October 2015 – At the Virtualize conference, organized by graphics analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, the discussion focused on the shift in requirements and architecture of the new generation of virtualized networks. Typically, VMs are used in an enterprise for standard office and transactional processing applications. The newest generation of GPUs and GPU based appliances…
October 2015 – Oracle Open World in SF featured several opening keynotes lead off by CEO Mark Hurd. Joining Mark, were CTO Larry Ellison and one of their strategic partner’s CEO, Brian Krzanich of Intel. The theme of the keynotes was the transformation of the data center and the resulting data expansion that accompanies the…
October 2015 – The lunchtime plenary session at the SF Bio Investor Forum event featured a fireside chat with BioTech investor Robert Nelsen. Robert described himself as a self-motivated investor who started his investment in projects at age 11. His key strategy today and main personal belief on investing is that science and technology matters,…
October 2015 – One of the topics at the 2015 BioInvestor Forum in San Francisco was the impact of governmental regulation and policy on the valuation of life science products being developed. The life sciences area already has a very long development cycle compared to other technologies; however, there is a proportionately long market cycle…
August 2015 – A year ago The Economist called the exodus of startups the “Cambrian explosion”. This term was used to describe what happened 540 million years ago on the planet earth when the life forms began to multiply on explosion rate. Today the same is happening due to affordable computing and tools available, but…
September 2015 – The RoboBusiness conference in San Jose took a different look at the robotics industry from the perspective of function and ROI rather than the CE view and maker community view of this is interesting to create, but does not really serve a purpose. The conference had two distinct paths. The sessions were…
October 2015 – At the Linley Processor Conference, the HAS released an update on the progress of the consortiums efforts. The consortium is making progress since their 1.0 specification release earlier this year. The CPU & GPU computing paradigm supports a memory coherency model and a memory partitioning by tasks. For realization of the specification,…
September 2015 – The Techcrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco held a fairly new population of exhibitors this year. A large number of the startups were not from the traditional “lets develop a 10 page business plan from chapter 2 of our books and raise money” like the on-line MBA courses have advocated for the…
September 2015 – The 2015 TechCrunch Disrupt event was heavily dominated by social media and mobile apps leveraging the open source and vendor library environments that are present for Linux, Windows, Android and iOS devices. The applications covered most of the sensors and interfaces in mobile devices – microphones, speakers, motion, GPS, and video. There…