May 14, 2013, Uptime Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Kevin Brown from Schneider-Electric proposed some evaluation criteria for supporting a make or buy decision for new data center capacity. The primary pieces for evaluation are cost, cash flow, and strategic factors for upgrade, build additional capacity, or outsource. Existing evaluations are based on rigid financial models and [...]
April 29, 2013, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Martin Fink from HP discussed the need for open source in cloud computing, and the issues and challenges going forward. The community-driven cloud projects are providing more than just source code. Cloud projects have been in the works at HP since ’05, and are now mainstream within [...]
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Wohler about challenges and opportunities for the industry. The market and financial systems have seen difficult years, and the company is working on increasing automation for systems operators to help in both areas. A-V monitors are moving to file-based flows, and the latest EU [...]
April 3, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Jane Li from Huawei projected the possibilities for Ethernet in the next 40 years. She offered a range of possibilities and extrapolated from current prospects and possibilities. Some trends from the present will be factors in future evolution. When Ethernet was developed 40 years ago by Bob [...]
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—David Kasik and Christopher J Senesac from Boeing described the changing nature of computer graphics at their company. Boeing has had substantial influence on the fields of computer graphics, interactive techniques, and computational geometry since 1960. Boeing is involved in a wide range of technologies from basic [...]
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA— Jules Urbach from OTOY and LightStage described some tools that can be used for both cinema and game asset creation. The converging workflows and cloud-based rendering solutions enable designers to take advantage of the increased performance available in the latest hardware. Cloud services are changing the [...]
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA— Shailendra Mathur from Avid described a new toolset that allows editors to smoothly transition their monoscopic storytelling skills to the stereoscopic format. The tools enable users to take advantage of existing assets and workflows. One goal was to preserve editing and data management functions, operational speed, [...]
February 26, 2013, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Srikanth Nadhamuni with the universal ID project in India described the efforts and challenges associated with providing unique and secure IDs to 1B people. India has many government forms and identification methods, with lots of leakage and duplications. Much of the existing ID forms exist only on paper, or [...]
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the need for protecting content from unauthorized users. Eric Ogren from the Ogren Group moderated the panel. The panel was comprised of Hussein Syed from Barnabas Health, Clain Anderson from Lenovo, and Michael Willett from Samsung. Syed opened with comments about Barnabas. They are an [...]
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—Robert Pittman, chief, information security office, Los Angeles County described their efforts in establishing trusted computing in the county. Some statistics for the county include 102,000 employees, of which 90 percent are union, and 34 departments structured into 5 clusters. The clusters are health, child services, operations, legal, [...]
