Brian Fonseca

EMC Corp., which built a storage empire based on disk drives, formalized its software vision last week with the creation of the EMC Software Group. EMC President and CEO Joe Tucci said the group, which unites the development efforts of the companys Documentum content management and Legato backup software units with its existing management software, […]

New and upgraded software from TimesTen Inc. aims to give enterprises greater control over how and when data is cached in its namesake in-memory database, with the goal of enabling real-time responses to business issues. TimesTen this week will unveil three modules—Times-Ten/Transact, TimesTen/Data-Server and TimesTen/Cache—which will be available next quarter. Giving application developers a tool […]

NEW YORK—EMC Corp. told a group of analysts at an event here Thursday that its Documentum and Legato Software divisions will operate as an integrated entity alongside other EMC software offerings under the newly unveiled EMC Software Group. The Hopkinton, Mass., storage makers new Software Group faces lofty internal expectations. Joe Tucci, EMCs president and […]

EMC Corp. is leveraging its Legato and Documentum divisions to build tightly knit hardware, software and services packages to help guide customers through a minefield of growing data retention and e-mail archiving compliance concerns. The EMC Proven preconfigured and tested bundles will relieve enterprise customers of the burden of figuring out where in the various […]

IBM is boosting the speed and search capabilities of its Information Integrator software for DB2 Universal Database to enable customers to manage and combine the flood of data sources pouring into their IT environments more easily. This week, the Armonk, N.Y., company will announce the open beta trial of the next version of DB2 Information […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and EMC Corp. are each trying to change the perception among some would-be customers that their respective storage systems are expensive and difficult to deploy. To do it, both companies are extending their product lines with the goal of aggressively driving down users overall storage costs, making incremental storage growth less challenging. […]

To help ease database administration and data protection concerns, Microsoft Corp. is locking down security and improving best-practices options in its SQL Server database. The Redmond, Wash., company announced at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego last week that it will embed native data encryption, as well as password and key management support, in […]

When building an IT environment for a large casino and hotel that weaves together traditional mainframe applications with forward-looking Web-based software, rolling the dice on critical database decisions isnt a wise gamble. Despite the dependence of many casino-oriented applications on IBM infrastructure and “green screen” technology, casinos such as the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa […]

Network Appliance Inc. next week will roll out its new midrange FAS920 and FAS920c storage systems, the final components of its unified storage FAS900 family that will mark the end of the companys NetApp filer line and F825 storage system. The midrange filers support several access modes including block and SAN (storage area network) access […]

EMC Corp. and Dell Inc. joined forces during a Webcast in London on Wednesday to introduce the AX100, an entry-level SAN (storage area network) device targeting small and midsize businesses and remote office customers at a cost of less than $10,000. Slightly bigger than a traditional VCR, the 2U AX100 array starts at $4,995 for […]

IBM announced on Tuesday that it is boosting porting capabilities in its SAN File system software to embrace a host of competitors storage devices while enabling customers to more easily apply policy-based management and share data files across mixed storage environments. Available in late June, IBM TotalStorage SAN File System V2.1 incorporates virtualization to support […]

Database administrators running SQL Server can look forward to a bit more free time and less worries about unauthorized access to sensitive data files, thanks to new database features announced by Microsoft Corp. at its TechEd 2004 conference on Tuesday in San Diego. On the security front, Microsoft said it will embed native data encryption/decryption, […]