Water Resistant Smartphones - An In-Depth Overview
Many moons ago, I was once the proud owner of the humble Nokia 3310. All was well, until one particularly cold British day on the Swanage coast, where it slipped out of my hands and into the sea. I...
Overview of 'Wear Leveling' With SSD Controllers
Wear leveling - what is it? Wear leveling is a technique that some SSD controllers use to increase the lifetime of the memory. The principle is simple: evenly distribute writing on all blocks of a...
Questionable Future for the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) (Part 2)
In the first part of this article we described the evolution of the hard disk technologies, now we will discuss the future technologies of HDD. A new PMR- (perpendicular magnetic recording) based HDD...
Hyper-Converged and Software-Defined Storage Focus on Hardware
Modern information technology in business is subject to constant change. Not only the growing flood of data, but also the increasing demands of fast access to information and instant communication...
Leveraging Virtualization for Business Continuity
Many organizations report that they are improving their disaster recovery capabilities, and that their confidence in being prepared for a disaster has increased. Still, there is much work to do to...
The Challenges of Exchange Migration
To upgrade or not to upgrade… System upgrades, whether we like them or not, are a necessary part of our technological world. However, in an effort to save costs, many organizations hold back from...