Brian Fonseca

Developing and constructing a large-scale real estate property can range from fairly straightforward to treacherous. For many in the business, it all depends on the amount and quality of planning and communication thats in place when the project gets the green light. On a typical project, a developer coordinates information with multiple entities including architects […]

MySQL AB looks to guide its open-source database deeper into the enterprise with new clustering capabilities and features to boost operational performance and scale. But some database administrators say that while feature enhancements will make MySQLs namesake DBMS appealing to more enterprises, the Uppsala, Sweden, company also has to straighten out its licensing structure. This […]

An investigative report issued this week by the U.S. and Canadian governments surrounding the worst power failure in U.S. history is shedding light on the importance of business-continuity planning through findings that the electric-system catastrophe could have been prevented. The U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force placed much of the blame for the Aug. 14-15 […]

Oracle Corp. and Dell Inc. are deepening their technology relationship to take better advantage of a small and midsize business (SMB) audience ripe with new sales opportunities as well as to catapult the proliferation of grid computing to new heights. Larry Ellison, CEO of Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle, and Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of […]

E-mail archiving products from vendors such as KVS Inc. and Connected Corp., which reduce the cost of expensive disk storage, are climbing business IT managers priority lists, as pressure mounts for regulatory compliance and the cost of electronic discovery for legal cases rises. Users have come to rely so much on e-mail, instant messaging and […]

EMC Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are each readying disk-based storage alternatives that the companies said will meet demands for faster backup and recovery of data at a price lower than traditional disk arrays. At the Storage Networking World conference in Phoenix this week, EMC will introduce its Clariion Disk Library, which is designed to back […]

Storage technology vendors will highlight products that are now within reach of small-and-medium sized businesses (SMBs)at Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2004 in Phoenix. Prominently displayed at the show will be new storage devices and software for customers seeking improved integration, storage management and support for their increasingly heterogeneous storage environments. Fiber Channel storage area […]

In a major step toward solving interoperability within storage environments, at Storage Networking World Conference on Tuesday the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is expected to unveil a select list of hardware and software management vendors that are fully compliant with the Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S). The participating vendors, including names such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard […]

Sybase Inc. took a giant step toward expanding the reach of its mobile device capabilities on Friday by agreeing to purchase mobile device management provider XcelleNet Inc. for approximately $95.2 million in an all-cash deal. XcelleNet will be integrated into Sybases mobile-focused subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions once the transaction closes in the second quarter of 2004, […]

Network performance testing software vendors Agilent Technologies Inc. and Finisar Corp. are readying new tools to satisfy testing requirements around 4G-bps Fibre Channel storage and server offerings expected to be deployed by years end. Agilent this week will unveil its 1733A SAN (storage area network) tester, which provides device virtualization, host bus adapter behavior emulation, […]

The distinction between applications locked in big-iron mainframes and those running on distributed client/server and Web-based systems could fade, thanks to new and enhanced data management software from IBM. The Armonk, N.Y., company will unveil this week more than 20 software tools as part of its DB2 for z/OS Version 8 database rollout. One important […]

ObjectStore is readying a new breed of caching mechanism that company officials said will more efficiently update data in emerging service-oriented IT architectures that need the freshest information to respond to constantly changing business activity. ObjectStore, a division of Progress Software Corp., this week will unveil ObjectCache Version 2.0. The data source synchronization software keeps […]