Brian Fonseca

Joining forces to build stronger security capabilities for ticketing and mobile payment applications, SanDisk and Philips announced on May 3 that the companies will embed Philips SmartMX chip into SanDisks TrustedFlash cards for protected NFC implementations. Widely utilized by a growing amount of mobile phone applications, Near Field Communications is a short-range wireless technology that […]

EMC opened its technology summit at EMC World on April 24 by unveiling its newest resource management software and security offerings. The products are the latest in EMCs efforts to remake its storage technology and product portfolio with the goal of focusing on information management. At its annual user conference here, the company introduced EMC […]

In its biggest information lifecycle management product launch to date, Hewlett-Packard announced several new offerings on April 24 that are earmarked to help enterprise customers capture and make sense of complex archiving, data protection and stand-alone application backup and recovery. HP introduced three products this week that round out its data archival family and strategy. […]

Seagate Technology bared the teeth of its new Barracuda 7200.10 family of perpendicular recording-based hard drives April 26. Currently shipping to OEMs, the devices squeeze 750GB of digital storage space onto a single disk drive for desktop computers and low-end servers. The fifth perpendicular recording hard drive released by Seagate, the 3.5-inch Barracuda 7200.10 performs […]

Rearchitecting part of its disk library family to suit the requirements of small and midsize businesses and remote branch office users, EMC on April 17 unveiled its new entry-level disk-based EMC Clariion Disk Library. Also, EMC announced a new virtual “tape shredding” feature to its disk library portfolio, integration with EMC Networker 7.3 backup and […]

Harnessing the capabilities of its TagmaStore storage virtualization engine into a downsized offering targeted at the midrange enterprise audience, Hitachi Data Systems on April 24 will announce the availability of its Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NCS55 “diskless” version. By separating the commodity media—or disks—from the Network Storage Controller intelligent control unit, HDS, a […]

BOSTON—Having spent billions over the last few years remaking the face of its organization, storage technology and product portfolio into a more cohesive information management approach, EMC opened its EMC Technology Summit at EMC World on April 24 with the unveiling of its newest resource-management software and security offerings toward that goal. At its annual […]

XOsoft on April 24 will unveil a number of feature enhancements to the management and deployment modules for its WANSync application availability software. Broadening WANSyncs appeal, the upgrade extends platform and application support toward Linux, 64-bit systems, Microsoft IIS and BlackBerry devices. Currently available, WANSync v.4.0 provides reconfigured management and deployment modules that are specifically […]

As enterprise customers become increasingly dependent on widespread e-mail communication, anxiety levels regarding e-mail security are skyrocketing. In recognition, MessageOne has rolled out a set of managed services designed to harden e-mail protection on BlackBerry devices. The new MessageOne EMS (E-Mail Management Services), announced on April 17, include continuity, security, archive, recovery and encryption services. […]

New company Scentric emerged from stealth mode on April 19 to make its official debut and launch its data classification technology, Scentric Destiny. Scentric Destiny emphasizes universal data classification, or the ability to manage and appropriately classify all data types within large distributed enterprise environments. Commercially available on April 24, the Scentric Destiny software is […]

Seagate Technology on April 18 unleashed its new Cheetah 15K.5 hard disk drive, giving enterprise customers a storage device capable of transporting up to 300GB of capacity at speeds of 15000 rpm. Currently shipping to OEMs, Cheetah 15K.5, which is the fifth generation of the product, will be launched to the distribution channel later this […]

Re-architecting part of its disk library family to suit the requirements of small to midsize enterprises and remote branch office users, EMC on April 17 unveiled its new entry-level disk-based backup EMC Clariion Disk Library. Also, EMC announced a new virtual “tape shredding” feature to its disk library portfolio, integration with EMC Network 7.3 backup […]