Simon Robinson
Simon Robinson
affect certainly current emergence expect generally leaning storage towards trend
The current trend in storage generally is certainly leaning towards the latter, and I don't expect the emergence of grids to substantially affect this trend.
architecture difficult exercise extensive grid happening major mostly project related research since
It's difficult to tell what's happening with grids since it's mostly a marketing-driven exercise today. Our extensive grid research has yet to unearth a major project in implementing a grid architecture related to storage.
across assign changes data front moving policies requires services storage value
ILM is about moving data across storage tiers as it changes value, but to do that you have to assign value and policies to data and that usually requires services capabilities. We'll see more acquisitions on the services front from EMC.
acceptance allow beyond desktop focus goal home house rather room service staff systems talk tv user users via visual
Our focus was on visual communications and user acceptance. We wanted to go beyond the state-of-the-art for systems in the home environment. Our goal was to allow users to communicate from any room in the house and to talk to service staff via a TV set rather than a desktop PC.
frames ideally per resolution screen second speed
What is important for two-way communications is frames per second ? ideally 24 when there is movement, the screen resolution of each picture, and speed to code.