April 29, 2013, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—A panel moderated by Kara Sprague from McKinsey and Co looked at various issues around movement to the cloud, either public or private. Panel members included John Mathon from WSO2, Ram Peddibhotla from Intel, Jim Wasko from IBM, and Peter Yared from CBS Interactive. Where is the [...]
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Ross Video about their latest product releases. The inception of social media is changing the nature of broadcast, and the underlying equipment has to change to meet the new requirements. Social polling is showing trends and history in many areas. The analytics and visualizations [...]
April 9, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Dell about their two new product offerings, a cloud-based creation environment and a performance optimization tool. Dell Create is a multi-vendor cloud for content creators. This new professional service is a centralized IT environment with custom packages for content creation. The service and consulting [...]
April 2, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—The opening of the summit looked at the emergence of software-defined networks (SDN) and the relationship to OpenFlow. Craig Matsumoto from Light Reading chaired the session. The emergence of SDN is a transforming force that is evolving to real use and investments. The overlay of OpenFlow offers [...]
March 27, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with IncrediBuild about their acceleration platform for software developers. They have the technology to improve Make and Build cycles through sharing of CPU cycles in game development and other vertical markets. By using the Net and parallelism, they emulate a high performance compute network. Most of [...]
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—A panel considered the implications of advanced persistent threats (APT) with respect to the NIST 800-147 and -155 standards. Paul Roberts from The Security Ledger moderated the panel. Members were; Frank Molsberry from Dell, Stacy Cannady from Digital Management, Sunil Gottumukka from Microsoft, and Robert Thibadeau from Wave [...]
February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—Ben Bajarin from Creative Strategies looked at the state of tablets in the enterprise. The number of tablets appearing in the workplace is tracking the total sales of tablets. Some are company issued, and others are BYOD. Tablets are reshaping the face of computing in business, enterprises, and [...]
February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—A panel discussed the growing number of tablets in the workplace. David Needle from TabTimes moderated the panel, which included Tom Gonser from DocuSign, Sean Ginevan from Mobile Iron, and Jared Hansen from Breezy. Use cases for tablets? Gonser offered in-office fidelity in a split screen mode. The [...]
February 14, 2013, EECS, University of California, Berkeley—The annual EECS status update focused on cloud and computer-based functions, and David Patterson showed how modern data management and analytic tools can help in the fight against cancer. His talk ” Cancer Tumor Genomics: Fighting the Big C with the Big D” opened the potential for better [...]
