Judy Mottl

There are more than a few storage-in-the-cloud services today and more cropping up, but while Google’s Message Discovery service isn’t alone in the sandbox, it’s one of the few not basing revenue on how many bytes are crammed into its cloud. The e-mail archive and e-discovery offering, initially released in February, is now an online […]

IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) rolling out a new assessment service geared to help enterprises get a better grip on storage using a propriety framework that evaluates everything from architecture complexity to future data growth. IBM said it’s specifically targeting film production, entertainment and other media companies. Management Complexity Factor for Media (MCF for Media) includes a […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — There are more than a few factors pushing enterprises to go “green” these days, such as carbon footprints, power and cooling costs. But the biggest imperative, according to experts attending this week’s Storage Networking World conference, is money — specifically saving bucks with common sense and emerging technologies that make effective use […]

There’s no dispute that solid state disks have arrived and arrived big time at Storage Networking World. An early morning presentation on solid state storage for the enterprise drew a packed room. If it had been held earlier in the week presenter Woody Hutsell, VP at Texas Memory Systems, predicts the line for a seat […]

Back on the Expo floor I met up with LSI. I had been seeing their name and brand all over the conference hotel as their savvy marketing people got the company logo on room key cards for attendees and they also sponsored the Internet caf��. As one attendee told me, the company even had a […]

Permabit CTO Jerod Floyd has been getting a little bit more attention than most tech leaders at this week’s Storage Networking World in Orlando. And he has his barber to thank for it. Or his own steady hand. Floyd has an impressive set of mutton chops — a set that’s caught the attention of more […]

ORLANDO, FLA. — With power costs soaring and enterprises taking environmental concerns more seriously, few could deny that “green IT” has become a key buzzword in today’s business. But experts speaking here at this week’s Storage Networking World conference warned that many enterprises — if they’re serious about cutting their energy expenses — could do […]

I spent a few hours at Storage Networking World’s Expo today, chatting up vendors, checking out freebies, asking companies to describe themselves in three words or less. Pretty much enjoying myself like the rest of the few hundred attendees, though most seem to have come for the buffet lunch, which wasn’t bad. Copan, named after […]

ORLANDO, FLA. — As one Marriott International (NYSE: MAR) technology leader told a crowded ballroom today at Storage Networking World, going “green” isn’t about environmentalism; it’s about saving “green” — money that is. While the brand name–lodging conglomerate, which features 550,000 rooms across 3,000 properties in 67 countries, has done its fair share to help […]

A little wooing goes a long way. After weeks of being rebuffed, EMC announced today it would acquire smaller storage player maker Iomega for $213 million with the tender offer expected to complete by the end of June. To accept EMC’s (NYSE: EMC) $213 million, $3.85 per-share offer, Iomega (NYSE: IOM) terminated a separate purchase […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) is integrating its PowerPath management software with technology from its RSA security division, and has built a new joint platform that ties together its Voyence Control tool with its RSA enVision product for security information and event management. The two announcements, made at the RSA conference taking place in San Francisco this […]

Put four high profile vendors of deduplication technologies side by side in front of a crowded audience and one can only hope for some debate, and hopefully even a few laughs. That’s exactly what attendees at a panel discussion late at SNW in Orlando yesterday were treated to when Taneja Group founder, analyst Arun Taneja, […]