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Whitepapers
When Infrastructure Really Matters, A Focus on High-End Storage
Nov 2012
This Clipper Group paper provides a pragmatic analysis about the undeniable importance of mission critical infrastructure. The DS8870, the newest member of the DS8000 enterprise storage family,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Essentials Series: Why You Need to Defragment
Sep 2009
Authored by Microsoft MVP Greg Shields, this tech report is a call to arms for Windows administrators, reminding them why defragmenting is so important. Everyone wants better system performance...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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White Papers
Defrag Myth Busters - What You Should Know
Jan 2008
There are many serious misconceptions about fragmentation which, if believed, can lead to significant computer damage. Debunking these myths could save your system or network. Fragmentation is...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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Whitepapers
Why Native Windows Defragmentation Isn't Enough
Mar 2012
Fragmentation has long been known as the hard disks' silent killer. Every year, billions of dollars are spent on IT networks to increase performance and reliability, but improperly managed...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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Whitepapers
Hard Disk Drives Vs. Solid State Drives: A Performance Evaluation
May 2009
Solid State Drives are high-performance plug-and-play data storage devices that contain no moving parts. This paper attempts to highlight performance characteristics of Solid State Drives (SSDs)...
Provided by LSI
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Whitepapers
When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them
May 2012
Successfully backing up critical systems and data is key to disaster recovery and business continuity. Yet, Symantec's 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey revealed that only half of respondents...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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Whitepapers
Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays
Nov 2011
This Magic Quadrant represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocols. From 3Q-10...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Cloud, Appliance or Software: How to Decide Which Backup Solution is Best for Your Small or Mid-Size Organization
May 2012
Successfully backing up critical systems and data is key to disaster recovery and business continuity. Yet, Symantec's 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey revealed that only half of respondents...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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White Papers
Managing Enterprise Risk With Full Disk Encryption
Mar 2006
The best and only true way to protect data at rest on desktop and laptop PCs is to use full disk encryption. Full disk encryption does not just protect files and folders; it protects all data...
Provided by GuardianEdge Technologies
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Whitepapers
IBM Brings Enterprise Functionality to Mid-range Storage
Jul 2011
Find out why the Clipper Group calls the IBM Storwize V7000 "the finest unified storage available" for mid-sized datacenters. This highly-scalable, highly-functional disk system can support...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation
Sep 2008
Fragmentation results in significant money and time drain on IT resources. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation helps IT professionals, analysts, and engineers understand the benefit...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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White Papers
The 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive Delivers Home Entertainment: Trends, Advances and Opportunities in the Consumer Electronics Market
Sep 2008
The DVR in particular presents a rapidly expanding market opportunity for manufacturers. Already, more than a fifth of all U.S. households utilize a DVR (such as Tivo) for recording their favorite...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Windows Media Load Simulator Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
Jan 2009
Intel Corporation (Intel) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to compare the performance and power of two types of disk drives when streaming Windows Media: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
OLTP Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
Jan 2009
Intel Corporation (Intel) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to compare performance and power for online transaction processing (OLTP) of two types of disk drives: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA...
Provided by Principled Technologies
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White Papers
Improving the Mobile Experience With Solid-State Drives
Jan 2009
Intel IT is evaluating Solid-State Drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. It has initiated a Proof of Concept (PoC) study that...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
HyDrive Disk Blade Concept: The Fusion of Intel SSDs With 3.5" HDD Media
Oct 2008
Verari Systems is leading the blade storage revolution, combining industry leading, patented bladed technology with industry-standard system components to reduce storage acquisition costs along...
Provided by Verari Systems
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White Papers
Solid-State Drives in the Enterprise: A Proof of Concept
Mar 2009
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,...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Improving BIOS Debugging Using USB 2.0 Methods: Moving Beyond POST Checkpoints
Apr 2009
The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) on modern computers, whether based on legacy BIOS standards or Unified EFI (UEFI), send debug checkpoints during the initialization and boot process....
Provided by American Megatrends
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White Papers
Protecting Digital Assets
May 2009
Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is the safest way to protect digital assets, including both those of company as well as customers. If mobile devices such as laptops are stolen, FDE protects the...
