David Morgenstern

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 […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Monitors are a commodity item for most enterprise desktops and few IT managers give their selection a second thought, other than for considerations of cost and size. However, the display management technologies being shown off at the SID (Society of Information Display) International Symposium—along with forthcoming hardware preferences for Windows Vista—may push enterprise buyers […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The dueling needs for privacy and data sharing played out here at the annual SID (Society of Information Display) International Symposium. Vendors showed new technologies that can keep neighbors on a flight from getting a glimpse of the corporate secrets on a laptop screen and new ways to share video on an iPod or […]

From a recent string of pronouncements, Microsoft looks to be in the throes of a midlife crisis. As the company re-examines its business model, it may be making a strategic shift that, regrettably, could leave enterprise customers out in the cold. At the Microsoft VC Summit May 11 in Mountain View, Calif., Microsoft top brass […]

Symantec executives and customers extolled the virtue of “standards” at the Symantec Vision conference here on May 9, as the company pitched its version of standards support: namely, a soup-to-nuts integrated process solution for the data center. Called the Symantec Data Center Foundation, the package includes four product families: Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Symantec executives and customers extolled the virtue of “standards” on May 9 at the Symantec Vision conference here, as the company introduced its bid to provide that standard, a soup-to-nuts integrated process solution for the data center. Dubbed the Data Center Foundation, the package includes four families of products: Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Storage Foundation, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Symantec will seek to extend its security protection beyond the client and infrastructure to encompass Web 2.0 models and data, top executives told an assembly of partners and customers here for the annual Vision conference. But as the company announced new compliance packages, some attendees wondered where the company was headed on technologies such […]

Heres a spring SAT question for the IT executive: When it comes to Windows Vista upgrades, is Microsoft more like the Internal Revenue Service or an Atlantic City casino? Regardless of whether you work for a large, midsize or small business, the answer is “yes.” In case you misplaced your SKU crib sheet, the business-focused […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Samsung Electronics on May 1 launched its Q1 here—not the companys latest quarterly earnings results, but its first ultramobile PC. The device is the first using the “Origami” mini-Tablet reference design from Microsoft and Intel, introduced in March at the CeBIT expo in Germany. According to officials, small computers, running the Tablet version of […]

Much digital ink has been spilled over the high-definition DVD format war between the Blu-Ray camp (including Sony, Dell and a group of “content” providers) and supporters of the HD-DVD disc (including Microsoft, Toshiba and another group of “content” providers). Over the Easter weekend, the first consumer HD-DVD players and titles hit the shelves and […]

With Apple making it possible to boot Windows XP on its new Intel-based computers, many are talking about running Windows programs, sharing data between Macs and Windows and better enterprise acceptance of the Macintosh. Forget about it. The release on April 5 of Apples Boot Camp Assistant isnt about doing anything useful. Instead, its all […]