Brian Fonseca

Among factors that led to a rift between ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina and HPs boardroom, dissatisfaction with the companys beleaguered enterprise storage efforts rings the loudest. Analysts and HP storage customers point to a variety of reasons that slowly derailed the business unit. They include a failure to recognize the value of key […]

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced three new additions to its HP StorageWorks Business Continuance Software portfolio that are designed to drastically improve replication and automatic failover capabilities of HP StorageWorks EVA (Enterprise Virtual Array) midrange arrays. Available this quarter, the HP Metrocluster, HP Continentalclusters and HP StorageWorks Cluster Extension EVA enable HP-UX and Microsoft Windows customers […]

Hoping to lure customers away from its chief backup and recovery software rival, EMC has quietly launched its new quarterly roll-out program, called “Safe Switch.” The program is designed to woo customers deploying Veritas Softwares backup products that are considering or currently engaged in software migrations, or those wary of Symantecs impending merger with Veritas. […]

Network Appliance Inc. is developing a new data management product to help users avoid the disruptions caused by data corruption between Oracle Corp. databases and modular storage environments. Early next month, NetApp will unveil SnapValidator, its new Data OnTap 7G platform software offering designed to ensure end-to-end validation of Oracle database blocks for data integrity […]

The New Years holiday behind them, IT administrators are resolving to gain more control of e-mail management systems in 2005, looking to tackle looming compliance, storage and liability issues. To assist them, vendors such as ClearStory Systems Inc., FileNet Corp., EVault Inc. and Open Text Corp. are building new automated, content-focused e-mail offerings designed to […]

NEW YORK—To help small and midsize business customers boost the speed and central administration of distributed storage backups and enable self-assisting disk-based data protection, Veritas Software Corp. on Tuesday unveiled Backup Exec 10.0 for Windows Servers software and its newly bundled Veritas Backup Exec Suite. The Veritas Backup Exec software suite offers integration between the […]

Impeccable housekeeping and extraordinary customer service are the traditional marks of a four-star hotel. For many, internal IT operations receive that same level of attention. So when hotels get the urge to merge, establishing and executing technology integration and consolidation plans to maintain the mounting data volumes and connectivity become critical. Facing just such a […]

In an effort to better tie mobility to its grid computing-based flagship database server infrastructure and application development capabilities, Oracle Corp. on Monday introduced Oracle Database Lite 10g. Currently available at $100 per user, the revamped product signifies a major upgrade by the giant database maker, enabling the mobile work force to reap the benefits […]

A growing number of storage vendors are rolling out low-cost storage wares designed to maximize home networking environments, mobile phones, digital video devices and enterprise ATA applications. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Maxtor Corp. and Zetera Corp. unveiled several products designed to parlay growing numbers of […]

In an effort to give customers more focused control over internal and non-IBM external enterprise data stores, IBM is planning to add native XML support to its relational DB2 Universal Database wrapped around new indexing capabilities. An expanded beta test for the enhanced DB2 technology, which is currently available in alpha format for a few […]

Shortly after announcing its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. last week, Oracle Corp. wasted no time in setting out to win the confidence of former J.D. Edwards & Co. customers who have spent the past year transitioning to PeopleSoft and now will have to move again. Charles Phillips, Oracles co-president and point man on […]

Symantec Corp., the ubiquitous security vendor, is in talks to acquire Veritas Software Corp., the dominant data backup player, in a bold move that would position the company to compete on a higher level with rivals such as Computer Associates International Inc. and IBM. Sources familiar with the situation said that Symantec, based in Cupertino, […]