Provided by SECUDE
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White Papers
Dell Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives: Storage Solutions for Select PowerEdge Servers
May 2009
Dell recently introduced the industry's fastest Enterprise class storage medium, Solid State Disk Drives (SSDs) in select Power Edge servers. Solid State, the use of NAND Flash as a storage medium...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Best Practices in Index Maintenance - Fighting the Silent Performance Killers
Aug 2009
Index fragmentation is a serious issue. It causes significant SQL Server performance issues, leading to loss of money and time. The problem is native tools alone aren't the solution to...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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Whitepapers
Why and How You Should Find and Fix Index Fragmentation
Aug 2009
In a high-volume database you need frequent critical maintenance. If you skip this important task, index fragmentation may cause wasted space, inefficient I/O and poor performance. In this new...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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White Papers
Fujitsu Introduces Full Disk Encryption
Aug 2008
Fujitsu has introduced its first Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to offer Full Disk Encryption (FDE). The MHZ-CJ series is Fujitsu's highest performing notebook HDD at 7200 RPM, with up to 320GB of storage....
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Bringing Clarity to Hard Disk Drive Choices for Enterprise Storage Systems
Feb 2009
Technology migrations for IT organizations are often challenging. But choosing the right storage hardware technology wisely, and implementing it appropriately for a given storage application and...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Whitepapers
Update to USB Driver Support on HPUX 11iv2
Apr 2009
HP is providing an update to the USB support on HP-UX 11iv2 which contains the Enhancements like USB 2.0 hi-speed (EHCI) capability at runtime, DVD write capability, Support for additional...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Migrating Server Storage to SSDs: Analysis of Tradeoffs
Apr 2009
Recently, flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. Provisioning server...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Windows Disk Idle Detection
Nov 2007
This paper details the infrastructure supporting disk idle detection in the Windows operating system. The Windows power manager cooperates with disk driver software to automatically spin down hard...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Dynamic Hardware Partitioning
Nov 2008
This paper provides information about dynamic hardware partitioning and the architecture that is supported by Windows Server 2008 and later versions of the Windows Server operating system. It...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Data Distribution and Improving Disk Performance for Faster Memory Access
Apr 2012
The layout of traditional disks is optimized for file systems with large sequential access. For these sequential workloads, cost of seeks and rotational latencies are amortized on the transfer of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE)
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White Papers
Unprecedented System Speed and Efficiency: The NEW technology that will take you there
Dec 2009
Achieve greater system speed and efficiency than ever thought possible with a new breakthrough technology that prevents disk fragmentation before it happens. Every system, every network, every...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array Configuration Guide for SAP Using Solid State Drives and Thin Provisioning
Dec 2009
In today's business environment, SAP customers rely on the most efficient, highest performance, and most reliable storage solutions available. There is also the need to accelerate business growth...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Best Practices for Eliminating Fragmentation with Modern Storage Technologies
Jan 2010
Due to the significant complexity of the software and hardware used in modern storage environments, there are many myths and misconceptions regarding the continuing need for a solution to...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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Whitepapers
Sharing a Printer With Your Home Media Network Hard Drive
Mar 2009
Sharing a printer across the network is as simple as plugging one's USB printer into the network hard drive. The network drive is already set up as a print server, so one can access their printer...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Line Balancing in the Hard Disk Drive Process Using Simulation Techniques
Jan 2010
Simulation model is an easy way to build up models to represent real life scenarios, to identify bottlenecks and to enhance system performance. Using a valid simulation model may give several...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
An Analysis of Hard Drive Energy Consumption
Oct 2008
The increasing storage capacity and necessary redundancy of data centers and other large-scale IT facilities has drawn attention to the issue of reducing the power consumption of hard drives. This...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
RE: Hard Drive Reliability and RAID 0
Jul 2008
With the advent of the RAIDFrame, High-Rely entered a unique world of which there was little comparison. The RAIDFrame currently offers RAIDPacs in either a RAID 5 configuration (recommended) or...
