September 2012, In a briefing for VMWorld, Samsung’s Enterprise SSD group gave us an update and overview on their virtualization solution using their SSD products. As the number of users and processes increases due to the number of VMs per CPU, the queue depth for concurrent I/O requests per storage volume increases rapidly. The standard…
August 21, 2012, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Kevin Connelly from Sandisk talked about the changes in systems due to the advent of flash. After 25 years, flash is taking the PC to the next level off computing. Flash technology started in ’80 when Matsuoka at Toshiba invented the basic technology. By ’87, they had…
January 18, 2011, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA– Mike Muller, CTO at ARM talked about scaling from dimensions of a cubic millimeter to a cubic kilometer. One of the problems with predicting technology changes is that most people get it wrong. An unusual example is someone who got it right. In 1956, and…
September 18, 2012, Memcon, Santa Clara, CA—Martin Lund from Cadence presented some changes in memory structures and the drivers for change in memories. The memory industry, although mature by semiconductor standards, is still saying changes at very dramatic rates. Mobile devices are one of the big drivers for changes in memories. The cloud revolution is…
April 15, 2012, NAB Conference. We met with EVS to hear what they are doing in broadcasting. Sports and other live content is growing at a high rate. The equipment for a typical sports event must now include some high-speed cameras for the ultra slow motion that consumers demand. A soccer game might require as…
March 2016 – At GDC we had a chance to talk to Nelson Rodriguez of Akamai, who is the Sr Marketing Manager of the Game Industry practice. The gaming marketplace has a number of applications for CDN services. What comes to mind first, is managing the content for streaming games. While that is one aspect,…