Brian Fonseca

A host of storage vendors, including industry leader EMC Corp., this week plans to introduce offerings that give enterprises battling rising costs and shrinking capacity more options for continuous data protection. At Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., EMC will announce its new CDP software, RecoverPoint. The Hopkinton, Mass., company will also introduce a new […]

Princeton Softech Inc. is unveiling its new Optim technology, which is designed to bring the various tasks of enterprise-wide data management within a single centralized offering. A combination of new and existing Princeton Softech tools and services, Optim integrates the archiving, management and privatization of structured data across payroll, ERP (enterprise resource planning), CRM (customer […]

In a move designed to beef up its ECM (enterprise content management) Documentum business and storage portfolio-wide archival strategy, EMC has announced it will acquire Captiva Software for approximately $275 million net of Captivas cash balance, or $22.25 per share in cash. Founded in 1989, the San Diego-based longtime partner of EMC Corp., Captiva Software […]

Compellent this week will announce the availability of its new Remote Instant Replay and Data Progression tools, which are designed to help midmarket customers avoid costly remote replication disruptions and improve disaster recovery reliability. Remote Instant Replay allows organizations to track customizable point-in-time snapshot intervals, which can be tested at any point for verification, said […]

In a move designed to revitalize its flagging storage business, Hewlett-Packard Co. this week is taking the covers off its continuous data protection strategy while trumping the plans of EMC Corp., its bitter storage rival, in the process. HP has entered into an agreement with Mendocino Software Inc. in which HP will resell Mendocinos RecoveryOne […]

SenSage Inc.s upgraded information management platform features extended clustering capabilities and boosted analytics to improve event data management and help users eliminate compliance woes. SenSage 3.5 features an integrated management console and a user interface that enables real-time and long-term compliance monitoring, as well as reporting capable of collecting data from a broad range of […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling out a set of downsized storage offerings to help small and midsize businesses better back up and protect data as well as more easily run a scalable storage area network environment. This week, HP will bulk up its Smart Office portfolio by introducing its new HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express software […]

Stretching its virtualization technology across new storage boundaries and platform support, IBM on Monday announced a new virtualization partner program and a range of new virtualization engine offerings designed to drastically reduce complexity and IT management. IBM will release its new IBM Virtualization TS7510. The virtualized tape for Open Systems will extend connection support toward […]

Microsoft Corp., Symantec Corp. and IBM are rolling out backup tools designed to help users recover from data losses more quickly while reducing tape management and redundant hardware costs. Last week, Microsoft announced the availability of its Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. The disk-based product backs up file servers in Windows-only environments and integrates […]

Adding another support tier to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 offering, CommVault Systems on Monday announced that its CommVault QiNetix Unified Data Management suite features integration and extends the functionality of Microsoft DPM beyond the backup and recovery realm. CommVault Systems Inc.s QiNetix technology captures all of the data and unlimited number of […]