February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—Robert Pittman, chief, information security office, Los Angeles County described their efforts in establishing trusted computing in the county. Some statistics for the county include 102,000 employees, of which 90 percent are union, and 34 departments structured into 5 clusters. The clusters are health, child services, operations, legal,…
February 20, 2013, Tablet Strategy Conference, Burlingame, CA—A conversational encounter between Michael Singer from TabTime, Adam Stein from SAP, and Saranya Babu from Dell covered the issues with BYOD. These solutions apply to all end points and operating systems. Stein noted that BYOD requires companies to see the issues and determine how to deal with…
January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Kaladhar Voruganti from NetApp highlighted the trends and impacts of new architectures in memory structures and what standards are needed to make the adoption proceed. Network storage now has many options in NAS and DAS, and the key parameters are IOPS and capacity. To improve performance,…