Brian Fonseca

With storage rival EMC Corp. firmly in its line of fire, IBM on Wednesday announced that it will enter into an OEM deal with Network Appliance Inc. to resell the network-attached storage vendors entire product line. As part of the strategic agreement, IBM will sell IBM-branded offerings based on Sunnyvale, Calif.-based NetApps NearStore, SAN (storage […]

IBM, Network Appliance Inc. and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. are pushing storage virtualization to help administrators remedy shrinking capacity and poor utilization rates without increasing the number of storage arrays in their IT environment. Improving the reach of its SFS (SAN File System) offering, IBM is revamping the storage virtualization product to automatically move data […]

Improving with age like a fine Cabernet or Merlot, wine merchant Sherry-Lehmann Inc. stays one step ahead of growing customer online and in-store demand largely by ensuring that its data backup technology can withstand the rigors of the end-of-year holiday-buying whirlwind. Since 1934, Sherry-Lehmann has served generations of customers from its Madison Avenue storefront in […]

SunGard Data Systems Inc., a maker of business continuity and processing software heavily focused on the financial services arena, announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by seven private equity investment firms in a transaction worth about $11.3 billion. Organized and led by Silver Lake Partners, the consortium set to […]

Customers taking advantage of plummeting storage costs to use unstructured data in unique ways have pushed the development of enterprise content management tools that dig deeper into business processes. EMC Corp., Interwoven Inc. and OpenText Corp. are preparing tools that permit more aggressive management, utilization and access limitations on content. This week, EMC will unveil […]

IBM is tying its database content management technology more closely to records management and extended Web services functionality to help customers integrate multiple forms of data across diverse repositories. Last week, the Armonk, N.Y., company unveiled its enhanced DB2 Content Management portfolio, which allows data types to be captured, searched and managed as part of […]

Cisco Systems Inc., Hitachi Data Systems Corp. and EMC Corp. each have new offerings to help customers squeeze more from their storage infrastructure by strengthening virtualization, improving multivendor device replication and simplifying midtier management. At the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, last week, the companies unveiled hardware, software and services to address the need for […]

IBM is tying its database content management technology more closely to records management and extended Web services functionality to help customers integrate multiple forms of data across diverse repositories. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Tuesday unveiled its enhanced DB2 Content Management portfolio, which allows data types to be captured, searched and managed as part of […]

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 […]