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Photos: Google takes the wrapping off Chrome OS
Photo For speed, Chrome OS uses only flash memory-based solid state drives, which are faster and more power-efficient than conventional hard drives with rotating magnetic plates. Google... [23 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... [11 Nov 2009]
Self-Tuning Disk Drives Eliminate Performance Bottlenecks and Heighten ROI
White Paper The explosion of systems storage capacity has not been matched by the evolution of faster hard disks. This has made the hard disk the weak link in system performance. This white paper explains how... [06 Nov 2009]
BitLocker: Is It Really Secure?
White Paper Is it a truly safe way to protect your data and applications, hard drives, and operating system? What exactly is BitLocker? How does it work? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this... [03 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment Many netbooks now sport screens of up to 11 inches, have hard drives comparable to many fuller-figured PCs, keyboards that even the chubbiest of fingers will be able to cope with - and a price point that... [02 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]
Securing Personally Identifiable Information
White Paper Files are copied to laptop hard drives and mobile devices. Sensitive information - such as credit card numbers and social security numbers combined with a person's first and last name, (a.k.a. Personally... [06 Oct 2009]
Oracle-Sun steaming ahead with joint plans despite EU probe
News Sun has been working on systems that take advantage of solid-state drives (SSDs), which use flash memory to store data rather than traditional hard drives with rotating platters that can... [15 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Software - keep it short and sweet
Comment Thousands of features have gone unnoticed and unused, while hard drives have had to grow from megabytes to gigabytes, and operating speeds have tended to stabilise or slow down despite the increased... [07 Sep 2009]
Preparing for e-Discovery: Your Road Map to Compliance
White Paper A wide variety of devices retain the various data stores, including network servers, hard drives, flash drives, backup tapes, external hard drives, CDs... [30 Aug 2009]
Data Recovery and RAID Drives
White Paper This paper addresses the recovery of information (user files) from hard drives which have been used in RAID systems. There is a history of successful data recovery efforts when working with... [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. Protecting your data is not only financially wise; it is often legally... [21 Aug 2009]
The A to Z of wireless
News There are so many different flavours of wireless standards and devices out there that it can be really hard to keep track - so let silicon.com be your guide to the unwired world. More than two billion Bluetooth-enabled... [11 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]
