operating system disks
The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 2
White Paper It happens to all disks on all operating systems (OSs). It can affect the health of the system. Storing data on a disk has become less expensive and more convenient in modern times. But... [02 Oct 2008]
Power-Aware Code Scheduling for Clusters of Active Disks
White Paper This paper takes the idea of application-level processing on disks to one level further, and focus on an architecture, called Cluster of Active Disks (CAD), where the storage system... [11 Aug 2008]
Maintaining Windows 2000 Peak Performance through Defragmentation
White Paper It's essential that an operating system be able to maintain your disks at peak levels of reliability and performance. The Windows® 2000 operating system... [03 Jul 2008]
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Using Oracle Real Application Clusters on IBM BladeCenter Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and IBM System Storage DS3400
White Paper This paper discusses the necessary steps to prepare for and successfully install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 32-bit and Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition with Oracle Real Application Clusters 32-bit on IBM BladeCenter servers and IBM... [12 Jun 2008]
Prism: Lightweight Filesystem Virtualization Via Selective Cloning
White Paper Unlike copying in standard file systems or cloning operations on virtual disks, the Prism filesystem supports high-level operations to create fast clones of any part of a filesystem. The paper shows that this simple... [01 Mar 2008]
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows: The Dynamic Disk Advantage - Comparing Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
White Paper When Microsoft introduced the Windows 2000 operating system, they introduced a new way of managing disks and the capacity they contained. Developed in conjunction with VERITAS Software,... [14 Nov 2007]
Squid: Advanced Disk Cache Topics
White Paper The system call doesn't return until these I/O operations complete, which may take longer than one would like if the disks are already busy with other tasks. For example, calling open() on the Unix Fast... [17 Oct 2007]
Sun Datapath Policies for Disks and Disk Arrays
White Paper Although disks and arrays implement many standard interfaces, there are still numerous problems with lack of interoperability. The software considered includes drivers for the Solaris Operating... [01 Oct 2007]
Sun Datapath Policies for Disks and Disk Arrays
Although disks and arrays implement many standard interfaces, there are still numerous problems with lack of interoperability. The software considered includes drivers for the Solaris Operating... [11 Sep 2007]
PARAID: A Gear-Shifting Power-Aware RAID
White Paper PARAID uses a skewed striping pattern to adapt to the system load by varying the number of powered disks. Conventional server-class RAIDs cannot easily reduce power because loads are balanced to use all... [30 Aug 2007]
Hardware RAID Vs. Software RAID: Which Implementation Is Best for My Application?
White Paper In the last couple of years, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology has grown from a server option to a data protection requirement. Off late RAID is found everywhere - from an operating... [25 Aug 2007]
Using the Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) in Windows XP Embedded
White Paper This allows the Operating System (OS) to boot from read-only media such as CD-ROMs, write-protected hard disks, or flash media. Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) provides a means for... [23 Aug 2007]
MD RAID Acceleration
White Paper Firmware on this chip is tasked with taking a set of disks, combining them with a given RAID algorithm, and then exposing the RAID volume to the host operating system. RAID (Redundant... [23 Aug 2007]
Photos: Heathrow's Terminal 5 comes alive
Photo The circular disks on the ceiling are designed to improve acoustics in what is a vast space. Once they have checked in, using one of the 96 self-service check-in kiosks, 56 manned check-in desks or BA's online service -... [13 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07
Round-Up That's right, this week saw a milestone in the history of home computing and therefore, where else could the Round-Up begin than with the news about those outdated and unwelcome disks.or Microsoft Windows Vista, to give... [02 Feb 2007]
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