Brian Fonseca is a senior writer at eWEEK who covers database, data management and storage management software, as well as storage hardware. He works out of eWEEK's Woburn, Mass., office. Prior to joining eWEEK, Brian spent four years at InfoWorld as the publication's security reporter. He also covered services, and systems management.
As enterprise customers become increasingly dependent on widespread e-mail communication, anxiety levels regarding e-mail security are skyrocketing. In recognition, MessageOne has rolled out a set of managed services designed to harden e-mail protection on BlackBerry devices. The new MessageOne EMS (E-Mail Management Services), announced on April 17, include continuity, security, archive, recovery and encryption services. […]
New company Scentric emerged from stealth mode on April 19 to make its official debut and launch its data classification technology, Scentric Destiny. Scentric Destiny emphasizes universal data classification, or the ability to manage and appropriately classify all data types within large distributed enterprise environments. Commercially available on April 24, the Scentric Destiny software is […]
Seagate Technology on April 18 unleashed its new Cheetah 15K.5 hard disk drive, giving enterprise customers a storage device capable of transporting up to 300GB of capacity at speeds of 15000 rpm. Currently shipping to OEMs, Cheetah 15K.5, which is the fifth generation of the product, will be launched to the distribution channel later this […]
Re-architecting part of its disk library family to suit the requirements of small to midsize enterprises and remote branch office users, EMC on April 17 unveiled its new entry-level disk-based backup EMC Clariion Disk Library. Also, EMC announced a new virtual “tape shredding” feature to its disk library portfolio, integration with EMC Network 7.3 backup […]
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 […]