Provided by Highly Reliable Systems
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White Papers
Prediction of Hard Drive Failures Via Rule Discovery From AutoSupport Data
Sep 2009
The ability to accurately predict an impending hard disk failure is important for reliable storage system design. The facility provided by most hard drive manufacturers, called S.M.A.R.T....
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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White Papers
Visualizing the Pattern for Hard Disk Media Yield Prediction
Apr 2009
In a hard disk media manufacturing, engineers rely on inspection machine to generate production yield temporal data that can be used for future analysis. To proactively perform process maintenance...
Provided by Universiti Utara Malaysia
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White Papers
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters: Ideal for Low-Cost Servers and Nearline Applications
Dec 2008
With SCSI technology dwindling and Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology gaining ground, many customers question which hard drive and RAID adapter are best for their specific...
Provided by LSI
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White Papers
Mems Sugar Enabled Nano-Modeling of Elements in Hard Disk Drive System Along With Reliability Implications
Feb 2010
The paper has demonstrated the impact of developments in nanotechnology to Hard Disk Drive (HDD) technology. The paper has put forth a proposition to enhance the modeling of future storage devices...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Report: Delivering Customer Value with Enterprise Flash Deployments
Feb 2013
When it comes to flash, "one size does not fit all." IDC examines recent flash trends in enterprise storage deployments. This includes: highlighting how SSDs are filling in gaps of existing...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
IDC: Delivering Customer Value with Enterprise Flash Deployments
Feb 2013
When it comes to flash, “one size does not fit all.” IDC examines recent flash trends in enterprise storage deployments, highlighting how SSDs are filling in gaps of existing storage systems when...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
When Infrastructure Really Matters, A Focus on High-End Storage
Nov 2012
This Clipper Group paper provides a pragmatic analysis about the undeniable importance of mission critical infrastructure. The DS8870, the newest member of the DS8000 enterprise storage family,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Robat-C2: Robustness Oriented Biometric Authentication Tryout on Cloud Computing
Oct 2012
Broadened service based computing in the cloud environment makes nowadays rapid computations easier. The cloud forms the structure for security and authentication mechanism which provides the...
Provided by INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE & ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
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Whitepapers
Data Distribution and Improving Disk Performance for Faster Memory Access
Apr 2012
The layout of traditional disks is optimized for file systems with large sequential access. For these sequential workloads, cost of seeks and rotational latencies are amortized on the transfer of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE)
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Whitepapers
Device Driver Fault Simulation Using KEDR
Jun 2012
The failure resilience of a system is very important for availability and reliability. The systems like servers or systems where reliability and availability is highly demanding data loss is...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Whitepapers
Current Mode Sense Amplifier for SRAM Memory
May 2012
The sense amplifier is one of the most important components of semiconductor memories used to sense stored date. This plays an important role to reduce the overall sensing delay and voltage....
Provided by IJERT - International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology
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Webcasts
Computer Peripherals and Hardware
Jan 2012
In this Webcast the presenter describes about Computer Peripherals and Hardware. The presenter also describes what peripherals and software do one need to buy with their new computer system? Why...
Provided by Videojug
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Whitepapers
Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays
Nov 2011
This Magic Quadrant represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocols. From 3Q-10...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Cloud, Appliance or Software: How to Decide Which Backup Solution is Best for Your Small or Mid-Size Organization
May 2012
Successfully backing up critical systems and data is key to disaster recovery and business continuity. Yet, Symantec's 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey revealed that only half of respondents...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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Whitepapers
When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them
May 2012
Successfully backing up critical systems and data is key to disaster recovery and business continuity. Yet, Symantec's 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey revealed that only half of respondents...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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White Papers
Design Considerations for Developing Disk File System
Dec 2011
File system design has never been a straight forward task. Moreover, designing and developing a disk file system is a complex case of file system development. From time to time, since the...
