patient records, but also patient care.

The Collaborative Health Informatics Centre (CHIC) is a national not-for-profit organisation whose focus is to improve patient care and business processes in the health sector through the application of appropriate information technologies.

The 1999 Health Informatics Conference aims to bring together vendors and health professionals to share insights about the special information requirements of the health sector.

As well as the needs of the doctor, HIC 99 is taking the opportunity to explore the relationship between information management and specific groups of the healthcare profession.