Data and programs are stored in main memory, as random access memory (RAM), before and after processing by the central processing unit (CPU). However, RAM is volatile —its contents disappear when a computer's power is turned off. So what...

A data storage device is a device for recording (storing) information (data). Recording can be done using virtually any form of energy, spanning from manual muscle power in handwriting, to acoustic vibrations in phonographic recording, to...

This paper is intended to help buyers invest in storage system components today - even though they are faced with the absolute fact that many of these components will be outdated by 2000. The operative questions concern how many generations of drives and...

With 45 percent of the world's hard disk drives being manufactured in Singapore, the data storage industry plays a significant role there. In his keynote address to attendees and exhibitors at the second annual REPLItech Asia in Singapore, October 22-24, Dr. Low...

A data storage device with the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a state intern's car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday."I don't mean to alarm people unnecessarily," Strickland said. "There's no reason to...

Officials with the contractor that runs Los Alamos National Laboratory sent top-secret data regarding nuclear weapons through open e-mail networks, the latest potentially dangerous security breach to come to light at the birthplace of the atomic bomb, two congressmen said.The breach was investigated by the...