Judy Mottl

Most storage vendors push out new devices to fill out a product line, typically upgrading functionality to put more device choices into play. But not BlueArc. The San Jose-based network storage device maker is doing just the opposite. It’s taking its current network-attached storage (NAS) series, the Titan 2000 that debuted two years ago, and […]

In the spirit of celebrating the advent of Spring (two weeks and counting until the equinox) I wanted to share the following mobility tidbits: 2 trillion messages will be sent worldwide in 2008, according to a new [report](http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84203) from ResearchAndMarkets. 2 trillion. Mind-boggling I think. So it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that a […]

Iomega is expanding its rack mount offerings with the StorCenter Pro NAS 200rL Linux Server, aimed at the small business and home office environment. “It’s a solution for companies needing that next step in storage, and provides very good performance at a great price point,” Tom Kampfer, president and COO, told InternetNews.com. The servers hold […]

Despite recent outages, and a court battle over patents that could impact BlackBerry technology, Research in Motion still rules the enterprise when it comes to smartphone purchases. That’s what a new survey from ChangeWave Research, a Rockville, Maryland-based firm, has found. But that doesn’t mean the Ontario-based vendor should rest easy. Apple’s iPhone is primed […]

No matter what article you read about Motorola these days, most pundits claim the handset maker’s biggest mistake was not following the Razr with another blockbuster device. There is some truth to that. But the bigger truth may be that Moto just couldn’t move fast enough when it needed to four years ago. As an […]

The fixed-rate war raging between wireless service providers could benefit enterprises that aim to save money and gain even deeper data and Internet services for mobile workforces. AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile ignited a pricing battle two weeks ago when all three announced fixed-price unlimited calling plans for $99.99. T-Mobile even added unlimited texting. Sprint […]

One of the things I love about covering technology is that people are always creating different names for the same things. Some even create unique verbs to describe the latest and greatest tool. This popped into my head while reading about yet another ‘storage in the cloud’ company, that lets users store everything from music […]

A quick glance at new worldwide annual mobile phone sales indicates that beleaguered Motorola is hanging tight, sitting in second place with 14.3 percent of the market. That is, however, until you realize most of its sales were at the start of 2007 and it’s a long way behind market leader Nokia and Samsung is […]

It’s been nearly two weeks since an overloaded authentication server knocked Amazon’s S3 storage platform offline for several hours, and the company has yet to provide specifics on the fixes it has promised. Amazon’s explanation on the outage day was the same statement provided this week when InternetNews.com questioned it on service improvements. “We are […]

Sun is donating the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 system to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities to spur more cost-effective technologies and help solve digital archive and preservation challenges facing enterprises. OpenSolaris is currently under the CDDL license. Developers can download the free Sun StorageTek 5800 binary code, formerly code-named “Honeycomb,” by […]

If you think your users are frustrated with the cell service in play, don’t take it personally. The aggravation of using a cell phone has reached all the way to the hallowed halls of our legislative bodies where a house subcommittee focused on telecom issues held a hearing this week on user rights while Congress […]

If enterprises can learn anything from the White House’s e-mail problems now under investigation, it’s that the task of safely preserving messages shouldn’t be taken lightly. New details — along with new lessons for businesses — are coming to light concerning the loss of millions of White House e-mails. According to recent congressional documents, the […]