Brian Fonseca

Exploding data volumes and the increasing complexity of storage topologies are driving enterprise customers to look for better storage management and backup recovery tools. Ready to assist these companies is a growing cast of hardware and software vendors, such as Storability Software Inc., Network Appliance Inc., LiveVault Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp., each […]

CHICAGO—Microsoft Corp. officials said the company will expand its storage portfolio and vision deep into the lucrative disk-based backup and recovery arena next year. The software maker on Monday took the wraps off its Microsoft Data Protection Server at the Storage Decisions 2004 conference here. Data Protection Server , or DPS, is currently in limited […]

Oracle will catapult itself into the ECM (enterprise content management) fold next quarter by introducing “Tsunami,” its unstructured data management technology. Tsunami is targeted to lie in the heart of a major upgrade of the database giants Collaboration Suite software slated for early 2005. Specifics surrounding Tsunami and its placement within Collaboration Suite, as well […]

Some IT organizations, frustrated by a lack of database security support from their primary database suppliers, are turning to smaller, third-party developers for new internal auditing and monitoring tools. As the organizations look for more comprehensive support, companies such as Ingrian Networks Inc., IPLocks Inc. and Guardium Inc. are getting ready with a raft of […]

IBM announced Thursday the general availability of the “Stinger” version of its DB2 Universal Database, which delivers to database administrators a host of new autonomic database self-management and self-healing capabilities designed to simplify data management and business process tasks. DB2 Universal Database 8.2, code-named Stinger, will begin shipping Sept. 17 with pricing the same as […]

NEW YORK—Hitachi Data Systems Inc. on Tuesday unveiled embedded virtualization layer technology that can aggregate up to 32 petabytes of internal and external storage into a single virtual storage pool and bolster performance by offering up to 68G bps of cached bandwidth. Available now, the controller-based TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, which HDS unveiled at an […]

Banking institutions, soon to be freed of requirements that they process paper checks by shipping actual pieces of paper among institutions, are poised to deploy imaging and data management tools that will catapult another portion of their businesses into the digital age. The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, which will go into effect […]

EMC Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. are building up their respective e-mail archiving offerings through development and acquisition to give customers more stringent control of enterprise content. The goal for each of the companies is to leverage the combined strengths of e-mail archiving, content management and storage management to save customers time and money by […]

Awaiting the arrival of the states second major hurricane in just three weeks, businesses and agencies across Florida are rolling out disaster preparedness plans to secure systems and communications infrastructure against the predicted high-winds ferocity of Hurricane Frances. According to weather forecasters, Frances is expected to begin mercilessly battering Floridas eastern coastline sometime late Friday. […]

IBM has launched a pair of low-end storage controllers and is pulling its disk-based storage products underneath its TotalStorage umbrella to offer customers a more scalable and cost-friendly disk-based storage product line. The TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 controllers, released late this week, kick-start IBMs new Disk System product line. The DS300, an entry-level disk server […]

EMC Corp. on Friday filled its ranks by appointing longtime IBM executive Jeffrey M. Nick to serve as the storage giants senior vice president and chief technology officer. EMC has been without a full-time CTO for more than a year. In his new role at Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC, Nick will use his CTO and senior […]

Oracle issued a security alert and downloadable patch release Tuesday to plug multiple vulnerabilities scattered across its database server products. The patches are designed to lock down exploits affecting a variety of Oracles Database, Application Server, Collaboration Suite and Enterprise Manager products. According to the alert, the new patches eliminate security flaws in the Database […]