March 2016 – At the RSAC in San Francisco, we spoke to Trend Micro about the changing landscape of the security marketplace and the times of threats and threat sources that are present. As an overriding observation, the environment for security has changed – it is no longer trying to be disruptive on just a…
November 2015 – The shift to more cloud based processing and traffic management through softwar defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are encountering increasing challenges in providing optimization for the data traffic. These challenges include having to cross hardware from multiple vendors – Cisco, HP and Juniper – that may reside in the…
September 2015 – The availability of ubiquitous computing with low cost data processing is the current driver for new storage technologies. Both on a direct attach basis or local SAN applications as well as cloud based storage solutions, the challenge to select and optimize the right technology is a growing problem. The upcoming SNIA Storage…
October 2014 – At ARM Techcon AMD’s network products group was showing their new dual x86/ARM 64bit processor being used in and an advanced SDN application device. They were showing a 10GE switch that was enabled with NFV (network function virtualization). The device featured support for OpenStack in the networking space. The device was also…
September 2014 – At a briefing and demo at their offices in San Jose, Broadcom showed off their new A0 version of the StrataXGX Tomahawk chip. This is a multi-channel 25GE network switch designed for SDN. The 25G interface supports standard copper interconnect for the height of a rack and fiber connections for longer distances….
March 2014 – Broadcom held a briefing on their new microprocessor offerings for the IT and networking marketplace at their headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. As companies shift from in-house networking to using the cloud for both computation and storage, the bottlenecks and challenges that have historically taken place inside the company are now shifting…
February 2014 – At the RSA 2014 conference in San Francisco, the theme of security had an underlying theme of mobile devices/thin clients connected to high speed and cloud based networks. These networks have been updated to the latest generation multicore servers which have enhanced throughput. As a result the edge of network devices in…
September 16, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Stuart Berman from Jeda Networks talked about the software-defined network and its impact on the future of storage. The emerging cloud model with resource pooling, dynamic allocation of resources, multi-tenant, software deployment, automation, and management is creating new requirements in economics, speed and scalability. Enterprise data centers…