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Samsung SSDs – IDF
We talked with Ryan Smith, senior manager for SSD product marketing at Samsung about the trends and drivers in the storage industry, when we were at IDF. The standard response was drives are getting bigger and faster. In the enterprise or data center, storage selection is a function of read-write ratios, throughput, and latency. Some…
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Touch Technologies – TE Connectivity
September 2011 – Menlo Park, CA – we recently had a chance to meet with and get an update from the Elo TouchSystems group of TE Connectivity. TE Connectivity is the new name and branding for industry veteran and multi-billion dollar giant Tyco Electronics. The Elo group, has been involved with the human interface touch…
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SanDisk new applications for Flash
August 10, 2011 – San Jose, CA – San Disk took some time to overview their product growth strategies for the flash marketplace. The two major areas of growth are with embedded flash and SSDs. We had a chance to discuss the Embedded Flash marketplace with Gadi Ben-Gad of SanDisk for memory that is used…
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QCA Independence from Wires Day – 8.02.11
Aug 2, 2011 – San Jose, CA – Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) held an event to celebrate the growing marketplace of wireless and Wifi and the resulting benefits that resulr from being wireless. Qualcomm has been known as being the #1 supplier of cellular radio chips. With the addition of the Atheros products, they are now…
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Old Hollywood Meets the Future – Bikash Chatterjee
On Monday July 18, 2011 the Churchill Club sponsored an extraordinary evening of discussion on the impact of social media on Hollywood’s dyed in the wool approach to talent management. Entitled A Talent for Talent, Kara Swisher, Co-executive editor of All Things Digital moderated a conversation with Ari Emanuel, co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment,…
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IBM GBS and Connected Home
June 30, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – At the Connections conference in Santa Clara, IBM and their Global Business Services (GBS) talked about the connected home and the realities of bringing it about. Their research into to sector, shows that consumer interest is very high for the connected home, and there is a high…
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AT&T Mobility – Connections 2011
June 29, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – Glen Lurie, President of Emerging Devices at AT&T discussed the new connections for a digital life. Mr. Lurie is best known as the person who brought the iPhone to AT&T when the other carriers passed on the opportunity. Glen talked about the future where everything is connected…
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IDC Analysts Opine State of the Cloud
June 20, 2011, Cloud Leadership Forum, Santa Clara, CA—the opening session at the Cloud Leadership Forum was a panel of IDC analysts. The panel discussed “State of Technology: A Round of Lightning Insights with IDC Analysts”. The primary issue is that the cloud is disrupting all of the IT functions by changing the context of…
