Along with Robert Scoble and Ben Parr, Rambus CMO Jerome Nadel recently took part in a keynote discussion at the IoT Influencers Summit. The closing session – which also featured AKQA Chairman Tom Bedecarre and Edith Yeung of 500 Mobile Collective – explored how consumers will interact with their IoT devices and applications in a world where everything is connected.
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Hardware-based encryption market revenue to hit $36.4 billion
There are a number of ways for companies to secure data – whether on the perimeter or within the local area network (LAN). However, as ABI Research analysts recently confirmed, the most fundamental method in a defense-in-depth model is hardware encryption.
The Big Data-genomics link
Did you know that a single human genome sequence constitutes an approximate 140-gigabyte data file? Not surprisingly, it took 10 years and $3 billion to completely map the first human genome. Fortunately, as Datanami’s Alex Woodie confirms, the medical establishment has come a long way since its big genomics breakthrough in 2003.
Server market growth tied to increased memory demand
Loren Shalinsky, a Strategic Development Director at Rambus, recently penned an article for Semiconductor Engineering that explores how server market growth has prompted a salient increase in memory demand. “A high-end server can have 48 or more DIMM slots, providing nearly 200x the memory capacity as a standard PC. A server not only requires more memory, but also higher bandwidth memory,” he explained.
Is software crypto failing?
Although encryption is increasingly used to combat security breaches, a salient lack of expertise among developers, coupled with overly complex libraries, has led to widespread implementation failures in business applications. According to IDG’s Lucian Constantin, the scale of the problem is quite significant. Indeed, a recent report published by Veracode confirms that cryptographic issues are now the second most common type of flaws affecting applications across all industries.
Data centers need a new paradigm
Semiconductor Engineering editor in chief Ed Sperling has written an article exploring the evolution of the data center in the context of the Cloud. As Sperling notes, corporate data centers are notorious for their reluctant adoption of new technology.
“There is too much at stake to make quick changes, which accounts for a number of failed semiconductor startups over the past decade with better ideas for more efficient processors, not to mention rapid consolidation in other areas,” he explained. “But as the amount of data increases, and the cost of processing that data decreases at a slower rate than the volume increases, the whole market has begun searching for new approaches.”
