Brian Fonseca

Crime scene investigation dramas are enjoying hugely successful ratings on prime-time television. But while leading-men-type field investigators get all the glory, the work being done behind the scenes is hardly so glamorous. Real law enforcement agencies must uncover ways to enable IT departments to augment backup and recovery and ILM (information lifecycle management) operations that […]

Relational database vendor Teradata, the cornerstone of success for former NCR Corp. CEO Mark Hurd, is moving on in the wake of its leaders departure by building greater autonomic capabilities onto converged data warehousing and real-time enterprise analytics. But as competition increases and customers grow increasingly dissatisfied with its high prices, Teradata, a division of […]

Enabling simplified controls for multivendor storage environments, storage vendors are rolling out a host of tools targeting areas such as lagging response and recovery times, protected data backup, and iSCSI accessibility. From April 12 to 15 at SNW (Storage Networking World) in Phoenix, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce a major platform upgrade to its flagship […]

With last weeks purchase of Oblix, Oracle made clear that it is not planning to cede the lucrative and growing enterprise identity management market to rivals Sun Microsystems and IBM. Last weeks surprising acquisition will allow Oracle Corp. to expand its nascent ID management reach by weaving together Oracle, PeopleSoft Inc. and J.D. Edwards & […]

With storage rival EMC Corp. firmly in its line of fire, IBM on Wednesday announced that it will enter into an OEM deal with Network Appliance Inc. to resell the network-attached storage vendors entire product line. As part of the strategic agreement, IBM will sell IBM-branded offerings based on Sunnyvale, Calif.-based NetApps NearStore, SAN (storage […]

IBM, Network Appliance Inc. and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. are pushing storage virtualization to help administrators remedy shrinking capacity and poor utilization rates without increasing the number of storage arrays in their IT environment. Improving the reach of its SFS (SAN File System) offering, IBM is revamping the storage virtualization product to automatically move data […]

Improving with age like a fine Cabernet or Merlot, wine merchant Sherry-Lehmann Inc. stays one step ahead of growing customer online and in-store demand largely by ensuring that its data backup technology can withstand the rigors of the end-of-year holiday-buying whirlwind. Since 1934, Sherry-Lehmann has served generations of customers from its Madison Avenue storefront in […]

SunGard Data Systems Inc., a maker of business continuity and processing software heavily focused on the financial services arena, announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by seven private equity investment firms in a transaction worth about $11.3 billion. Organized and led by Silver Lake Partners, the consortium set to […]

Customers taking advantage of plummeting storage costs to use unstructured data in unique ways have pushed the development of enterprise content management tools that dig deeper into business processes. EMC Corp., Interwoven Inc. and OpenText Corp. are preparing tools that permit more aggressive management, utilization and access limitations on content. This week, EMC will unveil […]

IBM is tying its database content management technology more closely to records management and extended Web services functionality to help customers integrate multiple forms of data across diverse repositories. Last week, the Armonk, N.Y., company unveiled its enhanced DB2 Content Management portfolio, which allows data types to be captured, searched and managed as part of […]

Cisco Systems Inc., Hitachi Data Systems Corp. and EMC Corp. each have new offerings to help customers squeeze more from their storage infrastructure by strengthening virtualization, improving multivendor device replication and simplifying midtier management. At the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, last week, the companies unveiled hardware, software and services to address the need for […]

IBM is tying its database content management technology more closely to records management and extended Web services functionality to help customers integrate multiple forms of data across diverse repositories. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Tuesday unveiled its enhanced DB2 Content Management portfolio, which allows data types to be captured, searched and managed as part of […]