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Eyeing more customers in the corporate space, EMC Wednesday announced it has purchased the storage management software line of BMC Software . The acquisition of BMC Software’s PATROL Storage Manager software is the key piece in the companies’ global sales, marketing, and technology partnership. EMC plans to ultimately eradicate the product and move BMC customers […]

VERITAS Software Monday closed one of its most significant acquisitions ever, cementing its transformation as a utility computing provider with the purchase of Precise Software Solutions . The Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of storage software paid approximately $609 million, which consisted of about $400 million in cash and 7.4 million shares of common stock, for […]

Taking the next step in its new utility computing plan, VERITAS Software Monday introduced new server provisioning software using the technology of one of its acquisitions from last year. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company says VERITAS OpForce 3.0 differs from traditional utilities in that it ensures resources such as servers, switches, and load balancers are […]

Hewlett-Packard has sharpened its focus on storage systems that are part of its adaptive, on-demand strategy with the release of an expanded StorageWorks portfolio that includes new business continuity features. The upgraded storage systems, software, and related systems in the portfolio are part of HP’s extended ENSA (Enterprise Network Storage Architecture) strategy of giving customers […]

Serial-attached storage is slated to have a major presence at the CeBIT America show in New York City this week. Storage players Adaptec, HP, and Seagate Technology plan to introduce a new interface that works with both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) to help businesses cut their IT infrastructure costs. The companies […]

As the IT industry pushes to make data retrievable from many devices using one portal window, it stands to reason that the underlying technology, storage virtualization , is so prized. Virtualization helps enterprises lower their costs because they need fewer storage devices, components, and staffers to manage the wealth of data across their networks. But […]

HP will announce another expansion to its network-attached storage (NAS) line this week at Microsoft’s Tech-Ed 2003, where it will unveil the StorageWorks NAS 1000 product for remote offices and small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The news reinforces HP’s longstanding partnership with Microsoft . The Palo Alto, Calif. vendor’s NAS device is tailored to run on Windows […]

A research firm specializing in covering the data storage industry says there are definite upsides to all of the red tape and heightened concerns behind accounting and other regulations in the market — about $6 billion worth of upsides. Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Storage Group has conducted a study on the impact regulatory compliance has on […]

AT&T Wednesday announced new services that help companies recover crucial information in the event of catastrophes or other unexpected problems. The Bedminster, N.J.-based telecommunications giant said it has launched the business continuity services because of recent regulatory and legislative requirements, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and new accounting rules under […]

With the clamor for storage management software increasing, storage company EMC is aiming to meet customer demand with the addition of two new products to its ControlCenter line, the centerpiece of its AutoIS strategy to help IT staffs get more control of their storage systems. The Hopkinton, Mass. firm has added EMC AutoAdvice, an intelligence […]

VERITAS Software has embraced the red-hot trend of utility computing with its announcement of several new on-demand software initiatives and programs. Utility computing, an approach in which companies call up computing properties as a metered service, is becoming a major force on the IT scene, as leading vendors such as IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, […]

IBM Thursday introduced new software to help enterprises more effectively manage their IT budgets, a major new initiative under its on-demand strategy. The software products cover virtualization technology for storage and grid computing and add more capacity-on-demand capabilities. IBM discussed the new offerings Thursday at its annual analyst conference in Palisades, NY, where company executives […]