Judy Mottl

Pillar Data debuted two new storage array today that promise to provide 80 percent disk utilization and tighter integration within Oracle database environments. The Axiom 600 and Axiom 600MC, which stands for mission critical, are the third and fourth products from the seven-year-old startup. The company released its flagship product, the Axiom 500, in 2006. […]

Despite the benefits and increasing popularity of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, companies are still wary about the idea of farming out data archiving to a partner. Just 24 percent of enterprises are using hosted archiving solutions, compared to 76 percent using on-premise technologies, according to a new study by the Radicati Group, […]

Sprint-Nextel has revamped a customer loyalty program for small and mid sized businesses that provides special services and gifts to thank corporate users. The “Business Premier” program announced this week was initially a Nextel program called Premiere Club that debuted in 1999. Customers are given gift cards on subscription anniversary milestones and offered special phone […]

Juxaposition is such a cool word isn’t it? And I came up with a great definition this week: writing about how some devices now let users send text messages while also talking on a mobile device, yet having to go outside my own house to make a call on my own cell phone. What got […]

Source: Reuters Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry continues to see booming traction in the enterprise, with the smartphone maker reporting that it added 2.3 million new accounts during the quarter. But despite those numbers — and a jump in both revenue and profit from the same quarter last year — Wall Street soured on […]

Virgin Mobile is the latest wireless carrier to offer up a lower-priced unlimited talk-rate plan. The $79.99 monthly flat-rate plan, announced yesterday and called “Totally Unlimited,” is a competitive response by the pay-as-you-go provider to unlimited rate plans launched earlier this year by market leaders. One industry watcher said the new plan could spur carriers […]

Nokia’s play to open source Symbian, the world’s most popular mobile phone software, could not only advance the Finnish handset maker’s portfolio strategy, but also may stymie efforts by Microsoft and Google to steal market share. The global smartphone leader said yesterday it planned to spend $410 million to buy all of Symbian — in […]

Security software maker Mocana has announced an antivirus solution for Internet-connected devices that promises to secure pervasive computing environments. But instead layering the security on top of an OS, or embedding it in another application, the technology is built into devices during the manufacturing cycle. The NanoDefender application promises to protect any non-PC, Internet-connected device […]

Tech spending may be stagnating, but enterprises aren’t cutting back on storage management software (SMS). The market hit $10.6 billion last year, a 12.2 percent spike from 2006, and is expected to surpass $11 billion in 2008, according to a new Gartner report on trends and vendor leadership in the SMS market. Greater demand for […]

The allure of betting on a longshot in a tight race — and seeing it play out — never wanes for sports fans. In the race to 4G that’s heating up between two competing wireless networking standards, it would be foolish to dismiss the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard as the longshot against its better-known […]

The allure of solid state disk (SSD) technology is getting a big boost thanks to new technology that promises to eliminate the wait time involved in accessing data following a shutdown or power loss. Texas Memory System’s (TMS) Instant-On Input-Output (IO²) lets enterprises gain instant access to data from RAM-based SSDs once a unit is […]

HP has debuted two new disk-based backup systems, one for small organizations and another for midsized to larger enterprises. It features specific deduplication technologies aimed at reducing SMB costs and boosting disk utilization for big organizations. The HP StorageWorks D2D 2500 and 4000 Backup Systems and the HP StorageWorks Virtual Library Systems promise to cut […]