Judy Mottl

EMC’s Joe Tucci Source: EMC UPDATED: EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported respectful gains today in overall first-quarter revenue of $3.47 billion, reflecting a 17 percent increase over the previous year. It marks the storage vendor’s 19th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth. Profits landed at $268.8 million, reflecting 13 cents a share, a bit of a […]

Source: Reuters Increasing demand for data services and wireless connectivity are key segments driving revenue growth for AT&T (NYSE: T), as more enterprises migrate to IP technology and big business contracts cement future growth expectations, AT&T reported during today’s quarterly earnings call. Despite a few months of shaky economics and ever-increasing competition in the mobile […]

Research in Motion couldn’t have asked for a better product endorsement than a research effort coming out of the Australian School of Business and Sydney University which claims that its popular email device, the BlackBerry, can increasingly “make or break a business.” Research authors Judi MacCormick and Kristine Dery spent time exploring how the smartphone […]

With its quarterly earnings call Thursday, Motorola leaders are likely burning both ends of the proverbial candle. The company is still juggling an influx of new executives, dealing with morale issues following layoffs and readying plans to resurrect the handset maker in an industry that demands ingenuity and rewards innovation. The quest is formidable as […]

AT&T (NYSE: T) and Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) are making a concerted effort to woo small businesses to the BlackBerry, hoping to entice them with a cheaper and easier-to-deploy version of the software already in wide use in large enterprises. The BlackBerry Professional Software, aimed at small and midsized companies with up to 30 […]

IBM’s acquisition today of Diligent Technologies not only gives it an established player in the emerging hot-spot of data deduplication, it may help Big Blue reap additional benefits in market and channel opportunities. The acquisition also puts IBM (NYSE: IBM) shoulder-to-shoulder with EMC, Sun and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) — all top-tier players boasting “de-dupe” […]

Eight storage vendors have formed a new alliance aimed at fostering greater enterprise adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and greater interoperability among switch, adapter and storage system products. Leading the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Storage Alliance is Nimbus Data Systems, which makes multiprotocol IP storage products. The remaining seven vendors include Arastra, Force10 Networks, Fujitsu, […]

A new ABI research report claims that the mobile browser market is booming and will hit 1.5 billion mobile units by 2013. But the boom might not necessarily translate to a larger and more active mobile Web user base. The study “The Mobile Browser Market” states that while smartphones currently have”very limited Web browsing capabilities,” […]

Deduplication is being pushed front-and-center in enterprise storage by yet another vendor that claims the technology’s potential benefits shouldn’t be limited to backend, offline storage. Not everyone agrees that deduplication — that is, the process of scouring data archives to remove redundant information and shrink files — is ready for a larger role in critical […]

Storage in the Amazon cloud will get a bit more persistent thanks to planned enhancements that will let users keep data loads ranging from 1GB to 1TB in the retailer’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted environment. The EC2 service, which launched in mid 2006, provides online compute capacity for developers seeking a place to build […]

Who says storage gurus aren’t a creative bunch? I certainly never did, and Wikibon.org’s Dave Vellante certainly proved they are last week at Storage Networking World in Orlando. While enjoying a cocktail, Vellante was sharing his own special limerick about green storage with a colleague when I overheard him. I politely interrupted his conversation to […]

A public advocacy group wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enact a policy that restricts wireless carriers from what the group claims are discriminatory short code text messaging practices. In what could become a second major battlefront in the net neutrality debate, Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C.-based group focused on citizens’ rights in digital […]