Brian Fonseca

Key storage vendors are ramping up services aimed at helping overwhelmed administrators deal with archiving, data protection and storage management. This week, Storage Technology Corp. unveils its Storage Appraisal Services, which can analyze capacity requirements in often-inefficient heterogeneous storage systems. StorageTeks Storage Appraisal Services will provide recommendations about backup and recovery operations, file-level and file-system […]

Recent high-profile thefts of sensitive data have enterprise IT executives looking hard at the relationships among storage, backup and security, even as vendors prepare new ways to lock down stored information. Proposed solutions run the gamut from EVault Inc.s improved online backup to Decru Inc.s sophisticated encryption methods; all aim to mitigate risk at a […]

To help customers align their systems with regulations, leading IT vendors have formed the Compliance and Management of Electronic Information Working Group. Part of the Internet Law & Policy Forum, the CMEI Working Group will help organizations understand the legal implications of their records, storage and content management as they work to comply with federal […]

The digitization of patients medical records is drawing strong interest from a wide range of sources, from medical facilities hoping to radically alter patient care and existing IT systems all the way to the desk of President George Bush. In the broadest sense, the move to digital patient records is mandated by new regulatory compliance […]

IBM and Microsoft Corp. are aggressively pushing their database offerings toward a cohesive information management framework, with special emphasis on integration, simplified failover and lowered cost. Less than six months after the release of its revamped DB2 Universal Database, code-named Stinger, IBM is upgrading its federated WebSphere Information Integrator middleware to more easily mine and […]

EMC this week will unveil EMC Centera Chargeback Reporter and EMC Centera Seek, advanced search and reporting tools for use with active enterprise archives created by EMCs Centera CAS (content addressed storage) technology. EMC Centera Chargeback Reporter boosts speed and accuracy when generating chargeback reports for corporate billing systems by leveraging stored metadata, said EMC […]

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday unveiled Storage Essentials, its new software suite ticketed to cement the control of storage growth and optimization within HPs Adaptive Enterprise vision of building a unified server and storage management computing environment for its customers heterogeneous systems. Set for roll-out on March 28, HP Storage Essentials integrates with HP System Insight Manager, […]

Customers are cementing ILM offerings from IBM deep in their storage environments for use as underpinnings to centrally create, nurture and dispose of growing data volumes. IBM beefed up its information lifecycle management portfolio of tiered, midrange products last week by unveiling new disk, tape and storage virtualization enhancements, buoyed by the launch of its […]

BOSTON—Less than one week after officially taking over the reins as new president and CEO of Computer Associates International, John Swainson urged LinuxWorld attendees on Tuesday to aggressively push open-standards platform development to help usher in broader Linux acceptance and build more diverse commercial enterprise offerings around open source. During his keynote at LinuxWorld, Swainson […]

Needing to kick into high gear the proficiency and management of its national dealerships sales expertise, American Suzuki Motor Corp. relied on open-source software development to create a new virtual purchasing world for its finicky motorcycle audience. Unlike the auto industry, which typically experiences steady sales through the year regardless of geographic area, the motorcycle […]

IT administrators are bolstering business continuity measures through new provisioning, replication and failover processes to head off potential disruptions and downtime well before they occur. Hewlett-Packard Co. and MessageOne Inc. have recently introduced software and hosted services that enable a variety of Microsoft Corp. applications and other server-cluster environments to better combat outages by quickly […]

EMC Corp. is embracing full Internet SCSI support across its storage system portfolio to help small and midsize businesses deploy lower-cost SANs using their existing IP network infrastructure. However, EMC, with its late entrance to satisfy escalating SMB demand for iSCSI offerings, faces an uphill battle in wooing midtier storage customers that were forced to […]