Judy Mottl

New research on the adoption and deployment of unified communications suggests that most enterprises are still challenged by integrating needed applications with telephony platforms. Nemertes Research, which just completed interviews with 117 end user organizations averaging $10 billion in revenue, said preliminary data showed that while UC projects are moving forward, the effort is still […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), EMC (NYSE: EMC) and Seagate (NYSE: STX) are all headed down the path to solid state disk (SSD) flash technologies, but unlike its competitors, Sun believes it’s not enough to just swap out storage disks to gain the benefits of SSD. The company aims to integrate SSD flash into Solaris and […]

Despite technology’s promise of creating a paperless office environment, enterprises still struggle with growing piles of digital records. “Businesses continue to swim in a vast sea of refined wood pulp,” Charles King, principal analyst, Pund-IT, told InternetNews.com. “The sheer complexity of dealing with huge volumes of paper documents has implications for everything from managing accounting […]

Getting connected may get a bit easier for laptop users subscribed to AT&T (NYSE: T) services as the leading U.S. carrier is providing free access to more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots nationwide. Subscribers of AT&T’s LaptopConnect wireless broadband service who are also using the carrier’s Communication Manager tool will receive a pop-up message about […]

As unified communications continues to take root within the desktop landscape, it’s also sprouting on the mobile device environment, thanks to worker mobility demands and the promise of greater productivity that collaboration provides to enterprises. Once in play on handsets, unified communications (UC) could very likely change how workers work and businesses operate. True seamless […]

Microsoft said on Sunday it has proposed an alternative deal to Yahoo, rather than a full acquisition, in a move that could save the Web pioneer from fighting a proxy battle with financier Carl Icahn. “Microsoft is considering and has raised with Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) an alternative that would involve a transaction with Yahoo but not […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is making no secret of its ambitions to bring Web 2.0 technologies into the enterprise and out to the mobile workforce, under its own banner. Big Blue announced this week it’s placing its Lotus communication and collaboration tools portfolio on Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry, making the smartphone the lone enterprise […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is playing catchup to established rivals in the hot virtual tape library (VTL) market, pushing out a larger, faster tape virtualization solution of its own. The company today also unveiled new software for automating provisioning tasks for its N series of network-attached storage (NAS) products. IBM plans to ship both by early […]

Videoconference communications provider ooVoo has pushed out a Mac version to complement its PC software that provides telephony, video messaging, instant messaging and files sharing capabilities. Currently a free desktop application, the provider has also enhanced its tool to include a conversation recording feature, which lets enterprises record create video “notes” of an online meeting. […]

Mimosa Systems is debuting a new file system archiving tool today that promises to improve retention, retrieval and recovery processes for archiving files, e-mail, instant messaging and content housed on back-up tapes. It’s called NearPoint File Systems Archiving (FSA), which the company claims will boost storage efficiencies and cut costs. How so? The system keeps […]