David Morgenstern

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 […]

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 […]