CA Responsive On Storage Management
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Computer Associates on Monday unveiled storage-management software designed to help customers keep costs in line. The CA BrightStor r11.
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Partitioning an array and/or a storage network may not be enough to satisfy air-gap sensitive users.
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WinFS is perhaps one of the most awaited feature from the Microsoft stable after Longhorn was announced. Microsoft says that it has been their dream to come out with something like WinFS and completely change the way file system works.
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Apple Computer&#39;s rack-mounted storage system received a vote of confidence Monday, with database giant Oracle endorsing the Xserve RAID as part of an initiative to cut storage costs.
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Trade Me has purchased a RAM SAN array from Texas Memory Systems, a storage system for serving thousands of pictures of items for sale on its site. Right now, the site uses traditional disk storage for the task, but it is encountering I/O bottlenecks.
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Personal computers have rapidly turned into storage vaults for digital music, photos and videos. Now, computer-industry companies are rolling out new ways to let that content roam through the house.
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Bigger and brawnier isn't necessarily better for everyone. FileMaker's new desktop database adheres to the Apple division's credo that ease of installation and use is more important to its user community than whizzy new features that add bulk and complexity.
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(InfoWorld) - While software vendor CA is pretty happy with theÂ financial performanceÂ of three-quarters of its business, its storage management operations are not up to par, according to executives. CA sees storage management as one of the company's four main business pillars, the other three being enterprise systems management, security, and business services optimization. All four form part of CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM), the vendor's road map to both simplify and more tightly integrate all of its software products. CA is "not satisfied" with sales growth in its storage management business, John Swainson, the company's president and CEO, said Thursday during a conference call to discuss the vendor's third-quarter results for fiscal 2007. In particular, he blamed CA's indirect sales channel which the company is already taking steps to revise and rebuild, after bringing in new management last year. Swainson, who's very much a glass half-full kind of a guy, said he's optimistic that CA's storage business will turn around, perhaps before the close of fiscal 2007. He pointed to a string of purchases designed to fill in the spaces in CA's storage offerings, the most recent of which was theÂ July purchaseÂ of continuous data protection technology vendor XOsoft. CA's not the only one struggling with its storage business. Rival SymantecÂ recentlyÂ announced poor third-quarter fiscal resultsÂ in that sector of its business which it acquired through the 2005Â purchase of Veritas. As in previous financial quarters, CA's overall focus remains realignment of its sales force around the world, cost reduction and implementing new business processes, Swainson said. Nancy Cooper, chief financial officer at CA, gave an update on the vendor's implementation of SAP's enterprise applications which it sees as crucial in its ongoing transformation. CA went live with SAP's financial applications in April in the U.S. and at the end of October it got the U.S. services operation deployed on the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software. The process was "difficult both from the process and systems point of view," she said. Given the complexity of the implementation, that experience wasn't surprising, Cooper added. CA plans to roll out SAP's applications to the rest of its global operation in 2008. "We'll go step by step on this thing," she said. CA's troubled past continues to bubble up to the surface. Two more former executives wereÂ recently sentencedÂ in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, for their roles in a massive securities fraud which took place at the company several years ago. The fraud involved the false reporting of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue before licensing agreements were finalized to bolster quarterly financial results. Earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge I. Leo Glasser sentenced David Kaplan, CA's former senior vice president of finance and administration, to six months of home detention. Last week, the same judge sentenced Ira Zar, CA's former CFO, to seven months in prison and seven months of home detention. In November, Judge Glasser sentenced CA's former CEO Sanjay Kumar toÂ 12 years in prisonÂ and a $8 million fine, while codefendant Stephen Richards, the ex-head of worldwide sales at CA, later received a seven-year jail term. Â
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IT managers may need more storage to handle all the storage announcements that occurred at this week's Storage Decisions show in Chicago as well as several other independent announcements.Â
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According to Jim Dalrymple , one of the goals for Xsan 2 was to make it easier for customers to set up a storage area network (SAN). âOne of the ways Apple has accomplished this is with the SAN Setup Assistant, which is integrated into Mac OS X Leopard Server or as an application that can be run on its own.â  âThe setup assistant, Dalryple explains, does âall the heavy lifting for you, setting up everything including Open Directory permissions.â
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Hard drives have come a long way since debuting 50 years ago this week. Do they still have room to shrink?
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Officials at Computer Associates International Inc. are trying to upgrade their image in the storage market with a bundled solution that contains many applications that were previously available individually
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IBM is claiming a storage management victory over EMCand has said it can control its entire line of storage arrays with the latest version of its San Volume Controller appliance.
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Computer Associates (CA) has introduced a usage-based pricing and licensing model for its mainframe management products. The model bases licensing costs on measured system usage rather than total potential
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Praveen Asthana, director of Dell storage, says his company is focused on reducing deployment costs and the complexity of storage so storage is as easy to install as servers are right now.