Gartner defines mobile data protection (MDP) products and services as software security methods that enforce confidentiality policies by encrypting data, and then defending access to that encrypted data on the primary and secondary storage systems of end-user workstations. These storage systems include the primary boot drive of a workstation and removable devices used for portability. Storage t...

The storage requirements of today’s organizations are exploding. As computers continue to escalate in processing power, applications grow in complexity and data files grow in size and in number. As a result, organizations are forced to procure more and more megabytes of storage space. This paper focuses on how to expand the storage capacity of a very large database (VLDB) cost-effectively withi...

Fault tolerance and reliability of distributed systems is often achieved through checkpoint / restart mechanisms. Checkpointing frequency and restart delay crucially depend on data throughput and access performance of the storage medium. In this paper we discuss the opportunity to achieve subsecond checkpointing frequencies and restart delays by substituting magnetic hard disk storage with soli...