Provided by Journal of Computing
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Whitepapers
Windows Defragmenter: Not Good Enough
Apr 2012
This brief discusses how the Windows Built-in Disk Defragmenter was originally designed as a band-aid for low active systems and, although it has evolved, Diskeeper and V-locity have evolved leaps...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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Whitepapers
Running Diskeeper and V-locity on SAN Devices
Apr 2012
This brief discusses some of the myths and concerns regarding defragmentation on SAN devices. In most cases, a "standard disk defragmenter" should not be run on a SAN device, but Diskeeper and...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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White Papers
Storage for Application Consolidation*
Mar 2012
"In recent years, one common approach to cutting IT costs is to launch an application consolidation project—using virtualization to consolidate computing and storage resources in order to more...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
An Efficient Scheme for Hard Disk Integrity Check in Digital Forensics by Hashing With Combinatorial Group Testing
Feb 2011
In this paper, the authors describe the problem of checking the integrity of a hard disk for forensics investigation after the computer of a suspect has been seized. Existing solutions do not...
Provided by University of Hong Kong
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White Papers
A Performance Evaluation of Scientific I/O Workloads on Flash-Based SSDs
Aug 2009
Flash-based Solid State Disks (SSDs) are an alternative form of storage device that promises to deliver higher performance than the traditional mechanically rotating hard drives. While SSDs have...
Provided by University of Rochester
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White Papers
FIOS: A Fair, Efficient Flash I/O Scheduler
Jan 2012
Flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have the potential to eliminate the I/O bottlenecks in data-intensive applications. However, the large performance discrepancy between Flash reads and writes...
Provided by University of Rochester
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White Papers
Embedding Soft Processor Based USB Device Driver on FPGA
Sep 2011
Embedding a System on a Programmable Chip with in the constraint of available resources brings out ingenuity of a SoPC designer. The paper covers an efficient Soft processor based USB...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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White Papers
Reducing Hybrid Disk Write Latency With Flash-Backed I/O Requests
Aug 2007
One of the biggest bottlenecks in desktop-based computing is the hard disk with I/O write latency being a key contributor. I/O write latency stems from the mechanical nature of hard disks, with...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Improving Disk Array Reliability Through Expedited Scrubbing
May 2010
Disk scrubbing periodically scans the contents of a disk array to detect the presence of irrecoverable read errors and reconstitute the contents of the lost blocks using the built-in redundancy of...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Reliability Modelling of Disk Subsystems With Probabilistic Model Checking
Sep 2011
The authors discuss how probabilistic model checking, a variant of model checking, can be useful in modelling multiple failures in disk subsystems, as it allows specification of probabilities or...
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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White Papers
Design Issues for a Shingled Write Disk System
Apr 2010
If the data density of magnetic disks is to continue its current 30-50% annual growth, new recording techniques are required. Among the actively considered options, shingled writing is currently...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Self-Adjusting Two-Failure Tolerant Disk Arrays
Nov 2010
While flash and Storage Class Memory (SCM) technologies stand to replace magnetic disk technology as the mainstay for high end applications, the sheer amount of data to be stored, the attractive...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Analysis of Workload Behavior in Scientific and Historical Long-Term Data Repositories
Mar 2011
The scope of archival systems is expanding beyond cheap tertiary storage: scientific and medical data is increasingly digital, and the public has a growing desire to digitally record their...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems Via Utilization Control
Jul 2008
As disk drives become increasingly sophisticated and processing power increases, one of the most critical issues of designing modern disk systems is data reliability. Although numerous energy...
Provided by Auburn University
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Webcasts
Identity Theft: Computers and Laptops
Jan 2011
In this Webcast, the presenter gives expert video advice on: is it safe to sell an old laptop or computer? How can one prevent their laptop or computer from being stolen by identity thieves. In...
Provided by Videojug
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Whitepapers
Identifying Reliability/Stability Issues Caused by File Fragmentation
Apr 2012
Discover the most common reliability and downtime phenomena associated with fragmentation and the technical reasons behind them. Get an in-depth understanding of each of the most common...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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Webcasts
When Good Backups Go Bad
Jul 2011
This webcast addresses the top reasons backups fail, the repercussions of those failures, and why it doesn't have to be this way. Attendees will attain a broad understanding of backup and data...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
Advanced Data Recovery for Midsized Companies
Jul 2011
Midsized companies face the same pressures as larger enterprises to maintain access to critical information in order to run the business and remain competitive. Read this white paper for an...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Brings Enterprise Functionality to Mid-range Storage
Jul 2011
Find out why the Clipper Group calls the IBM Storwize V7000 "the finest unified storage available" for mid-sized datacenters. This highly-scalable, highly-functional disk system can support...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Comanche - A Compiler-Driven I/O Management System
Jan 2011
Most scientific programs have large input and output data sets that require out-of-core programming or use Virtual Memory Management (VMM). Out-of-core programming is very error-prone and tedious;...
