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Trend Micro bolsters encryption capabilities with Mobile Armor buy
Trend Micro announced it will acquire Mobile Armor to bolster its encryption capabilities for laptops, tablet PCs and smartphones. Mobile Armor offers full disk, file, folder and removable media
NSA tool used to detect unauthorized usage of USB flash
The NSA has developed an internal tool to help government agencies track the use of unauthorized USB storage devices on their internal network; I suppose this is a good thing from a security-centric
Portable flash drives often misplaced, lost
A new survey by U.K.-based Credant has confirmed what all of us have known all along: Workers are careless with their portable storage devices. Indeed, a staggering 4,500 USB flash drives were found
New Pogoplug to support mobile devices
Cloud Engines has launched a new version of its file-sharing Pogoplug appliance that will ship by mid-December. Essentially a device server with no built-in memory, storage space is added to a
Defense Department to eventually allow limited use of flash drives
The blanket ban on the use of USB flash drives implemented by the U.S. Department of Defense last November will eventually be lifted--at least partially. Controls and measures to manage the use of
UK Ministry of Defense admits to the loss of hundreds of laptops
The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has come clean and admitted to the loss of a staggering 658 laptops and 121 USB flash drives since 2004. Only 32 of these laptops were recovered. This revelation came
Samsung, Sun joins forces to bring SSDs to servers
Samsung
and Sun Microsystems announced on Tuesday that they have co-developed a new 8
Gbit single-level-cell (SLC) flash memory for use in solid-state drives
(SSD). According to the companies,
Samsung starts mass producing 128GB SSD
Samsung
has begun mass producing 128GB solid-state drives (SSD) in both 1.8-inch and
2.5-inch versions. A 256GB version is
expected to enter production as early as later this year. Pricing for the
How to get the CFO to buy into an IT project
How does a CIO get approval for new technology projects in tight budgetary times? Greg Baker, the CFO of technology provider Logicalis, said the issue is not always money, but the ability of the CIO
Prediction: Faster USB flash drives next year
Despite
looking pretty-much the same, the fact is that USB 2.0 flash drives can be
quite different under the hood in performance and how long they can last. According to Robert L. Scheier
