Judy Mottl

If you think storing your enterprise data is a tough challenge now, it’s nothing compared to what it might be in just a few years. According to a new study from research firm IDC and storage vendor EMC, data requirements are growing at an annual rate of 60 percent. Today, that figure tops 45 gigabytes […]

Iomega is expanding its rack mount offerings with the StorCenter Pro NAS 200rL Linux Server, aimed at the small business and home office environment. “It’s a solution for companies needing that next step in storage, and provides very good performance at a great price point,” Tom Kampfer, president and COO, told InternetNews.com. The servers hold […]

NetApp’s StoreVault S550 for the midmarket not only fills a gap in the network-attached-storage (NAS) vendor’s lower-end product line and fires yet another shot at Dell and HP, it illustrates the company’s return to its roots, says an industry watcher. The S550 scales to 12 terabytes due to a new chassis that allows for 750GB […]

In the past few months it seemed that small-to-medium enterprises were the new love interest for storage vendors. Everyone from IBM to Dell were courting SMB organizations. Now it seems some powerhouse players are also wooing the mainframe environment, bearing promises of more efficient storage resource management. EMC is the second big player in the […]

Despite online reports that Research in Motion’s email service crashed for a few hours yesterday, the BlackBerry maker says there was no infrastructure failure and that any sluggish email service issues were due to normal maintenance. “There was no system wide outage. We did perform regularly scheduled maintenance that went longer than expected but there […]

Sony Ericsson is jumping full-bore into the smartphone industry, and landing its entry, the XPERIA X1, among a very crowded playing field. That’s no mean feat when the competition already includes Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry and the Palm Treo family. Scheduled for market sometime after this June, the XPERIA is a “converged” […]

A major showdown between two top storage vendors could lead to a new era of competitive benchmarks, and a sea change in how the performance evaluation tool is viewed in the industry. It all started last year when Network Appliance decided to benchmark its FAS3040 modular storage system and EMC’s CLARiiON CX3 Model 40 under […]

Continuing to refresh its storage technologies, IBM today rolled out a sweeping array of enhancements to products for both enterprises and small and midsize businesses (SMB) — as well as dusting more “feature-shine” on an offering for telecom plays. IBM’s latest product enhancements aim to provide customers with cheaper, faster and more efficient storage solutions, […]

Pushing the envelope in solid-state drive (SSD) performance isn’t anything to scoff at. But industry-watchers are far more excited about the potential impact that Texas Memory Systems’ latest results could have in encouraging enterprises to adopt the technology. The vendor’s RamSan-400 SSD product hit 291,208.58 input/output requests per second (IOPS), with an average response time […]

Apple’s iPhone is now one of the top three most-popular smartphones in play, but although it’s not a mobile enterprise device, industry watchers aren’t dismissing the possibility. One analyst believes that if Apple spurs greater application development and solves some minor form-factor issues, such as adding a keyboard, the vendor could become the mobile work […]