Karen Schwartz

Companies are spending much more than originally anticipated to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, according to a recent survey. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires all public companies to establish an ironclad method of developing and maintaining an internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting, as well as […]

HP has announced a rash of improvements to its ILM products that positions it to compete head to head with EMCs Centera while making stronger inroads into the mid-tier market. The Hewlett-Packard Co. StorageWorks RISS (Reference Information Storage System) now sports a “smart cell” of 850G, more than double the size of the original smart […]

With its acquisition of ILM specialist Evertrust, Nexsan Technologies is positioning itself to become the information lifecycle management vendor to beat. Nexsan Technologies, of Woodland Hills, Calif., announced Tuesday that it has purchased the Quebec, Ontario-based AESign Evertrust, which develops ILM, CAS (Content-Addressed Storage) and compliance software for digital data storage, archiving and management. The […]

America Online has introduced a new version of its ICQ instant messaging service that adds a host of new capabilities, including an industry-leading voice chat service. ICQ 5, released Monday, provides many features customers have been asking for, including more customization, upgraded security and a simpler interface. The service also provides users with several new […]

In an effort to get the word out about its real-time data compression engine, tiny Indra Networks Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has begun actively promoting its StorCompress line of data compression technology. The company has recently introduced StorCompress 200, a disk-to-disk storage product that uses the industry-standard “deflate” algorithm for compression, but does so […]

In keeping with its reputation of supporting major operating releases quickly, Veritas has announced that its storage management and high-availability products now support Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 operating system, effective immediately. The Mountain View, Calif., companys Storage Foundation, Volume Replicator and Cluster Server all have been revamped to include full support for Solaris 10 to […]

Data replication appliance vendor Kashya has announced that its KBX5000 Data Replication Appliance now works in tandem with the Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap Service. The combination of the two technologies allows organizations with heterogeneous storage and a SAN (storage area network) to plug the Kashya appliance into a port on the Cisco switch, allowing data […]

In an effort to convince frustrated Windows users to adopt Linux, Novell has introduced a new version of SuSE Linux that bundles revamped applications and tools with the latest version of the operating system. SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 includes the complete Linux operating system, more than 3,000 open-source packages, including the Microsoft Office-compatible OpenOffice office […]

A proposed Utah bill that would force Internet service providers to filter and block any material and Web sites deemed “harmful to minors” has ISPs and advocacy groups up in arms, claiming unconstitutionality on several grounds. In addition to requiring ISPs to prevent access of Internet materials considered harmful to minors, the bill requires ISPs […]

The newest version of NuView Inc.s global namespace technology now includes support for Unix, allowing users to apply the benefits of the global namespace to a broader portion of an enterprise environment. By supporting Unix, StorageX 5.5 now allows enterprises to build a unified global namespace across CIFS (Common Internet File System), a protocol that […]