Provided by Southeastern Louisiana University
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White Papers
On the Impact of Flash SSDs on Spatial Indexing
Jun 2010
Similarity queries are an important query type in multimedia databases. To implement these types of queries, database systems often use spatial index structures like the R-Tree. However, the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Evaluating and Repairing Write Performance on Flash Devices
Jan 2009
In the last few years NAND flash storage has become more and more popular as price per GB and capacity both improve at exponential rates. Flash memory offers significant benefits compared to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
IDC Whitepaper: Scale-out storage in the content driven enterprise
Jun 2011
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the performance scalability of the HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems powered by Intel� Xeon� processors. The HP X9000...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Long-Range Dependence at the Disk Drive Level
Nov 2008
Nowadays, the need for storage devices arises in a wide range of computer and electronic devices such as enterprise systems, personal computers, and consumer electronics. Understanding workloads...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Disk Drive Workload Captured in Logs Collected During the Field Return Incoming Test
Nov 2008
Hard disk drives returned back to Seagate undergo the Field Return Incoming Test. During the test, the available logs in disk drives are collected, if possible. These logs contain cumulative data...
Provided by Seagate Technology
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White Papers
Feasibility Regions: Exploiting Tradeoffs Between Power and Performance in Disk Drives
May 2009
Low utilization immediately suggests that placing the system into a low power mode during idle times may considerably decrease power consumption. As future workload remains largely unknown, "When"...
Provided by Seagate Technology
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White Papers
Comparing Performance of Solid State Devices and Mechanical Disks
Nov 2008
In terms of performance, solid state devices promise to be superior technology to mechanical disks. This paper investigates performance of several up-to-date high-end consumer and enterprise Flash...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
PRISM: Zooming in Persistent RAM Storage Behavior
Feb 2011
It has been foreseen that some of the roles assumed by conventional rotating Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) will migrate to Solid-State Drives (SSDs) and emerging persistent RAM storages. New persistent...
Provided by University of Pittsburgh
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Webcasts
When Good Backups Go Bad
Jul 2011
This webcast addresses the top reasons backups fail, the repercussions of those failures, and why it doesn't have to be this way. Attendees will attain a broad understanding of backup and data...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
The 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive Delivers Home Entertainment: Trends, Advances and Opportunities in the Consumer Electronics Market
Sep 2008
The DVR in particular presents a rapidly expanding market opportunity for manufacturers. Already, more than a fifth of all U.S. households utilize a DVR (such as Tivo) for recording their favorite...
Provided by Fujitsu
-
White Papers
Windows Media Load Simulator Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
Jan 2009
Intel Corporation (Intel) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to compare the performance and power of two types of disk drives when streaming Windows Media: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
OLTP Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
Jan 2009
Intel Corporation (Intel) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to compare performance and power for online transaction processing (OLTP) of two types of disk drives: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA...
Provided by Principled Technologies
-
White Papers
Improving the Mobile Experience With Solid-State Drives
Jan 2009
Intel IT is evaluating Solid-State Drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. It has initiated a Proof of Concept (PoC) study that...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
HyDrive Disk Blade Concept: The Fusion of Intel SSDs With 3.5" HDD Media
Oct 2008
Verari Systems is leading the blade storage revolution, combining industry leading, patented bladed technology with industry-standard system components to reduce storage acquisition costs along...
Provided by Verari Systems
-
White Papers
Solid-State Drives in the Enterprise: A Proof of Concept
Mar 2009
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,...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Improving BIOS Debugging Using USB 2.0 Methods: Moving Beyond POST Checkpoints
Apr 2009
The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) on modern computers, whether based on legacy BIOS standards or Unified EFI (UEFI), send debug checkpoints during the initialization and boot process....
