September 18, 2013, Storage Developer Coference, Santa Clara, CA—Gerald Carter, EMC-Isilon compared and contrasted platforms as a service and the Newton tablet from Apple. The challenges facing PaaS are similar to those facing the Newton. The problem for Apple was that the Newton was too early for the technology and markets. The technology limits for…
April 29, 2013, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—A panel moderated by Kara Sprague from McKinsey and Co looked at various issues around movement to the cloud, either public or private. Panel members included John Mathon from WSO2, Ram Peddibhotla from Intel, Jim Wasko from IBM, and Peter Yared from CBS Interactive. Where is the…
January 8, 2013, Connections Summit, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the nature of smart TV and the possible future of entertainment. Brett Sappington, Director of Research, Parks Associates moderated the panel. Panelists included Kurt Hoppe, Director of Smart TV Innovation & Alliances at LG Electronics, Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, Director of FiOS TV Product Development at Verizon,…
October 16, 2012, CEA Industry Counsel, San Francisco—A panel reviewed the issues associated with health and fitness CE products. Rob McCray from Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance was the moderator. Panel members included Igor Gershfang from Walgreen, David Inns from Great Call, Clint McClellen from Qualcomm, and Brad Thomsen from Epstein, Becker & Green Law firm. This…
May 22, 2012, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Zorawar Singh from HP described the changes in his company brought about by the advent of open stack and how it affects their cloud businesses. The new ecosystem brings in both hardware and software to make managed cloud services possible. Open Stack has enabled them to scale…
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—Girish Juneja from Intel offered a broker model as an alternative to the growing complexity in cloud operations and management. People are finally realizing that enterprises are moving applications into the cloud. This been going on for many years, with examples like pay roll services on ADP….
October 12, 2011, IPSO Alliance, Santa Clara, CA–The IPSO Alliance had Stuart Sikes from Parks Associates talk about the many technology opportunities residential energy management offers. The opportunities for IP connected products and services include saving energy, money, enable lifestyle control convenience, fuel the extensions of machine-to-machine communications, and take greater advantage of eh cloud…
October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–A panel considered the issues of competitive pressures, new TV ecosystems, and emerging technologies on existing and future service providers. Colin Dixon from the Diffusion Group acted as moderator. The panel included David Jacobs form Amdocs, Ben Huang from Microsoft, Keith Kelley from Motorola Mobility, Eric Freund from SureWest…
October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–Steven Reynolds from Comcast talked about the future of video service devices in a multi-platform universe. The next generation of services will be delivered via the customer’s on-premise equipment. The service providers consider this new set of services to be in the future. Video over IP is going to…
June 30, 2011, Connections, Santa Clara, CA—Eric Bruno from Verizon described the drivers for innovation and changes in user behaviors resulting from those changes. Providers have to connect to people’s lives by providing new product and services. The basic rules are to look at things that people do every day and make them better or…