Brian Fonseca

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 […]

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 […]