"For such a small device, the plastic, handheld USB flash drive can cause big security headaches. Even if you have robust end-point security and establish rigid policies about employee use of these drives, employees still find a way to copy financial reports and business plans for use at home. While other security breaches are more traceable, a flash drive is more difficult to monitor, especially after the employee leaves work ... Some security professionals suggest a radical approach to locking down USB flash drives. Sean Greene, a security consultant at Evidence Solutions, advises his clients to use a clear silicone caulk and fill every USB port on every PC to prevent USB attachments. He says the only way employees can transmit sensitive business documents is by email, a method that his clients can easily monitor ..."
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"Oracle OLAP Exadata X2-2 Performance Demonstration," an Oracle white paper, describes a performance demonstration of the OLAP Option (On-line Analytical Processing) to the Oracle Database running on an X2-2 Exadata Database Machine half rack. With a community of 50 users and each user querying the database non-stop (without waits between queries), median query times ranged from .03 to .58 seconds, and average query times ranged from .26 to 2.32 seconds, while 95 percent of queries returned in 1.5 to 5.5 seconds, depending on the type of query.
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"In the last few years we've seen advances in storage technology that have tremendous potential for IT customers. Some of these are enabled by investments made in developing flash solid-state drive (SSD) technology and adapting it to enterprise storage systems ..."
Go back to the early days of RAID and you find lots of pushback from the storage admins and upper management. "Storage Technology Adoption Is A Slow Process", the problem is that storage technology is not. These two conflicting points can cause a serious delay in adoption, especially these days in determining the value of data.
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In the absence of a Flash Archive Installation (FLAR) in Oracle Solaris 11, jbutler draws readers' attention to a set of steps that can be utilized to create re-deployable archives of installed systems. FLAR, Butler writes, was initially meant to simplify patch deployment, a notably difficult process in patching a Solaris system. FLAR allows a system administrator to patch up a system and then create an archive of it, which can be used to install subsequent systems. One side effect of this is that a full archive of the given system is created, which can be utilized to restore the system in case of catastrophic failure. In this way, many admins have utilized FLAR as an element of their disaster recovery plan. The remedy Butler cites is "How to Perform System Archival and Recovery Procedures with Oracle Solaris 11." Butler describes this document as containing " ... a set of operations which can be scripted if required. Otherwise, the manual steps described therein may be utilized as a stop-gap until some of the functionality finds its way into Solaris 11."
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