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A virtual Raid, more lawsuits and massive laptop disk drives

Wireless NAS, IBM grid, David and Goliath, ILM for data warehousing and more...
Certification madness, digital keys and trouble at HP

Lots of, well, minor things, as well as the big stuff.
Holographic memory, dodgy DVDs and tape loaders aplenty

Autoloader and virtual tape library action, plus a dash of new technology.
From CNT to Veritas, here's the storage market lowdown

Lots of disk array activity with iSCSI and switching to the fore. StorageTek announces a coming terabyte tape capability.
HP produces new business PCs and workstations

New DC and XM models include latest Intel technology.
Another vendor goes down iSCSI path

Adaptec has bought UK virtualisation company Elipsan.
Companies look more closely at Serial ATA

Adaptec and VIA strengthen the usefulness of Serial ATA disks with RAID products.
Go Overland for backup acceleration

New accelerator from Overland combines several technologies into one device.

Latest Features

Overland: Another question mark over its future

Overland's third quarter looks set to replicate the year-ago Q3; revenue $10 million down and a repeated loss. What can the firm do?
USB becoming universal slow bus

USB is in danger of becoming a non-Universal SB as faster external SATA interfaces look set to rise in popularity this year.
FATA's fortune

H-P announced its FATA hybrid Fibre Channel/ATA disk drives last year. It's on its own here and, with Ms Fiorina hors de combat we took a quick look at the status of the FATA drives.
What is Time Limited Error Recovery?

Coordinated error handling between ATA disk drives and RAID controllers avoids needless crippling of a RAID array built from ATA drives.
Football club kicks DAS into touch

Southampton Football club has moved from DAS to SAN to preserve server CPU performance.
Serial ATA - putting on a fine performance

Where will SATA drives find their niche? We discover the answer in part 3 of our series on serial ATA disk drives.
Drive to the future

The second part of our in-depth look at serial ATA looks at how disk manufacturers are adapting to the newer technology.

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