• Highlights of  2015 TiECon Part II – Cloud Track

    Highlights of 2015 TiECon Part II – Cloud Track

    Introduction: This is the second article on this year’s TiECon conference.  It is focused on selected presentations and panel sessions from the Cloud track on May 15th. That track covered planning, operational challenges of cloud infrastructure, business and technical challenges of migrating services to the cloud, and the still problematic state of cloud security (which…

  • Viodi View – 05/22/15

    Viodi View – 05/22/15

    IPv6 – Is There a Better Way? by Abraham Chen  Late last year, we published an article that drew parallels between the early days of broadband and where we stand today with the autonomous vehicle. That article triggered Abraham Chen to ponder the similarities between Internet Protocol addressing and telephone network numbering. Since then, this MIT graduate…

  • IPv6 – Is There a Better Way?

    IPv6 – Is There a Better Way?

    Editor’s Note: Cyber threats, Internet of Things, privacy and Internet freedom are often front page news and are at the forefront of public consciousness. At the same time, IPv6, started almost 20 years ago and which promoters promise will address the aforementioned issues, began to gain traction in 2014 (e.g. Google IPv6 traffic doubling in…

  • Something That Can Transform Transportation

    Something That Can Transform Transportation

    The biggest challenge we face right now is a proposed [FCC] rule-making that would potentially open up that spectrum to other users that might, through their operations, effectively jam the safety messages,” according to Ken Leonard, Director of the ITS Joint Program Office of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The proposed FCC rule making Leonard refers to would expand the…

  • Highlights of 2015 TiECon Grand Keynotes

    Highlights of 2015 TiECon Grand Keynotes

    Introduction: Over 4,300 delegates attended 2015 TiECon¹ –the largest global conference on entrepreneurship. The conference was held May 15th and 16th in Santa Clara, CA. In this first TiECon article, we summarize the two Grand Keynote conversations from the first day (Friday May 15th of the conference. Future articles will cover keynotes and panel sessions…

  • Open Architecture, Mobile Laboratory in Silicon Valley

    Open Architecture, Mobile Laboratory in Silicon Valley

    Most people would think that self-driving and race car are terms that do not go together, according to Michael Robinson, Creative Director and CEO of ED Design. Robinson points out that in the early days, the race track was a petri dish of sorts for testing and stretching innovation in the automobile field. In the above…