Brian Fonseca

As New York braces for the Republican National Convention this week, IT managers at the citys financial services companies may be nervous about the potential for terrorism, but theyre prepared. Having learned from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the massive power blackout of 2003, many Manhattan-based companies are now hardened with beefed-up […]

IBM on Thursday agreed to acquire Venetica Corp., a maker of content integration software that allows enterprises to access and embed unstructured data including business documents, e-mail, digital media, still images, and Web pages. The purchase is expected to close in the fourth quarter. IBM will fold the brand name, personnel and operations of Charlotte, […]

IBM introduced a new, entry-level configuration of its IBM TotalStorage NAS (network-attached storage) Gateway 500 on Tuesday to give customers running an NAS environment a less costly option to satisfy less-demanding performance requirements. Available by the end of this week, the slimmed-down configuration features a single microprocessor based on Power4+ and is priced at $31,850—about […]

Staking its fortunes on its early sprint to help customers seize control of increasing volumes of mobile data, Sybase Inc. is crafting an overarching mobile strategy that encompasses new applications, developer tools and tie-ins to its enterprise databases. Buoyed by the proliferation of mobile devices and services in the enterprise, Sybase officials believe such a […]

EMC Corp. on Monday announced the availability of its new Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services, enabling end-users to expand the discovery and management of content from internal and external data sources. ECI is EMCs rebranded version of the askOnce technology and business unit, which Documentum acquired from Xerox Corp. in March. EMC has infused […]

In an effort to improve overall patient care, the Mayo Clinic is tunneling deep into its data archives to link patients genomic profile, personal history and background characteristics. The world-class medical institution in Rochester, Minn., recently joined with IBM to build a data repository to harness massive amounts of medical records containing clinical information from […]

Sybase Inc. is expanding the capabilities of its relational DBMS and development tools to smooth out application integration bumps and help customers build service-oriented architectures. The Dublin, Calif., vendor is touting new scalability, application enablement and security features in its flagship ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) 15 database, as well as ease-of-use features in its PowerBuilder […]

Enterprises running multiple databases will soon have new and enhanced administration tools from BMC Software Inc., XOsoft Inc. and Storage Technology Corp. to consider. The vendors said they are readying wares that will help ensure that streamlined and centrally managed backup and disaster recovery safeguards are in place. Houston-based BMC next week plans to release […]

IBM and Computer Associates International Inc. are handing over parts of their respective relational database technologies to the open-source developer community. As a result, customers will get a better insight into how to clear integration hurdles when connecting the DBMSes to third-party software. At LinuxWorld in San Francisco last week, CA made available its Ingres […]

Developers of applications that run on mobile devices face special challenges, since the software cant make a call to a back-office database when the devices are disconnected. Increasingly complex mobile applications demand more options for routing database messages and integrating them with a variety of back-end systems to boost data synchronization and performance. Sybase Inc. […]