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Disk-to-Disk Backup - It's Also About Tape

Declining disk costs have sparked the development of a variety of Disk-to-Disk (D2D) systems. Not all of these products are alike; in fact, in some respects they are very different. Let's look at the different options. Similarly, the new breed of virtual tape products on the market use disk as...

Tags: Disk, Data Mobility Group

White papers 2005-03-25

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RingCube vDesk Customer Profile

I find that speaking with actual users of a product or a technology brings out a different view of a company and its products. This time, I had a chance to communicate with a user of RingCube's vDesk (see RingCube vDesk for more information about vDesk.) Here's a summary of...

Tags: Team, PC, RingCube Technologies Inc., RingCube vDesk, Jeff B., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Team Management, Virtualization, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Which mobile carrier would you switch to?

Which mobile carrier would you switch to?Im waiting till one carrier stop ignoring DEAF users Nine million people in the UK (15% of the population) suffer from permanent, disabling hearing loss.The estimated demographic figure has ranged from 22 million deaf and hard of hearing to as high as 36 million...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Smart phones, Sprint Communications, AT&T Corp., phone, Deaf user, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices

This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's...

Tags: Performance, Mobile, Power Consumption, Mobile Device, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Chip, Advertising & Promotion, Performance Management, Notebooks, Processors, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Intel shines: Earnings, revenue, margins well above estimates; Outlook better

Intel on Tuesday delivered an impressive second quarter relative to Wall Street estimates and didn't disappoint on its outlook either. The company, which predicted a bottom in its first quarter results, delivered strong results across the board. Intel reported net income of $1 billion, or 18 cents...

Tags: Revenue, Microsoft Outlook, Quarter, Earnings, Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'

The Feds have been examining exclusive wireless carrier deals with handset makers---think AT&T and Apple---but the effort is a bit of a farce. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett says it's laughable that the wireless industry is anticompetitive and the Feds don't have to worry about wrecking the wireless industry---Apple already has....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, Handset, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Wireless, Customer Loyalty, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

MokaFive launches version 2 of its MokaFive Suite

Desktop virtualization (the combination of access virtualization, application virtualization and/or processing virtualization for client-side deployment) has not gotten the intense industry attention that its cousin, server virtualization, has and yet, a number of suppliers have pegged their hopes and dreams to that nascent market. MokaFive is one of those suppliers....

Tags: Desktop Management, MokaFive, MokaFive Suite, Desktop Management Cost, Desktops, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-25

HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations

LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...

Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-16

High Value Remote Office Data Protection with EMC Avamar

This Data Mobility Group report offers a brief overview of remote office1 data protection challenges and opportunities for 2008 along with an objective assessment of one solution, EMC Avamar, based on more than twelve months of first-hand experience with the product. In discussing the results of DMG's evaluation, this report...

Tags: Data Protection, Microsoft Office, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-05-05

Study: Tech can overwhelm twentysomethings, but not enough to go offline

They may have a smartphone that they use to check e-mail, use Facebook, Twitter and stream video, but that doesn't mean twentysomethings revel in being accessible eight different ways, 24/7. According to a study released this week by the Pew Internet and American...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Device, Mobile Newbies, Mobile Connectivity, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-27

Notes from VMworld

Here are some random notes from VMworld.  Paula is also here at the event and she has posted her own view of Paul Maritz's session. Conversation with Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron, and I met for coffee prior to the beginning of...

Tags: Desktop, IBM Lotus Notes, VMware Inc., Paula, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Wirelessly networking cows

U.S. researchers have developed a Walkman-like headset for cows. This device enables them to 'whisper wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape -- and even remotely gather them into a corral.' In fact, it could help farmers to maintain cows behind virtual fences. According to the...

Tags: Animal, Network, Cow, GPS, Handhelds, Productivity, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-08

50 questions asked and answered on Android

At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Application, Google Android, Phone, Device, Platform, OEM, App, Question, Q., A., XMPP, A. Goal, A. Qemu, Thing Cert, Apk, UMA, A. Compatability, A. Distribution, Android Device, Linux, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Crazy sales video rocks out: 'Gotta get me some' Windows Vista

Microsoft can't seem to catch a break, whether from Apple's latest ads targeting switchers, or in a crazy music video celebrating Vista SP1 that was done by Redmond's channel group. Jupiter Research Analyst Michael Gartenburg pointed to this video on YouTube called Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Object Management Group, Gartenberg, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Intel's Atom chips to fuel Mobile Internet Devices; Who's buying?

Intel on Wednesday unveiled its Atom processors and the refrain is familiar: These chips will power a bevy of mobile Internet devices MIDs. The larger question: What kind of future will MIDs have? Let's face it--MID is an acronym largely cooked up by Intel to sell more...

Tags: Processor, Mobile, Internet Device, Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Mobile Internet Device, Chip, Intel System Controller Hub, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Microsoft: The desktop PC isn't dead

Microsoft: The desktop PC isn't deadThey never were deadI'm using one right now, and everyday, I see more desktops than laptops.Tomorrow's cross-platform desktop ...... looks to me an awful lot like Opera.“Our view is all surfaces will be Surfaces,”Man, this guy is bowsers! If this is the guy looking in...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, desktop, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp., desktop computer, PC

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Application virtualization or what?

In the past few weeks, I've spoken with representatives of JBoss and TIBCO. Both of these companies are proponents of the idea that Web-based applications are best built using an application framework that does a number of things for the developer including the following: Isolate the application...

Tags: Application, Application Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Pharmaceutical Company Increases Mobility, Security With Integrated Solutions

Heel Inc. is one of the world's largest manufacturers of homeopathic pharmaceuticals, which it sells to healthcare practitioners, pharmacists and health food stores. Heel had been using a disparate group of solutions for individualized functions. As the company's workforce became more mobile, however, concerns developed about the security of its...

Tags: Security, Mobility, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-02-14

Dissecting Microsoft's "100 Reasons You'll Be Speechless"

The other day a list of "100 Reasons You'll Be Speechless" when you use Windows Vista (I guess Microsoft aren't hearing the "Wows!" and assuming that we're all speechless instead) hit the media (I'm pretty sure this isn't a new list ...). I was going to write a piece...

Tags: Game, Version, PC, Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Feature, Yes, OK, Pass, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Here's my take on BlackBerry going forward

My colleague Larry Dignan has weighed in on key points made by Research In Motion executives during yesterday's Quarterly earnings call. I have been studying the transcript. I'd like to offer some of my own interpretations. Relying on a diligently assembled...

Tags: Mobile, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Unite, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-05