Judy Mottl

IT organizations will pony up decent size pay raises this year, despite the past few shaky economic months, thanks to continuing business investment in networking initiatives and internal application development work. The move to boost IT compensation, while at the same time meeting company mandates to improve efficiency and cut costs, will remain a big […]

Everywhere the Giants and Patriots went on a bus during Super Bowl week, including daily practices or media events, the team’s security forces knew when players and staff arrived, when they departed and where the buses were at every second of the day and night. They even knew how fast the bus traveled at any […]

Name a player in the data storage arena and there’s no doubt that vendor has at least one, if not more, products aimed at the small-and medium-sized business. Just look at the past few months; there’s been a flurry of device launches with each touting how the particular solution meets the particular needs of the […]

Users of IBM’s Lotus Connections software can now take this social networking tool on the road if they’ve got a BlackBerry in hand. The initial beta, previewed this week and available as a free download later this year, includes two of the five services in the Lotus Connections package, which IBM launched a year ago. […]

As the saga of whether the Bush administration properly saved or illegally deleted e-mail continues to unfold, experts are advising companies to review and confirm that corporate e-mail policies are not only in place but are meeting regulatory requirements. “It’s one thing to back up and archive e-mail, but it’s a whole other thing to […]

Enterprises shopping for high-end network attached storage (NAS) this year might want to wait until the fall, as vendor competition is heating up: HP is throwing down the gauntlet before Network Appliance (NetApp) about how it intends to grab customers and market traction. “We think we have the right ingredients such as industry-standard components and […]

Arthur Angel counts himself among the 400,000 attorneys at small shops that, in addition to running their own practice, have to run their IT decision-making. Thanks to recent federal laws regarding disclosure and production of electronic data, the civil litigation attorney, like every other lawyer, now must make sure all electronic communications are recorded, stored, […]

IBM takes another big step today in its quest to build client-centered infrastructures, this time pushing out a custom-designed blade offering for the retail business sector. The vendor has fastened its IBM Store Integration Framework certification to its BladeCenter S offering, allowing retailers to plug in over 75 retail business applications that run the gamut […]

Take a good look at any desktop fleet and consider how many, if any, PCs are using or even require the given capacity available. Then imagine corralling up all that unused space and tethering it together like a grid to create a needed storage pool. That’s exactly the road many small to midsize businesses (SMBs) […]

Online storage solutions are popping up everywhere on the Web, offering small home office and business users a variety of options. Most, if not all, provide easy-to-use upload and download functionality and file sharing capabilities—putting the data storage approach more than a few steps ahead of the granddaddy of online storage: FTP sites. The key […]