Network Storage

EMC's European operations are to follow their Asia Pacific cousins and adopt an outsourced business process system for their expenses.

A proxy statement released by EMC last week reveals that Joseph Tucci, the CEO at EMC was paid US$1.675 in salary and bonuses last year and was granted two million shares in stock options.

The latest version of Global Data Manager from Veritas Software has been enhanced to manage and monitor the backup and data recovery processes carried out by the companies NetBackup and Backup Exec applications.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and LSI Logic have announced a plan to coordinate their product development and to deliver new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology.

A new version of Legato's Networker application has been released; Networker 7 has a host of improvements that the company claims will simplify data protection and disaster recovery.

EMC has seen government business in Canberra grow so much that the US storage vendor has had to move into a new office in the suburb of Kingston. EMC claims its government revenue from Canberra has increased ten-fold in the last two years.

Hewlett-Packard has released two new DVD writers for the storage and consumer markets. They claim it is the fastest DVD writer on the market and can write a complete DVD in under 15 minutes.

Storage area network blades and host bus adapters from US vendor QLogic have been qualified for use with Legato's NetWorker applications by the software vendor.

Veritas re-stated its earnings for 2000 and 2001 again on Monday. The storage software vendor had to restate its earnings after its statement in January was revealed to have wrongly included software sales and advertising deals with AOL Time Warner.

José Alba has joined the local division of StorageTek as the new manager of its Storage Services Program in Australia and New Zealand.

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