Brian Fonseca

In a move to improve its ability to tie together and standardize the provisioning of storage-based utility computing services, Veritas Software Corp. purchased Invio Software Inc. on Wednesday in an all-cash deal totaling $35 million. Invio Software, a privately-held company based in Los Altos, Calif., offers an IT process automation engine that allows customers to […]

A pair of storage developers, anticipating a “perfect storm” of convergence and massive enterprise application upgrades, are rearchitecting their respective wares to help the masses manage major migration projects. IBM and Veritas Software Corp. are updating their storage management software lines with enhanced virtualization and replication technologies that officials at each company said will help […]

Broadcom Corp. looks to help smaller customers improve the reliability and performance of storage servers by providing Serial ATA-based RAID processing capabilities at more affordable prices. Broadcoms RAID controllers should help lower overall storage costs by making it easier for less sophisticated IT shops to perform such tasks as online capacity expansion and by enabling […]

Small and midsize enterprises struggling to absorb overflowing data, cost pressures and shrinking backup windows are weighing the benefits of emerging disk-based storage alternatives against tried-and-true tape-based devices. Vendors including Unitrends Software Corp., Overland Storage Inc., StorServer Inc. and Storage Technology Corp. are addressing those obstacles with new products designed to be more reliable and […]

Software upgrades from Softricity Inc. and IBM aim to help enterprises deploy and better manage applications that are distributed across a computing grid. Softricitys SoftGrid Enterprise Edition Version 3.1 application management platform improves management of disaster recovery operations by giving administrators immediate access to virtualized applications regardless of location. The software, due this summer, also […]

The geometric growth of stored data not only extends data backup times at many organizations but also lengthens the time needed to restore data after a system failure. Sepaton Inc. and Unitrends Software Corp. are responding by redesigning their respective data protection appliances to enhance scalability and shrink restoration times. “The restoration time is really […]

Bearing a new name and pricing scheme targeting nonprofessional users, Microsoft Corp. says its Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, which made its debut Tuesday at Microsoft TechEd Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands, will replace MSDE (Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine) as the software makers lightweight database offering of choice. Armed with a basic set of […]

Before it settled on PeopleSoft Inc. last year, Oracle Corp. considered acquiring one of more than a half-dozen other high-profile software companies, according to internal documents presented last week in a trial to determine if the U.S. Department of Justice can block the PeopleSoft deal. Oracle, in reaction to what it saw as an increasingly […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is boosting its storage grid architecture by enabling applications to see a single file system image across connected servers and devices within Linux environments. The Palo Alto, Calif., company will unveil the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (SFS) system Wednesday at the International Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg, Germany. Due in the third quarter […]

Sybase Inc. and Quest Software Inc. are each readying data replication and archiving products to help enterprises fight the battle of the bulge in their databases. Such tools are critical, as unmanaged data growth has caused performance and operational inefficiencies in production databases. For example, global investment management company T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. routinely […]