Judy Mottl

ORLANDO, FL. — Enterprises are at a “critical intersection,” according to NetApp’s Tim Russell: facing the task of balancing data regulatory mandates while simultaneously keeping IT costs down and service levels up. That’s the message that Russell, vice president and general manager of NetApp’s storage security business unit, delivered during a morning session at Storage […]

Carl Icahn must be dancing the two-step and kicking up his heels. William R. Hambrecht, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of WR Hambrecht + Co. and co-founder of Hambrecht & Quist, and Keith Meister, a managing director of the Icahn investment funds and principal executive officer of Icahn Enterprises, will be nominated for election […]

Torrential rain met attendees Sunday as they began arriving at Rosen Shingle Creek resort for the Storage Networking World show. The four-day conference features 160 speakers and 140 educational sessions across seven tracks, encompassing regulatory issues, high-performance computing, several tutorial programs and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) certification program. Top issues this year are […]

EMC confirmed today that it has acquired WysDM, a seven-year-old data protection management provider, for an undisclosed amount. The storage giant didn’t provide many details on today’s news, its fourth acquisition of the year, but did say the deal is not expected to have a material impact on revenues or earnings-per-share for 2008. WysDM’s CEO […]

Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) Secure Advantage portfolio is expanding once again. This time the company will focus on storage infrastructure and offer goodies from encryption to data-auditing tools and even a free online storage assessment service. Additions include the HP C-Series MDS 9000 Storage Media Encryption fabric switch that protects tape drives and virtual tape libraries […]

Iomega to EMC: Will You Take All of Me? Data storage giant EMC (NYSE: EMC) is pitching to buy storage provider Iomega, but without the ExelStor Group, the China-based disk drive maker that Iomega (NYSE: IOM) was already looking to buy. Will EMC be able to capture Iomega alone? If so, what would the enterprise […]

Some people get addicted to email, to music downloads, to instant messaging. I’m addicted to SEC filing alerts. It’s a new malady and I completely blame Motorola. Why? Well in the quest to track, report and unearth what’s going on with the company I signed up for their SEC alert service and now, no matter […]

Just one month after announcing a $1 billion R&D effort in unified communications (UC), IBM (NYSE: IBM) is expanding its partnership with Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT) to provide UC capabilities to the small and mid-sized business. The effort comes nine months after the two vendors launched their UC alliance and is the latest shot at […]

As if Motorola’s Greg Brown doesn’t have enough on his plate, the CEO and the company’s board of directors have a new consideration: Interest from an Indian consumer electronics giant, seeking to buy the company’s troubled handset division. Videocon Group, India’s largest consumer electronics company — with additional plays in oil and gas production as […]

One would think, given how the iPhone has dominated the mobile device community since arriving last June, that the next revolution would come with the debut of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system. But one would be thinking wrong, at least according to a new smartphone user survey from ChangeWave Research. Supremacy in the smartphone […]

The iPhone isn’t the only spoon stirring the mobile handset pot these days. For more than a few reasons, open source mobile operating systems based on the Linux kernel may have a significant impact on future product development. That’s because of the kernel’s attractive features, such as expanding support for security and with multiple chipset […]

Research in Motion’s been working hard to push its popular enterprise productivity tool, the BlackBerry, into the consumer space. It hasn’t been an easy task thanks to Apple’s wunder device, the iPhone. But RIM has obviously made some progress. Or have they? After all Facebook downloads on the BlackBerry just surpassed the million mark. And […]