June 12, 2013, E3, Los Angeles—IDC and App Annie presented a panel on the future of mobile and portable gaming at the conference. Louis Bedford from IDC moderated the panel and provided some background statistics. Panel members were: Bertran Schmitt from App Annie, Bill Rehbuck from Nvidia, Chris Early from Ubisoft, Kelly Malone from Microsoft,…
May 14, 2013, Uptime Institute Symposium, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Lawrence from 451 Research evaluated trends and drivers to consider which ones will be significant over the next 5-20 years. The difficulty is taking such a long-term focus is that the technologies can change very dramatically even within the lower-end of the range. To demonstrate this…
April 29, 2013, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—A panel moderated by Kara Sprague from McKinsey and Co looked at various issues around movement to the cloud, either public or private. Panel members included John Mathon from WSO2, Ram Peddibhotla from Intel, Jim Wasko from IBM, and Peter Yared from CBS Interactive. Where is the…
April 29, 2013, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Martin Fink from HP discussed the need for open source in cloud computing, and the issues and challenges going forward. The community-driven cloud projects are providing more than just source code. Cloud projects have been in the works at HP since ’05, and are now mainstream within…
April 9, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Dell about their two new product offerings, a cloud-based creation environment and a performance optimization tool. Dell Create is a multi-vendor cloud for content creators. This new professional service is a centralized IT environment with custom packages for content creation. The service and consulting…
March 2013 – At GDC 2013, we met with Stefano Corazza CEO of Maxiamo (http://www.mixamo.com/ ) which has brought a new dimension to character design and rigging to the game development community. Their cloud based service utilizes standard and custom 3D character generation complete with rigging for motion, going into the games and animation. Starting…
February 18, 2013, ISSCC, San Francisco—Yoshiyuki Miyabe from Panasonic suggested some smart life solutions from home to city in his plenary talk. He noted the directions of all electronics is moving towards more consumer-based functions, and the challenges for the industry to get to 2030. Energy is becoming an important limiter for growth in many…
January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Mark Peters from the Enterprise Strategy Group reviewed the storage trends and drivers in the non-volatile spaces. Overall, the increases in e-mail-like communications and analytics are the key drivers for increasing storage. The dynamic hierarchies are aided by the changing underlying software. The hardware technologies and…
October 29, 2012 – In San Francisco, AMD held a press conference announcing thier licensing of the ARM 64 bit core IP to be part of the Opteron product line. Planned to initial introduction in 2014, the ARM architecture is to be a supplemental tool in their server solution space. AMD x86 ARM Opteron Architecture…
November 2012, At this year’s Samsung CIO Conference, held in San Jose, the focus was on the global issues of ubiquitous connectivity through data centers and service providers in an environment that is constrained by the universal resources of power and pollution. The event open with an intro from SJ mayor Chuck Reed who was…