David Morgenstern

SAN FRANCISCO—The enterprise and consumers alike have benefited from the steady progress in semiconductor manufacturing process. However, changes in the marketplace present new business and technological challenges for circuit builders, ones that could disrupt the traditional order. The production and testing hurdles of smaller-sized chips that use new materials, the integration of micromechanical devices into […]

High-performance networked storage vendor Exanet will expand its clustered NAS software solution with new data replication and recovery capabilities. The company said it expects the update, to be officially announced on July 10, to boost its standing in wider enterprise markets that require a greater degree of data protection. Due in the third quarter of […]

The feature list of Apple Computers forthcoming Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, may be considered a state secret down at the companys Infinite Loop headquarters. At the same time, eWEEK readers have a strong sense of what Apple could do in its next OS upgrade to help the small and midsize business customer. In […]

What is coming in Mac OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard? Does anyone outside the executive suite in Cupertino really know? Putting aside the half-baked rumors and hoax pages floating around Web, the truth must wait for Steve Jobs keynote address at the companys WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) in early August. But that shouldnt stop us […]

Is the market really ready for instant memory expansion with USB flash “drives” or the forthcoming “hybrid” hard disk drives that incorporate flash memory? Some hardy pioneers appear eager to adopt the technology. But others may hold off on deployment, perhaps for a good while. Readers in both camps responded to a recent column that […]

The market is still guessing about Googles continued purchases of “dark fiber” and what that will mean to the Internet. Yet another explanation was floated at a recent IT conference: IPv6, the next-generation Internet standard. During a debate on the adoption of Internet Protocol Version 6 at the Burton Groups annual Catalyst conference in San […]

Backup security vendor NeoScale Systems on June 21 released a software upgrade to its CryptoStor Tape appliance. While giving the system a performance boost, the company also honed the usability of the package in Windows environments and added support for external encryption key management. Version 2.3 expands CryptoStor Tapes key management capabilities through support for […]

With Bill Gates scheduling his exit interview for sometime before or after the 2008 Fourth of July holiday, you have to wonder about the power of a new operating system to shake the executive suite. Or perhaps its just that OS development gives corporate dogs a push out the door. However, the superstitious in our […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Although the foundation of the next-generation Internet, IPv6, is gaining momentum in South Asia and receiving solid support in Windows Vista, enterprise IT managers based in the United States appear to be in little hurry to adopt the standard. Such was the conclusion of a debate held here on June 14 at the Burton […]

Now is the time for IT managers to get ready for trouble. The source will be found in Windows Vistas “Ready” twins: ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive, flash-memory-based technologies that aim to improve notebook performance and boot-up times. Microsoft in April put a branding on these technologies that it had paraded in front of attendees at the […]