Judy Mottl

As theater goers watch the Incredible Hulk take on his nemesis Abomination during a New York city rooftop battle in “The Incredible Hulk,” which premiered this week, few, if any, realize the storage power necessary to make the computer generated movie scenes. In taking on its largest movie project yet, Soho VFX, a Toronto-based visual […]

A U.S. District Court today ruled that documents relating to missing White House e-mails do not fall under Freedom of Information (FOI) access, as the White House Office of Administration (OA) is not a federal agency. The OA serves as administrator of the Executive Office of the President (EOP)’s computer environment and technology platforms, and […]

Anticipating that enterprises will want smaller disk drives bearing the same capacity of today’s 3.5-inch drives, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is releasing a new NAS product featuring 2.5-inch drives that require less space and provide strong performance. Dell MD1120 Source: Dell The PowerVault MD1120 houses 24 of the small-form-factor drives that Dell said require 70 percent […]

LiveOffice aims to improve e-mail archiving for small to midsize businesses as well as provide better backup and security with a new hosted offering called Mail Archive. The privately held e-mail services provider believes SMBs, especially those in regulated industries, are eager for a technology that offers simple archiving without any hardware costs and security […]

StorMagic is the latest storage vendor to jump into the SMB market offering up what it describes as enterprise-level SAN at an entry-level price. The SMTB SAN features the vendor’s SM Series software for easy setup, data movement and monitoring, and a 2U 12-drive rack, available in 3-terabyte (TB), 7TB and 11TB RAID configurations. Starting […]

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 […]

One big catalyst driving smartphone adoption is the evolution of mobile applications that let users grab e-mail, share documents, post Facebook updates and even watch live television. Digital video provider Monsoon Multimedia offers a free downloadable Hava Mobile Player for the Nokia S60 handset, which allows users to watch and control home TV. The technology […]

Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) hopes to eliminate management headaches tied to server virtualization and storage management with the introduction of the Veritas Virtual Infrastructure. The Virtual Infrastructure is aligned with the vendor’s strategy to provide true data protection that benefits the enterprise, according to Marty Ward, director of product marketing for Symantec’s Data Protection Group. It […]

Enterprises seeking a way to encrypt their growing number of Macintosh devices now have a new option from PGP. The company has unveiled a Mac OS X version of its Whole Disk Encryption 9.9 security software. As with its Windows counterpart, the Macintosh version has been validated for use by the U.S. government to protect […]

Messaging vendor MailSite has answered the demand for mobile collaboration with MailSite Fusion 9, a platform that lets enterprises provide mobile communications features to users no matter what smartphone is tied to the network. A low-cost alternative to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Exchange Server and RIM’s BlackBerry server, Fusion 9 is aimed at the e-mail hosting […]

SGI has debuted a new Adaptive Data Warehouse solution, tying together Oracle software with Altix servers and InfiniteStorage systems to provide a high performance computing (HPC) system for non-HPC enterprises managing mountains of data and intense analysis processes. The system scales from 5 terabytes (TB) to 320TB, which one industry analyst described as a “powerhouse” […]