Network Storage

Melbourne IT solutions provider S Central, has continued its acquisition strategy with yet another IT services purchase. This time, the bid was for fellow Victorian vendor, Expressapps.

IBM has released software to the open source community to help predict the spread of infectious diseases across countries and around the world.

Microsoft is moving deeper into master-data management, saying it has opened its wallet and picked up Stratature and its enterprise document management software.

Equinix, has announced the completion of the Sydney Internet Business Exchange with a $5 million upgrade to its Mascot data centre to make way for increased customer power and cooling requirements.

IDC has released the latest results from its Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Tracker, finding strong growth with factory revenues jumping by US$239 million in the first quarter of 2007 to start with.

In an effort to help EU companies meet their data retention obligations, Sun has launched its Secure Data Retrieval Server promising the industry’s first end-to-end “plug-and-comply” solution.

On a mission for further channel management experience, the Storage Networking Industry Association for Australia and New Zealand has appointed Scott Morris from NetApp to its Board of Directors.

A new Californian startup claims to have developed the world’s first fully automated storage “robot”, designed to protect data and keep archives online without a guiding human hand.

Quantum has rolled out its LTO-4 technology into its tape automation portfolio, with its Scalar i2000 and i500 intelligent library platforms the first to receive LTO-4’s increased capacities and encryption capabilities.

Revving up storage speed and capacity, SanDisk has announced both a 64GB version of its 1.8” solid state disk (SSD) drive and a new line of speedy and secure USB flash drives aimed specifically at business and enterprise users.

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