Brian Fonseca

To stop storage network problems before they occur, Onaro Inc. is introducing its predictive change management software to simplify administration and manage the growth of SANs. SANScreen, which will be unveiled this week, performs root-cause analysis and storage area network simulations without using agents. Running on a stand-alone server, the software features APIs that plug […]

EMC Corp. is bulking up its ControlCenter storage resource management platform and expanding its offerings for managed service providers—two cornerstones of its strategy for centralizing management of heterogeneous storage infrastructures. ControlCenter 5.2, which the Hopkinton, Mass., company will introduce this week, adds a broad slate of connectivity features for managing multivendor storage environments, including interoperability […]

Running in step with the growing popularity of Java among the developer community, Sleepycat Software Inc. on Wednesday announced the availability of Berkeley DB Java Edition, a Java version of its flagship open-source database. Berkeley DB Java Edition incorporates an open-source dual-license business model and has been built to allow the non-relational database to take […]

Despite its relentless, multibillion-dollar hostile takeover pursuit of PeopleSoft, Oracle on Tuesday announced a 15 percent growth in its fiscal fourth-quarter net income to $990 million, or 19 cents per share, compared with net income of $850 million, or 16 cents per share, one year ago. According to the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giants earnings […]

EMC Corp., which built a storage empire based on disk drives, formalized its software vision last week with the creation of the EMC Software Group. EMC President and CEO Joe Tucci said the group, which unites the development efforts of the companys Documentum content management and Legato backup software units with its existing management software, […]

New and upgraded software from TimesTen Inc. aims to give enterprises greater control over how and when data is cached in its namesake in-memory database, with the goal of enabling real-time responses to business issues. TimesTen this week will unveil three modules—Times-Ten/Transact, TimesTen/Data-Server and TimesTen/Cache—which will be available next quarter. Giving application developers a tool […]

NEW YORK—EMC Corp. told a group of analysts at an event here Thursday that its Documentum and Legato Software divisions will operate as an integrated entity alongside other EMC software offerings under the newly unveiled EMC Software Group. The Hopkinton, Mass., storage makers new Software Group faces lofty internal expectations. Joe Tucci, EMCs president and […]

EMC Corp. is leveraging its Legato and Documentum divisions to build tightly knit hardware, software and services packages to help guide customers through a minefield of growing data retention and e-mail archiving compliance concerns. The EMC Proven preconfigured and tested bundles will relieve enterprise customers of the burden of figuring out where in the various […]

IBM is boosting the speed and search capabilities of its Information Integrator software for DB2 Universal Database to enable customers to manage and combine the flood of data sources pouring into their IT environments more easily. This week, the Armonk, N.Y., company will announce the open beta trial of the next version of DB2 Information […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and EMC Corp. are each trying to change the perception among some would-be customers that their respective storage systems are expensive and difficult to deploy. To do it, both companies are extending their product lines with the goal of aggressively driving down users overall storage costs, making incremental storage growth less challenging. […]