June 20, 2011, Cloud Leadership Forum, Santa Clara, CA—the opening session at the Cloud Leadership Forum was a panel of IDC analysts. The panel discussed “State of Technology: A Round of Lightning Insights with IDC Analysts”. The primary issue is that the cloud is disrupting all of the IT functions by changing the context of…
May 12, 2011, Smart Power Grid Technical Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Kishore Maghnani from Marvell talked about the other side of the smart grid, the user side of the meter. Currently, majority of people who have smart meters do not check for the information available at the utility’s site. Lifestyle changes are being driven by a…
November 3, 2010 Santa Clara, CA—Cloud Expo—Tony Woloszyn, CTO of PerspecSys gave a talk entitled “Best of Both Worlds: Data Privacy, Residency, and Security in the Cloud” in one session. He proposed a public-private hybrid cloud as a solution. The biggest issue for any cloud operation is security. Attacks have gone from a commercialization of…
November 3, 2010 Santa Clara, CA—Cloud Expo—Brian Wilson, director of cloud services at Quest Software talked about “The Private Cloud Top 10 Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid” in one session. Starting out, he defined the requirements for private cloud computing. Private clouds are part of the move to virtualization and cloud management. Users must…
October 27, 2010, Digital Media Conference, San Francisco– the conference opened with an analysis of the digital media industry. Colin Dixon, senior analyst at the diffusion group talked about “Consumer Attitudes and the Future Of Over-The-Top”. Moving pictures have been around for over 115 years and until recently have always been viewed in a group…