Brian Fonseca

In an effort to boost its SRM (storage resource management) capabilities, accelerate plans for grid technology and simplify open standards-based integration across its storage portfolio, Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced that it has signed a deal to acquire storage software company AppIQ for an undisclosed amount of cash. Once the acquisition closes in approximately 45 days, […]

Targeting enterprise customers both big and small that need of better storage management for their data systems, MCI Inc. on Wednesday introduced its new automated and on-demand Utility Storage Service featuring allocation-based billing. Customers are charged monthly based on the sum of storage allocated to safeguard their data. MCIs new managed service requires commitment levels […]

Network Appliance Inc. is aiming to help customers gain greater control of their Oracle Corp. database environments by marrying its disk-based backup and recovery technology with Oracles storage management capabilities. This week, NetApp will introduce SnapManager for Oracle. The new product is designed to simplify database administrator and storage administrator tasks by using NetApp SnapShot […]

In the field of medicine, probably the most important tool that health care providers have at their disposal is information. To break down multiple barriers surrounding how critical health care information is traditionally shared and accessed across vast hospital networks, the American Hospital Association was forced to look deep into its own Web content management […]

Sybase Inc. is preparing its flagship Adaptive Server Enterprise database to help customers meet security and privacy demands and deal with data volume growth, database threading and unstructured data management. The Dublin, Calif., company next week will unveil ASE 15, which features smart partitions, on-disk encryption, XML and clustering capabilities, and bolstered operation management features, […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week at Storage Networking World Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, will unveil its new HP ProLiant DL100 G2 and HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Data Protection Storage Servers. Due later this month and created through an OEM deal with Microsoft Corp., the new NAS (network-attached storage) appliances are built using technology from Microsofts DPM […]

Computer Associates International this week will unveil its revamped BrightStor r11.5 platform featuring improved storage management and risk management capabilities. Currently available, the new version offers streamlined virtual tape automation via a new Microsoft Windows user interface to simplify implementation of disk-to-disk and disk-to-tape backup processes, said CA officials. CAs new BrightStor Command Center tool […]

Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on communications and data networks across the Gulf Coast region last week, sending IT managers scurrying to implement their disaster recovery plans and patch together makeshift networks to keep their businesses running as best they could. For the regions businesses, from metropolitan law firms to the Gulf Coasts plethora of waterfront […]

IBMs Tivoli unit is providing a backup safety net for businesses trying to cope with growing legions of remote workers storing critical information on laptops and mobile devices. IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files enables customers to automatically back up in real time and recover all created file types so data is never lost […]

MetaLincs this week will unveil its new Web-services-based MetaLincs E-Discovery application. The software presents customers with a visual representation of the relationships between people, time, documents, events and communication patterns based on appropriate context and search criteria, said Chuck Williams, chief technology officer of MetaLincs Corp., in Mountain View, Calif. With more and more enterprises […]

Injecting renewed life into its FlexLine V-Series SVA (Shared Virtual Array) family, StorageTek on Monday unveiled the new FlexLine V2Xf which offers improved storage capacity and performance for mainframe environments. Storage Technology Corp. introduced the FlexLine V2Xf at the SHARE Technology Exchange Expo in Boston. Designed for native FICON connectivity in z/OS and z/VM environments, […]

Shifting its product set and focus from database auditing toward enterprise security monitoring and assessment, Lumigent Technologies recently announced the availability of Lumigent Vulnerability Manager (VM) DB 3.0 as the centerpiece of its new Information Security Management (ISM) Suite. Currently available for $5,000 per database server, Lumigent VM DB 3.0 policy-based software provides a baseline […]