In many ways, Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call. The technology many of us took for granted, such as the internet, was suddenly useless. Making matters worse, many post-disaster procedures rely on these technologies, making it difficult to determine who was missing, where to expend supplies, and where to focus rescue efforts. As IEEE global …

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Enterprise and consumer hardware has advanced in the last few years to the point that anything with moving parts becomes a significant bottleneck for data transfer. Hard disk drives (HDDs) are often the “weakest link” in serving information from a data center to the end user. In high IO environments (such as virtual desktop infrastructures), …

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