Brian Fonseca

Second-tier storage hardware and software vendors are targeting areas such as improved performance, easier provisioning and lower cost to differentiate their products. These vendors, which demonstrated new products at the Storage Decisions conference here last week, hope to stand out by addressing specific SAN (storage area network) issues such as how to most effectively use […]

In an effort to accelerate application development and enhance administrator productivity, IBM is rolling out new automation features with links to development technologies in a forthcoming DB2 Universal Database upgrade. The upgrade, which is code-named Stinger and will be released to open beta this week, includes 200 new features that enhance the softwares ability to […]

With storage virtualization squarely in its crosshairs, EMC Corp. is developing Storage Router, a product that aims to help larger enterprise customers combat the growth and complexity of storage area networks (SANs). According to officials of Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC, Storage Router will enter the beta phase in the third quarter. The storage maker said it […]

NEW YORK—Smaller vendors of storage hardware and software are targeting areas such as improved device performance, portability and lowered cost to help put their stamp on customers network environments. Nexsan Technologies Inc., AppIQ Inc., Storability Software Inc., Spectra Logic Corp. and Brocade Communications Systems Inc. all demonstrated new products at the Storage Decisions Conference here […]

NEW YORK—Gauging from the favorable reaction of data storage customers, the tide may be turning for iSCSI to move from a misunderstood storage network standard to a crucial component of enterprise storage systems. Chatter around iSCSI, or Internet Small Computer System Interface, rang throughout the halls of the Storage Decisions Conference here this week. The […]

NEW YORK—Buoyed by the release of its iSCSI Storage Server on Monday, FalconStor Software Inc. is enabling small and midsize businesses (SMB) to reap the benefits of a SAN (storage area network) without having to go through the Fiber Channel learning curve. Introduced at the Storage Decisions Conference here, the iSCSI Storage Server is specifically […]

IBM is aiming to help customers bridge a major storage interoperability chasm by announcing Friday that its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller v.1.2 will support and manage bitter rival EMC Corp.s Symmetrix and CLARiiON hardware storage arrays, as well as Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Corp.s Lightning disk-based offerings. Available April 30, TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller v.1.2 […]

Forty years after introducing its first mainframe server, IBM continues to polish the venerable computing platform with hardware and software enhancements designed to make it useful as a data repository and computing engine for Web applications and other, newer computing workloads. IBM next month will offer a midsize mainframe, the zSeries 890, that promises the […]

The worst electric power failure in U.S. history could have been avoided in part through better business continuity planning and IT management, according to a recent report. The U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force in its final report, issued this month, placed a great deal of the blame for the Aug. 14, 2003, blackout that […]

Security software maker Symantec Corp. is weaving together systems and storage management with security features to give IT managers more comprehensive management of enterprise IT environments. The companys fledgling Enterprise Administration Business Unit is building off two recent acquisitions to create software that promises to enable administrators to ward off potential intrusions while performing system […]

Fueled by its recent acquisitions of Legato Software, Documentum Inc. and VMWare Inc., storage behemoth EMC Corp. reported on Thursday first-quarter revenue of $1.87 billion, a 35 percent jump from $1.38 billion for the same quarter one year ago. EMCs net income for the quarter stood at $140 million. That figure is up from $35 […]

Microsoft Corp. is following the lead of others in the storage industry by enhancing its Windows Storage System software with capabilities designed to bring high-end management within reach of small and midsize businesses. At the Storage Networking World conference in Phoenix last week, Microsoft announced that it is adding NAS (network-attached storage) support for Microsoft […]