Paris, 30 April, 2007 - Increasing the storage capacity to 1.6TB, allowing higher data transfer rates of 240MB/s (both compressed) and offering greater reliability, the new Sony LTO Ultrium4 data cartridge has been designed for businesses with critical data storage and archival needs. Initial shipments of the new tape media (Sony LTX800G) will start early May 2007. "This new cartridge was designed with our customers' evolving needs in mind. It delivers on four key fronts - capacity, reliability, performance and cost effectiveness." said Naoki Ochiai, Storage Media General Manager in Sony Europe's Recording Media & Energy division. The Sony LTX800G cartridges are manufactured with newly developed fine magnetic particles and a higher thermal stability binder in order to maximise performance. The fourth generation data cartridge also adopts Sony's newly developed thin-layer coating technology and a smoother surface coating process, which allows low error rates and stable output under a wide range of operating conditions. To provide continued backward-compatibility, the LTO Ultrium 4 format hardware has read-and-write capability with LTO 3 cartridges, and read capabilities with LTO 2 cartridges. The LTO 4 format also features hardware-based encryption capabilities to better protect the storage and transport of sensitive information. Sony will introduce write once LTO Ultrium 4 WORM data cartridges, used to prevent data erasure and alteration, due Summer 2007.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 23, 2007 - Poised to secure a stronger foothold in the enterprise hard drive market segment, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi), today announced a trio of new products: the 15K RPM Ultrastar® 15K300, 7200 RPM Ultrastar A7K1000, and the company's first small form factor (SFF) enterprise hard drive, the 10K RPM Ultrastar C10K147. Hitachi's new hard drives target a broad range of enterprise storage systems, from mission-critical and lower duty cycle storage applications to servers, delivering the quality and reliability customers have come to expect from Hitachi's Ultrastar enterprise-class hard drives. Expanded enterprise segment participation is a key element of Hitachi's plan for business excellence as the segment continues to experience consistent growth and drive technology innovation that can be leveraged across other Hitachi products. Delivering a new portfolio of enterprise hard drives in 2007 helps support Hitachi's profitability initiatives and places the company in a strong position to achieve its goal of 20 percent year-to-year volume growth in enterprise. Accelerating the Transition to Small Form Factor A key new product in Hitachi's enterprise product portfolio is the Ultrastar C10K147, the company's first small form factor enterprise hard drive. The Ultrastar C10K147 was developed specifically for the high performance, low power requirements of servers. According to IDC, the industry is expected to experience a fast ramp in shipments from 2.4 million in 2006 to 9.4 million in 2007 as cost, space and low power considerations in data centers drive the need for a transition to SFF. The delivery of the Ultrastar C10K147 is timed to capitalize on and accelerate this increasing demand. "As the first to market with a full portfolio of small form factor SAS-based servers and storage, HP offers customers innovations that maximize the performance, reliability, power savings and other efficiency advantages of their IT investment
ATLANTA - April 23, 2007 - Further building on their relationship, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Cisco® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that they have entered into a global market innovation agreement to jointly develop a new breed of business solutions that can transform how applications and networks interact. These new solutions are designed to enable the business network agility that is essential to bringing together customers, partners, suppliers and employees across geographically dispersed, highly heterogeneous business and information technology landscapes. SAP and Cisco intend to develop business solutions that support their shared visions of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and integrate the context of operational business applications with the intelligence captured throughout the network, providing customers with high levels of visibility, control and responsiveness across the extended enterprise. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® '07, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Atlanta, Georgia, April 22 - 25. The new network-aware solutions from SAP and Cisco will focus on removing the artificial separation between application infrastructure and network infrastructure to intelligently route traffic based on contextual business relevance. The solutions provide the enterprise with right-time response to significant business events in context, anywhere, anytime, and from any device. The first solution produced from the collaboration will include composite applications that address the need for an integrated network and application platform providing a holistic view of the extended enterprise for better management of compliance and risk in today's dynamic business environment. The companies also plan to integrate unified business communication, such as e-mail, voice and podcasting, into business process applications to increase responsiveness to selected process events. "SAP and Cisco share a common perspective on the role of collab
ATLANTA, April 23, 2007 - HP, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled a new appliance that allows access to SAP® business processes and data via Microsoft® Office applications on high-performance HP servers. The result of a collaborative effort, "Duet™ by SAP and Microsoft, powered by HP" is an HP ProLiant server that has been pre-installed with Duet software, a joint solution from Microsoft and SAP that gives information workers seamless access to select SAP business processes and data through Microsoft Office applications. Duet by SAP and Microsoft, powered by HP acts as an appliance that allows customers to easily create a "proof of concept," enabling them to more quickly and easily evaluate Duet's business benefits using customer-specific data. Pre-loaded scripts have been engineered to help customers to jumpstart the Duet proof-of-concept and production implementations. The Duet appliance speeds up deployment by shortening implementation time from setup to configuration, which both increases return on investment and enables customers to realize business benefits from Duet more quickly. The Duet appliance also can be expanded to include additional HP ProLiant or HP Integrity servers that can fully integrate with a business's live Microsoft and SAP applications. The industry-leading HP ProLiant and Integrity server technology behind the Duet appliance will give customers the scalability they need to handle the most demanding workloads with high levels of performance."Because of our alliances with both Microsoft and SAP, HP is in a leading position to package the benefits of Duet in a flexible and adaptable solution for rapid deployment," said Chuck Smith, vice president, Enterprise Servers and Storage, Technology Solutions Group - Americas, HP. "HP Integrity and ProLiant servers provide high performance and superior flexibility for instant query execution and very fast response times - even for complex and non-routine queries. The Duet app
Sunnyvale, Calif. -- April 23, 2007 --Marking with the fourth anniversary of the launch of the AMD Opteron™ processor and AMD64 technology, AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced widespread availability and pricing for the performance-leading AMD Opteron Model 2222 and 8222 SE x86 dual-core server processors. The new processor, which is available in several platform configurations today from tier one OEMs, is designed to deliver performance leadership in the most critical server functions including Web serving, scalability and floating point calculations.AMD also disclosed updated performance projections for its upcoming native Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, code-named 'Barcelona.' The new Barcelona projections are based on the latest SPECcpu2006 benchmarks and show that AMD expects to have up to a 50 percent advantage in floating point performance and 20 percent in integer performance over the competition's highest-performing quad-core processor at the same frequency. These results, as well as the latest benchmark tests, based on AMD Opteron Model 2222 and 8222 SE processors can be found at www.amd.com/opteronperformance."Today's announcement further demonstrates AMD's commitment to delivering excellence and represents continued innovation along the customer-directed path we blazed four years ago; we provide the complete x86 processor architectural standard others in the industry are trying to emulate and we have planned a seamless upgrade path to native quad-core for delivery to the market in mid-year," said Randy Allen, corporate vice president, Server and Workstation Business, AMD. "With our native quad-core technology, AMD continues to build off of a consistent architecture and will deliver more than just four processing cores. We believe our enhanced architecture will deliver increased performance and performance-per-watt without forcing disruptive platform transitions. Investment protection continues to be a central focus of our customer-centric design principle