Judy Mottl

MonoSphere has enhanced its storage analytics tool, Storage Horizon 3.7, to include measuring storage utilization in VMware and Oracle database environments, plus added support for EMC’s Celerra and IBM’s DS and ESS arrays. The one-year-old storage resource management (SRM) offering now also boasts an automated chargeback feature that gives administrators a clear view about storage […]

Iron Mountain reported $749 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2008, an 18 percent jump compared to its first quarter of 2007, with company executives noting strong growth across both physical and digital storage segments. Net income for the first quarter was $33 million for the data protection and storage service provider, reflecting […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is spearheading an industry alliance focused on datacenter standards and improving product interoperability, claiming the initiatives will give enterprises better technology choices and greater market opportunities to vendors. The standards effort announced today will scan across the entire data environment, from virtualization to networks, operating systems, security and service management. The alliance […]

UPDATED: A new study on the good and the bad about Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry illustrates users have expanding feature expectations and aren’t completely satisfied with either popular handheld mobile device. The top feature users like about RIM’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry device is its e-mail capabilities, as a whopping 56 […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) is pushing out a new tool that lets developers build an OpenSolaris storage server in 10 minutes, as part of its three-year-old open source storage community effort. The vendor contends open source technology provides cheaper, more cost-effective storage infrastructures just as open source efforts in the past provided for today’s server […]

Five years from now search will be a key application for one third of the globe’s mobile device users, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Of the expected 4.2 billion owners of mobile devices expected by 2013, roughly 1.3 billion will depend on mobile device searches to find and locate “local” digital information. […]

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be leading the charge in unified communications, but the titans and their competitors face high hurdles in their quest persuade IT buyers to sign up. A new Infonetics Research report released this week reveals that while top players — a list that also includes Avaya (NYSE: AV), […]

What is it about the air in Canada that makes people so attached to their BlackBerrys? Is it the cold? The hundreds of thousands of trees and densely untouched rugged terrain? Do the lights go out at 6pm up there? What the heck is going on? First the Canadian government ministry issued an ‘advisory’ to […]

While the White House isn’t commenting on whether BlackBerries taken from a diplomatic meeting in New Orleans were compromised, security experts say the incident is a compelling reason to reassess security policies for mobile devices. According to various published reports, at least two BlackBerry units belonging to U.S. delegation officials went missing after a summit […]

If this week’s earnings reports are any indicator, data deduplication is the storage industry’s belle of the ball. That’s despite debate over where dedupe works best in a storage infrastructure and vendors’ various sales approaches. What’s not in dispute is the technology’s compelling return on investment, and that the fact that dedupe has yet to […]

A U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., today ordered the White House to provide by May 5 information on whether backup tapes created between March 2003 and October 2005 have been preserved, including any specific dates for which no backup tapes exist. Judge John Facciola has also ordered the Executive Office of the President (EOP) […]

Motorola (NYSE: MOT), faced with continued losses, plans to debut six new mobile handset devices with features such as touch screen displays, instant messaging and enhanced music functionality, all by the end of the second financial quarter. Yet the product news announced during this morning’s earnings call did little to appease analysts who peppered CEO […]