Decru
Decru, headquartered in Redwood City, CA, develops
storage security
solutions to address a range of business needs for enterprises and government,
including intellectual property protection, regulatory compliance, privacy, and
internal controls. All Decru DataFort appliances combine secure access controls,
authentication, storage encryption, and secure logging to provide unprecedented
protection for sensitive stored data. By locking down stored data with strong
encryption and routing all access through secure hardware, DataFort radically
simplifies the security model for networked storage. Decru DataFort appliances
can be deployed transparently in
SAN, NAS, DAS and tape
backup environments, with no changes to servers, desktops, applications, or user
workflow. Decru was founded in 2001, and has raised more than $45 million in
venture financing from Benchmark Capital, Greylock, New Enterprise Associates,
In-Q-Tel and others.
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| Are MLC SSDs Safe
in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This follow up
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
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