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International Pavilions at NAB
April 2012 - NAB conference, as the world’s largest media and entertainment event, it draws innovative startups from all corners of the globe. Although the international suppliers are on their way to increase their global visibility, there is a high risk involved and they need support from the pavillion organizers that see opportunities and are willing to assist them on their way to being... [Read more]
Mad Catz – Rock Band 3 Pro Guitar and Midi Controllers
April 2012 - The Rock Band game packs are still being supported by Harmonics, however the hardware - guitars, drums, keyboards, etc are now being designed and made by MadCatz. We recently had a chance to test the “pro” series guitar that supports the full guitar mode - not just the 6 button interface. In this mode, you get access to all the frets and all the strings, with a button based... [Read more]
SGI launches new Xeon Platforms
May 14, 2012 - In a discussion with SGI, we discussed their new Intel Xeon platforms using the latest E5-4600 and E5-2400 chips. These are the latest in the Sandybridge architecture line for the Xeon platform and are targeted at the upper end of Shared Memory Design. The new E5-4600 chip is the hart of their high socket count board designs which when configured as a system yields up to 4096... [Read more]
Nvidia- GPU Computing now dominates content creation
April 2012 - At NAB this year, Nvidia was showing a number of new GPU applications in their booth as well as their Maximus video solution. The Maximus GPU solution is the combination of a Quadro video card and a Tesla CPU computing card in a single system. This combination allows for very high performance graphics management such as ray tracing and rendering to be done in a workstation. This... [Read more]
Level 3 VyVx Broadcast at NAB
April 2012- At NAB this year, long time broadcast partner Level 3 was showing new features of their VyVx system. The on-floor demo was highlighting the challenges and solutions for second screen access. Second screen has several solutions for VOD and archived content, but it presents several new challenges for live broadcast. At the show, Level 3 was showing live HD cameras taking a feed,... [Read more]
Oracle Enterprise in the Cloud
May 9, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - At the All About the Cloud Conference, Chris Baker from Oracle spoke about ISVs and applications being in the cloud for the enterprise. Their surveys show that 37% of companies have a private cloud in place and 21% ae using public clouds. The main observation was that, unlike projections from a few years back, the applications on the cloud are mostly new and... [Read more]
Watson in the Cloud
May 9, 2012, All About the Cloud Conference, San Francisco—Stephen Gold from IBM described next generation computers based upon recently demonstrated capabilities, such as those in the Watson system. The new systems will be instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent and will enable new ways to use data. Today, most data is unstructured. Users need to take that unstructured information and... [Read more]
New Master Cloud Architecture
May 9, 2012, All About The Cloud Conference, San Francisco—William McNee from Saugatuck Technology presented the key trends in cloud adoption. The cloud is no longer a passing fad, but an inevitability. Already there is high awareness within the IT community, and had a high adoption among the trendsetters. The early adopters are looking for big functions to drive their businesses to the next... [Read more]
Intersil releases CMOS Thunderbolt Chipset
May 2012 - With the launch of the new Intel core processors including Thunderbolt (TB) as a native interface, the availability of the connector and socket is rising. Intel identified at least 100 TB products by end of year 2012, and a quick rise in 2013. To address this market and the power constraints brought about by a molded active cable, Intersil has released a new chipset (transceiver... [Read more]
Intel IvyBridge now media centric
April 2012 - Intel announced their first launch of their new Core series microprocessors under the IvyBridge architecture and 22nm FinFet process. The new processors - 13 models of the i5 and i7 series all of which are quad core devices. These are the first processors built on the 22nm Tri-Gate 3D transistors and represtnet the current leading edge in process technology and power/performance. Several... [Read more]
