Brian Fonseca

As customers abandon existing tape libraries for more efficient disk-based secondary storage options, vendors are responding by upgrading their archival, compliance and data life-cycle management offerings. This week FileNet Corp. will introduce FileNet P8 Active Storage and Retrieval Services. The new ASAR capabilities allow FileNets P8 ECM (enterprise content management) platform to be integrated with […]

Backed by one of ITs most aggressive and successful visionaries, Pillar Data Systems is set to rattle the cages of large-scale enterprise storage vendors through its data prioritization technology and favorable storage costs. Pillar Data Systems Inc. will officially launch its company and Pillar Axiom storage system next week. Formed in 2001, the storage startup […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is bulking up its storage portfolio to help customers brace for looming compliance, archival and data management woes by adding Storage Technology Corp.s tape and backup technology to its systems management approach. Last week, Sun purchased StorageTek in a cash deal for approximately $4.1 billion. StorageTek, of Louisville, Colo., has built its […]

Veritas Software Corp. is tuning its new Web-based “Panther” file retrieval software to enable the convergence of data and e-mail discovery and filtering, security, and data management—all woven together at the storage and policy level. According to Veritas officials, another version of Panther, due next year, will allow users to index and search data and […]

CHICAGO—Veritas Software Corp. is putting Web-based file recovery and retrieval directly into the hands of users with the public beta of its new “Panther” data protection software, built using re-architected Backup Exec technology. Panther will enable the convergence of data and e-mail discovery and filtering, security, and data management—all woven together at the storage and […]

Enterprises looking to get more out of existing backup and recovery infrastructures will see several new options from storage vendors at this weeks Storage Decisions show in Chicago. BlueArc Corp., FalconStor Software Inc., Softek Storage Solutions Corp. and Onaro Inc. plan to debut offerings at the show. Rolling out the first software suite for its […]

From our faces to our bodies, careers, homes and even families, sometimes the entire country seems preoccupied with extreme makeovers. Lets face it—weve become obsessed with perfection and have little tolerance for anything less. It should come as no surprise, then, that companies in the beauty industry are equally focused on results. That was the […]

Guardium Inc. and IPlocks Inc. are giving customers greater control over database SQL activity to better safeguard their data repositories from unrestricted access, tampering and theft of confidential information. Last week, Guardium launched SQL RemoteGuard, a software probe that provides continuous monitoring and auditing of remote database access activity. Designed to pick up on any […]

Broadening the reach of its fixed-content archiving technology to a midtier enterprise audience, EMC is set to launch a four-node EMC Centera configuration. Available this month from EMC and its partners, the four-node Centera box provides 2.2TB of usable storage capacity and offers a base list price that is 35 percent cheaper than the previous […]

Document management specialist FileNet Corp. is readying its latest FileNet P8 ECM platform to help customers take advantage of business-process-based content activation through better enterprise content management. Set to be introduced this week at the AIIM On Demand Conference & Exposition in Philadelphia, FileNet P8 3.5 features CFS (Content Federation Services), which enables the software […]

EMC finally dipped its toe into storage virtualization technology waters Monday by announcing the availability and pricing scheme of its EMC Invista product and storage virtualization platform, formally named EMC Virtual Storage Router. Currently in limited beta release, the product will be generally available next quarter. Unveiled at the EMC Technology Summit in New Orleans, […]

Hewlett-Packard will look to rebound its beleaguered storage fortunes next week at its HP Americas StorageWorks Conference 2005 by unveiling a major storage product line refresh featuring a host of newly built and OEMed components designed to keep in step with changing customer demands. Addressing multiple storage simplification techniques through its largest-ever HP StorageWorks rollout […]