Brian Fonseca

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. is enabling small and midsize businesses to take advantage of storage area networks in a new initiative that opens HDS storage systems to channel partners. HDS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., last week unveiled its midrange SATA (Serial ATA)-based Hitachi Thunder 9520V Workgroup Modular Storage System. Available now and […]

A lack of mutually accessible and consistent information about the water level of the Mississippi River at any given time compelled businesses and citizens along the river last year to demand federal action. At the core of the problem were an antiquated Web design and the network of water-control sites for the Water Control division […]

Oracle Corp. is crystallizing an enterprise content management initiative and shoring up its integration strategy to answer growing customer demand for both unstructured data management and improved application flexibility. At the heart of the effort is Oracles forthcoming “Tsunami,” the ECM-oriented and redesigned Oracle Files product that Oracle officials say will push database sales even […]

Extending the boundaries for customers to create more category-refined and cost-friendly Web content search systems, CrownPeak Technology is readying software capable of learning from content and user behavior to improve its site search relevance. CrownPeak unveiled its new hosted on-demand CrownPeak Search offering Tuesday at the Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies in Boston. The service […]

During its 30-year history, Mars Advertising Group, a 250-person business specializing in brand marketing for consumer-packaged-goods companies, had endured its share of surprises. But Bill Davidson, Mars CIO, was not ready for the phone call he got on the morning of Feb. 20, when he learned that Mars corporate headquarters, in Southfield, Mich., had been […]

In an effort to rebuild its scandal-stained image and infuse its executive ranks with fresh faces, Computer Associates International Inc. tapped one of its chief competitors lieutenants to lead the embattled software franchise. Former IBM software executive John Swainson takes over as the new president and CEO of CA, company officials in Islandia, N.Y., announced […]

With the recent announcement of its Critical Patch Updates strategy, Oracle Corp., like rival software developers, is striving to strike a balance between providing customers with crucial software fixes and making sure the patches have been properly tested. Before announcing her companys patch strategy two weeks ago, Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson spoke […]

To help overcome performance and accessibility limitations hampering the adoption of iSCSI technology, Pyx Technologies Inc. is expanding its thin-client support of the protocol deep into wireless and personal computing environments. Pyx, of Concord, Calif., is set to announce that its iSCSI Initiator and Target storage management software have been embedded into a 240KB thin […]

EMC Corp. and General Electric Co. are rolling out scaled-down medical imaging offerings to enable smaller community hospitals to keep in step with cutting-edge storage technology used by larger enterprise health care providers. To simplify digital online archiving and diagnostic imaging workflow in cost-conscious health care environments, EMC last week joined GE Healthcare, a Waukesha, […]

Oracle Corp. plans to announce yet another change to its security patch release process. Three months after adopting a monthly schedule to roll out security fixes, the database management firm says patches will now be issued on a quarterly schedule, beginning January 18, 2005. It effectively means that Oracle customers will get four Critical Patch […]

Enterprises eager to squeeze more mileage out of per-gigabit storage investments can soon start taking advantage of virtual volume management and cloning capabilities being built into storage grid architectures. Companies such as Network Appliance Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and ExaGrid Systems are readying updates to their storage wares that offer customers advanced grid-based management capabilities and […]

Sun Microsystems will launch improved storage, data management and compliance tools this week. Suns StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager Advanced Application 3.0 management portal reduces the complexity of multivendor storage networks via a single point of automated monitoring, visualization and provisioning of resources, officials said. /zimages/6/28571.gifSun is building storage virtualization tools and storage grid technology to […]