Brian Fonseca

Customers continue to divert their IT budget dollars toward storage software to deal with overflowing data volume challenges and greater information retention requirements, driving up spending by 11.2 percent in just one year to reach $2.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005, according to IDCs Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, released on March 13. […]

Brocade Communications Systems acquired all outstanding shares of standards-based file data management software provider NuView for approximately $60 million in cash on March 6. The move occurred on the same day that Brocade rolled out its two new 4G bps SilkWorm switches and new iSCSI Gateway targeted at simplifying SAN (storage area network) infrastructures. As […]

In a move designed to add more teeth to its IP storage system portfolio, EMC on March 6 debuted two new versions of its mid-tier Celerra product line. At the same time, via its Smarts business unit, the storage company launched what EMC officials claim is the first management product to provide root cause analysis […]

Microsoft breathed new life into its growing storage business on March 3, announcing the acquisition of WinTarget and iSCSI-based software technology assets from String Bean Software, and solidifying its push into information lifecycle management through an expanded partnership with EMC. Financial terms of Microsofts agreement to purchase WinTarget from privately held String Bean Software, based […]

Brisk sales of enterprise external disk storage systems gave vendors a bullish quarter to close out the 2005 fiscal year. Revenues were pushed up by $708 million with a 17.9 percent growth from approximately one year ago to reach $4.7 billion in revenues in Q4 of 2005, according to IDCs Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly […]

To help address the growing interest in heightened security and the corresponding move by organizations to record and store volumes of data onto video, Seagate Technology announced on March 1 its new SV35 Series hard drive product family. The new drives are designed to boost the performance and capacity of devices related to video surveillance. […]

IBM is refreshing its midrange storage line with the addition of a new 4G-bps Fibre Channel expansion unit for its DS4000 Series product, adding increased density and capacity for its disaster recovery-based box, and providing automated backup and restore capabilities for Microsoft Exchange Server. Available for general release the week of March 6, the scalable […]

Hewlett-Packard is sprucing up its storage hardware and software portfolio to simplify IT consolidation efforts across customers online, backup and remote- and branch-office storage environments. HP on Feb. 20 announced new plug-in and connectivity features for its Enterprise Virtual Array and XP disk array systems. The company also introduced a new HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Tape […]

Iron Mountain and Adobe Systems joined forces on Feb. 27 to unveil a partnership designed to provide Adobe Digital Imaging and Creative Suite software customers with subscription-based online automated backup and data protection for all residual digital images stored on PCs and laptops. As part of the technology marriage between the two companies, Adobe Photoshop […]

EVault on Feb. 27 will unveil three new additions to its product portfolio which extend the companys backup and data protection software deep into file archiving waters. The announcement will include the debut of EVault ArcWare to clean up non-critical files, enhancements to EVault InfoStage to archive backups, and new instant messaging archiving capabilities for […]