Judy Mottl

UPDATED: A new study on the good and the bad about Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry illustrates users have expanding feature expectations and aren’t completely satisfied with either popular handheld mobile device. The top feature users like about RIM’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry device is its e-mail capabilities, as a whopping 56 […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is spearheading an industry alliance focused on datacenter standards and improving product interoperability, claiming the initiatives will give enterprises better technology choices and greater market opportunities to vendors. The standards effort announced today will scan across the entire data environment, from virtualization to networks, operating systems, security and service management. The alliance […]

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be leading the charge in unified communications, but the titans and their competitors face high hurdles in their quest persuade IT buyers to sign up. A new Infonetics Research report released this week reveals that while top players — a list that also includes Avaya (NYSE: AV), […]

If last week’s earnings reports are any indicator, data deduplication is the storage industry’s belle of the ball. That’s despite debate over where dedupe works best in a storage infrastructure and vendors’ various sales approaches. What’s not in dispute is the technology’s compelling return on investment, and that the fact that dedupe has yet to […]

AT&T (NYSE: T) and Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) are making a concerted effort to woo small businesses to the BlackBerry, hoping to entice them with a cheaper and easier-to-deploy version of the software already in wide use in large enterprises. The BlackBerry Professional Software, aimed at small and midsized companies with up to 30 […]

Deduplication is being pushed front-and-center in enterprise storage by yet another vendor that claims the technology’s potential benefits shouldn’t be limited to backend, offline storage. Not everyone agrees that deduplication — that is, the process of scouring data archives to remove redundant information and shrink files — is ready for a larger role in critical […]

IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) rolling out a new assessment service geared to help enterprises get a better grip on storage using a propriety framework that evaluates everything from architecture complexity to future data growth. IBM said it’s specifically targeting film production, entertainment and other media companies. Management Complexity Factor for Media (MCF for Media) includes a […]

ORLANDO, FLA. — As one Marriott International (NYSE: MAR) technology leader told a crowded ballroom at Storage Networking World Wednesday, going “green” isn’t about environmentalism; it’s about saving “green” — money that is. While the brand name–lodging conglomerate, which features 550,000 rooms across 3,000 properties in 67 countries, has done its fair share to help […]

A little wooing goes a long way. After weeks of being rebuffed, EMC announced Tuesday it would acquire smaller storage player maker Iomega for $213 million with the tender offer expected to complete by the end of June. To accept EMC’s (NYSE: EMC) $213 million, $3.85 per-share offer, Iomega (NYSE: IOM) terminated a separate purchase […]

ORLANDO, FL. — Enterprises are at a “critical intersection,” according to NetApp’s Tim Russell: facing the task of balancing data regulatory mandates while simultaneously keeping IT costs down and service levels up. That’s the message that Russell, vice president and general manager of NetApp’s storage security business unit, delivered during a morning session at Storage […]