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  • Power Outage Implications September 9, 2016

    Fortunately, power outages are fairly rare, often the result of damage caused by a storm or other incident damaging a power cable. When they do occur though, the consequences can cause a lot of problems, highlighted by an incident in June where Amazon’s Australian cloud services became unavailable following a power outage caused by a storm. Read more

  • Password and Data Security Reminder September 6, 2016

    Last week’s request by one of the most popular cloud storage and data sharing services, asking users who created accounts before mid-2012 should be seen as a wake-up call. Not only does it show that the possibility of security breaches, the wait of about four years before performing a password reset on those accounts should not go unnoticed. Read more

  • Targets of Ransomware August 31, 2016

    The last 12 months has seen a large increase in the number of institutes, such as universities and NHS trusts have suffered many attacks. This has been taken by some sections of the press to indicate that they are being targeted by Ransomware attacks. Read more

  • 10TB WD Gold Datacentre Drive August 24, 2016

    Last week Western Digital Corporation started shipping their highest capacity datacentre drive to date, when by adding a 10TB version of their WD Gold drive to the range. The previous highest capacity was 8TB, meaning the latest 10TB drive increases the capacity by 25% while improving the operational power efficiency by 8%. Improved reliability and faster sequential access performance are important features of the latest addition to the WD Gold range of drives. Read more

  • New Disk Tracking Servo Research Proposal August 17, 2016

    Last month researchers announced a proposal which is being evaluated, which could significantly improve both the data density and performance of hard disk drives based on this technique. It proposes storing the servo tracking bits on a separate layer, allowing a higher data density and improved tracking of the read/write heads, which would improve performance of the drive. Read more

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