Wednesday, June 16, 2004Nexsan, Luminex Partner On Mainframe StorageWoodland Hills-based Nexsan Technologies (www.nexsan.com) and Luminex Softare has partnered to market a mainframe storage platform. The Luminex Virtual BLUE 3990 DASD Control Unit and Virtual BLUE VTS Tape Control Unit have been combined with Nexsan disk storage arrays to allow IBM and plug-compatible mainframes to directly connect to Nexsan's RAID arrays via the ESCON I/O channel protocol.
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Kano Ships Pocket-Sized Hard DriveGarden Grove-based Kano Technologies (www.kanotechnologies.com) has introduced a new pocket-sized hard drive. The company's SureFIRE800 provides up to 80GB of data in a 3.25x5.25x.75 inch package, and provides FirewWire and USB connectivity. The company is targeting the new device at video, audio, and data backup.
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CMC Unveils Wi-Fi Testing ToolSanta Barbara-based Communication Machinery Corp.(www.cmc.com) has announced a new Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) test system. The company's EE-WPA provides the ability to test Wi-Fi product designs and wireless networks, giving designers and network engineers to test WLAN scalability and capacity of 802.11 devices. The test system can provide stress and traffic loading conditions that reflect up ot 64 emulated wireless stations, with support for the WPA and WEP wireless security protocols.
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SMC Sings A RhapsodyIrvine-based SMC Networks said yesterday that its EZ-Stream Wireless Audio Adapter is now compatible with the RealNetworks Rhapsody music service. The audio adapter is designed to stream music from a PC to any room in the house using a wireless network, allowing consumers to connect music from that PC and the Rhapsody service to a stereo. The adapter uses 802.11b or 802.11g wireless networks and includes a display of song titles and more.
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Alias Acquired from SGI For $57.5MAlias, Accel-KKR, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Teachers') announced that the acquisition of Alias from SGI has completed. The $57.5M acquisition of the company makes Alias an independent company. Alias provides 3-D software, custom development and training solutions for the film and video, games, web, and interactive media, and maintains design centers in Santa Barbara. The company is well known for its Maya professional 3D animation and effect package. Alias itself was acquired by SGI an (More info...)
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Tarari Raises $13.8MSan Diego-based Tarari announced that it has raised a $13.8M Series B round for its XML/Web Services acceleration technology. Morgan Stanley lead the round, and was joined by previous investors Crosspoint Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, and XMLFund. Kristen Hughes of Morgan Stanley and Rick Fink of Miramar have joined the board. Tarari is developing silicon for accelerating XML processing, and network security.
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