Karen Schwartz

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 […]

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 […]

For companies that pride themselves on service and reliability, AT&T and Research In Motion certainly have had their share of service interruptions, and there seems to be no end in sight. Yet another data outage Aug. 1, although brief, is reported to have affected numerous BlackBerry users nationwide. According to Brad Mays, a spokesperson for […]

In what seems to be a bid to compete with the iPhones snazzy feature set—the touchscreen, photo management and iPod apps youve seen in those ubiquitous TV ads—some manufacturers are building new features on their own handsets. Competing for touchscreen sexiness are LGs sleek Prada Phone and HTCs Touch, both of which use preprogrammed finger […]

What do you get when you combine a vendor of feature-rich storage products with an experienced managed services provider? Higher sales, more satisfied customers and a better competitive stance, if EMC and Unisys have anything to say about it. EMC, of Hopkinton, Mass., and Unisys, of Blue Bell, Pa., have teamed to offer companies storage […]

These days, EMC looks a little like the Energizer Bunny—it keeps going, and going, and going—seemingly unstoppable. Despite criticism from some of its investors and from industry analysts, EMC continues to keep the acquisitions coming. The Hopkinton, Mass., data storage and IT infrastructure giant has swallowed so many companies (31) over the past five years […]