David Morgenstern

Many a junior futurist has pored over Alvin Tofflers 1971 opus “Future Shock” and looked for corroboration in the newspaper (or the mirror). A smaller number would envision a small consumer-market storage device as an epicenter of technological stress. The culprit of the moment is memory-card storage, which rode into this weeks CeBIT America aboard […]

Visitors walking the exhibit halls of the cavernous Jacob Javits Convention Center this week will discover a wide range of storage. While described as the “enterprise computing marketplace,” the new CeBIT America show also features a number of consumer storage products in addition to those aimed at business applications. This story was updated on Wednesday, […]

Talk is easier than action when it comes to continuity planning—the speedy recovery from small or large data disasters. Not all IT groups actually execute a workable plan. Recent research on the role of storage in business-continuity policies revealed a picture convoluted both in conception and execution. The research in question was just one segment […]

When it comes down to the nitty-gritty details of backup, most small-business owners (along with most individual users) have a less-than-solid grasp on the reality of their backup needs. This knowledge gap should come as no surprise, since the path of least resistance is to follow the tradition of daily backup, rather than taking the […]

The storage industry this month celebrates the 15th anniversary of RAID, a now-fundamental technology that supports the great ocean of data served up to clients within enterprises as well as to ordinary users across the Internet. RAID focuses on the integrity and survivability of data. Perhaps its also time for IT managers to consider a […]

As throughput rates swoop up a steepening curve, some users are still having a hard time buying the notion that gigabit speeds are on the cusp of becoming a consumer standard. Get used to it: Its already time to start counting down to 10-gigabit-per-second performance on entry-level computers. One company already banking on this scenario […]

Discuss this column in our forum. Hard disk fragmentation got a close look from Storage Supersite readers last week as they weighed in on the value of defragmentation and optimization for drive performance and reliability. I sparked the debate in a recent column exploring the reliability side of defragmentation based on a briefing on the […]

Digital cameras and other computer peripherals have found their way onto the shelves of retail photography stores big and small. However, in their transition from analog to digital imaging, these stores appear to be missing a golden opportunity: storage. Reading the newspaper this morning, I found a full-page ad for a large, local photography store. […]

When reflecting on hard disk defragmentation, perhaps performance optimization first comes to mind. However, reliability might be the more urgent issue on which to focus. In a recent column, I asked whether it was fair for system managers to pick on the hard drive when it comes to reliability problems, when there were so many […]

Walt Disney Co.s latest scheme for distribution of movies dubbed “EZ-D” has me reeling like a spin on Disneylands Mad Tea Party attraction. Sadly, its the perfect example of everything thats wrong with the 21st Century couch-potato lifestyle. As described in this Mondays Storage Web Digest, Disneys Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division will use FlexPlay […]