In more storage market news, both Gartner and IDC have highlighted the thriving nature of the disk storage market reporting strong growth, and predicting even stronger annual growth through 2010.
NetApp’s Australian managing director Peter O‘Connor says they’ll be snapping at the heals of EMC within 18 months, after celebrating an average A/NZ growth rate of 50 percent at the close of fiscal year 2007.
Two sub AU$600 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) cards launched into Australia and aimed at the SME show the growth in requirement for intelligent storage devices.
After unsuccessful attempts to secure a acquisition deal, Data storage encryption and key management solution developer Kasten Chase has announced that it is filing for bankruptcy and ceasing operations.
Confirming open source community expectations, Linux Distributor Red Hat has announced that it is halting further development of Red Hat Application Server.
The 'War on Terror' provides yet more scope for storage as US Federal Communications Commission seeks to force Internet Service Providers to store data for two years.
Symantec has announced an integrated solution that will enable data centres to standardise on a consistent software infrastructure across heterogeneous application, database, server and storage platforms.
