September 19, 2013, SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Molly Rector from SpectraLogic discussed the changing nature of knowledge workers and how they are affecting technology choices. Data is not just historical content, but is now helping to predict future activities. One technology trend is the growing overlap of high-performance computing and enterprise…
September 18, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Peter Murray from SwiftTest suggested that IOPs is not a good metric for characterizing and testing storage performance. The problem is that this measurement doesn’t acknowledge the contributions of the other systems components to storage performance. Storage performance validation has evolved from blind reliance on vendor claims,…
September 16, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Mahadev Gaonkar from iGate detailed the requirements for scalable storage. The big data and software-defined everything drivers call for agility and flexibility. Scale-out NAS approaches start with no metadata. The approach uses consistent hashing (e.g.. MD5 algorithm) for distribution and look-up of files in the cluster. By…
June 18, 2013, Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, SPMTE and SCIEN conference, Stanford, CA—A panel took on the topic of new tools and concepts for the Internet. The program chair and moderator was Fred Fuchs from Riverside Entertainment. Speakers were Ann Greenberg from Sceneplay, Peter Hirshberg from Entrepreneur Marketing, and Carl Rosendahl from Carnegie…
May 17, 2013, Music Meets Science Forum, SwissNex, San Francisco—Peter DiMaria and Ching-Wei Chen from Gracenote described their efforts in aiding discovery through music metadata and automated analysis tools. The company’s approach is to provide a sonic mood and curation service. The challenges of discovery are in the numbers. There are over 10M songs available,…
June 2012 – At the 2012 Creative Storage Conference, we had a chance to talk to Molly Rector of Spectra about their media oriented tape solution. They started in the Media and Entertainment sector in the 1990’s with Sony AIT tape. In 2003, they moved to LTO tape and are now supporting LTO5 storage with…
March 2, 2011, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco–one session here at GDC looked at “data management for modern game pipelines” as a way to improve game development time. Mathieu Mazzerolle and Alexandre Jean Claud from Autodesk looked at existing workflows and helped to create new flows and tools for game development. Many development systems are…
August 3, 2010, Culver City, CA, 2010 creative storage conference opened with a session on “Content Capture: Many Cameras, Many Effects, Many Storage Devices”. The transition from film to digital in movie making is driving requirements for storage, especially high definition video, to increase dramatically in volume. The panel, moderated by Pallab Chatterjee, CTO at…