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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Have been away a really long time

March, April and May were busy as expected. June is not shaping up much better.

To get a little content in.... Have been to a number of network IT conferences and events lately. There seems to be a common theme of intelligent network monitoring, given that central managament of end points is to be a thing of the past (think mobile and embedded devices). Will be interesting to see how that plays out.

"Private Cloud" = virtual machines with management.

Cimetrics does longterm monitoring/commissioning from the "cloud"... would that then be "Cloud Based Comissioning"? "CBC"? The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has acronym "CBC" already alas.

Enterprise IT theme seems to be the rise and continuance of social networking, and unlocking the knowledge that many to many communication can uncover.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Embedded Systems Conference - Boston 2010

Was to ESC (Embedded Systems Conference) Boston 2010 in late September.
http://esc-boston.techinsightsevents.com/

Here are a few highlights:

The platform and OS (operating systems) wars/debates are largely over - so much so that no one even bothers to mention the issue of OS and processor anymore. It is "assumed".

When a generic OS is used, only a few generic interfaces are really supported in all cases - TCP/IP, and serial ports.

For 8bit and similar the continuing players are 8051, Atmel-AtMega and Microchip-PIC architectures. Again this is mostly implied and few speak of it.

Software houses and tool chains vendors are talking about the ways they go beyond simple TCP/IP to get information to "cloud services".

Companies who formerly only sold components or built PC boards are transforming into complete end-to-end design-build companies where they go all the way from design to delivering boxes of the required products ready for you to sell (even with labels and software installed and locked).

Other attendees included trade associations, magazine/book vendors, Flash/SSD providers, tool/environment vendors, logic/JTAG analyzers, emulator vendors and wireless vendors.