BrightStor ARCserve Backup from Computer Associates now supports NetWare from Novell. V9 for Netware went on to the market this week and is priced to be competitive.

Sony has launched a Super Advanced Intelligent Tape (S-AIT) that stores over one terabyte per cartridge, for storage hungry enterprises.

The publicity juggernaut for the second film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers, has made a whistle-stop in the storage industry, with Seagate Technology and Network Appliance among the happy suppliers.

Seagate's mostly solid performance last week in its reintroduction to Wall Street was maintained this week, as the storage industry gradually shut down for the Christmas break.

Lorraine Lovett, from Information Enterprises Australia is the lucky winner of a 1997 bottle of Grange, which was the prize draw for entering the recent Image & Data Manager email usage survey.

David Thompson has joined AXS-One has its new Vice President for the Asia Pacific region, leaving imaging and document management providers IXOS.

New Zealand's document management specialists Datamail has agreed to become the New Zealand reseller for Web based self service systems from RightNow Technologies.

It's been a bumper week for troubled service heavyweight EDS, extending multi-million dollar contracts, signing up Bank of America for US$4.5 billion whilst lowering its fourth quarter expectations.

DLT tape specialist Quantum has laid out a four-year road map, chalking up its battle plans to take on LTO makers.

EMC continues to chase the small and medium sized enterprise market and added to its recent CLARiiON announcements today with the addition of smaller switches from McData.