Brian Fonseca

Giving Macintosh customers much-needed enterpriselike capabilities for their machines, Applied Micro Circuits Corp. unveiled new SATA II-based RAID and multicontent backup offerings at Macworld Expo. At the San Francisco show last week, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company introduced its first Mac product—the 3ware Sidecar external RAID. Due next quarter, the Serial ATA II RAID-protected array is […]

AmeriVault Corp. on Thursday announced its purchase of disaster recovery and data protection service provider Capitalbackup for an undisclosed amount, and in the process it added a new data center to help expand its online data backup business. Featuring more than 200 customers and a data center in Albany, N.Y., Capitalbackup already licenses AmeriVaults EVault […]

Pumping greater performance into its intelligent RAID controller, iQstor Networks Inc. on Monday will unveil its new iQ2280 4G bps Fibre Channel-serial ATA II storage system. The product will ship within 30 days. Targeted at applications being run by the high-end of SMB (small to midsize business) customers, the iQ2280 storage platform is housed in […]

BMC Software Inc. and XOSoft have struck a deal to integrate XOSofts WANSync replication and continuous data protection technology into BMCs SQL-Backtrack backup product suite. Set to be announced on Monday, the new technology will be sold directly through BMC and will be available by the end of the quarter. By re-licensing the bundled XOSoft […]

A Connecticut bank is notifying approximately 90,000 of its credit-line customers that a tape containing confidential data is missing, lost while being carried by UPS to TransUnion LLC, a credit reporting bureau. At this time, Peoples Bank said that no immediate sign of misuse or unauthorized activity of the data has occurred. Peoples Bank said […]

Idealstor is introducing new encryption and system restore capabilities to coincide with the companys upgraded Ibac 3.0 removable disk-to-disk backup appliance. Currently shipping, the new version of Ibac marks the debut of Idealstors target folder encryption and QSR (Quick System Recovery) disk options. Target folder encryption allows administrators to choose specific data which is to […]

Establishing a foothold within the largely untapped Macintosh platform storage arena, Applied Micro Circuits Corp. and Maxtor Corp. have rolled out new Serial ATA II-based RAID and backup offerings at Macworld Expo this week. At the Macworld conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, AMCC provided attendees with an early glimpse of the companys first Macintosh […]

With increasing quote rates and compliance guidelines, stock exchanges and trading floors have more data than ever before to save, store and easily account for. No exception to this growing trend, the PHLX (Philadelphia Stock Exchange) addressed its escalating storage costs by deploying more cost-effective storage disk options tied together by Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. […]

3ParData Inc. and FalconStor Software Inc. announced a joint testing and interoperability partnership on Tuesday that will combine the companies respective storage utility and VTL (virtual tape library) technologies to create a Utility VTL capable of consolidating customers nearline, online and virtual application data onto a unified platform. Targeted for general availability at the end […]

By purchasing Wily Technology Inc., CA is plugging a sizable hole in its enterprise systems management software portfolio and plans to use the acquisition as a catalyst for developing more specific industry-focused solutions. CA, of Islandia, N.Y., last week acquired Wily in an all-cash transaction for $375 million. Once the acquisition of Wily closes in […]