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VERITAS Software topped off the refresh of its backup and recovery software line Monday by issuing VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 Server for mid-size organizations and remote offices. Previously called VERITAS NetBackup Business Server, the new software package is part of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s utility computing strategy of tailoring software for customers’ computing resources, as […]

EMC is unveiling a raft of new hardware systems and software enhancements spanning its entire product family, showcasing a more unified approach to managing and storing data than it has in the past. EMC Vice President of Marketing Chuck Hollis reports the company decided to pull the covers off of the new products, which span […]

EMC this week shored up its management software for databases with DatabaseXtender, a software suite that monitors database use and, through a joint solution with Oracle, preserves inactive database records. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage vendor also used Oracle’s AppsWorld show in San Diego to unveil services to educate customers about information lifecycle management (ILM) and […]

Despite being such a nascent technology, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) has been bubbling with development over the past year among storage vendors anxious to tap into the next-generation storage technology. Now it has earned the blessing of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) and the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), operating under the internationally-recognized […]

Storage systems for network access got a little hotter with networked storage provider Adaptec’s agreement to purchase storage virtualization software maker Elipsan. The Milpitas, Calif.-based storage provider says Elipsan’s storage virtualization technology will help boost the scalability and performance of its RAID subsystems, which are multiple drives that work in tandem to provide better fault […]

Computer Associates International (CA) refreshed its popular BrightStor storage backup software Monday, reinforcing its ties with the Microsoft Windows platform in hopes of garnering more market share from its chief rival VERITAS . While BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11 contains a number of new features, the key achievement, according to David Liff, vice president of storage […]

Emboldened by demand for a stronger network-attached storage gateway, IBM on Tuesday introduced a new storage product to zip files across IT networks. NAS devices are file servers, and vendors such as EMC , Network Appliance , and IBM specialize in them. Although the proliferation of more comprehensive storage area network (SAN) systems has significantly […]

Storage hardware maker BlueArc today unveiled a network-attached storage (NAS) server to help it better compete with the likes of perennial NAS leaders EMC and Network Appliance . A NAS device is strictly geared to serve files. EMC and NetApp are regularly the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the NAS segment, according to […]

In a strong indicator of the company’s success in selling the concept of information lifecycle management (ILM) to its customers, EMC Thursday reported a 25 percent year-over-year revenue growth for the final quarter of 2003. Fourth quarter revenue was $1.86 billion, a 25 percent rise from revenues of $1.49 billion in the same period a […]

Like many software companies, VERITAS Software has queued up a news announcement surrounding the Linux operating system just in time for this week’s LinuxWorld Expo in New York City. VERITAS, a storage software outfit evolving into a utility computing company, reports it has expanded storage, clustering, and server provisioning support for SUSE LINUX and VMware […]

Two leading InfiniBand switch makers Tuesday announced their presence at the LinuxWorld show with new partnerships geared to ramp up buzz for the slow-growing yet fast-moving technology. InfiniBand is an extremely fast, low latency interconnect technology used to pipe data between processors and devices, such as computer servers. It was originally designed to replace the […]

IBM has snapped up a large contract with Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) in which Big Blue will provide the facility with hardware and virtualized storage software to manage and run OSC’s research applications. With the infrastructure, OSC data such as global climate modeling, weather forecasting, and genetic sequencing will be fed to thousands of researchers […]