disk in comment and analysis
Computing on the go
Comment One of the key reasons the Asus has achieved these dimensions is because it uses a solid-state drive instead of a traditional hard disk, so its installed storage capacity is a rather paltry 12GB. Business travellers may feel they are being... [04 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment The other day we shipped a disk of information to one of the largest middleware providers in the world so they could create an environment in their lab for our enterprise data warehouse to address some technical anomalies we were having. [25 Feb 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment The remote disk technology feature, which allows the computer to use the optical drive of another networked computer, is a neat trick but reinforces the impression that the computer is reliant on another machine for access to CDs and DVDs. [06 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast
Comment Yet I no longer own a floppy disk or a PCMCIA card and I no longer go online using a mobile phone via IrDA or indeed a dial-up modem. During the past 15 years I have seen one generation of laptop after another get faster and more expansive with a... [28 Jan 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment A key problem within the public sector is that of awareness - the government admitted that civil servants ignored, or possibly didn't know, their own security policies and procedures in copying database information to disk and sending it... [21 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…
Comment Twenty or so years ago losing a hard disk drive containing citizen information would not have been possible without a truck. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [20 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The last CD
Comment Ask yourself this simple question: when was the last time you burned a CD and can you even remember the floppy disk? Written at a Copenhagen hotel and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service [25 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07
Round-Up It's just that Apple has decided to continue its migration towards players with flash-based memory and updated its entire iPod product range leaving only one 'classic' device with a hard disk. There was a deafening cheer from Microsoft's marketing... [07 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Scan my books
Comment The earliest surprises were the discarded technologies of a few years ago such as VHS player, Walkman, 500MB pocket drives (with spinning discs), floppy disk readers (remember them? Written in a partially renovated house with a fully operational... [02 Jul 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment Each container can hold up to 250 Sun T1000 servers (with 2,000 cores and 8,000 simultaneous threads) or it can be filled with 1.5 petabytes of disk or 2 petabytes of tape. Sun's new 'data centre in a container' is certainly innovative. [18 Jun 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment An example of the first kind of virtualisation is partitioning a PC disk into smaller virtual drives, while an example of the second is combining a number of separate disks to make them appear as one physical disk (as in a storage network). [15 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Live from InfoSec
Comment Already I've chatted to a company called DriveSentry whose approach is to create 'white lists' and 'black lists' of which applications should be able to write to your hard disk. silicon.com editor-at-large Will Sturgeon is blogging from the... [24 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07
Round-Up Or how about news that the floppy disk has now been consigned to history? Where to begin this week? How about with the biggest launch from Microsoft in five years? Or what about Norwich Union bringing call centre jobs back from India? [02 Feb 2007]
How BI can help IT win over the board
Comment At present, many IT departments can chart events, with administrators being alerted when, for example, free disk space falls below certain levels. We've all seen it happen - a company buys an expensive intrusion detection system or application... [05 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Scam repeats
Comment Those on the 'dark side of the force' would leave a floppy disk in a coffee shop, hotel lounge or office. Some unsuspecting victim would pick up the disk and of course take a look at what it contained. [22 Jun 2006]
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