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Fragmentation and Encryption to Enforce Privacy in Data Storage
White Papers This paper addresses this problem and proposes a solution to enforce privacy over data collections by combining data fragmentation with encryption. The idea behind the approach is to use encryption as an underlying measure for making data...
[February 4, 2009, 23:00]
Fragmentation good for the user, says Nokia
Blog Fragmentation within mobile platforms helps handset manufacturers and software developers to properly address customers' needs, a senior Nokia executive has said. Sebastian Nystrom, the vice president of Nokia Qt Software, said on Tuesday that...
[September 15, 2009, 15:58]
The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 1
White Papers There are many common misunderstandings leading to operational inefficiencies when it comes to the management of disk fragmentation and defragmentation. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation will help IT professionals, analysts, and...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
Media Drives and Fragmentation
White Papers Disk fragmentation is a process whereby files are constantly being broken into multiple pieces, so that they will fit into available spaces on a drive. From the tests it conducted as described in this report, it is convinced that drive...
[January 19, 2007, 0:00]
The Impact of Disk Fragmentation on Servers
White Papers Get the inside data on how fragmentation affects SQL and Exchange operations. "Every application that touches the hard drive will benefit from a good tool that defragments and manages the files on your servers.
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation
White Papers Fragmentation results in significant money and time drain on IT resources. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation helps IT professionals, analysts, and engineers understand the benefit of an automatic hands free disk defragmentation...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
Gauging the Impact of Fragmentation
White Papers Looking for an accurate way to measure fragmentation on your systems? This white paper has clear step-by-step instructions that can tell if your volumes are standing up to fragmentation or if your performance is deteriorating.
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
Does fragmentation affect SANs, NAS, and RAID?
White Papers The perception that fragmentation does not affect SANs, NAS, and RAID is incorrect. Disk arrays improve I/O performance, but they aren't invulnerable to fragmentation. This white paper explains the relationship between the logical disk with which...
[April 24, 2008, 13:41]
Identifying Common Reliability/Stability Problems Caused by File Fragmentation
White Papers Sure, disk fragmentation affects system performancebut do you know why and how? As the author of Diskeeper®, the Number One Automatic Defragmenter, Diskeeper Corporation has spent countless hours researching the causes and consequences of disk...
[April 24, 2008, 13:41]
The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 2
White Papers There are many common misunderstandings leading to operational inefficiencies when it comes to the management of disk fragmentation and defragmentation. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation will help IT professionals, analysts, and...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
Avoiding the IP Fragmentation Process at the Application Layer of the OSI Reference Model
White Papers The modern recommendations regarding the IP fragmentation process is to avoid it. There are different possibilities regarding the OSI model layers to implement logic for avoiding fragmentation. The present study describes some considerations about...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
How File Fragmentation Occurs on Windows XP / Windows Server 2003
White Papers A while ago there was a little research project to find out exactly how fragmentation occurs on Windows XP. It was sparked by some users at a past trade show that mentioned that having all the free space defragmented prevented newly-created files...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
More from Google on Android's 'non-fragmentation agreement'
Blog Just got a quote back from Rich Miner, "Member of Technical Staff, Google", about that non-fragmentation agreement that Google had all the members of the Open Handset Alliance sign to make sure that Android's code doesn't go forking off all over...
[November 13, 2007, 10:02]
Symbian: Mobile Linux 'fragmentation city'
News Speaking at the Mobility Summit in London on Monday, Andrew Moran said that mobile Linux was "fragmentation city" and "completely unfeasible". Enterprises will not adopt mobile Linux because it is too fragmented, according to Symbian's head of...
[July 2, 2007, 16:46]
Avoiding IP Fragmentation at the Transport Layer of the OSI Reference Model
White Papers One of the factors determining the transit delays is the presence of fragmentation and reassembly of the IP datagrams. The modern recommendations regarding the IP fragmentation process is to avoid it.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
The Effects of Disk Fragmentation on System Reliability Technical White Paper
White Papers This white paper addresses the impact of disk fragmentation on system reliability. In short, disk fragmentation decreases system reliability, in some cases rendering a system unstable or provoking errors in operation.
[July 3, 2007, 8:21]
The Impact of Disk Fragmentation
White Papers This white paper discloses how disk fragmentation slows web surfing. The paper, written for Windows IT Professional Magazine by monitoring and security software expert Joe Kinsella, reveals that fragmentation can have a severe impact -- tripling...
[July 3, 2007, 8:19]
Doubts raised over Android fragmentation
News People have been predicting the success of open source for some time [but] fragmentation is easy, and integration is hard. Google claimed in November last year that it had made members of the OHA sign a non-fragmentation agreement, in which they...
[June 12, 2008, 15:05]
Why and How You Should Find and Fix Index Fragmentation
White Papers If you skip this important task, index fragmentation may cause wasted space, inefficient I/O and poor performance. In this new Quest Software white paper, learn exactly what index fragmentation is, how it occurs, how to find it and what to do to...
[October 22, 2009, 14:35]
Link-Layer Fragmentation and Retransmission Impact on TCP Performance in 802.11-Based Networks
White Papers The focus of this work is mainly on the effect of the fragmentation and frames retransmission handled at the MAC layer on the TCP end-to-end performance. The objective of this paper is to examine the behavior of TCP in 802.11-based networks.
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
