Brian Fonseca

EMC bolstered its professional services business on April 12 with the introduction of a modularly designed Managed Services portfolio designed to help organizations more effectively improve service levels, control information and oversee their storage systems. Aside from remote monitoring, about 90 percent of the consultation and information infrastructure management delivered through the EMC Managed Services […]

With the backing of its new entry-level Magnum 224 LTO tape library unveiled on April 10, Exabyte is targeting SMB (small and midsize business) and large enterprise remote branch office customers who traditionally have lacked the funds or manpower to invest in tape libraries to streamline their backup data. Customers can expect the Magnum 224 […]

MXI Security launched its stand-alone MXP product family on April 10, providing government organizations and large enterprises with secure and portable USB mass storage devices and tokens featuring integrated digital identity, authentication and cryptography capabilities to safeguard information. Built to protect data being carried outside a companys boundaries by employees and business partners, and also […]

SAN DIEGO—When MySpace.com quietly launched its online social networking service in September 2003, few could have predicted that in less than three years the tiny social company would explode into an Internet behemoth currently featuring 65 million users and running 4.5 million transactions per minute. Running parallel to MySpaces meteoric growth in terms of scale […]

SAN DIEGO—As the criticality of storing, securely accessing and retrieving information becomes more closely aligned with an organizations lifeblood, storage vendors are feverishly trying to build “a better mouse trap” toward enhancing existing data protection and backup and recovery capabilities. Here at Storage Networking World, storage vendors have launched a variety of new software and […]

SAN DIEGO—Pouncing on the growing demand for iSCSI and Fibre Channel system diversity to enhance storage management for SMBs and remote branch office architectures, Dell and EMC on April 3 launched the EMC Clariion AX150 and AX150i systems at Storage Networking World here. The next generation of Dell and EMCs popular AX100 model, the down-sized […]

SAN DIEGO—Targeted at improving storage functionality and options for SMBs, Intel and EMC announced a new multiyear OEM agreement and strategy on April 4 while also unveiling plans to co-develop storage technology. Per the joint agreement unveiled at Storage Networking World here, Intel will provide its reseller and distributors worldwide with the Intel SSR212PP Storage […]

Shedding any notions among customers of being no more than a novelty within the tightly contested storage market, Microsoft is aggressively leveraging OEM partnerships and pursuing ways to slice data management complexity and cost. The next step in that methodical process will take place at the Storage Networking World conference April 3-6 in San Diego. […]

Large-scale storage vendors are launching new products targeting remote office backup, data center flexibility and the need for multipath storage management. At the Storage Networking World show April 3-6 in San Diego, EMC will join its close partner Dell to announce the new EMC Clariion AX150 for Fibre Channel connectivity and the AX150i for iSCSI […]

Providing notebook PCs with performance and capacity typically found in desktop PCs, Fujitsu Computer Products of America on March 28 unveiled a 200GB, 2.5-inch serial ATA hard disk drive. Building on the strength of Fujitsus 160GB, 2.5-inch SATA HDD, the MHV2200BT, which will begin shipping in the third quarter, is designed to allow customers to […]

Inching their way as a primary target by storage vendors that have traditionally catered to larger enterprises, SMBs are on track to gobble up and deploy more capable storage technology than ever before in 2006, according to a new report released on March 29 by IDC. According to the IDCs study called “U.S. SMB Storage […]

Bill Graff, senior manager of infrastructure for CernerWorks, the remote hosting business unit of Cerner Corp., of Kansas City, Mo., is trying to outrun a data avalanche. “Storage is a big budget-line item for us. Its significant because we do 1.5 petabytes of [spinning disk] storage today, and thats more than double what we had […]