June 24, 2014, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—Tom Coughlin from Coughlin Associates opened the conference with some observations and general trends in content storage. From CES, some hot topics included: object-based workflows, digital storage needs for cameras, active archives and archive technology (Tape, HDDs, Optical Storage), flash memory in M&E, fast direct storage connections—Thunderbolt…
September 2013 – At IDF 2013 in San Francisco, Pericom was showing their new high performance redriver chips that are enabling both the large format CE devices/Network devices and the active cable/expander marketplace. One of the themes at IDF this year were higher bandwidths for connectivity. The increase in images, video and other long run…
October 2012 – In San Francisco at the Oracle Open World Conference Fujitsu had a press conference following thier keynote to announce their new Sparc processor. The next generation processor brings an architecture that is targeting large memory configuration designs. Using a traditional DDR3 interface, the device is pushing the configuration up to 512GB/core =…