September 15, 2014, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Sanjay Joshi from EMC2 Isilon proposed the use of DNA for long-term archive. This assertion is supported by a number of factors including costs per bit equivalent, long-term reliability, and the growing need for archival storage. One interesting development is that the costs of DNA sequencing are…
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…
April 29, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Joel Goergen from Cisco discussed the drives for increasing the data rates for next generation Ethernet systems. The ongoing trends have to be balanced with the constraints of physics and economics to be viable. System interconnect has moved from 20 Mbps in a 2kW chassis to 25…
April 30, 2014, Ethernet Technology Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Mitch Fields from Avago Technologies described the efforts needed to drive costs out of 40/100/400 GbE optical interconnects. One of the biggest impediments to growth in the high-speed Ethernet environment is the cost of the optical interconnects. Optical networks can be incorporated into a system as chip-to-chip,…
March 3, 2014, US Flat Panel Display Connected Devices Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Paul Gagnon from NPD DisplaySearch described the trends and drivers for the variety of flat panel displays. The market is going into a period of introspection with the top issue being good enough performance versus convenience and cost. The industry has always been…
February 13, 2014, Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, UC-Berkeley, CA—Vern Paxton described work on Internet attacks and alternatives to the mostly reactive processes in place in many networks. The reactive mode is like whack-a-mole, since you don’t know when or where the next one will come out. Changing the perspective and considering the issue from…
October 24, 2013, Robo Business, Santa Clara, CA—Henrik Christensen from Georgia Tech highlighted the issues included in the 2013 US National Robotics Roadmap. The roadmap identifies the business drivers and technology applications and barriers to greater adoption. The opportunities for growth in robotics comes from the co-functions possible. Co-workers, co-infrastructure, and co-protectors are all possible….
September 19, 2013, SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Rob Rosen from Pentaho described the steps to make enterprise data warehouses more flexible by using Hadoop as a front end. The changing nature of the data calls for better ways to manage the unstructured data types. Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW) are facing a…
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA—Robert Colwell, director of the Microsystems technology office at DARPA and former Intel manager, sees the end of Dennard scaling within the next decade, resulting in Moore’s Law becoming a purely economic function. The coming end of Moore’s Law is something that the industry looks at like watching…
August 14, 2013, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Ed Dollar from Micron described the possible future of storage in the ’20 datacenter. The issues of big data and ongoing changes in hardware and software will cause the datacenter to look significantly different from what it looks like today. Data volumes and types have grown at…