IT Professionals Database (ITPD)

hawkeyeMI writes "I have a small scientific services company, and we end up generating fairly large datasets (2-3 TB) for each customer.

Schneier has a blog piece about Joanna Rutkowska's "evil maid" attack, demonstrated earlier this month against TrueCrypt.

Life2Death writes "I've been working with computers for a long time, and every once and a while someone close to me has a drive go belly up on them.

In a recent blog post, CNet's Jon Oitsik has called for a policy shift with respect to data encryption.

ALF-nl writes "A forensics expert claims that wiping your hard drives with just one pass already makes it next to impossible to recover the data with an electron microscope." But that's not accounting

An anonymous reader writes "Not even data recovery companies will accept The Great Zero Challenge and only four months remain!

As data moves into the cloud, many storage companies are evaluating their use of memory in the data center as they try to strike a balance between easily accessible cache memory powered by flash and

prostoalex writes "Several companies have announced solid state hard drives in excess of one terrabyte in size. ComputerWorld describes one from BitMicro that's just 3.5".