David Morgenstern

Like the rising ocean tides expected with global warming, a creeping level of data could overcome the worlds storage capacity in the next few years, warns an analyst report. Even more worrisome to some will be the lack of comprehensible illustrative devices that will let us picture this growing level of storage. The origin of […]

Before the iPhone hit the market on June 29, I remarked that many enterprise IT managers would wring their hands over the coming of the devices and make threatening noises in hopes of warding off the invasion. And, that soon thereafter, we would find that this iPhone FUD was overplayed. Now what I predicted appears […]

The ranks of enterprise IT appear to be arrayed shoulder to shoulder—in Roman Legion-style—against the invasion of the iPhone likely to start within days after Apple releases the device on June 29. However, the defense may be futile. After all, the horde carrying the forthcoming Apple phone wont be barbarians; rather, the very folks doing […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Yes, the colorful new stuff due in Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” coming in the fall, was the main topic of Apple CEO Steve Jobs June 11 keynote address to the faithful software vendors (and press hacks) gathered here for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Still, Windows also made a surprise appearance at this […]

With the serious Mac heads on pilgrimage to San Francisco for the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference starting June 11, the online rumors have gone into overdrive. Not that its been anything but racing speed anyway, with the iPhone due to ship later in June and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard set for release in […]

Certainly, we can all agree that Mac users hate Windows. On the other hand, most Windows users hate the Macintosh and, moreover, Mac users. And those Mac ads. One thing that really pushes the buttons of Windows users is how Mac users describe the relative security for each platform. What PC users hear in the […]

Over the past month or so, the rumor that Apple would delay Mac OS X Leopard (v10.5) surfaced and then submerged and finally surfaced again, but this time with a legit press release from deep inside the Cupertino headquarters. The new “date” for Leopards arrival is now in October. Could this mean that we will […]

The revelations in a couple of research papers on troubles concerning the MTBF specification for hard disk reliability sparked readers to suggest that there must be a better way to suss out a potential problem drive in the server closet. Furthermore, they have a good idea of who may have a finger on the real-world […]

Believe it or not, prior to the great PC purges of the middle 1990s, the Macintosh was an enterprise computer. Its the truth. In bygone days, a good number of corporations and academic sites did all their desktop computing on the Mac, purchase orders were cut for thousands of Macs at a time, and Apple […]

Data sheets for hard drives have always included a specification for reliability expressed in hours: commonly known as MTBF (mean time between failures), or sometimes the mean time to failure. Same difference: One way assumes that a drive will be fixed, and the other, replaced. Nowadays, this number is around a million hours for an […]

With Windows Vista now in the channel, some analysts predict reversals for Apple. Others now question the so-called “halo effect” of the iPod, the notion that a positive experience with the Apple audio player will lead people to buy a Mac. I dont buy much of this talk. In fact, I see signs that the […]

Ten years ago to this very week, Steve Jobs killed Apple. Or he began to take apart many of the projects and organization that many inside and outside the company thought of as Apples value to the computing industry. This event was the announcement of the companys infamous spring 1997 reorganization, which continued step-by-step throughout […]