February 23, 2015, ISSCC, San Francisco—Kinam Kim from Samsung Electronics gave the first plenary talk relating developments in silicon technologies and the solutions they may provide for our data-driven lines. The developments include silicon, packaging, and small chip security for IoT. The number of connected devices already exceeds the number of people, and will continue…
April 24, 2014, Data Storage Innovations Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Gideon Senderov from NEC described an architecture for PB/hr backup and long term archive. The needs for very high volume backup will continue to increase as more sources and mobile devices generate data. A trend in data is towards more data being non-context dependent, and now…
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…
April 3, 2013, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—John D’Ambrosia from Dell and the Ethernet Alliance described the efforts to develop 400Gbps Ethernet. These efforts are the start of something that will lead to improvements for everyone. The industry is getting involved in early standards developments and research. The ecosystem of Ethernet will change to…
November 3, 2011, International Games Innovation Conference, Orange, CA–Steven Woo from Rambus talked about the challenges for memory systems in future gaming platforms. Evolutions in hardware are driving the need for more performance in al of the subsystems. Dedicated game platforms like consoles and handhelds are moving towards more general purpose functionality like PCs and…
June 22, 2011, PCI-SIG developers forum, Santa Clara, CA—Al Yanes and Ramin Neshati gave an industry-level overview of the PCI-SIG. The organization has over 800 members, many of whom are readying the release of PCI 3.0 boards and systems. 23 boards and 16 systems were submitted for evaluation at the latest workshop. The next generation…