November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hughes Metras from LETI described research results for nanotechnology optical communications. The photonics on silicon and 3-D integration in CMOS will help to address the power issues. Leti is a research organization in Grenoble, France that is working on some of the main challenges facing industry and…
November 9, 2011, Cloud Expo, Santa Clara, CA–A panel moderated by Jocelyn Graham from cloudNow looked at the issues of security in the cloud. The panel included Jill Singer from the National Reconnaissance Office, Melissa Siems from McAfee, Kristen Lovejoy from IBM, and Jamie Dos Santos from Terremark Federal Group. Singer opened with comments on…
October 27, 2011, Association for Corporate Growth, Santa Clara, CA–The Silicon Valley chapter of ACG looked at big data in a panel moderated by John Furrier of Silicon Angle. The trends in big data are being generated by the growing rate of data production and by consumers who are using these data in new ways….
We talked with Chuck Parker, executive director for the Continua Health Alliance, an organization for health care device makers. The organization recently released a new set of guidelines for personal connected health care devices. The focus of all their guidelines is on three areas; disease management, especially for monitoring in homes and at rehabilitation facilities,…
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Scott Stetzer from STEC proposed storage, system, and network designers need to develop new ideas about when, where and how to use SSDs. Fitting SSD technology to the application layer can bring new value and reduce TCO. Data centers are changing and now have to deal with…
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Glen Hawk from Micron Technology described NANDs increasing role in information gathering, search, storage, and retrieval. The various uses for NAND have changed the way we look at data. Alchemy has been much maligned over the centuries, because some of its early proponents, rather than just try…
June 28, 2011, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—a Panel looked at Storage for Content Delivery. Paul Rosenthal from CSU-LA moderated the panel. Members included Allan Ignatin from Bitspeed, Michelle Munson from Aspera, David Sallak from EMC Isilon, David Trumbo from Media Technology Market Partners, and Vivian Sultan from CSU-LA. Ignatin opened by discussing big…
June 20, 2011, Cloud Leadership Forum, Santa Clara, CA—the opening session at the Cloud Leadership Forum was a panel of IDC analysts. The panel discussed “State of Technology: A Round of Lightning Insights with IDC Analysts”. The primary issue is that the cloud is disrupting all of the IT functions by changing the context of…
June 11, 2011, Electronic Entertainment Expo—amid all of the sounds of games playing and the crowds of people waiting in lines for a chance to try out the latest hardware and software, some trends seem to appear. The world in becoming more connected and game performance seems to have hit a plateau. Everything is now…
April 5, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Fishman of EMC Corporation presented concepts of data protection in an era of shrinking time windows for data safety and recovery. Data protection is related to data availability and the ability to recover those data under any circumstances. Starting at the end, recovery is the ultimate…