Category: Technology

  • Autonomous Vehicle View – 11/03/14

    Autonomous Vehicle View – 11/03/14

    [Note: This is a biweekly round-up of some of the articles on autonomous vehicles that elicited commentary from this author. Note, with all the buzz about autonomous vehicles, this list isn’t comprehensive.] Riding my bike yesterday in a neighborhood bypassed by the relatively new wealth generated by the tech companies of Silicon Valley, I spotted an…

  • Autonomous Vehicle View – 10/17/14 – Blurred Lines

    Autonomous Vehicle View – 10/17/14 – Blurred Lines

    Michael Robinson’s Vision of How the Cloud and Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything The cloud is blurring the lines between things that were once disparate. This was the high-level message provided by renowned automobile designer, Michael Robinson, as he gave his vision of the future at the Belron 2014 conference. With 24,000 employees, Belron is the world’s…

  • Autonomous Vehicle View – 10/05/14

    Autonomous Vehicle View – 10/05/14

    [Note: This is a biweekly round-up of some of the articles on autonomous vehicles that elicited commentary from this author. Note, with all the buzz about autonomous vehicles, this list isn’t comprehensive.] L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti: We Will Be the First City to Do Autonomous Vehicles Right Los Angeles, the city that grew up around the…

  • Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center- Operator Keynotes, Security & Summary-Part 2

    Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center- Operator Keynotes, Security & Summary-Part 2

    Introduction: This second article on Light Reading’s NFV-Data Center conference summarizes telco keynote speeches from Orange and NTT-America. We then look at security challenges and wrap up with our summary and conclusions. Part 1. on the Heavy Reading NFV survey results and CenturyLink keynote may be read here. Orange Keynote: Christos Kolias, Sr. Research Scientist,…

  • Highlights of Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center Conference-Part 1.

    Highlights of Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center Conference-Part 1.

    Introduction: The telco data center¹(DC) is likely to be the first place network operators deploy Network Virtualization/Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).  That was the opening statement at the Light Reading conference on NFV and the Data Center, held Sept 16, 2014 in Santa Clara, CA.  A network virtualized data center was defined by the conference host…

  • Autonomous Vehicle View – 09/19/14

    Autonomous Vehicle View – 09/19/14

    This is a biweekly round-up of some of the articles on autonomous vehicles that elicited commentary from this author. Note, with all the buzz about autonomous vehicles, this list isn’t comprehensive. If the model for autonomous vehicle is a service model, however, where the car is owned by a service provider (e.g. Google), then more…