David Morgenstern

Over the past couple of years, Microsofts Enterprise Storage Division has signed up an increasing list of OEM partners for its network-attached storage architecture, and the result has been strong growth in sales of Windows-powered NAS. And more changes are due next month with the launch of the groups next-generation design, which is dubbed Storage […]

SAN FRANCISCO—A small developer hopes to get managers of Linux servers to break their command line habit. At this weeks LinuxWorld show, Tactile Interactive offered a look at the latest beta of Interrogator, its powerful, graphical file manager for Linux and Solaris platforms. Now in Version 0.8, Interrogator provides navigation around the system as well […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The floor of a technology trade show is perhaps the worst place in the world for dispassionate evaluation of a market. This was especially true at this years LinuxWorld as developers (and most users) put aside the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) about the future of the platform engendered by the . Despite the […]

Its the end of the line for free Linux, if The SCO Group Inc. gets its way. The company on Tuesday set a price tag on the open-source OS: the “SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux” will cost $1,399 for single-CPU servers. The company said an introductory server price of $699 for one CPU will […]

By any measure, e-mail is the killer Internet application. But at the same time, many IT managers find it a killer app to back up: Dealing with dynamic data—as well as senior managements increased expectations of continuous availability—is a real headache. In the past, demands werent quite so high. A server would go down and […]

Security appears to be off the radar of SAN customers. But is the reason that theres no real security threat or that security just doesnt sell in todays storage market? In my previous column, I looked at SAN security from the perspective of consultant Himanshu Dwivedi. Hes the managing security architect at @stake Inc.> and […]

Some managers are taking a rather what-me-worry approach to the security of their storage area networks, according to security experts. That attitude could perhaps be excused, when enterprise storage was tucked away deep inside the corporate network and protected by the arcane architecture of storage networks. Now that storage resources are closer to the surface, […]

Out of sight is not necessarily out of mind when it comes to your data. At least, that was the sentiment of a number of readers as they considered applications for hard drives that come standard with hardware-based encryption. This security technology could be a summer sleeper hit. The question surfaced in a recent column […]

Last weeks financial news may give optimists encouragement that the storage market is finally picking up steam. More-pessimistic observers (they call themselves “realists”) may prefer additional evidence, such as purchasing surveys or a change in the penny-pinching course of venture-capital firms. Those portents were also visible. While we had, after all, just a weeks worth […]

Angling for users who want a new way to secure their data, small storage vendor WiebeTech this week announced the first model in a line of external hard drives that offer built-in encryption. This drive also illustrates some of the changes that take place when a product moves through its development cycle, sometimes for the […]