March 2016 – At GDC we had a chance to talk to Nelson Rodriguez of Akamai, who is the Sr Marketing Manager of the Game Industry practice. The gaming marketplace has a number of applications for CDN services. What comes to mind first, is managing the content for streaming games. While that is one aspect,…
March 2016 – At the kickoff of GDC 2016 in San Francisco, ARM was showing their latest capabilities in lighting from their Geomerics group. The company makes the Enlighten software product which has been updated to provide real time cross platform global illumination. The engine supports the following platforms – Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC…
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…
March 2016 – At the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco, Verizon held their annual briefing to announce the release of their DBIR (Data Breach Investigations Report). The DBIR release has actually been pushed out a few months, and instead, they released the first Data Breach Digest (DBD). The Digest is essentially, a first hand…
March 2016 – At the RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco, Deep Instinct was showing their new cybersecurity system that is built around an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine. The AI system in place is a deep learning neural network methodology that self learns about malware and threats in an enterprise. The product was developed…
Inviting people into your business is a well known process. In big businesses with big offices they’ll have a visitor management system at the front door. You get a nametag when you walk in. Folks who are there more frequently may have badges or keys. In today’s connected world it’s not only people in your…
March 2016 – Web, app and live customer service provider Support.com recently concluded a survey of over 3000 consumers to get their opinions on the Smart Home marketplace. The survey covered both owners and potential buyers of Smart Home devices and their experiences with them. The key issues were around the areas of complexity, cost,…
February 2016 – Rivet Networks, the new owners of the Killer Wireless technology, was talking about their new networking product. The Killer Wireless technology has been updated to support the 802.11ac (killer wireless-ac 1535) standard and the same packet management technology has been integrated into their Killer Ethernet (E2400) product. The combination networking chip, supporting…
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…
February 2016 – At the Digitial Entertainment World conference in LA, Highwinds was displaying their low latency CDN service that is targeted at OTT, IPTV and mobile content delivery. Several years ago, they entered this competitive marketplace, with a new architecture for their high performance servers that includes advanced storage architecture. The current marketplace is…