Brian Fonseca

Enterprises are increasingly turning from tape-based storage devices to disk-based options as part of enterprise backup and archival operations to combat tighter backup windows. Tape vendors are responding with new and updated products that promise greater capacities, improved regulatory compliance and better-priced media to halt the abandonment of tape-based backup. Tape-based backup, still considered by […]

Storage customers are getting the chance to kick the tires of EMC Corp.s information lifecycle management products in areas such as replication, file management and application integration. The Hopkinton, Mass., company is launching new products designed to guide customers toward a tiered storage infrastructure that will provide the capability to sort, access and store the […]

Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) acquired Storability Inc. on Thursday for an undisclosed sum in an attempt to boost the storage management and monitoring software delivery capabilities of its ILM (information lifecycle management) portfolio. Under the asset-purchase transaction, Louisville, Colo.-based StorageTek acquired all of Storabilitys intellectual property, software license agreements and customer contacts held by the […]

Storage management offerings on tap from Microsoft Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. aim to extend data replication, archiving and indexing capabilities to accelerate backup and recovery operations. With the introduction of Microsofts DPS (Data Protection Server) and upgrades to Veritas NetBackup and BackupExec applications, large enterprise and SMB (small and midsize business) customers will get […]

CHICAGO—EMC Corp. Tuesday launched EMC Express Solution for E-mail, its new policy-management software for small and midsize businesses, at the Storage Decisions conference here. The software is designed to help customers get a stronger hold on Microsoft Exchange environments being tangled by soaring e-mail volumes and shrinking storage capacity. Available now, EMC Express Solution for […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are both building storage virtualization tools and storage grid technology to help customers drive adaptable intelligence and unified management deeper into multivendor storage environments. The companies are touting the close ties between their storage offerings and their server portfolios as key in enabling their customers to perform data management […]

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 […]