Brian Fonseca

As they brace for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to kick in next week, U.S. enterprises are keeping tabs on escalating data management requirements associated with e-mail, messaging and recovery processes. To aid their compliance efforts, companies such as EMC Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are developing new technologies and upgrades to existing ones that boost records management […]

Mushrooming levels of data being created by disconnected enterprise and Web content sources is pressuring customers to more effectively wrap their arms around content-centric applications while improving productivity. Ektron Inc., Percussion Software Inc. and CrownPeak Technology Inc. are building new software tools designed to bolster content management workflow processes, track accountability of assigned tasks and […]

As storage systems, servers and enterprise applications become more tightly interconnected, storage virtualization technology efforts are under way to improve application monitoring and ease management complexity. New offerings from vendors such as IBM, Hitachi Data Systems Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. could help enterprises consolidate storage infrastructures and lower costs by providing greater insight into […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Network Appliance Inc. are building connectors across their respective network-attached storage devices to storage area networks to help customers more efficiently manage their increasing volumes of data. New software coming from both companies aims to unify storage management by attaching NAS gateways to SANs, thus consolidating file servers and enabling applications to […]

SunGard is spinning off its Availability Services business as a stand-alone public company that will begin operation by the end of next quarter. Catering to the IT-dependent audience, Availability Services will take advantage of its independence to help customers proactively remake their IT infrastructures to solve changing business and data requirements within their own sectors. […]

Explosive growth can quickly fall from boon to burden if an IT infrastructure is not prepared to manage and properly back up the rising volumes of data being stored on multiple servers. Having seen its business skyrocket from 85 stores in 1994 to a projected 1,400 stores and two e-commerce Web sites by 2007, Pacific […]

Enterprises are increasingly turning from tape-based storage devices to disk-based options as part of enterprise backup and archival operations to combat tighter backup windows. Tape vendors are responding with new and updated products that promise greater capacities, improved regulatory compliance and better-priced media to halt the abandonment of tape-based backup. Tape-based backup, still considered by […]

Storage customers are getting the chance to kick the tires of EMC Corp.s information lifecycle management products in areas such as replication, file management and application integration. The Hopkinton, Mass., company is launching new products designed to guide customers toward a tiered storage infrastructure that will provide the capability to sort, access and store the […]

Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) acquired Storability Inc. on Thursday for an undisclosed sum in an attempt to boost the storage management and monitoring software delivery capabilities of its ILM (information lifecycle management) portfolio. Under the asset-purchase transaction, Louisville, Colo.-based StorageTek acquired all of Storabilitys intellectual property, software license agreements and customer contacts held by the […]

Storage management offerings on tap from Microsoft Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. aim to extend data replication, archiving and indexing capabilities to accelerate backup and recovery operations. With the introduction of Microsofts DPS (Data Protection Server) and upgrades to Veritas NetBackup and BackupExec applications, large enterprise and SMB (small and midsize business) customers will get […]

CHICAGO—EMC Corp. Tuesday launched EMC Express Solution for E-mail, its new policy-management software for small and midsize businesses, at the Storage Decisions conference here. The software is designed to help customers get a stronger hold on Microsoft Exchange environments being tangled by soaring e-mail volumes and shrinking storage capacity. Available now, EMC Express Solution for […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are both building storage virtualization tools and storage grid technology to help customers drive adaptable intelligence and unified management deeper into multivendor storage environments. The companies are touting the close ties between their storage offerings and their server portfolios as key in enabling their customers to perform data management […]