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  • Fibre channel sales tipped to double by 2008

    The annual worldwide Fibre Channel SAN market is set to break the US$3 billion (AU$3.87 billion) revenue mark by 2008, with modular SAN switch revenues to more than double by 2009, industry analysts have predicted.

  • Rural firms warned to guard against internal attacks

    An Australian expert on information security has urged regional businesses to be alive to the threat of security breaches, warning that rural firms are as much at risk of technology attack as their city-based counterparts.

  • Sony turbo boosts data migration

    New Advanced Intelligent Tape drives have been released by Sony to, giving a welcome boost to organisations that need to migrate data from old storage technologies to a modern, higher standard format.

  • Seagate expects big things from small devices

    Mobile workers are constantly being offered more convenient ways to carry around files, photographs and vital information in abundance, and Seagate is the latest vendor to showcase the finest small storage technology it has on offer.

  • Telstra privatisation might hinder rural areas

    The possibility of Telstra being privatised has provoked debate about whether it should continue to provide landline services to people who live in rural communities once the sale has been completed.

  • EMC riding high against the odds

    EMC has recorded a growth of 32 percent in revenue globally, and 35 percent in Australia and New Zealand, for the whole year, despite IDC's prediction last year that the market would decline by one percent.

  • Global consortium boost for grid computing

    A new consortium is being formed between the heavy weights in storage to educate people on the value of grid computing and to jointly develop software that servers the users of this technology.