David Morgenstern

For most computer users, more is good: more megahertz, more memory and more storage capacity. However, in the DVD department, less may be more—or so Apple Computer figures. Not surprisingly, though, some of its customers dont see it that way. Consider a recent article on the Mac Observer Web site that says Apple is “hedging […]

Storage vendor LaCie this week took the wraps off a new product line, the LaCie Ethernet Disk, an entry-level network-attached storage unit. A first for the company in the NAS department, the device is also one of the first in the industry to run Microsofts Windows XP Embedded OS. Due to ship in April, the […]

WorldCom is the poster child for dot-com excess, and its sorry story continues as the company crawls out from under the thumb of the bankruptcy court. While WorldComs sins are many, Im concerned about the outrage expressed last week by some in the financial community over the companys write-downs of assets: Their complaints (and the […]

Over at the Security Supersite last week, my colleagues sounded a variety of alarms over the potential for mischief from vendor personnel and disgruntled employees. While the personnel roster is one place to commence enterprise security, better employee relationships rather than investigations may get the job done right, especially for your storage concerns. Certainly, I […]

For most of us, the exact details of hard disk evolution is a mystery. So we find it difficult to understand why a feature like jumpers still exist. Perhaps they are a vestigial organ, much like the tails and webbed feet that occur with surprisingly frequency in the human population. However, for ordinary users and […]

As much as we decry mediocrity, we seem to have no trouble integrating it into our lifestyle. In education. In government. And in storage. Like CDs. In my previous column, I declared that CDs stink for both data and audio storage. For technological and market reasons, the formats have entered obsolescence; but like overprotective parents […]

The old saw tells us that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Recently, weve seen one moldy technology—the floppy drive—finally begin to head out the door, still to the dismay of many. Now in the CD and DVD formats we can see the same market dynamic that kept the floppy firmly […]

With a nod to the infamous moment in the 70s classic Soylent Green, there come times when we want to holler, “Storage is people, too!” Or so I was reminded this week when speaking to an enterprise storage vendor about a new product. The genesis of this epiphany was this weeks announcement of an alliance […]

SAN JOSE, CALIF.—Transitions can be trying, whether they affect personal lives or computer lines. Changes of the latter sort were on the minds of attendees at last weeks Intel Developer Forum here, especially when it came to storage. Discussion of new hardware standards dominated many panels at the conference, and products that incorporated them cropped […]

Enterprise Storage Veritas Looks Beyond the Storage Horizon Storage management software vendor Veritas Software said it plans to expand into other IT management technologies, to better compete against more diversified rivals such as EMC, Computer Associates International and IBM. Veritas announced three acquisitions since November, adding products in areas such as server provisioning and application […]