[FDE] Why aren't the likes of IBM and Intel investing in?

[Michael Jardine]

Seagate is the only company that offers FDE on notebook computers, at this
point in time.  A P-ATA version has been available since last year.  The
faster S-ATA version will be available in the March-May timeframe.  We are
signing up channels now. Be sure you get the version that has strong
authentication software.  Some OEM's will be offering it with a BIOS
password which, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of an FDE drive.

--
Regards
Michael


> From: <hummer at domeranger.com>
> Reply-To: <fde at www.xml-dev.com>
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:59:16 -0700
> To: <fde at www.xml-dev.com>
> Subject: Re: [FDE] Why aren't the likes of IBM and Intel investing in?
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> Seagate tells me that they will not have their FDE drives available to the
> channel until April or May.  Does anyone know a distributor in the U.S. that
> has an FDE drive available now?
> 
> Thanks,
> -hummer
> 
> 
> Hummer Marchand,GCIH,CISSP,
> CompTIA Security+
> ranger1 at domerangers.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fde-bounces at www.xml-dev.com [mailto:fde-bounces at www.xml-dev.com]On
> Behalf Of Saqib Ali
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:44 AM
> To: FDE at www.xml-dev.com
> Cc: rose at dwavesys.com
> Subject: [FDE] Why aren't the likes of IBM and Intel investing in
> quantumcomputing?
> 
> 
> Dr. Rose responds in his blog:
> http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/a-great-question/
> 
> I don't fully agree with the response but still a excellent read :)
> 
> If hypothesis #2, that Dr. Rose proposes, is true, it means that the
> R&D Group and New Product Initiative Group of a company are directed
> by the sales and marketing teams since they are usually in close
> contact with the customer and know what the customer wants.  (long
> sentence, watch for idea wraps)
> 
> I am sure that IBM spends a large amount of its resources on what the
> customer really wants, but I think IBM has spend a lot time and money
> on inventions that were not driven by customer demands. Some of them
> succeeded, while others failed. Those that succeeded have been
> "integrated" and commoditized (yes including cheap knockoffs) so much
> that now it is hard to see that these innovations were NOT driven by
> customer demands. IBM's work on RISC, Speech Recognition and Fractals
> comes to mind.
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