Brian Fonseca

AppIQ Inc. and Veritas Software Corp. are tightening their support of Microsoft Windows environments and third-party storage products to help customers handle applications becoming more dependent on storage infrastructure management. Next week at the Gartner PlanetStorage Summit in Orlando, Fla., AppIQ will introduce new modules for its enhanced StorageAuthority Suite R4.0 platform. Available next month, […]

Noel Levasseur needed more storage. Heres the punch line: Having difficulty running his EMC arrays, Levasseur turned to, of all vendors, Network Appliance. Over the last two years, Levasseur, executive vice president of First American Bank, in Elk Grove, Ill., has grown his NetApp arrays, moving off his EMC equipment, thanks, in part, to the […]

Enabling customers and organizations to more easily control document management risk at the desktop level, NextPage on May 22 unveiled its NextPage Document Retention software. The application, which is expected to be released later this year, tracks, uploads and purges documents across an IT environment. NextPage Document Retention is designed to securely track a single […]

At odds with longtime business partner Microsoft over an intellectual property disagreement and misuse of its Veritas software technology, Symantec has filed a breach of contract suit against Microsoft in federal court in Seattle. In the lawsuit, Symantec claims that Microsoft misused trade secrets gained through a licensing deal it had with Veritas Software—which Symantec […]

Network Appliance has expanded the reach of its partnership portfolio, announcing separate deals with Symantec and Network Intelligence designed to provide NetApp with a stronger audience foothold within the data compliance and storage management realm. Strengthening its commitment to offering customers greater heterogeneous SAN (storage area network) management capabilities to help control multi-vendor environments, on […]

In an effort to improve the understanding of human speech patterns and early child development, a group of vendors is joining forces to test the scalability boundaries of storage by constructing a petabyte-scale IP storage system at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The unique storage array, being built using integrated technology […]

Adding another component to its enterprise archiving software portfolio, EMC on May 16 introduced its new EMC Documentum Archive Services for Imaging at the AIIM Conference & Exposition in Philadelphia. The technology is designed to help customers reduce and manage the large volumes of paper records and documents taking up valuable physical space within their […]

Moving quickly to seize its second vendor acquisition in just three days, EMC announced May 11 that it has acquired Interlink Group, a privately held IT services firm focused on Microsoft technology offerings. Financial details of the transaction were not released. The purchase of Interlink gives EMC another weapon to bulk up its professional services […]

Topping off the yearlong changeover of its storage controller systems portfolio from 2G bps to 4G bps support and bandwidth expansion, IBM on May 9 unveiled its new IBM System Storage DS4700 Express offering geared toward small to midsize business and midrange enterprise customers. The DS4700 Express product line, which features the Model 70 low-end […]

Fortifying its focus to bring security deeper into storage environments and thereby building a unified information management lifecycle strategy, EMC acquired privately held Kashya on May 9 in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $153 million. A maker of remote heterogeneous replication and data protection software, San Jose, Calif.-based Kashya will be integrated immediately into […]