April 20, 2015, Trusted Compute Group, San Francisco—Paul Roberts from the Security Ledger talked with Amy Nelson from Dell and David Bossio from Microsoft about implementing the trusted processor modules (TPM) into products. Although the technology has been around for a while, the implementations and adoptions are still nascent. Use at Dell and programming different…
October 15, 2013, Imagination Developers Connection, San Francisco—To help designers make better software designs, here are some golden rules. The main idea is to reduce bottlenecks to reduce CPU loading, minimize internal bandwidth, and keep the CPU and GPU in sync. Understand the target devices and any changes in the internal structures within the SoC….
September 19, 2013, SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Muthukumar Murugan from HP Storage talked about big data from a storage systems perspective. The trends and issues associated with big data call for an evolution of the whole storage paradigm. The storage concerns for big data include the obvious volume of data, the…
September 19, 2013, SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Mark Seamans from FileTek described the challenges and solution elements for using an active archive to store massive quantities of data for analytics. The growth of data volume causes the datacenter to become overloaded. The big data revolution is putting tremendous pressure on IT…
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the requirements for security in networks, critical infrastructure, and in environments with BYOD. Phil Schacter from Gartner moderated the panel. Panel members included Steve Venema from Boeing, Dave Waltermire from NIST, and Phyllis Lee from NSA. Venema introduced himself as involved with government and user…
February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—A conversational encounter between Michael Singer from TabTime, Adam Stein from SAP, and Saranya Babu from Dell covered the issues with BYOD. These solutions apply to all end points and operating systems. Stein noted that BYOD requires companies to see the issues and determine how to deal with…
November 28, 2012, WIMA NFC Conference, Millbrae, CA—Marc Greenbaum from Verizon Wireless described the changing ecosystem and marketplaces for NFC functions. These applications are growing very fast and will provide exciting new capabilities that are evolving and changing roles of many institutions. The mobile industry is moving into the third age of mobility. The industry…
February 28, 2012, RSA Conference, San Francisco— Continuing the discussion of BYO Devices into a secure network, Cisco Daniel DeSantos and Nasrin Rezai from Cisco described their Sentry program. Increasing mobility brings new requirements to people, processes, and the ocean of security models. By ’15, there’ll be more than 1 billion wireless devices, and every…
February 28, 2012, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Implementing changes in security are much more difficult in today’s environment where people are bringing in their own platforms. The speakers address some of the facets of this new environment. Goran Auramov and Dan Houser presented the perspective of Cardinal Health, a healthcare and pharmaceuticals distributor. In addition to…