David Morgenstern

Should storage vendors expect lines of consumers waving bucks in the air for forthcoming next-generation DVD recorders based on blue laser technology? Or will customers sit on their wallets, given the current tough economic climate and concerns over standards. From the response from readers, the consumer market may be experiencing future shock, or maybe just […]

In Phoenix this week, the storage industry gathers at Storage Networking World. Analysts, customers and vendors showcase the latest solutions, hardware technologies and industry initiatives. Heres some of the latest news and announcements Updated: Computer Associates Preps SAN Management Package Computer Associates International will unveil storage management technologies later this year based on the analogies […]

Here are a some of the annoucements: New Sony Tape Drives Sony will show new branded external tape drives supporting its Super AIT format. Each cartridge has a native capacity of 500GB; with compression (and depending on the data being stored) the media can hold up to 1.3 terabytes. The company said the drives provide […]

A media company looks to have launched a new consumer computing platform last week, yet did anyone notice? The companys CEO has gravitas equal to that of the current reigning captains of industry—and maybe more important, real vision. The boss in question is Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp. In a deal last […]

To outsiders, the storage industry appears to be a highly rational business where products follow a natural and logical order of progression. The truth is a different story. Several recent announcements in the blue-laser arena had me scratching my head and thinking of the Wild West. Blue lasers, or blue-violet lasers, have been the holy […]

As they seek faster routes to connect media professionals with their data, storage vendors at this weeks National Association of Broadcasters expo in Las Vegas will likely unveil new products that employ the FireWire 800 interface. In response, attendees will make the expected cooing noises over the standards improved throughput performance. Despite the hype, vendors […]

Tuesday Updates Focus Enhancements FireStore DV disk recorder demonstrated with JVC Professional DV Camcorders Focus Enhancements demonstrated its latest DV disk recorder, the FireStore DR-DV5000, with the JVC GY-DV5000 professional DV camcorder. The DR-DV5000 weighs two pounds (including the removable disk drive) and mounts directly between the video camera body and battery system. Up to […]

How much are you willing to bet at a time? A couple of bucks on the Lotto? A five or ten spot at the track? Or how about a throw of the dice for your notebook computer? Perhaps only a few would take that last wager—unless theyre on the way to the airport. A coalition […]

In case I had any doubts, my concerns over the fragility of current and future optical-disc technology were crystallized by reader responses to a recent column on the subject—as well as an interesting (and unintended) example from Microsoft by way of my snail-mailbox. In last Thursdays column, I noted that current DVDs lack cartridge covers […]

With storage, as with many other computer products, theres sometimes a gap between our perceived need for a particular feature and our actual need for it. At the same time, a beneficial feature—one that may prove critical to the long-term reliability of your data—may be completely unavailable. In the realm of DVD, thats been the […]