Brian Fonseca

Seagate Technology LLC, cornice inc. and Western Digital Corp. are introducing a variety of new-look hard drives designed to increase storage performance, efficiency and portability. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Seagate added to its consumer portfolio by announcing the 160GB Portable External Hard Drive, featuring perpendicular recording, and a 500GB […]

EMC Corp. acquired privately held Internosis Inc. Monday, giving the storage behemoths professional services arm a battle-tested collective of Microsoft application infrastructure and development specialists to help drive adoption of EMCs information lifecycle management model. Details of the transaction have not been released. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and seven-time Microsoft partner of the year, […]

Computer Associates International Inc. is adding a storage virtualization component to its BrightStor storage portfolio by announcing Monday that the company will resell StoreAge Networking Technologies Inc.s StoreAge Virtualization Manager cross-platform software. Targeted at helping customers simplify SAN (storage area network) administration within multi-storage tiered heterogeneous IT environments, CAs reseller agreement with StoreAge will allow […]

In an effort to bulk up the application performance management component of its enterprise systems management business and institute greater focus on key vertical segments, Computer Associates International Inc. announced Thursday that it plans to acquire Wily Technology in an all-cash transaction for approximately $375 million. Wily Technology offers software tools to monitor and manage […]

EMC Corp. announced plans on Thursday to build and manage grid infrastructure as part of its aggregate $30 million purchase of Acxiom Corp.s information grid middleware and grid software technology. At the same time, EMC said it is partnering with Acxiom to jointly develop and commercially market a BIG (business information grid) offering that can […]

Seagate Technology LLC, Cornice Inc. and Western Digital Corp. are kicking off the New Year by introducing a variety of new-look hard drives designed to increase storage performance, efficiency and portability. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Seagate added to its consumer portfolio by announcing its 160GB Seagate Portable External Hard […]

Seagate Technology LLC plans to use its recent acquisition of Maxtor Corp. as a catalyst for accelerating its Far East manufacturing capabilities and as insurance against expected PC price fluctuations this year. However, industry analysts say that Seagate, of Scotts Valley, Calif., will have its hands full completing the technical aspect of the Maxtor merger […]

The Storage Networking Industry Association End-User Council this week released findings from its 2005 Storage Management survey, highlighting a variety of issues storage vendors must address in the coming year in order to simplify increasingly complex storage infrastructures and help customers deal with massive data growth. The EUC Survey garnered 252 responses from qualified end […]

Aiming to create a new set of application interfaces to enable different vendor storage systems to more easily communicate with each other, as well as share and store sensitive data for growing compliance concerns, the Storage Networking Industry Association is currently reviewing a proposed specification interface called eXtensible Access Method. X-Access Method, or XAM for […]

The acquisition of Maxtor Corp. by Seagate Technology for approximately $1.9 billion Wednesday is poised to boost Seagates Far East manufacturing capabilities and strengthen its position to dampen expected PC pricing changes in the coming year. However, industry analysts point out that Seagate will have its hands full completing the technical aspect of the Maxtor […]