http://www.silicon.com Results for firmware en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60702254p,00.htm IT organizations often struggle to efficiently manage a large number of systems while still maintaining a secure environment—and deploying hardware, firmware, and software updates in these environments can be fraught with challenges. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:22 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60690680p,00.htm This paper provides information for system manufacturers and firmware developers about firmware corruption of memory during sleep transitions. During Windows 7 development, multiple Windows-based platforms have encountered memory corruption in the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:22:39 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60690681p,00.htm The iSCSI Boot Firmware (iBF) Table (iBFT) is a block of information that contains various parameters that are useful to the iSCSI Boot process. The iBFT is the mechanism by which iBF parameter values are conveyed to the operating system. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:22:39 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60690677p,00.htm This paper briefly describes support for the Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI) in the Windows family of operating systems and includes a brief discussion of related technical issues. UEFI is the next-generation firmware model and is... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:22:39 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60690678p,00.htm This paper provides information about Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) support in Windows operating systems. Firmware and system designers can use the guidelines and requirements in this paper to ensure proper functionality of Windows operating... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:22:39 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60690674p,00.htm Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 support Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on Intel Itanium-based and x64-based platforms. This paper provides guidelines for system manufacturers and information technology (IT) administrators to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:22:39 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60690655p,00.htm BCD abstracts the underlying firmware and provides a common programming interface that can be used to manipulate the boot environment for all systems running Windows Vista or later versions of Windows. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:22:39 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60690665p,00.htm This paper provides details of the support in Windows Vista, describes how PPM works with Windows Vista power policy, provides guidelines for firmware developers and system designers, and includes details on how Windows Vista may be tuned to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:22:39 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39521540,00.htm According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, most, if not all, of the existing equipment can be upgraded to the final specification via a firmware update. The IEEE has finally approved the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:36:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60673573p,00.htm This paper describes some of the hardware and firmware security features that make the new generation of IBM System x and BladeCenter servers more secure than ever - protecting one, ones business and customers. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:22:04 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60673491p,00.htm This is helpful while someone manually suspends the CA replication, may be for XP online firmware upgrade or for some maintenance work, and does not want any software components to initiate automatic CA disk pair resynchronization, which can cause... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:22:04 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39498403,00.htm Games came pre-loaded on the current version of the device, but we made a decision to take them out of the firmware update and let people choose what games they want to have for themselves - and it made sense to do this via Marketplace," a... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:02:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60644324p,00.htm Presented within are the best practices that must be observed in performance tuning a first generation firmware (06.XX.XX.XX) and second generation firmware (07.XX.XX.XX) storage array. This paper is intended to guide MD3000 and MD3000i customers... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:20:55 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60644330p,00.htm The UEFI specification defines an interface between operating systems and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:20:55 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60642435p,00.htm The WLC manages the AP configurations and firmware. The Cisco Unified Wireless Architecture centralizes WLAN configuration and control on a device called a wireless LAN controller (WLC). This allows the WLAN to operate as an intelligent information... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:21:13 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60636783p,00.htm It provides guidelines for system manufacturers and firmware developers to expose brightness control infrastructure to Windows. This paper provides information about integrated display brightness control for the Windows family of operating systems. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:21:20 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60636785p,00.htm By following the recommendations in this paper, older devices can meet all the MB driver model requirements without changing their firmware. This paper provides information about Windows 7 support for Mobile Broadband. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:21:20 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60613039p,00.htm But, disasters may also result from random events including fires, power outages or surges, hardware failures and software/firmware errors, as well as human-caused events such as disgruntled employees or people with malicious intent looking to put... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60607950p,00.htm Only IronKey - with unique end-to-end security that extends from the Cryptochip to firmware to services - is able to deliver a complete range of anti-malware controls down to the hardware level. Conventional USB flash drives and other removable... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:19:29 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60607951p,00.htm The IronKey secure mobile data solution allows organizations to gain the productivity benefits enabled by employees using USB drives while providing an unrivalled set of malware protections that includes Malware-protected software and firmware... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:19:29 +0000