March 2018- In an interview following the satellite conference in Mt View, CA, we talked with Cliff Beek, President and CEO of Cloud Constellation about the status and progress of their LEO satellite system. The interview was done as a precursor to the annual RSA Conference being held in San Francisco in April 2018. The…
January 2018 – The annual CES event in Las Vegas showed a rise in the mobile and portable devices that have been enabled with solid state storage, high capacity storage and network integration with the cloud. We had the chance to talk with Toshiba, Western Digital and Kingston on their new storage products they were…
July 2017 – In a telephone briefing with Cliff Beek, President of the Commercial operations at Cloud Constellation, we discussed their new Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite business called SpaceBelt. The full product name is the SpaceBelt Information Ultra-Highway and it is the first global secure network of interconnected data centers that is housed on…
Flash Memory Summit, August 2016 – The process of consumerization of flash memory started around 2004. This year NAND prices drop below DRAM prices for the first time at the same density. Panasonic and Sanyo launched the first flash-based camcorders. SanDisk inaugurated Flash Sansa MP3 players. In 2005 NAND revenue exceeded $10 billion when Apple…
Flash Memory Summit, August 2016 – Flash memory is the enabling technology for most of the mobile devices today. It allows for very high capacities of storage for things like music, voice, photos and videos to be stored for long periods of time, without needing power to store the information when it is not being…
August 16, 2016, San Francisco—Al Yanes from the PCI-SIG provided an update on the organization its core standards. Although no new capabilities are ready for release, the underlying technologies and standards are showing robust growth. The organization continues to grow with over 730 member companies now involved. The primary focus is on creating specifications and…
OWC is the abbreviation for Other World Computing, one of the longest running 3rd party computer component and storage solutions providers in the personal computer industry. The company started with individual users and small companies and now supports enterprise customers and cloud providers with their products. In a casual and comfortable one on one discussion,…
February 2016 – In a casual lunch time briefing, we had a chance to get an update on the companies processor IP and their market application areas. As counter trend to the multi-core marketplace for processors, the company has instead chosen to follow the path of the many-core processor. The company is headquartered in France…
January 2016 – At their new venue of the Luxor, Tom Coughlin opened the Annual StorageVisions Conference with an industry overview for the enterprise and professional content creation communities. This marketplace had a number of big changes in 2015 mostly due to M&A in the industry. Major deals that took place were the purchase of…