disk drives
RSS disk drivesThe Rise of AutoRun - Based Malware
White Paper And they are greatly aided by a convenience feature in operating systems called AutoRun, which launches the content on a removable disk without any user interaction. It also discusses methods to proactively detect and... [12 Nov 2009]
Encryption Solution for Data-at-Rest
White Paper When evaluating options, purchasers must consider full-disk encryption solutions that offer multi-factor user authentication at pre-boot, include FFCE encryption utilities, and use validated cryptographic modules. [12 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News You probably know a little about virtualisation if you've ever divided your computer's hard drive into different partitions - where a hard disk drive is divided to create, in effect, two separate hard... [11 Nov 2009]
Self-Tuning Disk Drives Eliminate Performance Bottlenecks and Heighten ROI
White Paper This has made the hard disk the weak link in system performance. This white paper explains how self-tuning technology maximizes hard disk performance. Read this paper now and find out how to speed up the... [06 Nov 2009]
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
White Paper It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced in the world is being stored on magnetic media, most of it on hard disk drives. Despite their importance, there is relatively little... [30 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment I have chips and disk drives, all those bits and pieces. Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's... [07 Oct 2009]
HP StorageWorks XP24000 and XP20000 Disk Array Encryption
White Paper When XP disk drives fail they are replaced by HP with good drives. HP is pleased to introduce disk encryption for the HP StorageWorks XP24000 and HP StorageWorks XP20000... [30 Aug 2009]
CLARiiON Enterprise Flash Drives: Optimizing Application Performance at a Lower Total Cost of Ownership
White Paper The presenter will compare Flash drives with traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), discuss the degree of Flash drive integration within the CLARiiON family, and help to identify... [29 Aug 2009]
Closing the Legacy Gap: Protecting Legacy Systems With FDE
White Paper But with the introduction of hard disk drives with a dedicated encryption chip, FDE has become amazingly efficient and more secure. More companies are now implementing Full Disk... [21 Aug 2009]
Dell Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives: Storage Solutions for Select PowerEdge Servers
White Paper Dell recently introduced the industry's fastest Enterprise class storage medium, Solid State Disk Drives (SSDs) in select Power Edge servers. Recent increases in capacity capability combined with lowered... [15 Aug 2009]
Solid-State Drives in the Enterprise: A Proof of Concept
White Paper To determine the potential of Solid-State Drives (SSDs) to replace Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in the enterprise, Intel IT conducted a Proof of Concept (PoC) that included performance tests,... [05 Aug 2009]
Improving the Mobile Experience With Solid-State Drives
White Paper Its PoC is demonstrating some significant advantages of SSDs over traditional hard disk drives for both users and IT - including faster system performance, lower energy consumption that extends battery... [05 Aug 2009]
Windows Media Load Simulator Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
White Paper Intel Corporation (Intel) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to compare the performance and power of two types of disk drives when streaming Windows Media: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State... [31 Jul 2009]
OLTP Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
White Paper Intel Corporation (Intel) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to compare performance and power for online transaction processing (OLTP) of two types of disk drives: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA... [31 Jul 2009]
Best Practices for Sun Storage 6000 Series and 2500 Series Arrays: VMware Storage VMotion
White Paper VMware Storage VMotion, allows the user to perform live online migration of a running VirtualMachine's disks, or disk files from ESX Server's perspective, from internal disk drives on a... [31 Jul 2009]
