Hitachi has created a new hard disk drive (HDD) storage company, Global Storage Technologies, which comprises Hitachi's and IBM's HDD operations and has released four new HDD products.

In a deal that could be the first of many, Cisco Systems and IBM have joined forces to combine the companies' Fibre Channel storage-area networking products.

Document storage guidelines are now available from the National Archives of Australia to compliment the storage standard announced in September 2001.

Security provider Network Associates has added an anti-spam product to its anti-virus offerings, through the acquisition of privately held Deersoft.

The IDM Web Site will feature a new storage channel for 2003. Storage Management is tipped to be the growth sector of the storage market over the next three years and IDM has responded to increasing readership interest.

A team of scientists have invented the world's first optical fibre which will open the way to computers being run on light and improve medical imaging inside the body.

The humble librarian risks budget cuts and redundancy, unless they embrace the Internet and overcome the spinster image, warns an information management expert.

The local technology market is in for a rocky ride and more uncertainty if conflicting reports about IT spending in 2003 are to be heeded.

2002 closed and so did the sale of the hard disk drive arm of IBM to Hitachi. IBM submitted papers to the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States on the 31st of December to complete the deal.