Brian Fonseca

Several vendors, including OpenPages Inc., Intradyn Inc. and Paisley Consulting, are readying new tools that will let users more easily control data discovery and retention and enable the removal of unnecessary content to ease multifaceted regulatory compliance hurdles. This month, OpenPages will roll out its Optimum Risk Management product. The software tool reduces compliance management […]

Providing a major boost to its online backup and recovery services portfolio, Iron Mountain Inc. on Thursday announced an agreement to purchase LiveVault Corp. for approximately $50 million in cash. Prior to the acquisition, Iron Mountain had owned a 12 percent minority stake in LiveVault and therefore had to pay $42 million to fully acquire […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is expanding the storage services it will use to augment its upcoming Sun Grid Storage Utility. The move comes at a time when demand for the Santa Clara, Calif., companys Sun Grid utility computing offering continues to grow, particularly in the financial services and oil and gas fields. Through a partnership with […]

After a three-month delay, Network Appliance Inc. is set to roll out a new operating system designed to let users get the most from their storage subsystems through the use of virtualization. NetApp will introduce its Data OnTap GX operating system early next year. Built to accelerate NetApps storage grid architecture through the use of […]

In an effort to join the move toward virtualization, IBM is building a software tool to enable customers to change data sources or rules that govern data without affecting applications. Due for release in the first quarter of next year, the product, currently known as Information Virtualization Server, will be part of IBMs Information Management […]

Computer Associates International Inc.s efforts to reshape itself in the eyes of customers and stockholders has as much to do with shedding products from its bloated catalog as it does with acquiring new technologies. Last week, CA decided to sell its Ingres open-source database technology to Garnett & Helfrich Capital, a Menlo Park, Calif., private […]

IBM is laying down the groundwork in its Information Management software portfolio to allow customers to take advantage of acutely integrated information as a service within SOAs (service oriented architectures). IBM officials say this will lead to improved decision-making due to more reliable data accuracy and a common format to leverage and share relevant information, […]

Computer Associates Inc. will use this weeks CA World conference to reveal the results of a massive management shake-up and a slew of acquisitions designed to narrow its technology and business focus. The company will also outline the strategy that senior executives say will return CA to a place of prominence in the software industry. […]

After a number of delays and false starts over the last several years, Microsoft Corp. this week announced the general availability of its SQL Server 2005 database. Some customers privy to an early kick of the tires on the refashioned database say the product is a major leap forward in terms of enhanced business intelligence […]

IBM on Tuesday unveiled the new small-to-midrange-class IBM System Storage N5000 series, which stands as the companys second major technology rollout resulting from its OEM and product re-branding partnership with Network Appliance Inc. Primarily suited for small data centers and remote regional offices, the N5000 series features two models: the IBM System Storage N5200 and […]

Guarding itself against the growing popularity of open-source databases, Oracle last week announced the beta release of its free Oracle 10g Express Edition database. The diminutive Oracle Database XE will be available by years end, said Oracle officials. The free low-end software runs on servers featuring a single processor, along with 4GB of disk memory […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is guiding tape drive technology from its Storage Technology Corp. acquisition toward an interconnected systems approach featuring data management and security capabilities. Sun last week unveiled its T10000 enterprise tape drive at StorageTeks annual Forum customer conference. The new box features a significant upgrade over StorageTeks T9940B drive with a throughput rate […]