Karen Schwartz

The wildfires raging through much of Southern California have forced companies in the area to fall back onto their business continuity plans. Those with solid plans seem to be weathering the disaster fairly well, while others may be more strongly impacted by the crisis. Overland Storage, of San Diego, has been greatly affected by the […]

As one of the largest insurers in the world, MetLife works hard to ensure that its 70 million customers get what they expect. For the New York-based companys IT department, that means juggling hundreds of projects and developing and maintaining hundreds of applications simultaneously with its cadre of 1,500 application developers. With that much activity, […]

Sun Microsystems today announced that it will merge its storage and systems groups into one group, to be called the Systems Group, much like competitors Hewlett-Packard and IBM already have done. John Fowler, executive vice president for systems, who will lead the new combined group, said that the goal is to create a group with […]

The final nail may be in the coffin for Internet phone company Vonage Holdings. Vonage suffered what some believe may be a fatal blow Sept. 25 when a jury awarded $69.5 million to Sprint Communications for patent infringement. The ruling was the second major defeat for Vonage in 2007. In March, Vonage lost a patent […]

ExaGrid has released the newest version of its flagship data deduplication-centric, disk-based backup product with faster backup and restore performance. Version 3, ExaGrid Systems first major release since September 2006, continues its focus on the disk-based backup market with its appliance approach combined with data deduplication. Whats new, however, is double the backup performance. With […]

Storage company Seagate Technology is acting like an operating system vendor or peripheral vendor by providing marketing messages and materials to solution providers and system builders. Seagate, of Scotts Valley, Calif., is creating a series of sales and marketing tools and campaign materials around how its solutions integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Vista, in the hopes […]

EVault is giving its InfoStage online backup software more features and making it easier to use. InfoStage, the Emeryville, Calif., companys software-based answer to disk-to-disk backup, has been around for years, and EVault has slowly been adding more functionality to it. The last major upgrade, in April 2005, added features like load balancing and parallel […]

Texas Memory Systems is releasing what officials say is the first combination double data rate and flash memory solid state disk device, designed to provide the capacity enterprises are looking for at a reasonable price point. Unlike traditional DDR-based solid state disk devices, including the Houston-based companys own RamSan line of products, the new product, […]

HP has a new entry in its StorageWorks line of disk storage systems that will replace the aging XP10000 disk array. The new product, called the StorageWorks XP20000 and announced Sept. 10, is similar to its predecessor in many ways, including the ability to scale to 240 drives and more than 69TB of raw storage […]

A rash of acquisitions and near-acquisitions by Asian PC manufacturers may signify that companies dedicated to design and development of low-end PCs have greater ambitions and are interested in moving up the food chain. In the past week, Taiwanese PC manufacturer Acer purchased U.S. PC manufacturer Gateway, while Chinese computer maker Lenovo is strongly rumored […]

A new report from Gartner confirms Nokias position as the top mobile phone vendor, although Motorola continues to make a strong second-place showing. For the second quarter in a row, Nokia has sold more than 100 million units into the channel worldwide, and accounted for nearly 37 percent of worldwide sales during the second quarter […]

With financial markets in turmoil around the world and the subsequent tightening of credit markets, it has become much harder for companies of all types to continue doing business as usual, much less to grow and prosper. That may be particularly true in the technology sector, which sometimes operates on thin margins, and at the […]