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 22, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—David Chapa from E Vault talked about some of the challenges facing IT managers with multiple data sites and configurations. Protection and recovery can be administered as a single entity independent of the data locations. One issue is how to define a cloud infrastructure. As virtualization…
April 23, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Wayne Adams and David Dale from the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) provided an update on the association’s latest activities. The organization continues to provide leadership and guidance to the storage industry. Among their latest achievements are a cloud interoperability conformance test program to complement the…
March 2014 – Broadcom held a briefing on their new microprocessor offerings for the IT and networking marketplace at their headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. As companies shift from in-house networking to using the cloud for both computation and storage, the bottlenecks and challenges that have historically taken place inside the company are now shifting…
February 10, 2014, ISSCC, San Francisco—Ming-Kai Tsai from MediaTek presented his vision of the next generation cloud and how it will call for new technology to overcome the many challenges. Cloud 1.0 has seen the construction of major infrastructures, and now we will soon see how this system of systems will evolve. Taiwan has changed…
September 24, 2013, IEEE SCV CESoc, Santa Clara, CA—Shane Dyer from Arrayent talked about developing products that can do their functions and not have some type of computer interface. This issue is becoming increasingly important as we approach the Internet of Things that are all on line and connected. Many new non-computer product categories are…
September 18, 2013, Storage Developer Coference, Santa Clara, CA—Gerald Carter, EMC-Isilon compared and contrasted platforms as a service and the Newton tablet from Apple. The challenges facing PaaS are similar to those facing the Newton. The problem for Apple was that the Newton was too early for the technology and markets. The technology limits for…
September 16, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Stuart Berman from Jeda Networks talked about the software-defined network and its impact on the future of storage. The emerging cloud model with resource pooling, dynamic allocation of resources, multi-tenant, software deployment, automation, and management is creating new requirements in economics, speed and scalability. Enterprise data centers…
July 24, 2013, Siggraph, Anaheim, CA—John Peddie from JP Research provided a market overview and held a panel discussion on the democratization of CG tools. One difficulty for the industry is that the Siggraph conference is declining over the past decade, for both exhibitors and attendees. At the same time, the value of CG apps…
June 19, 2013, Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, SPMTE and SCIEN conference, Stanford, CA—A group of experts considered the issues of achieving quality on the Internet. Joyce Farrell chaired the group, which consisted of Scott Daly from Dolby, John Apostolopoulos from Cisco, and Sunil Bharitkar from Dolby. Apostolopoulos noted the advances in Web media…