Lucas Mearian

Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday announced five new services designed around storage-area networks (SAN) and disaster recovery. The services are intended to feed off an uptick in outsourcing created by tight IT budgets and IT managers looking for quick returns without investing in specialized staff.

Storage switch maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. this week released the fourth generation of its software for managing storage-area networks (SAN), adding new change management and security features as well as a dashboard-style user interface.

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Monday announced the release to resellers of its fourth-generation Fabric Manager software, which now provides policy-based management, a dashboard-type topology view of a storage-area network (SAN) and better security through encryption and authentication.

As part of this week's mainframe announcement, IBM Corp. introduced several enhancements to its flagship Shark disk array, including support for long-distance data mirroring and for configuring arrays with up to 6.9TB of standby storage capacity.

Network Appliance Inc. this week announced plans to release a new iSCSI-enabled storage appliance in the next few weeks that will be the first of a new product line targeting remote offices and workgroups for backups.

Business executives from a group of financial services firms recently shared a basic idea about how CIOs can deliver returns on IT projects: For starters, they said, IT managers have to be able to read an income statement.

Integrating software from two recent acquitions into its product line, Veritas Software Corp. announced yesterday that it will be introducing a combined suite that will allow administrators to treat storage more as a utility through virtualization and automated provisioning.

Business executives from a group of financial services firms this week shared a basic idea about how CIOs can deliver returns on IT projects: For starters, they said, IT managers have to be able to read an income statement.