Texas Memory Systems, maker of the World's Fastest Storage, has announced that its RamSan-500 solid state disk system has been certified interoperable with IBM's System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The RamSan-500 is an enterprise-class cached Flash storage system with a large RAM cache to buffer write performance and 2TB of RAID protected hot swappable SLC NAND Flash that delivers better read performance than 300 hard drives while consuming 1/20th the power.

Force10 Networks, a technology leader for building and securing intelligent services networks, has announced that the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) has deployed the C-Series family of resilient switches and the S-Series family of access switches to serve as the backbone of its campus and data center networks. With Force10, FMI is interconnecting researchers throughout the facility with a high-performance network supporting instruments that generate as much as one terabyte of data per day.

COLT, a leading European provider of business communications, has completed the first phase of the upgrade of its long distance network across Europe. The network carries COLT's voice and data services between its metropolitan area networks in 34 major European cities and enables COLT's market-leading Ethernet services for its customers.

3M, the diversified technology company, has launched additions to its data communications cabling products, enabling the company to provide complete solutions for the enterprise and data centre markets. From network backbone to the desktop, the range encompasses Category 5e, 6 and 6A copper cabling and both single and multimode fibre. New products include intelligent cabling systems and high density fibre patch panels, in addition to the introduction of an 'LC' version of the No Polish Connector, which was launched last year.