Judy Mottl

Apple’s iPhone is now one of the top three most-popular smartphones in play, but although it’s not a mobile enterprise device, industry watchers aren’t dismissing the possibility. One analyst believes that if Apple spurs greater application development and solves some minor form-factor issues, such as adding a keyboard, the vendor could become the mobile work […]

Pushing the envelope in solid-state drive (SSD) performance isn’t anything to scoff at. But industry-watchers are far more excited about the potential impact that Texas Memory Systems’ latest results could have in encouraging enterprises to adopt the technology. The vendor’s RamSan-400 SSD product hit 291,208.58 input/output requests per second (IOPS), with an average response time […]

Luxurious and sweet, chic, sleek and pink, and of course elegant and worldly. All espouse the virtues of women, or possibly even one woman. Think again. Those phrases and words are being used to describe the virtues of Verizon’s wireless devices in its marketing gimmick for lover’s day, February 14th. “From fun and flirty, to […]

IT organizations will pony up decent size pay raises this year, despite the past few shaky economic months, thanks to continuing business investment in networking initiatives and internal application development work. The move to boost IT compensation, while at the same time meeting company mandates to improve efficiency and cut costs, will remain a big […]

Seriously, the quest we humans have to store files might be getting into the ridiculous. Consider these facts from the Huddersfield Daily Examiner: An iPod classic can now hold up to 160 gigabytes of data (about 40,000 songs)Some laptops can store 600 GB of data (about 160,000 songs) If those two statistics don’t blow your […]

Ok so when I talked to Hitachi back on Jan. 4th, about its decision to can their smallest HDDs, I specifically asked if the business decision was tied to an some alleged deal to sell off its HDD division and they said no. Maybe what I should have asked was if they’re planning to spin […]

Educating the business side about storage and options is a continual task for tech people. That’s why I wanted to share a neat YouTube tutorial video I came across recently. It’s worth bookmarking for the next time you need to explain storage and all the important aspects that come into play.

Have a chuckle to start your week off good.. check out this cute toon about what today’s ‘smartphones’ are all about.

Guess what was the number one returned electronic gift item this past holiday season? The answer is the ‘smartphone.’ According to a report from Opinion Research Corp. about one-fifth of those who got a smartphone device (21%) has already returned the item citing it was too hard to setup. FYI, the BlackBerry and the iPhone […]

I’ve talked to a few enterprises this week, mostly SOHO and SMBs, who’ve made a leap from tape disk to other options including online storage services and even a cool tool that lets you tap unused workstation drive space to build an internal LAN-based mini SAN of sorts. Want to know the one thing each […]

Don’t think those bucks spent on data security and protection are paying off?  Just consider these few factoids about computer data loss from Data Deposit Box: A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds 32% of data loss is caused by human error 25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive […]

Nope, this post has nothing whatever to do with data storage. But it does have everything to do with big dreams. And hey, everyone, even if they don’t admit, has big dreams. CareerBuilder.com is helping Disney find its first ever Disney Chief of Magic (CMO). No kidding here. Just check out the job description: A […]