February, 24, 2012. Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Becky Swain from the Cloud Security Alliance offered five questions people should get answers for when evaluating cloud providers and their security. The responses are based on work the CSA has been doing on standards and governance. The full guidance document comprises177 pages, and only covers general [...]

 February 14, 2012, cloud connect conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jan Jackman from IBM talked about going to market and the value chain ecosystem. The cloud offers potential for great opportunities for change and business practice improvements, but can also become a black hole. A recent internal IBM survey found that involvement with cloud infrastructure enhances the [...]

 February 14, 2012, Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Bill Gillis, director of eHealth Technologies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center described the challenges of data privacy in a cloud environment. The medical center consists of 1500 physicians in 300 separate practices in Massachusetts. When they created a new data center, they needed it to be [...]

 February 14, 2012, Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Geva Perry from Thinking Out Cloud talk about the adoption rate of cloud functions. Cloud services and functions are being widely adopted, and finally the data reflects actual usage. He noted that most analyses and surveys are based on executive inputs, rather than users. In fact, most [...]

 February 14, 2012, Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jesse Robbins from OpSource described the efforts and requirements to operate in the cloud at scale. The systems need to be robust, and the operators need to be prepared for failures. As operations and software grow in scale, all aspects of the operations increase in complexity, and [...]

 February 7, 2012, Santa Clara, CA – At the Linley Data Center Conference both systems and chip suppliers were disucussing the new directions in data centers and cloud service configurations. As the mix of content that is on the internet changes, so does the optimization of the hardware to deliver that content. In the general [...]

 February 2012 – At the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, Marvell introduced their new LED dimmer and bulb control ICs. These devices bring not only a new capability but new price point for residential and commercial lamps. Following the keynote from Soul Semiconductor, a manufacturer of LEDs for lighting, the growth of the [...]

January 2012, In a recent discussion with Kevin Burbank, director of marketing, Enterprise Storage Division (ESD), and Brad Craig, manager product marketing, ESD of PMC we had the opportunity to get an overview of their new enterprise class storage controllers for the SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) marketplace which increased the data rates up to 12Gbps. [...]

 January 2012. Anaheim, CA – a major component of the NAMM show was the expansion of home and personal studio recording and playback technology. The prevalence os distributed computing (in smart phones, tablets, laptops and embedded in devices) has now brought the location of these recording devices from the dedicated studio to the home, local [...]

January 2012. Anaheim, CA – Tascam, a division of TEAC America, lead the press conference with the announcement of the partnership with Onkyo and the integration of their products and channel. They also introduced several products in two classes – the prosumer/professional performer and the mobile musician. On the Prosumer side, they introduced thier new [...]