Judy Mottl

IBM took another big step today in its quest to build client-centered infrastructures, this time pushing out a custom-designed blade offering for the retail business sector. In its quest to offer client-centered infrastructures, Big Blue Monday unveiled a custom-designed blade aimed at retailers. Unsure About an Acronym or Term? Search the ServerWatch Glossary   The […]

In the past few months it seemed that small and midsize businesses (SMBs) were the new love interest for storage vendors. OEMs from IBM to Dell have been courting SMBs. Now it seems some powerhouse players are also wooing the mainframe environment, bearing promises of more efficient storage resource management. EMC is bringing virtual tape […]

IBM will pour $1 billion into efforts to better compete with rivals like Microsoft in unified communications (UC), company executives said Monday during a press conference, during which they also talked up an enhanced version of IBM’s Lotus Sametime communications platform. IBM Monday revealed it will invest $1 billion toward enhancing Lotus Sametime and bolstering […]

Sun Microsystems is pushing out a new tool that lets developers build an OpenSolaris storage server in 10 minutes, as part of its three-year-old open source storage community effort. Pundits, however, remain unconvinced that open source is a storage element. Unsure About an Acronym or Term? Search the ServerWatch Glossary   The vendor contends open […]

Sun this week launched a new line of less-expensive and bulkier open storage boxes aimed at enterprises seeking greater capacity in an easy-to-scale fashion. Sun launched a new line of less-expensive and bulkier open storage boxes and added a hybrid storage server to the Thumper line. Unsure About an Acronym or Term? Search the ServerWatch […]

Solid state disk (SSD) drives currently cost as much as 30 times more than Fibre Channel drives, but the return is impressive. The high cost has kept SSDs primarily tied to high-end enterprises that can afford such pricey performance. Insiders predict a revolution in solid state storage next year. But given that prices for SSDs […]

IT managers, take heart. Recovering from the current recession won’t be as bad as surviving the dot-com crash of 2001. For those who can remember further back, the economic rebound will be more like the recession that hit in 1990. When it comes to IT, this recession won’t be a repeat of the dot-com crash […]