March 2013 – Following CES, we had the chance to test the Lantronix xPrintServer home Edition. The device is a simple to connect print server that does not require any apps or software to allow mobile devices (those with iOS and MacOS) to print on existing USB and network printers. Lantronix xPrintServer Home Edtiion The…
November 2012 – In an invited keynote at the Server Design Summit, industry icon Andy Bechtolsheim, now of Arista Networks, gave a presentation on the direction and challenges involved with next generation data center networks. The performance improvements for CPU has gone up 64x the pas 12 years, while network bandwidth and performance has only…
October 2012 – At the Linley networking and processor event, we had a chance to meet with Micron Technologies and discuss their high performance Networking DRAM solutions. These memories feature a reduced latency for fast random access, based on using a different internal design than from standard DRAM. The turnaround time on a data access…
February 29, 2012, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Christopher Young from Cisco described the security focus at Cisco. The changing nature of the various networks means that Cisco is in the middle of the disruption. Now, they have to solve today’s and tomorrow’s security challenges. First some statistics: 70 percent of all users break IT policies; 1…
November 3, 2011, International Gaming, Innovation Conference, Orange, CA–William Fisher from Quicksilver Software and Yehuda Hahn from SanDisk discussed a new standard for caching data to change the experience for mobile users. This standard will change the network loading profile and reduce congestion at peak times. The challenge is to address the mobile users’ experience,…
October 5, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–Eric Bruno from Verizon Communications described the intersection of mobile devices and the cloud and how it is changing the network as a platform for media delivery. Revolutionary changes are happening in the consumption space. Now there are many very intelligent connected devices and they are all connected through…
October 5, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The Linley Processor conference recently focused on new architectures and trends for network data processing. As video and multimedia have become more pervasive in all aspects of networking – wireless, content delivery, cloud storage & processing, and data center core applications. The larger data sized of this…
August 24, 2011, Hot Interconnects 19, Santa Clara, CA—Greg Papadopoulos, venture partner at New Enterprise Associates and former CTO of Sun Microsystems talked about “The Computer That is The Network: The Future History of Big Systems”. Hot interconnect 19 2011 We are in the midst of a revolution where the cost to connect drops…
IBM Blue Gene Q August 24, 2011, Hot Interconnects 19, Santa Clara, CA—Philip Heidelberger from IBM described the interconnection and message unit of the latest IBM supercomputer, Blue Gene Q. This machine is currently a R&D project, but will become the third generation of massively parallel computers for large scale scientific and analytic applications. The…