Six-pack disks, auto-pilots and classy hard drives

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SAN Hitachi Data Systems - HDS - is adding McDatas i10K backbone director to its line. If HDS does persuade customers to use TagmaStore in this way then huge Fibre Channel bandwidth will be needed and McDatas 256-port super switch will fit the bill nicely. Computer Associates by the way, has certified that Emulex LP1000 HBAs work fine with its BrightStor storage management product. Old data that needs to be kept for future reference can now be sucked off into an auditable archive where its still available but not taking up online disk space. Tape More or less completing its main roll out LTO-3 format drives will now be made available by Quantum for its libraries and automation products.

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