Judy Mottl

A startup is banking on enterprises’ growing need for high-performance storage — and it’s betting on flash-based, solid-state drive (SSD) technology to help it steal business away from the big players in the space. Violin Memory announced its Violin 1010 appliance that uses Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND flash (define) modules integrated onto memory cards. Relying […]

Sun Monday launched its first storage appliance family built on open source technology, bundling data management and analytics, simplified installation and mixed storage devices in a bid to capitalize on enterprises’ eye for lower-cost storage opportunities. Called “Amber Road,” the Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) Storage 7000 product family includes three systems, the 7110, 7210 and 7410, […]

IBM is pushing out three new products that promise greater control and stronger management of unstructured data and provide faster data search and retrieval processes. The Content Collection and Archiving software packages collect, classify and archive data whether it’s file systems, instant messaging or email. The goal? Shoring up e-discovery efforts and gaining efficiency around […]

HP plans to debut a new storage virtualization platform by December that promises to simplify management and reduce costs associated with storage area networks (SANs). The HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) lets IT teams pool storage capacity across heterogeneous systems, provides centralized management, more efficient resource allocation while also reducing storage costs, according […]

Over half of today’s desktop computer users are willing to trade the PC for a smartphone for Internet use, illustrating how mobile devices are fulfilling the promise of next-generation computing. That’s a top finding of a new IBM survey polling 600 users in the US, China and UK on how what they like and don’t […]

The arrival Wednesday of the T-Mobile G1, the first Android smartphone, marks the debut of the most open mobile operating system yet. Android’s creators – the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), Google and T-Mobile – have pledged to fully support third-party application development, promising no one will dictate what users can download to the G1, or […]

Ahead of the hotly anticipated T-Mobile G1 smartphone’s arrival in stores next week, early reviews show not everyone is convinced that the Android-powered handset is ready to take on the Apple iPhone or muscle onto the turf of Windows Mobile or the BlackBerry. Yet among reviewers and industry watchers, there’s still little doubt that the […]

The Krave (Motorola) Motorola’s newest mobile phone, the Krave, features a touch screen navigation system that is similar to the iPhone. “This [Krave] is a knockout combination of multimedia and phone,” Motorola’s Ken Hallman, a vice president, told InternetNews.com. “We are redefining the touch experience and expanding the category with Krave.” Hallman said users can […]

A new Federal Communications Commission report dismissed a key objection to tapping the unused “white spaces” between television channels for unlicensed, broadband wireless Internet. The finding marks a major victory for supporters of using the wireless spectrum for new Internet devices and services. Backers of the idea include some of the largest tech firms, including […]

Microsoft is putting the final touches on its unified communications (UC) tool, Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2, which will be available early next year and feature enhanced conferencing, wireless device and developer-friendly capabilities. Details about the new version comes a year after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) introduced OCS, in advance of the product’s official launch […]