Provided by American Megatrends
-
White Papers
Protecting Digital Assets
May 2009
Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is the safest way to protect digital assets, including both those of company as well as customers. If mobile devices such as laptops are stolen, FDE protects the...
Provided by SECUDE
-
White Papers
Dell Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives: Storage Solutions for Select PowerEdge Servers
May 2009
Dell recently introduced the industry's fastest Enterprise class storage medium, Solid State Disk Drives (SSDs) in select Power Edge servers. Solid State, the use of NAND Flash as a storage medium...
Provided by Dell
-
Whitepapers
Best Practices in Index Maintenance - Fighting the Silent Performance Killers
Aug 2009
Index fragmentation is a serious issue. It causes significant SQL Server performance issues, leading to loss of money and time. The problem is native tools alone aren't the solution to...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
-
Whitepapers
Why and How You Should Find and Fix Index Fragmentation
Aug 2009
In a high-volume database you need frequent critical maintenance. If you skip this important task, index fragmentation may cause wasted space, inefficient I/O and poor performance. In this new...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
-
White Papers
Fujitsu Introduces Full Disk Encryption
Aug 2008
Fujitsu has introduced its first Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to offer Full Disk Encryption (FDE). The MHZ-CJ series is Fujitsu's highest performing notebook HDD at 7200 RPM, with up to 320GB of storage....
Provided by Fujitsu
-
White Papers
Bringing Clarity to Hard Disk Drive Choices for Enterprise Storage Systems
Feb 2009
Technology migrations for IT organizations are often challenging. But choosing the right storage hardware technology wisely, and implementing it appropriately for a given storage application and...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
-
Whitepapers
Update to USB Driver Support on HPUX 11iv2
Apr 2009
HP is providing an update to the USB support on HP-UX 11iv2 which contains the Enhancements like USB 2.0 hi-speed (EHCI) capability at runtime, DVD write capability, Support for additional...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
White Papers
Migrating Server Storage to SSDs: Analysis of Tradeoffs
Apr 2009
Recently, flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. Provisioning server...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Windows Disk Idle Detection
Nov 2007
This paper details the infrastructure supporting disk idle detection in the Windows operating system. The Windows power manager cooperates with disk driver software to automatically spin down hard...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Dynamic Hardware Partitioning
Nov 2008
This paper provides information about dynamic hardware partitioning and the architecture that is supported by Windows Server 2008 and later versions of the Windows Server operating system. It...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
The Essentials Series: Why You Need to Defragment
Sep 2009
Authored by Microsoft MVP Greg Shields, this tech report is a call to arms for Windows administrators, reminding them why defragmenting is so important. Everyone wants better system performance...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
-
Whitepapers
Data Distribution and Improving Disk Performance for Faster Memory Access
Apr 2012
The layout of traditional disks is optimized for file systems with large sequential access. For these sequential workloads, cost of seeks and rotational latencies are amortized on the transfer of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering (IJCTE)
-
White Papers
Unprecedented System Speed and Efficiency: The NEW technology that will take you there
Dec 2009
Achieve greater system speed and efficiency than ever thought possible with a new breakthrough technology that prevents disk fragmentation before it happens. Every system, every network, every...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
-
Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array Configuration Guide for SAP Using Solid State Drives and Thin Provisioning
Dec 2009
In today's business environment, SAP customers rely on the most efficient, highest performance, and most reliable storage solutions available. There is also the need to accelerate business growth...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
White Papers
Best Practices for Eliminating Fragmentation with Modern Storage Technologies
Jan 2010
Due to the significant complexity of the software and hardware used in modern storage environments, there are many myths and misconceptions regarding the continuing need for a solution to...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
-
Whitepapers
Sharing a Printer With Your Home Media Network Hard Drive
Mar 2009
Sharing a printer across the network is as simple as plugging one's USB printer into the network hard drive. The network drive is already set up as a print server, so one can access their printer...
