Brian Fonseca

Shortly after announcing its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. last week, Oracle Corp. wasted no time in setting out to win the confidence of former J.D. Edwards & Co. customers who have spent the past year transitioning to PeopleSoft and now will have to move again. Charles Phillips, Oracles co-president and point man on […]

Symantec Corp., the ubiquitous security vendor, is in talks to acquire Veritas Software Corp., the dominant data backup player, in a bold move that would position the company to compete on a higher level with rivals such as Computer Associates International Inc. and IBM. Sources familiar with the situation said that Symantec, based in Cupertino, […]

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 […]