Brian Fonseca

NEW YORK—IBM on Wednesday announced the availability of its new IBM BladeCenter 4G SAN offering, which enables server blades to better scale connectivity and support extremely high-bandwidth data requirements for data warehouses and database serving. Unveiled at the Storage Decisions conference here, the newest member of IBMs family of embedded SAN (storage area network) switches […]

NEW YORK—Cementing its intent to quickly restore and secure disk-based Microsoft Windows platforms and environments, Symantec on Tuesday unveiled a new broad set of availability and recoverability capabilities buoyed by the availability of Symantec Backup Exec 10d for Windows Server and the introduction of the enhanced LiveState Recovery Advanced Server Suite 6.0. Formally code named […]

Filenet Corp. announced last week the acquisition of compliance specialist Yaletown Technology Group for an undisclosed amount of cash. In conjunction with its new purchase, FileNet introduced the latest revision of its FileNet Records Manager Suite, Version 3.5, featuring new Intelligent Retention and Content Federation Services capabilities. A software development and OEM partner of FileNet […]

A new wave of business continuity technologies debuting this week will help customers dramatically enhance recovery and snapshot capabilities. Expected to make the biggest impact at the Storage Decisions Conference in New York is Microsoft Corp.s long-awaited launch of its Data Protection Manager offering. Designed to back up and recover Microsoft file servers, DPM is […]

A new wave of business continuity technology debuting at the Storage Decisions Conference this week will help customers dramatically enhance performance and speed up recovery and snapshot capabilities. Expected to make the biggest splash at the New York-based Storage Decisions Conference is Microsoft Corp.s long-awaited launch of its Microsoft System Center DPM (Data Protection Manager) […]

FileNet announced this week the acquisition of compliance specialist Yaletown Technology Group for an undisclosed amount. In conjunction with its new purchase, FileNet Corp. introduced the latest version of its FileNet Records Manager Suite 3.5. The suite features new “Intelligent Retention” and “Content Federation Services” capabilities, according to Craig Rhinehart, director of Compliance Products and […]

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 […]