Brian Fonseca

Broadening the reach of its fixed-content archiving technology to a midtier enterprise audience, EMC is set to launch a four-node EMC Centera configuration. Available this month from EMC and its partners, the four-node Centera box provides 2.2TB of usable storage capacity and offers a base list price that is 35 percent cheaper than the previous […]

Document management specialist FileNet Corp. is readying its latest FileNet P8 ECM platform to help customers take advantage of business-process-based content activation through better enterprise content management. Set to be introduced this week at the AIIM On Demand Conference & Exposition in Philadelphia, FileNet P8 3.5 features CFS (Content Federation Services), which enables the software […]

EMC finally dipped its toe into storage virtualization technology waters Monday by announcing the availability and pricing scheme of its EMC Invista product and storage virtualization platform, formally named EMC Virtual Storage Router. Currently in limited beta release, the product will be generally available next quarter. Unveiled at the EMC Technology Summit in New Orleans, […]

Hewlett-Packard will look to rebound its beleaguered storage fortunes next week at its HP Americas StorageWorks Conference 2005 by unveiling a major storage product line refresh featuring a host of newly built and OEMed components designed to keep in step with changing customer demands. Addressing multiple storage simplification techniques through its largest-ever HP StorageWorks rollout […]

This week, XOsoft Inc. will make available its Assured Recovery software, a new product that allows customers to perform fully automated scheduled tests of applications without disrupting an IT environment. Capable of being integrated with existing backup tools, Assured Recovery features a pause functionality that helps eliminate the need to perform costly or time-consuming resynchronization […]

IBM is simplifying integration and adding context to unstructured data buried deep within IT architectures in an effort to improve information management for SMBs. To allow small and midsize businesses to accelerate application development and delivery, the Armonk, N.Y., company plans to release before the end of the quarter a slimmed-down Express product tentatively called […]

Making a two-pronged move to bolster the structured and unstructured data access and integration capability of its enterprise Data Services and iAnywhere mobile technology portfolios, Sybase on Monday announced the acquisition of privately held Avaki and ISDD. Terms of the two purchases by Sybase were not immediately disclosed. The key prize of Sybase Inc.s acquisition […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. wants to make it easier for customers to move into a utility computing environment. In February Sun unveiled Sun Grid, an initiative that lets customers access compute resources—hosted in several global data centers—for $1 per CPU hour. At its quarterly product rollout this week, the Santa Clara, Calif., company will expand on […]

Dell announced last week the Dell/EMC NS500, its new network-attached storage gateway. Built in partnership with EMC, the NAS gateway lets businesses move file and block data into a single storage pool. The gateway features automated failover software, cache vaulting and data scrubbing. Due later this year, the Dell/EMC NS500 gateway is designed to let […]

During what is likely Veritas Software Corp.s final end-user conference before its acquisition by security giant Symantec Corp. becomes official as early as next month, the storage software maker this week introduced a number of upgrades to its backup and archiving portfolio. These upgrades are buoyed by partner-driven, integrated disk-based data protection and content management […]