Ibm Signs 70m Contract Extension With Medicare
IBM has signed a one year extension to its contract with Medicare for the provision of IT infrastructure services.IBM secured the tender issued by Medicare and the Department of Health and Aging in 1999. The A$70 million ($47.2 million) deal announced Thursday will see IBM continue its provision of data warehouse, desktop, midrange, mainframe and call center support.IBM said it has supported more than ...

Moonwalk Partners Find Power In Last Mile Technology At Customer Installations
Moonwalk Inc., the Australian developer of all-inclusive data management and protection software,recently announced that an increasing number of leading technology vendors have discovered the power and ease in delivering end to end storage solutions to customers by coupling the Moonwalk software with their own product offerings, effectively creating complete file archive and backup systems that serve as an alternative ...

Dell Wins Japanese Deal
TOKYO -- Dell announced today that it has received its largest customer order to date for the innovative EqualLogic enterprise-class data-storage system from the Japan Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (JAIST).JAIST will implement 38 units of Dell's EqualLogic PS5000X storage arrays and 21 units of Dell's EqualLogic PS5000E iSCSI SAN technology into its data center. This will enable JAIST to use its RAID ...

Cloud Startups Look To Fill A Void
Early storage service success stories include Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)'s Windows Live SkyDrive, Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)'s Upline, and Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN)'s Simple Storage Service. While each illustrates the potential of cloud storage, all share one thing in common: None is appropriate for enterprise-class storage. Another manifestation of cloud storage is online ...

Intransa Raises Cash
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intransa, the global leader of shared, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions, today announced the completion of new funding, raising a total of $15 million since the beginning of 2008.Rho Ventures led the most recent round. "Intransa has demonstrated leadership in bringing the benefits of IP storage to video surveillance," said Paul Bartlett, partner at Rho ...

Toshiba Eyes Co Owned Sandisk Japanese Flash Factories
Toshiba wants to buy SanDisk's share of the two firms' jointly owned Japanese manufacturing facilities, it has been claimed.The finger has been pointed at Samsung's attempt to acquire SanDisk, Japanese-language newspaper Nikkei reports, with Toshiba apparently unwilling to let its rival acquire a stake in the Flash memory ventures it current co-owns with SanDisk.So, before Samsung can acquire the ...

Yosemite Technologies Announces Yosemite Partner In Power Program New Program Represents Major
Yosemite Technologies, Inc., a global provider of total data protection solutions, today announced major changes to its Channel Partner Program with the launch of its Yosemite Partner In-Power Program. The new program features a tiered structure with different levels of benefits that help guide the partner through its relationship with Yosemite. Each level provides the partner with tools to most ...

This Ssd Thing Is Really Catching
SNW round-up SNW showed that there are three flash storage plays emerging: flash in the shelf, flash in the controller and flash in the server. Only 3PAR out of the top 12 or so storage vendors does not have a flash strategy.EMC started the flash storage ball rolling by announcing its Enterprise Flash Drives for Symmetrix in January this year, followed by CLARiiON flash in August. Then IBM ran a compelling flash demo with a ...

Data Centre Rethink Needed Warns Analyst
IT managers need to fundamentally rethink their data centres in order to ensure that they become much more dynamic and less rigid, according to analyst house Burton Group.Speaking at Burton's Catalyst Conference in Prague, Drue Reeves, VP and research director says it is self evident that business dependency on IT will continue, but applications and workloads are tied ...

Qlogic Unveils Worlds First 10gbe Iscsi To 8gb Fibre Channel Intelligent Storage Router Enterprise
Storage Networking World -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today introduced the QLogic(r) 6200 Series of intelligent storage routers, the industry's first 10GbE iSCSI-to-8Gb Fibre Channel routers. Supporting new high bandwidth 10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre Channel, the enterprise-class ...