Since the dawn of civilization, the computing bottleneck has been the tawdry I/O relationship between disk drives and RAM (random access memory). The emergence of SSDs (solid state drives) loosened ...

We have written in the past about the uses of memory and storage in data movement and in AI applications. This piece will talk about digital distribution technology and the role of content caching ...

Virtual directories are touted for their flexibility, but the technology isn’t known for its speed. A virtual directory adds an extra layer of software and intermediate TCP/IP hop. Factor in the ...

A disk or memory cache that supports writing. Data normally written to memory or to disk by the CPU is first written into the cache. During idle machine cycles, the data are written from the cache ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Intel Corp. on Monday rolled out a new Xeon processor for ...

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Note: The following post is a guest blog submitted to Microsoft Subnet by a security expert who wished to remain anonymous. Joanna Rutkowska recently released her new security whitepaper and exploit ...