David Morgenstern

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Following a growing number of online reports of problems when using external FireWire 800 hard drives with the recently released Mac OS X 10.3, aka Panther, Apple late Friday issued a blanket warning to users of all OS X versions. Posted on Apples Web site, the “special message” said […]

Veritas Software Corp. last week brought its Project Shadow out into the open, detailing its network backup solution for mobile workers. While holding to the message on network backup, Veritas executives down played one of the updates wider (and positive) attributes. Dubbed the Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option, the add-on for the popular Backup Exec […]

VeriSign Inc. on Thursday divested itself of its Network Solutions business unit. However, the company will retain the Internet registry service for the .com and .net domain names. The Mountain View, Calif., companys Network Solutions businesses, which VeriSign acquired in 2000, fell into two categories: providing the Internet name registry for .com and .net domains; […]

In my previous column, I examined some signs of the quickening pace of offshore outsourcing of IT jobs: the results of a recent eWEEK.com reader poll, a trade show devoted to the subject and concerns from a networked storage educator. Still, where are the signs of a kickback from IT and storage admins and techs? […]

North American enterprise is busy outsourcing its IT services offshore. Now theres even a trade show for the practice. So why is it so hard to find an expression of outrage from high-tech IT managers and storage admins? In an eWEEK.com poll last week, 17 percent of respondents said that most of their companies IT […]

The current state of storage education can only be described as “not in attendance,” with only a few courses offered by colleges and universities across the United States. So where are the classes in storage area networking? Or more to the point, whats preventing them from being offered? I discussed this in a recent column, […]

About a dozen years ago, a class-action suit was filed to force computer makers and display manufacturers more accurately to describe the viewing area of their screens. And now, according to a news report late last week, a similar suit aims to straighten out the way vendors describe the capacity hard drives found in computers. […]

The annual fall Intel Developers Forum in San Jose, Calif., drew its share of enterprise storage vendors, showing new designs and support for upcoming industry standards. The announcements covered a wide range of technologies, from storage management wares to storage controller technology. And then there are the many host bus adapters. Here are a selection […]

Storage vendors at this weeks Intel Developers Forum in San Jose, Calif., showcased the Serial ATA II feature set with demonstrations of performance-enhancing native command queuing and port multiplication. While on view in a number of booths, one demo likely passed under the radar of most attendees: a prototype SATA II external interface. Now, the […]

Over the past decade, hard disk manufacturers have kept up a breakneck pace of innovation, increasing capacity and performance. At the same time, their profits have dwindled. At last weeks DiskCON USA 2003 conference in San Jose, Calif., storage executives expressed hope that this progress will slow, bringing a rise in margins. This annual gathering […]