September 10, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Diane Bryant from Intel talked about Intel’s support for the datacenter and connected systems. The transformation in the IT areas is changing the category from a support for the business to a major part of the business. The IT space has morphed from corporate center in the ’90’s,…
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the requirements for security in networks, critical infrastructure, and in environments with BYOD. Phil Schacter from Gartner moderated the panel. Panel members included Steve Venema from Boeing, Dave Waltermire from NIST, and Phyllis Lee from NSA. Venema introduced himself as involved with government and user…
February 23, 2012, Berkeley, CA – At the Berkeley Engineering research conference (BEARS2012) there was a breakout session from the BWRC group on the advances and long term directions in wireless communications and networking. The breakout was led by Ken Lutz, the Director of the center followed by a presentation by Prof. Jan Rabaey which…
January 17, 2012, Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Anderson from The PTR Group described the “Internet of Things- living in a connected world” in the keynote address. The Internet has evolved beyond its creators wildest dreams. What started as the Arpanet for government contractors seemed to be more than able to handle…
April 4, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Simon Gordon from Juniper Networks described ongoing changes in the data center. The changes include protocols, operations and traffic patterns with new protocols like iSCSI. Virtualization is moving into all of the data center areas-servers, networks, and storage. Although most storage protocols don’t affect the operations, some…
March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– a panel moderated by Colin Dixon from the Diffusion Group considered some of the issues and challenges facing the television industry. The panel was comprised of Ian Valentine from Woomi, Kevin Simon from Logitech, SV Vasudevan from Cisco Systems, Russ Schafer from Yahoo, and Mark Benscheidt from Sezmi….