Monday, January 26, 2004

Update: Vidvox Grid 1.3. Vidvox Grid is a video instrument for live performances with a thumbnail grid interface that gives access 128 QuickTime movies. [MacInTouch] Prophet always intrigued me, and I was waiting for it to be Mac OS X native. Now with Grid there's a lower threshold entry point for the software. I used to play around with an Amiga 1000 with Live! which would let you mix video signals from many sources in a similar manner. Looks like everything old is new again. I think Live! was a circa 1988 piece of software that the Amiga would frame sample to get its display frame. That thing was amazing in how it handled analog and digital signals with low price DSP chips. Very efficient. 10:11:07 PM    comment []

Big Blue's Big Bet: Less Tech, More Touch. If successful, Samuel J. Palmisano's strategy for I.B.M promises to redefine not only Big Blue, but also what it means to be a computer company. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology] IBM is not a technology company, it is a business relationship company. When people will use their R&D not for their own personal gain or benefit, but for YOUR benefit, you're going to be oh so much more enamored and loyal to them. They are your PARTNER in this business, and you're seeing cost savings. Why would you switch to any other company? Why go to Anderson Consulting or CA or some bozo like Microsoft for your solution. IBM luvs you baby! 10:03:35 PM    comment []

HP ready to jump ship and love Opteron - report. What Itanium processor? [The Register] The most interesting point in this article is the 64bit Solaris on 64bit Opeteron. This could be very intersting for Sun who is having a hard time keeping it's Sparcs in the low end. Chip costs go up, and probably will wind up only being recoupable in the mid and high end iron they sell. Especially when they finall make good on Ivan Sutherland's asynchronous Sparc V. That's a ways off however. But Opeteron is right here, right now and there's no other place Sun would rather be. 9:40:17 PM    comment []

BlueArc announces biggest ever NAS box. BlueArc Corp. has announced its Titan SiliconServer, a modular network storage product that scales such that a single file system can grow up to 256 terabytes. Its throughput is up to 20Gbps. BlueArc says this is best performance and return on investment in the storage industry. [InfoWorld: Top News] Anything that uses FPGA's to optimize performance are tops on my list. This unit has an array of FPGAs to accelerate different functions within the main controllers. Looks like a winner, and no one to date has claimed 256 Tbytes capacity. BlueArc takes the lead. 9:37:34 PM    comment []