Brian Fonseca

Veritas Software Corp. and Snap Appliance Inc. are bolstering the replication capabilities of their respective storage software offerings to help enterprises better manage remote-office data. Veritas this week will introduce Version 3.0 of its Storage Replicator, which duplicates information to a central location before backup occurs. Storage Replicator 3.0 allows administrators to automatically capture and […]

To soften storage costs and enable greater storage resource utilization, IBM is embedding iSCSI support and broader third-party storage array interoperability into its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller for Cisco Systems Inc.s MDS 9000 switch. This week IBM unveiled the newest component of its growing storage virtualization portfolio at the IBM Storage Networking Symposium in Las […]

EMC Corp. is uniting configurable policy-based content management with storage resource allocation tools to help customers cut costs by automating archiving capabilities. EMCs Documentum CSS (Content Storage Services) software, which will be announced this week and available next month, lets storage administrators register a storage device with Documentum Content Server and automate changes of policy […]

Microsoft Corp. is peeling back the covers of its highly anticipated SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 database this week to reveal enhancements such as support for 64-bit x86 platforms, as well as improved security and management tools. The Redmond, Wash., company will roll out SQL Server 2005 Beta 2, code-named Yukon, for download to about […]

Buoyed by its commitment to deliver software-rich information lifecycle management products to storage customers, EMC Corp.s second-quarter earnings showed a dramatic 64 percent increase in software sales from one year ago. EMC reported results of $1.97 billion in total consolidated revenue for the second quarter during a call with financial analysts on Tuesday. The figure […]

Speeding about the globe at 35,000 feet, airline passengers expect to be well taken care of en route to their destinations. So for airlines, updating on-board passenger-facing processes can be a boon for business. Thats why in 2003 Britannia Airways Ltd. viewed an on-board POS (point-of-sale) system as an opportunity to overhaul the entire system. […]

Xiotech Corp. is bolting additional controller nodes onto its midrange storage cluster subsystem to provide stronger data resiliency and availability in a virtualized disk environment. A new version of Xiotechs Magnitude 3D Dimensional Storage Cluster, due in a controlled release this quarter, will double the number of DCNs (dimensional controller nodes) to four, thus increasing […]

Paving the way toward helping customers consolidate maturing SAN (storage area network) environments in conjunction with tiered storage adoption, Computer Network Technology Corp. on Monday introduced its UltraNet Multi-Service Director. Individual model offerings for the new UltraNet Multi-Service Director (UMD) family will range from the UMD-2, for branch and remote offices; to UMD-7, for midsize […]

New software for EMC Corp.s Centera storage subsystem promises to let enterprises more easily store and manage archived data coming from a broad array of host systems. Centera Universal Access 2.1, which begins shipping this week, enables enterprise IT shops to create a consolidated archive for data residing in various storage types, including optical jukeboxes, […]

Oracle Corp. is pushing grid computing beyond its Oracle 10g database and application server to encompass the companys enterprise applications. At the companys semiannual Analyst Day in Redwood Shores, Calif., last week, Oracle executives discussed developments designed to increase the functionality of the companys E-Business Suite through integration with the 10g infrastructure software. “We have […]