firmware
RSS firmwareDell Update Deployment Using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
White Paper IT organizations often struggle to efficiently manage a large number of systems while still maintaining a secure environment—and deploying hardware, firmware, and software updates in these environments can be fraught... [15 Oct 2009]
Firmware Corruption of Memory During Sleep Transitions
White Paper This paper provides information for system manufacturers and firmware developers about firmware corruption of memory during sleep transitions. During Windows 7 development, multiple Windows-based... [16 Sep 2009]
iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) as Defined in ACPI 3.0b Specification
White Paper The iSCSI Boot Firmware (iBF) Table (iBFT) is a block of information that contains various parameters that are useful to the iSCSI Boot process. The iBFT is the mechanism by which iBF parameter values are conveyed to the... [16 Sep 2009]
UEFI and Windows
White Paper This paper briefly describes support for the Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI) in the Windows family of operating systems and includes a brief discussion of related technical issues. UEFI is the next-generation... [16 Sep 2009]
UEFI Support and Requirements for Windows Operating Systems
White Paper This paper provides information about Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) support in Windows operating systems. Firmware and system designers can use the guidelines and requirements in this paper to... [16 Sep 2009]
Installing Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 on UEFI Systems
White Paper Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 support Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on Intel Itanium-based and x64-based platforms. This paper provides guidelines for system manufacturers and information... [16 Sep 2009]
BCDEdit Reference
White Paper BCD abstracts the underlying firmware and provides a common programming interface that can be used to manipulate the boot environment for all systems running Windows Vista or later versions of Windows. [16 Sep 2009]
Processor Power Management in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
White Paper This paper provides details of the support in Windows Vista, describes how PPM works with Windows Vista power policy, provides guidelines for firmware developers and system designers, and includes details on how Windows... [16 Sep 2009]
Approved: Super-speedy wi-fi standard finally gets green light
News According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, most, if not all, of the existing equipment can be upgraded to the final specification via a firmware update. The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard. [14 Sep 2009]
How Secure is Your Data?
White Paper This paper describes some of the hardware and firmware security features that make the new generation of IBM System x and BladeCenter servers more secure than ever - protecting one, ones business and customers. [02 Sep 2009]
Considerations in HP StorageWorks XP Cluster Extension Configurations to Stop Automatic XP CA Disk Pair Resynchronization When CA Link Is Suspended
White Paper This is helpful while someone manually suspends the CA replication, may be for XP online firmware upgrade or for some maintenance work, and does not want any software components to initiate automatic CA disk pair... [02 Sep 2009]
Does Zune HD menu hint at apps inclusion?
News Games came pre-loaded on the current version of the device, but we made a decision to take them out of the firmware update and let people choose what games they want to have for themselves - and it made sense to do this... [25 Aug 2009]
PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i: Array Tuning Best Practices
White Paper Presented within are the best practices that must be observed in performance tuning a first generation firmware (06.XX.XX.XX) and second generation firmware (07.XX.XX.XX) storage array. This paper is... [07 Aug 2009]
Deploying UEFI-Aware Operating Systems on Dell PowerEdge Servers
White Paper The UEFI specification defines an interface between operating systems and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are... [07 Aug 2009]
Secure Wireless Architectures for Federal Agencies
White Paper The WLC manages the AP configurations and firmware. The Cisco Unified Wireless Architecture centralizes WLAN configuration and control on a device called a wireless LAN controller (WLC). This allows the WLAN to operate... [05 Aug 2009]
