NexentaStor
[Dec. 4, 2008] Nexenta Systems, Inc. ZFS-based NAS/iSCSI storage management software (soft-appliance) provides features including unlimited snapshots, thin provisioning, more. New options support high availability deployments and VMware management.

StorageConsole
[Oct. 28, 2008] APTARE, Inc. Provides a Web-based management and reporting interface for Enterprise backup platforms including VERITAS, TSM, NetWorker, HP Data Protector, and more. Capacity Manager now supports NetApp.

nCipher CryptoStor Tape
[Oct. 13, 2008] nCipher Corp. Ltd. Collection of inline SAN access management and encryption appliances. KeyVault now includes a PKCS#11 API.

Mag EraSURE
[Sep. 16, 2008] Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. Devices allow for the destruction of sensitive data on floppies, hard drives, or tapes. New government model to reduce HD cycle times to 15 seconds.

Xsigo I/O Director
[Sep. 8, 2008] Xsigo Systems, Inc. Virtual I/O platform enables remote, online management of up to 32 virtual NICs and HBAs per server. Supports GigE, 10GigE, or 4 Gb/sec FC physical I/O connections. New Director doubles Server-to-Director connection bandwidth.

SizeMeNow
[Sep. 5, 2008] Ketara Software. Explore and visualize disk space usage and folder sizes, identify unneeded files, schedule automatic report generation.

SANsymphony
[Aug. 22, 2008] DataCore Software Corp. Storage management platform leverages inline nodes that virtualize access to heterogeneous gear and provide automated functions including just-in-time capacity allocation.

DataGuard rf
[Aug. 13, 2008] Imation Corp. RFID-based tape tracking platform includes a handheld scanner, labels, and transport cases. New open system is UHF-based and works with any tape management platform.

Engenio
[Jun. 23, 2008] LSI Corp. Line of external arrays for SAN storage include FC, SAS, and iSCSI host connectivity and SAS, FC, or SATA drives (depending on model). New top of the line model boasts read throughput of up to 6.4 GB/sec.

Drive Health
[May 27, 2008] Helexis Software Development. Hard disk life measuring and SMART status monitoring tool.

Exinda Appliances
[Nov. 20, 2007] Exinda Networks. Line of appliances provide Layer 7-based traffic management; and WAN traffic acceleration via differential WAN packet transmission capabilities. Soon to support recognition of "encrypted peer-to-peer traffic," such as Skype and BitTorrent.

SAN Health
[Jul. 24, 2007] Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Free, downloadable, SAN diagnostic tool for Brocade customers and partners includes inventory/configurations, topology, etc. Now with full support for FICON and McDATA environments.

Simpana
[Jul. 10, 2007] CommVault. Creates a virtual information pool of searchable content from files, E-mails and attachments stored across separate backup, archive and online data sets. Formerly known as QiNetix.

Exclaimer Store Compressor
[Jul. 5, 2007] Exclaimer. Provides data storage controls via the automated compression and management of MS Exchange Stores. Transparent to end users.