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Quick Tip: Restore individual files from a System Image in Windows 8

June 18, 2013 10:31am PDT

With Windows 8 you can restore individual files from a System Image backup quite easily using its built-in ability to mount ISO and VHD files.

9 Latest comment by Greg Shultz

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Five tips for improving Mac performance

May 22, 2013 12:25pm PDT

These aren't the cheapest or the easiest ways, but these tips for improving your Mac's performance will have the most impact.

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Five Apps for disk and file encryption in Windows

May 16, 2013 8:34am PDT

Five Apps for disk and file encryption in Windows article root Encryption practices How much of your data is encrypted? Do you encrypt your email? Certain files? Everything? What is your tool of...

4 Started by Mark W. Kaelin | Latest comment by Matt Nawrocki

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Five Apps for disk and file encryption in Windows

May 16, 2013 8:32am PDT

Whether you want to encrypt an entire hard drive or just a folder or a few files, using the right tool is vital.

4 Latest comment by Matt Nawrocki

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The Road to SAP HANA - A Choice of Paths to Take

May 9, 2013 12:00am PDT

The SAP HANA platform is transforming data processing. It achieves this impact through a radically new IT architecture that isolates all active workloads from reading and writing to disk, the most...

Provided by: SAP

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Whitepaper: Deploying Flash in the Enterprise - Choices to Optimize Performance and Cost

April 30, 2013 12:00am PDT

Flash is quickly emerging as the preferred way to overcome the nagging performance limitations of hard disk drives. However, because flash comes at a significant price premium, outright...

Provided by: NetApp

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Access the Command Prompt from Windows 8 Recovery Drive

April 29, 2013 4:07pm PDT

Access the Command Prompt from Windows 8 Recovery Drive article root Using the command prompt and notepad to copy files. Greg, Great tip on how to copy files from a nonbooting PC. It sure beats...

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ESG Whitepaper: HP StoreOnce Backup Is “Better Together” with Symantec Backup Solutions

April 25, 2013 12:00am PDT

As much as deduplication originally solved the main setback for disk-based backups (the cost of storing the data), the evolution of deduplication must bring the optimization discernment closer to...

Provided by: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors

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De-duplication appliances: Can HP put a dent in EMC’s hegemony?

April 24, 2013 12:00am PDT

The early days of the de-duplication target market could be characterized as the Wild West according to 451 Research, with a slew of startups shooting it out in an emerging market with tremendous...

Provided by: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors

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First look at the Astute ViSX all-flash storage appliance

April 23, 2013 6:00am PDT

All-flash SSD storage has significant performance characteristics and a price tag to match. Astute is targeting the mid-tier organization with their new appliance.

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IBM Storwize V3700 Entry Disk

April 18, 2013 12:00am PDT

IT organizations have limited resources but need to stay responsive to dynamic environments and act quickly to consolidate, simplify and optimize their IT infrastructures. The new IBM® Storwize®...

Provided by: IBM

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IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware Environments

April 18, 2013 12:00am PDT

Many businesses already have deployed or are considering VMware virtualization solutions to reduce costs through server consolidation while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility...

Provided by: IBM

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On How to Provision Quality of Service (QoS) for Large Dataset Transfers

April 17, 2013 12:00am PDT

For large-sized scientific dataset transfers, scientists typically invest in high-end computing systems that can source and sink data to/from their disk systems at high speeds. These transfers are...

Provided by: University of Vigo

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Change vCenter alarm notifications using VMware PowerCLI

April 16, 2013 7:55am PDT

It can be a nuisance to change vCenter alarm notifications, unless you use this script that allows you to automate the process.

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Malware Classification Through HEX Conversion and Mining

April 1, 2013 12:00am PDT

The malicious codes are normally referred as malware. Systems are vulnerable to the traditional attacks, and attackers continue to find new ways around existing protection mechanisms in order to...

Provided by: IRJCSEA

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Modified Security Frame Work for PIR Cloud Computing Environment

April 1, 2013 12:00am PDT

Computational Private Information Retrieval (cPIR) protocols allow a client to retrieve one bit from a database, without the server inferring any information about the queried bit. These protocols...

Provided by: Creative Commons

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ISCSI-The Future of the Storage Network

April 1, 2013 12:00am PDT

ISCSI is proposed as a possible solution to building future storage systems. However, using iSCSI raises numerous questions about its implications on system performance. This lack of understanding...

Provided by: International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)

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Slideshow: Use System Image Recovery tool to restore your hard disk

March 29, 2013 4:03am PDT

Slideshow: Use System Image Recovery tool to restore your hard disk article root How do I... How do I mark this article as a favourite? click "more" on the sidebar on the left hand side of this...

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