January 2015 – In preparation for the big game and playoffs in football and the on-going hockey season with the all-star game and the outdoor stadium series, we took some time to talk to Signiant about their state of their UDP file acceleration technology and their new offerings in the SaaS space for people with…
September 9, 2014, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Mike Bell from the new devices group talked about the three keys to the next generation systems—Edison, wearables, and an ecosystem to support both devices and developers. Technology-based devices are getting smarter and more easily integrated into our lives. For example, there is now a tennis racquet with…
June 24, 2014, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—A panel considered the challenges and opportunities for storage in post production. Philip Hodgetts from Intelligent Assistance moderated the panel. Panelists were Jesse Adams from EditShare, Chris Schell from Front Porch Digital, Jeff Greenwald and Shane Archiquette from HDS, Elaine Kwok from Promise Technology, Bernard Asare from…
June 24, 2014, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—Alex Grossman from Quantum described the requirements for cloud-based workflows. The industry is one of constant change that is looking for consistent steps in production. new camera formats, collaboration, and more tools are all increasing workflow complexity and making the older file-based flows incompatible with the newest…
June 24, 2014, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—Steve Canepa from IBM talked with Marty Shindler from the Shindler Perspective about reinventing IBM’s media and entertainment offerings. The changes in technologies and user expectations calls for changes in business. Canepa commented that change happens and the core services need to change over time to follow…
June 17, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—A panel of Web mavens talked about he newest tools and methodologies for making new-age media. Jan Skoglund moderated the panel and panel members were Renganathan Ramamoorthy from Google Chrome, Martin Wahl from Microsoft, Doug Stallard and Anil Kokaram from YouTube. Ramamoorthy described…
April 2014 – At NAB 2014 in Las Vegas, Avid held their annual press and customer conference that was lead by new CEO and continuing board member Louis Hernandez Jr.. The well choreographed event presented the new Avid license and product rollout model called Avid Everywhere to a standing room only crowd. Mr Hernandez gave…
May 7, 2014, Internet of Things Developers Conference, Santa Calara, CA—Kin-Yip Liu from Cavium talked about the bigger industry drivers for semiconductors. Of course, performance and power are at the top of the list, but integrated functionality is starting to matter. For example, in security functions, new issues are for transactions and access authorizations, especially…
May 1, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Scott Cassell from Comcast described the underlying trends in enterprise networks, and they are not SDN or cloud. Although the big datacenters are all moving forward to greater virtualization, the enterprise users are just trying to get work done. The significant trends impacting the enterprise network solutions…
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara,CA—Alan Weckel from the Dell’Oro Group presented an overview of the Ethernet market. Their market research covers port shipments and market forecasts for Ethernet switch and routing as well as SAN, server, and WLAN equipment markets. Service providers and small and medium business (<200 wired devices) are fairly…