April 8, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Wayne Adams from the SNIA talked about the various activities and functions that the organization is pursuing. The Storage Networking Industry Association works to promulgate the latest technologies and capabilities in storage networks. The organization works on technical papers, services, best practices, standards, conformance programs, templates,…
April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Gideon Senderov from NEC talked about data protection and restoration from the perspective of the recovery techniques. In general, restoration techniques are developed to provide data protection based on the ability to recover those data. The SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) has some papers and templates…
April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovations Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Rubin Mohan from HP and Craig Carlson from QLogic talked about the next-generation of low latency SAN. They described the various components and aspects of storage performance and how those factors affect latency. Everyone is at least vaguely familiar with the basic performance measurements. IOPS is…
April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Dennis Martin from Demartek described the evolving storage networks. As data volumes grow, the underlying servers and storage have to grow to accommodate the larger data flows. In general, servers are improving to address the needs for higher bandwidth and more virtualization. The larger number of…
April 7, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Lance Broel from DDN Storage talked about managing and storing massive quantities of data. This new type of storage capability requires a change from blocks and files to object storage. One growing challenge is to manage the increasing volumes of newly generated data. Much of these…
March 19, 2015, Milpitas, CA— Tom Eby, Vice President of Micron’s Compute and Networking Business Unit introduced the newest addition to its Global Customer Labs. The lab in Milpitas is designed to support local users in applying various memory technologies. One driver is the growing amounts and types of memories in all areas. The amount…
March 19, 2015, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Dennis Adams from Sony Creative Software advocates the move to OpenCL for video editing tools. OpenCL is an open standard API for cross-vendor, cross platform work focused on mostly highly parallel processing. Sony sells many video edit tools like Vegas Pro and others. They added capabilities for…
March 19, 2015, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Thad Beier from Dolby talked about the coming changes in the video landscape to move towards higher dynamic range for the displays. The advent of 4k or ultra-high definition TV sets requires more than just increasing the number pixels, but needs more dynamic range and color gamut….
March 19, 2015, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Jeff Brue from Open Drives described the work in developing and implementing a native 6k workflow. Part of the effort is to anticipate the eventual move to 8k and the balance is to get more out of their infrastructure. The primary motivation was to bring effects closer…
March 17, 2014, at GTC, San Jose, CA—Dan O’Farrell from Dell introduced the Dell Precision Appliance for Wyse virtual workstation. This end-end offering provides a virtual desktop that provides workstation users an alternative to dedicated workstations for graphics-heavy workloads. The virtual workstations use Dell workstation designs from the Precision product line with dedicated GPU pass-through…