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Growth of unstructured data forces IT managers to look for new ways to scale storage capabilities, with cloud storage a leading option.
Posted: January 13, 2012, 9:07 pm
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It's a challenge to sort through the maze of storage products
to find a solution to your problem--but it's better than not having choices.
More U.S. consumers hold on to feature phones and dumb phones. Are U.S. carriers to blame?
Solid-state storage is still expensive. Is it worth the benefits?
Vendors have bombarded consumers with conflicting information about smartphone costs, network data speeds, and features, slowing adoption and upgrade rates.
Fragmentation allows variety among device makers, but can cause frustration for developers and lower satisfaction among end users.
Stock drops after new chief Thorsten Heins said he'll stay the course laid out by his predecessors.
Nokia partnership will launch Microsoft's platform to second place in global smartphone market share, iSuppli forecasts.
IT pros focus on SSD's hefty startup costs, but you must consider other costs when evaluating the storage technology.
To be successful in North America, you have to have a device on the biggest network, Verizon.
RIM's best move may be to cut its losses on BlackBerry 10 and adopt Android or Windows Phone instead.
Performance management skills--in both software and IT professionals--promises to be the biggest storage story this year.
Microsoft's forthcoming tablets have the bar set high for minimum hardware requirements.
Is hiring the investment firm a sign that the BlackBerry maker is ready to seriously entertain buyout offers?
Growth of unstructured data forces IT managers to look for new ways to scale storage capabilities, with cloud storage a leading option.
To ease traffic on its 3G network, Verizon wants all future smartphone releases to support LTE.
Microsoft failed to gain much ground in the mobile phone market in 2011, but its partners should help it grab a piece of the market this year.
Will unique devices appease carriers and change Nokia's Microsoft Phone fortunes?
Why are consolidated storage and compute infrastructures hot now? Storage management issues can cause virtualization projects to slow down or stall.
New Forrester report has advice for enterprises supporting the consumerization of IT.
Apple's best years are behind it, opines one financial reporter. Really? We don't see anyone getting a Samsung tattoo.
Whether flash-only, or a combination of flash and mechanical storage, the technology is poised for significant gains.
SMS isn't going away, but looks to have peaked. That hits carriers in the pocketbook.
Microsoft has two updates planned for its mobile platform next year, and its application store has a lot of apps. Will it spur sales?
The time it takes to rebuild a RAID-protected volume makes it unwieldy with today's high-capacity drives.
In 2011, 93 different Android phones have been released across nine U.S. carriers. But there's a downside to this diversity.
Longstanding rules that require you to turn off your iPads and Kindles during airplane takeoff and landing may have no basis in science.
Apple's App Store is the biggest, but it's the only one of seven app stores that didn't post double-digit growth in 2011.
The future of location-based storage tiering will be dependent on vendors being able to orchestrate movement of active data closer to the application.
After two years on the rise, Google declined in mobile ad impressions in November. Will the Kindle Fire reverse the recent trend?
Tiering systems in the future will move data within storage systems, to different storage systems, and even into the server hosting the application.
Even BlackBerry owners don't want Research In Motion's tablet. When will RIM cut its losses and move on?
There potentially is more money to be made developing for Apple's iPhone, even though Android has more users.
It is no surprise that the younger generation is in love with smartphones, but all age groups are increasingly embracing the technology.
A smartphone may be smaller than a computer, and many are also tougher to update.
This is the beginning of a larger trend where storage systems vendors get serious about integrating solid-state storage companies into their portfolios.
While many states have laws covering driver texting and mobile phone use, it's a patchwork of rules, with different levels of enforcement.
Will Andy Lees' move from president of the Windows Phone division improve the mobile platform's fortunes?
Even when solid-state storage dominates the data center, mechanical storage and tape will still have a major role to play in your storage infrastructure.
Microsoft's mobile business will get a big boost from HP's decision to open source webOS, says one analyst. Is his logic sound?
A number of developments are speeding the transition to solid-state storage.
Platform loyalty only goes so far: Android and BlackBerry phone owners prefer Apple's tablet product.
Wireless companies will hold a joint event next week, but details remain sparse.
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says Amazon's 7-inch tablet is too small for full-size websites, but mobile sites offer poor user experience.
There is little doubt BlackBerry devices will be in use, but the company is ripe for a buyout.
Google's operating system, Apple's iPhone gain from RIM's continual slide in mobile market share, reports ComScore.
U.S. Senate weighs in on the Carrier IQ phone-snooping issue.
Storage managers should prioritize capabilities like thin provisioning, snapshots, replication, and cloning--along with price.
Carrier takes action to remedy users' reports of subpar smartphone speeds.
Microsoft apps like Office, Azure, and SharePoint may soon show up on iOS and Android devices.
IT managers should be making plans to update their storage infrastructure in 2012. Consider these tips to sort through all the new features, capabilities, and options.
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