Brian Fonseca

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 […]

IBM presented the first jewel of its re-architected information integration portfolio on Thursday, announcing the availability of its new data transformation-based offering IBM WebSphere DataStage TX v.8. The release marks the first component to spring from the currently in beta “Project Hawk” technology absorbed by Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM as part of its Ascential Software Corp. […]

EMC Corp. is pushing its storage capabilities into uncharted security and resource management territory to help customers centralize management of converging data center technology and secure data within the enterprise. Last week, the Hopkinton, Mass., company announced here its security strategy, which includes cross-product integration, in-house development and partnerships where necessary, said EMC CEO and […]