An announcement from SWsoft just came to my attention. The company is offering a very simple way for small or medium sized organizations to deploy operating system partitioning or virtualization. It ...

Not long ago, most industrial control systems had modest software requirements — typically, a few thousand source lines of code. Today, however, an embedded control system may contain hundreds of ...

Your hard drive may appear like it doesn't have all of its space available, but its actually hidden partitions. Here's why you may need them.

At the heart of every PC is a storage drive, which stores the Microsoft Windows operating system and also contains space for your personal data, documents, photos, and applications. Regardless of ...

Partitioning, a technology used in mainframe computers, is making its way into mid- and high-end Unix systems where corporate users employ it to isolate and protect applications from each other, ...

A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like Windows ...

Partitioning. It 's a word we associate with thatcomputer architecture class we really wantedto take back in, well, never mind. Mostly,the firstthing that comes to mind is architectural partitioning — ...

When you install Windows or set up a new PC, there's usually just the C: drive that houses both system and personal files. That's been the general convention for years. It's not as if partitioning the ...

Building an optimal implementation of a system using a functional description has been an industry goal for a long time, but it has proven to be much more difficult than it sounds. The general idea is ...

Most users can let their operating system handle things from now on.

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...