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Five free and reliable cloning tools

August 21, 2012 6:11am PDT

Image your drives for free with the help of one of these reliable tools.

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Working with the Drobo B1200i

August 20, 2012 6:00am PDT

Derek Schauland shares his experience setting up and working with the Drobo B1200i storage appliance for SMBs.

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CloudDT: Efficient Tape Resource Management Using Deduplication in Cloud Backup and Archival Services

August 20, 2012 12:00am PDT

Cloud-based backup and archival services use large tape libraries as a cost-effective cold tier in their online storage hierarchy today. These services leverage de-duplication to reduce the disk...

Provided by: IFIP

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On the Spanning Ratio of Partial Delaunay Triangulation

August 17, 2012 12:00am PDT

Partial Delaunay Triangulation (PDT) is a well-known sub-graph construction that has already been used for years in the context of geographic routing and topology control. So far, it has been...

Provided by: University of Pacific

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Exalogic Backup and Recovery Best Practices

August 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

Oracle Exalogic is an integrated hardware and software system designed to provide a complete platform for a wide range of application types and widely varied workloads. Intended for large-scale,...

Provided by: Oracle

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Exalogic Backup and Recovery Best Practices

August 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

Oracle Exalogic is an integrated hardware and software system designed to provide a complete platform for a wide range of application types and widely varied workloads. Intended for large-scale,...

Provided by: Oracle

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Analysis and Construction of Functional Regenerating Codes With Uncoded Repair for Distributed Storage Systems

August 14, 2012 12:00am PDT

Modern distributed storage systems apply redundancy coding techniques to stored data. One form of redundancy is based on regenerating codes, which can minimize the repair bandwidth, i.e., the...

Provided by: Chinese University of Hong Kong

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On Benchmarking Embedded Linux Flash File Systems

August 13, 2012 12:00am PDT

Due to its attractive characteristics in terms of performance, weight and power consumption, NAND ash memory became the main Non Volatile Memory (NVM) in embedded systems. Those NVMs also present...

Provided by: Université du Sud - Toulon - Var

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Optimizing and Enhancing Parallel Multi Storage Backup Compression for Real-Time Database Systems

August 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

One of the big challenges in the world was the amount of data being stored, especially in Data Warehouses. Data stored in databases keep growing as a result of businesses requirements for more...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications

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Distributed Encrypting File System for Linux in User-Space

August 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Linux systems use Encrypting File System (EFS) for providing confidentiality and integrity services to files stored on disk in a secure, efficient and transparent manner. Distributed encrypting...

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Taking a single system to enable faster backup and more effective long term archiving

August 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

EMC Data Domain Systems respond to many of the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective...

Provided by: EMC

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Energy-Efficient Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

July 23, 2012 12:00am PDT

The power consumption of nodes determines the lifetime of the wireless sensor network. Thus, the design of low-power node is very important. The sensors sense physical phenomena in different ways,...

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Slideshow: Windows 8 Storage Spaces configuration

July 21, 2012 9:16pm PDT

Slideshow: Windows 8 Storage Spaces configuration article root Power Usage Who is paying the electric bill ? I imagine some of these drives are external if not a high powered power supply Did...

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Clown: A Microprocessor Simulator for Operating System Studies

July 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

In this paper, the author present the design and implementation of Clown - a simulator of a microprocessor-based computer system specifically optimized for teaching operating system courses at...

Provided by: Suffolk Software

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Infiltrate the Vault: Security Analysis and Decryption of Lion Full Disk Encryption

July 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

With the launch of Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Apple has introduced a volume encryption mechanism known as FileVault 2. Apple only disclosed marketing aspects of the closed-source software, e.g. its use...

Provided by: University of California, Santa Cruz

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10 ways to speed up Windows 7

July 16, 2012 5:26am PDT

You don't have to live with a Windows 7 machine that's becoming unbearably slow. Here are 10 basic steps that will optimize system performance.

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Deep troubleshooting with the Windows 8 Task Manager Processes tab

July 12, 2012 12:48pm PDT

Delve deeper into the many layers of performance information available in the Windows 8 Task Manager Processes tab.

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Backup Basics - Choosing the Right Data Protection System

July 12, 2012 12:00am PDT

Data Protection simplified - Find out about disk, tape, deduplication and virtualization. Are you responsible for making sure that the data on your company's network, servers or computers is safe...

Provided by: Quantum

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Effect of Global and Local Brightness on Quality of 3D and 2D Visual Perception

July 12, 2012 12:00am PDT

There are several different factors that affect the perceived quality of 3D content. The authors' objective in this paper is to investigate how the global and local change of brightness in a scene...

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