Stories by Dave Webb

RIM answers iPhone frenzy with BlackBerry Bold

The Boldest BlackBerry yet made its North American debut last week, with Rogers Wireless and Research in Motion launching RIM’s first HSPA-capable handset at Rogers’s Canadian headquarters.

Bullet-point Brief: The state of the virtualization market

As recently as perhaps a year ago, there was still some talk that server virtualization might turn out to be a load of hype. There's no doubt now that the technology is for real.

Five hot -- and cool -- storage technologies

Down economy or not, the growing appetite for enterprise data storage won't be sated anytime soon, if ever. The rise of data-heavy multimedia files, new customer touchpoints, evolving reporting and compliance standards and other trends are contributing to near exponential growth rates in the amount of data created and stored in the digital universe.

Bullet-Point Briefing: ProCurve's GM speaks out

For years, it's been Cisco Systems versus the field in the network infrastructure race. But ProCurve, Hewlett-Packard's networking equipment arm, has made inroads since 2000, outpacing the industry in growth and closing the Cisco gap. Gartner pushed ProCurve from challenger's quadrant to leader's quadrant in the market recently. John McHugh, vice-president and GM of the division, spoke about the state of the networking market, how the industry dodges economic downturns and the 50-year trend in business that we're haflway through.

HP thinks green with storage array lineup

There are two clearly emerging trends coming out of Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks Conference in Las Vegas this week: HP's going green, and the future is in blades.