David Morgenstern

Enterprise NAS vendor Procom Technology Inc. this week introduced Taurus, an early entry in what the company expects will be a new growth segment of the storage market: wireless networked storage appliances. About the size of a hard-bound book, the new 802.11b wireless access point adds features of networked attached storage and an Internet server. […]

EMCs transformation into a semi-software company is gaining momentum, judging from its moves over the past week. The company been on a tear over the past few years, acquiring a range of software companies to bolster its home-grown development efforts. However, analysts advised that before a company can build strong bones and a software strategy, […]

What may be the storage deal of the year—EMC Corp.s purchase of Legato Systems Inc.—raised questions about the fate of Legatos backup products this week, as analysts, partners and competitors pondered EMCs choices and opportunities. Partners and industry analysts offered the Storage Supersite differing perspectives on the new arrangement. However, all of them had questions […]

Attendees at DV Expo East, opening today in New York, will discover the latest efforts of camcorder manufacturers and software vendors to expand the market for digital video. Certainly, some industry watchers may claim that a new era got underway this week as Adobe Systems Inc. redirected its video strategy to focus on Windows professional […]

Storage is an important part of the digital video lifestyle and a number of storage vendors will showcase their latest wares at this weeks Digital Video Expo East in New York City. Opening Tuesday at the Javits Center, the conference and show will offer information for both the professional and the prosumer. The interest in […]

Is there still a place in this modern, wireless millennium for something as old-fashioned as data transfer via sneakernet? For those that have forgotten, thats walking your data where it needs to go in some form of removable media. Storage Supersite readers gave their opinions on the usefulness of storage walkabouts. The discussion was sparked […]

Microsoft last week released its iSCSI Software Initiator Version 1.0 for Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, and Windows XP Professional. The driver supports the following operating systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows XP 64-bit. For the download click here. The Internet Engineering Task Force in […]

The storage requirements of digital cameras keep climbing, and while storage vendors have driven capacities for desktop hard disks—the destination for downloaded images—theyve been a bit more leisurely where it comes to the removable media for cameras. However, a storage industry outsider this week will offer a micro-sized hard drive holding 2.4GB, double the current […]

The dissection continues of Steve Jobs keynote address to the developers gathered in San Francisco for this weeks Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Regardless of the resulting SPECmanship debate, and whether or not the forthcoming Power Macintosh G5 really should carry the Fastest Personal Computer sobriquet, the new machine should return some of the companys lost […]

As the digital camera market has taken off, so has its enabling technology, the flash card. Now the card manufacturers are seeking new applications such as next-generation telephony. However, according to some Storage Supersite readers, the new formats may be more losable than useable. In my previous column, I ranted a bit on the current […]