Lucas Mearian

IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are both building software to provide systems administrators with a single, consistent view of their IT infrastructures, from...

IBM Corp. announced Thursday that it has enhanced the capacity and performance of its midrange disk storage systems and tape libraries and restructured the pricing of its SAN Volume Controller virtualization software. The company said it changing the pricing model on SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for block-based storage systems to make it more affordable for lower-end users.

One key to keeping your business on its feet in a disaster is anticipating the sometimes cascading effects a catastrophe can have on your IT operation.

Suppliers of storage systems have made more product announcements in the past six months than in the previous two years, according to one research firm. This week's Storage Networking World conference in Orlando promises to represent a microcosm of that trend as dozens of vendors unveil new technologies.

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Motorola Inc. this week said it has completed the second of four phases in a planned companywide rollout of information life-cycle management (ILM) software that has cut the size of production databases by as much as 50 per cent in some business units.

EMC Corp.'s Documentum Inc. division announced Thursday its first product that ties document management into storage management through policies designed to migrate data on different tiers of storage based on its age and value.

EMC Corp. Monday announced the latest version of its flagship storage management software, which it said offers "more complete support" for competing products such as arrays from Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems Corp. and IBM Corp., as well as Linux servers.