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Will Solar Be a Driver of Autonomous Vehicles?
Paper-thin panels that mold to a surface are critical for solar power to power devices in non-traditional places. Some of those unusual places could be the rooftop or spoilers of a next-generation vehicle, according to Ben Lenail, Director of Business Development, for solar panel manufacturer, Alta Devices, a Hanergy Company. Speaking at the World…
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Energy Storage – Enabling Everything from IoT to Advanced Mobility
Energy storage is a common challenge for a myriad of technologies ranging from wearables to electric cars to the so-called Internet of Things: there can never be enough and it can never be too inexpensive. In the above interview, Franco Gonzalez, Senior Technology Analyst for IDTechEx, explains that the track he led on energy storage…
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A Game Changer for the Data Center
2015 may be remembered as the year when flash memory overtook hard-drives as the storage media of choice for a variety of applications. In the above interview, Tien Shiah, Product Marketing Manager -SSD of Samsung Semiconductor, discusses Dell’ recent announcement of the integration of Samsung’s TLC flash drives with a cost-point as low as $1.66/Gigabyte. Shiah points out that, “An all-flash array,…
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The 10x Disruption Times Five
Brian Berg explains that Eli Harari’s work is the story of the disruption. Eli Harari explains that is has been 100,000 times disruption through the five waves of disruptive technologies. The question is whether we are reaching the end of 10x improvements in storage efficiency.
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Flash: Driving New Applications & Performance – Highlights of the 2015 Flash Memory Summit
The 2015 Flash Memory Summit may represent the moment where flash memory was universally recognized as king of the storage world. In the above interview, Conference Chairperson Tom Coughlin and Technical Chairperson, Brian Berg, discuss some of the significant announcements at this year’s event, including: Announcement of the world’s largest storage drive – a 16 Terabyte solid…
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Make Your Own Cloud #CES21014
Business failure, policy changes and security breaches are some of the dark sides of the cloud. At the same time, having one’s data backed up at off-site locations can be convenient and provides the physical diversity that protects data from single points of failure (e.g. hard-drive crash, theft, fire, etc.). Connected Data‘s approach to solving…
