Ironkey and DR LivePC's
Submitted by Steve Litchfield on November 8, 2007 - 3:02am.
Hi
I'm very interested in the possibilities offered by LivePC. Given your recent announcement of partnering with Ironkey i'd interested to know if a LivePC running XP + Office 2003 + essential utilities such as VPN, anti-virus, firewall, etc. Would fit onto an Ironkey and if so perform effectively.
Given Ironkey has hardware encrytion which to my knowledge requires windows to work. How does this work with a bootable LivePC?
My reason for asking is that I am exploring the possiblitiy of using secure USB keys with an image as a method of offering remote working, particularly for Disaster Recovery scenarios where staff may work from their home machines.
-Steve
Ironkey and DR LivePC's
An entire environment on an IronKey works very well. We currently evangelize Ironkey for DR. They have 4Gb drives that would be ideal for a full Windows environment with all the utilities.
Sandisk also makes a model, Cruzer Enterprise and Professional that is very similar to the Ironkey.
Unfortunately, you cannot use the Ironkey or the Sandisk in a bootable environment.