Bare Metal Restore, the disaster recovery application from Veritas is to be dropped, the company said in a statement from its USA headquarters, but the capabilities will be integrated into their NetBackup application and others.

There's been a surge in tech stocks in the US following higher than expected results from data storage makers EMC, Storage Technology (StorageTek) and McData, despite the unveiling of US President Bush's economic stimulus package.

Brocade Communications Systems and Storage Technology (StorageTek) work together to educate their mutual customers.

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.