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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 released the source code for Chrome OS... [23 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 published work on the... [30 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 store data in tiny magnetic patches. [15 Sep 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Gonzalez and his alleged co-conspirators sold the numbers to others and encoded the data onto magnetic stripes of blank cards and used the new cards to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars at a time from ATMs, according... [14 Sep 2009]
Cannizzaro Hospital Improves Service With Filmless Radiology System Built on Reliable Data Infrastructure
White Paper It needed to Rationalize and optimize filing and transfer of diagnostic images from digital radiographic equipment including Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) scans, Magnetic Nuclear Resonance scans (MNRs),... [01 Sep 2009]
Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo Because the energy of the fields is so much smaller than used by traditional MRI, the relaxation time is obtained with extremely sensitive magnetic-field detectors called superconducting quantum interference devices, or... [21 Aug 2009]
What is a Smart Card?
White Paper Smart cards, unlike magnetic stripe cards, can carry all necessary functions and information on the card. A smart card is a card that is embedded with either a microprocessor and a memory chip or only a memory chip with... [14 Aug 2009]
Configuring Deduplication for High Performance
White Paper This paper discusses how to configure deduplication for primary storage policy copies on the PowerVault DL2000 magnetic library to achieve the high performance. The Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Powered by CommVault Simpana 8... [07 Aug 2009]
Understanding Payment Application Data Security Standards: A White Paper for Executives Making Decisions on Compliance
White Paper The goal of PA-DSS is to help software vendors and others develop secure payment applications that do not store prohibited data, such as full magnetic stripe, CVV2 or PIN data, and ensure their payment applications... [14 Jul 2009]
Payment Card Industry Security Standards
White Paper The goal is to prevent the compromise of full magnetic stripe data located on the back of a payment card. PCI security standards are technical and operational requirements set by the Payment Card Industry Security... [13 Jul 2009]
EMC CLARiiON CX4 Enterprise Flash Drives With Microsoft Exchange: Applied Technology
White Paper Traditional magnetic disk drive technology no longer defines the performance boundaries for mission-critical storage environments. Incorporation of enterprise Flash drives into CLARiiON CX4 provides a new Tier 0 storage... [11 Jun 2009]
PIN-stealing malware hits ATMs
News It records the account information that is stored on the magnetic stripes on cards inserted into the machine and the encrypted PIN blocks that are generated when someone types in their number, Percoco said. [05 Jun 2009]
Solid State Disks for HP StorageWorks Arrays Whitepaper
White Paper Magnetic disk drives have been in use for decades. Their behavior is well understood, predictable, and assumptions about disk performance are deeply ingrained in the industry and frequently in the applications that use... [01 May 2009]
Payment cards: Top target in data breach attacks
News PIN data was increasingly targeted in 2008 in attacks in which magnetic-stripe data and PIN data was used for identity fraud. More records were breached in 2008 than in the previous four years combined as a result of a... [16 Apr 2009]
Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-Enabled Credit Cards
White Paper The RFID-enabled credit cards permit contactless payments that are fast, easy, and often more reliable than magnetic stripe card transactions, and only physical proximity (rather than contact) is required between this... [15 Apr 2009]
