David Morgenstern

A security company on Monday alerted clients of a new vulnerability to Internet Explorer 5, one attributed to the recent leak of Microsoft Corp. Windows source code. The quick attack appears to contradict some optimistic expectations that the recent leak of Windows 2000 and NT code would not pose a significant opportunity for hackers. In […]

Storage manufacturer Seagate Technology LLC on Tuesday said it had shipped a record number of hard drives in its second fiscal quarter and that net income had climbed slightly. Still, its revenue was flat year-to-year after disappointing sales in its personal storage business. A combination of price erosion and quality issues dragged Seagates fourth-quarter sales […]

SAN FRANCISCO—One new technology somewhat underplayed during CEO Steve Jobs Macworld Expo keynote address on Tuesday was Xgrid, Apples new grid computing environment. A product of the companys Advanced Computation Group, XGrid Preview Edition Tuesday was offered for download by the company. The keynote address featured a video describing the experience of the Terascale Computing […]

Common wisdom and the calendar strongly suggests that Apple Computer Inc. will use this weeks Macworld Expo San Francisco to highlight the pending 20th anniversary of the Macintosh computer. (Historical purists will note that the actual anniversary date will arrive in a couple of weeks—on Jan. 24 or during the National Football Leagues Superbowl telecast, […]

Central Command Inc. on Thursday released its so-called Dirty Dozen list of top twelve viruses for December, 2003. The report is based on virus incidents confirmed through the Medina, Ohio-based companys Emergency Virus Response Team. According to the company, the Gibe.C worm, with its HTML e-mail message that impersonated a Microsoft Web site, retained the […]

Veritas Software Corp. on Tuesday released its Veritas Storage Extension, a tool that connects several EMC Corp. storage systems with Veritas Indepth database application performance-management software. According to Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas, the extension lets Indepth versions for Oracle and SQL Server APM software tune performance metrics from EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON storage arrays. The […]

Making predictions in the storage industry would seem to be a no-brainer. Capacities will go up and cost will come down, right? Maybe not. Instead, shifting technologies and trends in the storage industry could mean a challenging year ahead for vendors, IT managers and end users. While hard disk capacities will rise, they may not […]

Despite the business IT focus of this weeks Comdex Las Vegas 2003, storage may well be an afterthought to some attendees. The key themes described by the organizers seemed to have passed over backup. But I will predict in advance that CMS Products Inc.s new Velocity backup solution, slated for introduction at the show next […]

Microsoft Corp. Tuesday released its change and configuration management solution: Systems Management Server 2003. The launch was no surprise—Microsoft said the system is currently deployed in more than 60 sites. Code-named “Topaz,” SMS 2003 allows enterprise customers to deploy patches and applications as well as manage assets. Microsoft said in a statement that retail pricing […]

Following a recent article about offshore outsourcing of IT jobs, I received another barrage of e-mails from readers that threatened to tip my ISP bandwidth allocation over the edge. What were the hot-button issues? Everything. Reading the messages, I grew intrigued by the widespread belief that jobs must flow out of a country to find […]