Provided by EMC
-
White Papers
Line Balancing in the Hard Disk Drive Process Using Simulation Techniques
Jan 2010
Simulation model is an easy way to build up models to represent real life scenarios, to identify bottlenecks and to enhance system performance. Using a valid simulation model may give several...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
-
White Papers
An Analysis of Hard Drive Energy Consumption
Oct 2008
The increasing storage capacity and necessary redundancy of data centers and other large-scale IT facilities has drawn attention to the issue of reducing the power consumption of hard drives. This...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
RE: Hard Drive Reliability and RAID 0
Jul 2008
With the advent of the RAIDFrame, High-Rely entered a unique world of which there was little comparison. The RAIDFrame currently offers RAIDPacs in either a RAID 5 configuration (recommended) or...
Provided by Highly Reliable Systems
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White Papers
Prediction of Hard Drive Failures Via Rule Discovery From AutoSupport Data
Sep 2009
The ability to accurately predict an impending hard disk failure is important for reliable storage system design. The facility provided by most hard drive manufacturers, called S.M.A.R.T....
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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White Papers
Visualizing the Pattern for Hard Disk Media Yield Prediction
Apr 2009
In a hard disk media manufacturing, engineers rely on inspection machine to generate production yield temporal data that can be used for future analysis. To proactively perform process maintenance...
Provided by Universiti Utara Malaysia
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White Papers
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters: Ideal for Low-Cost Servers and Nearline Applications
Dec 2008
With SCSI technology dwindling and Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology gaining ground, many customers question which hard drive and RAID adapter are best for their specific...
Provided by LSI
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White Papers
Mems Sugar Enabled Nano-Modeling of Elements in Hard Disk Drive System Along With Reliability Implications
Feb 2010
The paper has demonstrated the impact of developments in nanotechnology to Hard Disk Drive (HDD) technology. The paper has put forth a proposition to enhance the modeling of future storage devices...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Packing a Multidisperse System of Hard Disks in a Circular Environment
Feb 2009
This paper considers the problem of finding the densest closed packing of hard disks with proposed different radii in a circular environment, such that the radius of the circumcircle is minimal....
Provided by American Physical Society
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White Papers
Improvement of Hard Disk Drive's Arm Bending Machine Using Fuzzy Logic
Jun 2008
Hard Disk Drive's arm (HDD's arm) is one of the key elements in the HDD assembly. This element has to have the height of the arm measured from the reference be in the required range To get such...
Provided by Naresuan University
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White Papers
PID Controller Design for Following Control of Hard Disk Drive by Characteristic Ratio Assignment Method
Dec 2009
The author present PID controller design for following control of hard disk drive by characteristic ratio assignment method. The study in this paper concerns design of a PID controller which...
Provided by King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
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White Papers
Enterprise-Class Versus Desktop Class Hard Drives
Apr 2008
In today's economic landscape server system integrators are challenged to balance data and system reliability with cost. It is important to balance the type, capacity, and number of hard drives in...
Provided by Intel
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Downloads
Intel® Parallel Studio: Try it for 30 days—free.
Apr 2010
Intel® Parallel Studio brings simplified parallelism to Microsoft Visual Studio* C/C++ developers, equipping you to optimize for multicore and scale for manycore. The powerful suite also provides...
Provided by Intel Corporation
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White Papers
Why Aren't You Using MEMLIB?
Mar 2010
The concept of a RAM disk is simple: set aside an area of the computer's memory (RAM - Random Access Memory) to serve as a simulated hard disk. While hard drive speeds have increased tremendously...
Provided by INC Research
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White Papers
Disk Scrubbing Versus Intra-Disk Redundancy for High-Reliability RAID Storage Systems
Jun 2008
Two schemes proposed to cope with unrecoverable or latent media errors and enhance the reliability of RAID systems are examined. The first scheme is the established, widely used disk scrubbing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Managing Enterprise Risk With Full Disk Encryption
Mar 2006
The best and only true way to protect data at rest on desktop and laptop PCs is to use full disk encryption. Full disk encryption does not just protect files and folders; it protects all data...
Provided by GuardianEdge Technologies
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Webcasts
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Demonstration Launchpad
May 2010
This demonstration menu for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager includes an overview, expert videos, product demonstrations, and additional resources. See how this end-to-end data recovery management...
Provided by IBM
