Judy Mottl

IBM (NYSE: IBM) continues sounding the charge on bringing its enterprise software to mobile users, today introducing several new offerings as well as partnerships with carriers AT&T (NYSE: T) and Sprint (NYSE: S) to extend its Rational, Lotus and Domino applications to wireless devices. Products include Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), an application that […]

Given how cheap storage has become, it’s understandable enterprises are expanding arrays to house growing data. But stocking up on hardware and software to hold more and more information is a costly misstep, according to a Gartner report released today. New regulations and legal concerns are likely prompting IT to keep every bit and byte […]

While the regulatory debate between the FCC and Comcast over the provider’s tactics for Internet traffic management may have ended today, the issue of what a service provider can and can’t do about users’ network use won’t fade given a new potential battlefront — the mobile wireless broadband environment. In a letter released today, the […]

Burgeoning demand for data services will translate to soaring popularity for next-generation wireless broadband technologies, with 2.1 billion users projected worldwide by 2015, according to a study released Wednesday. Big winners will be carriers and handset makers, as growing adoption will generate $784 billion globally in service revenue by 2015 — a dramatic 2400 percent […]

Just three months since it acquired continuous data protection (CDP) startup FilesX, IBM has rebranded its solution as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) FastBack and today began pushing its own version to market. CDP, also known as continuous backup, has been growing in importance as a way for companies to better ensure their files are […]

Texas Memory Systems (TMS) is debuting a RAM–solid state disk drive (SSD) today for enterprises able to say “price be damned” in exchange for intense performance, fast speed and high storage capacity. Starting at $140,000 the RamSan-440 quadruples current available RAM-SSD capacity and can handle up to 600,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS), according to the […]

Smartphone users want as much access to data and systems as possible and aren’t adverse to security to protect devices, according to a new study released today by Decipher. According to the Smartphone Protection Consumer Survey, which polled 200 users, 89 percent of users check e-mail and access corporate information, and 70 percent access sensitive […]

Source: Reuters With this week’s debut of its latest Treo smartphone, Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) is clearly not sitting idle while Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) continue to dominate the handset industry. The question is whether the No. 3 player can deliver necessary device innovations in time to avoid being left in […]

Aiming to simplify the task of managing Web-based and offline storage for small businesses, EMC (NYSE: EMC) has made its Retrospect Express software the connecting link between the vendor’s Mozy online service and its Iomega backup drives. The result is an all-in-one, local and remote protection approach aimed at small to midsize businesses (SMB) that […]

This week is shaping up to be one of the busiest in storage tape history, with HP and Sony teaming up to create the next generation of Digital Audio Tape (DAT), while Sun and IBM fight for the crown of being first with a 1 terabyte (TB) tape drive. To some, the news signals that […]