Brian Fonseca

While maintaining base-line server failover and recovery practices, some enterprises are evolving their disaster recovery efforts to encompass preventive measures around the way they deploy and run software. Responding to the trend, Veritas Software Corp. and EMC Corp. are each readying offerings that extend disaster recovery to the more encompassing realm of business continuity. Veritas […]

In an effort to improve data protection and consolidation across organizations multiple branch sites, Microsoft Corp. joined EMC Corp. and its Legato software division on Thursday to unveil an integrated offering backed by a series of new educational seminars. The new business continuity solution being launched features Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMCs NetWin 200 using the companys […]

Oracle Corp. is challenging a civil suit to be lodged by the U.S. Department of Justice and seven states that seeks to block the companys bid for enterprise software developer PeopleSoft Inc. However, many observers say the company should simply look elsewhere to grow its applications business. The DOJ announced late last week that it […]

IBM hopes to gain the trust of ISVs and clear a path for their embrace of its technologies through a troika of new application development and integration tools, vertical-specific offerings, and an expanded partner ecosystem. The company plans to unveil these initiatives at its PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas this week. If it can sell […]

Oracle Corp. is taking on the U.S. Department of Justice. After the Justice Department, joined by seven states attorneys general, announced Thursday it will seek to block Oracles $9.4 billion takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. by federal injunction, Oracles board of directors voted to challenge the deal. Oracle also dropped its slate of five nominees for […]

IBM has assembled a dozen of its top customers from vertical industries to form the IBM Information Integration Leadership Board, which will work with the company to define and solve emerging data integration problems in customer IT environments. The board will meet throughout the year to preview business technology originating in IBMs labs, as well […]

Veritas Software Corp., Softek and Sun Microsystems Inc. are each aiming to help customers turn data centers into operational storage utilities through several new storage utilization features and products. The result, according to the companies, should be better management of resources, improved performance and lower costs. Veritas this week will announce the availability of Veritas […]

The American Shareholders Association (ASA) is stepping forward to request that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Assistant Attorney General R. Hewitt Pate not interfere with Oracle Corp.s proposed $9.4 billion bid to purchase PeopleSoft on the grounds that the potential acquisitions outcome should be decided solely by PeopleSoft shareholders. The non-profit ASA, which […]

IBM has assembled a dozen of its top customers from a variety of vertical industry arenas to form the IBM Information Integration Leadership Board, a group that will work closely in tandem with IBM to define and solve emerging data integration issues plaguing customer IT environments. The new board will meet regularly throughout the year […]

With the holy grail of utility or grid computing as their quest, Oracle Corp., IBM and Veritas Software Corp. are each working on technologies tied to their respective platforms that automate load balancing management—a key milestone in the journey. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., is beta testing Oracle Database 10g functionality that extends the capability […]