Intel said a fault affecting systems that use Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory was discovered whilst fixing the first errata. The latest fault can cause some chips to occasionally report false data errors.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is to release what it claims to be its most reliable Windows NT server, based on fault-tolerant hardware from Marathon Technologies. The fault-tolerant system from Marathon, known as Endurance, has been sold as an add-on for...
The six patents HP allegedly infringed relate to EMC's TimeFinder and SRDF software for mirroring data onto different storage systems; to technology for storing data from mainframe computers; and to moving data from one storage system to another...
If so, high-value data could be stored on top-end disks, low-value data on low-end tapes, and so on. Spawned from the idea that there is more to storing data than, well, storage, the thinkers set about making it work better.
When it comes to storing data, disks just aren't enough anymore, EMC claimed this week. The maker of disk-based storage systems announced that it will resell tape-based devices from Advanced Digital Information as a way of giving customers a less...
Organisations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is cleansed from hard disks before disposal, according to BT. A study of second-hand disks by BT and universities in Australia, the UK and the US...