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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month, or NCSAM, was created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance in 2003. Since then, it has become an annual reminder of the very real threats of data breach, and the importance of...
Data Security and Removable Media Policies
Data security is the primary motivation that leads most of our customers to design CRU removable drives into their computing infrastructure and workflows. (BTW, when people use the term ‘removable drives’ or ‘removable media’, that also can include external hard...
Disaster Underscores the Need for Removability
Here in the Pacific Northwest, wildfires have choked the skies with impenetrable clouds of smoke that hide the sun and makes it difficult to breathe. Thousands of people have been displaced, and it’s caused businesses large and small to temporarily close. Over the...
Interoperable and Built for Anything
Four years ago Apple killed the SD card slot in its MacBook Pro laptop, much to the outrage of many professional photographers. Why were the shutterbugs mad? Because the SD card is a convenient, small, and ubiquitous standard for raw photos and videos. You’ll find it...
Removable Storage Is Critical to a Variety of Applications
Last week’s blog post mentioned how some Department of Defense agencies utilize removable storage in their advanced flight scenarios. Many people might not have considered how beneficial removable storage is in a situation like that, which got us thinking: what are...
The Importance of Military IT
The Department of Defense (DoD) is responsible for a massive operation of personnel, equipment, vehicles, and more. I use the word “massive,” but it doesn’t even begin to describe the scale of the work that they do. The DoD budget is $716 billion, or 3.1% of the U.S....
Why the Military Relies on Removable Storage to Protect Against Data Breach
Garmin, the tech company famous for making everything from GPS devices to wristwatches, was hit by a major cyberattack on July 23. As you may have heard, this data breach interrupted their services and stalled many of their products in the field. A few weeks later it...
Removable Storage is the Fastest Way to Move Data
Your data quickly adds up If you work in government, enterprise, or you're a creative professional, chances are you know how quickly you accumulate data. When it comes to managing and moving those terabytes and terabytes, there’s only one way that ensures the highest...
Removable NVMe SSD Storage: Technical Considerations
Over the past couple of months, we’ve hosted webinars that discuss our recently announced Secure High Performance Storage (SHIPS) platform. The SHIPS platform is an ecosystem of removable PCIe storage devices that can be implemented across a variety of systems from...