June 2016 – A number of the Intel employees were challenged at being in locations where file collaboration and secure communication became a problem when in offsite locations, traveling, and even in a diversity of buildings in their own company. The system has a standard dedicated PC running Windows 7,8,or 10 that is just a…
March 2016 – At the RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco, Deep Instinct was showing their new cybersecurity system that is built around an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine. The AI system in place is a deep learning neural network methodology that self learns about malware and threats in an enterprise. The product was developed…
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…
April 2014 – At the 2014 NAB show in Las Vegas, Digital Nirvana was showing there latest hardware and service offering. Their two highlights for new products were MediaPro and FIFOPro. MediaPro is a content repurposing system and FIFOPro is a new tapeless ingest backup system Since 1996, Digital Nirvana has focused on the data…
April 22, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Mark McKinnon from Grand River Conservation Authority in Canada described the changes in their systems to address the data backup issues of TB-sized volumes. Fortunately, the systems change was coincident with a network upgrade. The Grand River Conservation Authority is responsible for flood control, recreation, nature…
September 18, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Peter Murray from SwiftTest suggested that IOPs is not a good metric for characterizing and testing storage performance. The problem is that this measurement doesn’t acknowledge the contributions of the other systems components to storage performance. Storage performance validation has evolved from blind reliance on vendor claims,…