EDN

Design considerations for data-storage memory back-up

Data integrity and high availability are two critical requirements of servers used in enterprise computing environments such as data centers and server farms. Government, financial, IT, and other ...
Electronic Design

Coin Cell Style Supercapacitors Provide Memory Backup For Critical Circuits

The DC Series of Coin Cell Style Supercapacitors from Illinois Capacitor provide on-board memory backup at much longer life spans than batteries. The DC Series of Coin Cell Style Supercapacitors from ...
EDN

First highly integrated power-management IC for DDR cache-memory battery backup eliminates multiple (1)

Maxim Integrated Products (PINK OTC MARKETS: MXIM) introduces the DS2731 integrated power-management IC (PMIC) for DDR cache-memory backup. This PMIC integrates a single-cell Li+ charger, ...
Ars Technica

ECC memory for backup/NAS required?

Pretty much every backup tool for both endusers and the enterprise has checksum validation, but I don't remember any of them re-checking against the original copy. Instead they use stored checksums ...