Brian Fonseca

As the role of storage servers in the enterprise continues to evolve, Hewlett-Packard and IBM are responding, each planning to incorporate such elements as performance virtualization, data search and sturdier file management capabilities into their storage building blocks. The new technologies open the door for enterprises to overcome the inherent limitations of todays hardware by […]

Some companies looking to utility computing to improve resource utilization and manage cost allocation in heterogeneous IT environments are starting off by scrutinizing their storage infrastructure. Norm Fjeldheim, CIO of San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., said the virtualization of IT through a utility computing model was the only way his organization could keep pace with growth […]

Pushing the theme of improved information management and its relationship to escalating data-retention pressures, IBM introduced new tape and disk storage offerings Wednesday designed to help customers take better advantage of moving less critical data onto lower-cost Near-Line disk storage options. At its Executive Briefing Center in Cambridge, Mass., IBM unveiled its TotalStorage FaStT100 Storage […]

EMC Corp. is developing storage router software that company officials said will use virtualization technology to help large-enterprise customers combat the complexity of growing SANs. The software, known internally as “Storage Router,” will let customers migrate data among the disk arrays in a storage area network without shutting down or affecting the applications using the […]

LAS VEGAS—With the sun shining on a clear day outside of the Venetian Hotel here, the site of this weeks Veritas Vision conference, Gary Bloom, president and CEO of Veritas Software Corp., envisions a bright future for his storage company in its quest to enable utility computing. Driving home the theme to the 3,400 conference […]

Veritas Software Corp. burrowed application performance management deeper into its offerings Wednesday by announcing at its Veritas Vision conference in Las Vegas that Veritas i3 7.0 will couple more tightly across its software storage product set. /zimages/6/28571.gifAlso at the conference, Veritas released new and revitalized products from its CommandCentral family. Click here to read more. […]

To help drive its utility computing agenda, Veritas Software Corp. on Tuesday is introducing new and revitalized products from its CommandCentral family and is outlining the direction of MicroMeasure, the usage-metering technology acquired through its acquisition of Ejasent Inc. Unveiled at the storage vendors Veritas Vision Conference in Las Vegas, CommandCentral Storage 4.0 and CommandCentral […]

Enabling storage devices and software to more tightly align with application workload and service level requirements, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) will announce the availability on Tuesday of a new set of HiCommand business and application modules focused on application optimization and a new performance-boosting Hitachi Thunder 9585V to promote storage pool utilization. According to officials […]

Second-tier storage hardware and software vendors are targeting areas such as improved performance, easier provisioning and lower cost to differentiate their products. These vendors, which demonstrated new products at the Storage Decisions conference here last week, hope to stand out by addressing specific SAN (storage area network) issues such as how to most effectively use […]

In an effort to accelerate application development and enhance administrator productivity, IBM is rolling out new automation features with links to development technologies in a forthcoming DB2 Universal Database upgrade. The upgrade, which is code-named Stinger and will be released to open beta this week, includes 200 new features that enhance the softwares ability to […]