David Morgenstern

Last summer, industry and customer conferences were abuzz with presentations about new flash memory caching technologies that would improve the user experience of Windows Vista, especially for mobile desktops. And storage vendors climbed on board with preannouncements of “hybrid” flash-enabled drives to support the plan. However, with Vista now in general release, the timing for […]

SAN FRANCISCO—In his Jan. 9 keynote address before the Macworld Expo crowd in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs offered what has become an annual lesson in user values in technology design. But why do so few in the industry seem to be taking the course? That is the great mystery. Often its easy to […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The buzz is swelling in anticipation of consumer-side announcements from Steve Jobs keynote address that will kick off the annual Macworld Expo here. Will it be the iPod phone or the iTV digital media server (name change is also expected)? Only Jobs and a select cadre of Apple execs know for sure. However, after […]

Ten years ago, give a week or two, Steve Jobs returned to Apple Computer, the company that he had co-founded in the now-hazy garage beginnings of the personal computer era. The company was a fiscal, organizational and technological mess. Under Jobs leadership, the company has regained a solid, if still small, foothold in the industry, […]

The gift-giving-and-receiving time is heading toward us pell-mell. And as is so often the case, the joy of the season fades a bit when it comes to the receiving part. We must admit it: we IT and storage folk are part of the hard-to-shop-for demographic. So, I looked around for some large and small gift-sized […]

In a recent interview, Seagate Technology CEO Bill Watkins offered a reality check on the state of the computing today and the storage market. Sorry to say, this hard drive maker—along with so many others in the industry—sounds as if hes lost his way. In a Nov. 30 Fortune interview, Watkins assessed the storage market […]

Recent rumbles out of Washington warn that the compliance gravy-train may be side-railed by the Treasury Departments pullback from Sarbanes-Oxley financial regulations. Storage resellers may feel a pinch from that policy change—or maybe not—based on the results of a recent poll of storage managers. Compliance is taking a back seat to more urgent, everyday storage […]

Windows Vista will come with a new startup sound and other soundscape elements in its Aero interface. However, while Redmond execs tell the world how “cool” Windows has become and the great meaning behind the sounds, Window XP users may just add the charge of “ear candy” along with “eye candy” for the new interface. […]

Is the world counting the minutes for the release of Vista on a cold day in January? Despite the increasing din from Microsofts hype machine and upbeat notes from Windows evangelists, enterprise and small business managers see a transition far in the future. But how far? It could be very, very far. At the same […]

Flash memory is catching the notice of IT storage pros, whether from dealing with the increased use of USB thumb drives by the mobile work force or pondering the speedups promised for Windows Vista. However, recently the flash talk has taken a twist: RAID. At the recent meeting of the San Francisco SNUG (storage networking […]

Is the world counting the minutes for the release of Vista on a cold day in January? Despite the increasing din from Microsofts hype machine and upbeat notes from Windows evangelists, managers in enterprise and small business see a transition far in the future. But how far? It could be very, very far. At the […]

Creating bigger—that is, higher-capacity—hard disks is usually the story of the industry, particularly in this year commemorating the invention of rotating storage. And with demand reportedly growing to hold collections of compliance data in the enterprise—not to mention the consumer segment—the search for bigger drives is seen as the natural order of the technology. Despite […]