Presents:Storing Your Life: Consumer Digital Storage
- Personal, Hierarchical and Virtual
Guest Speaker: Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates President
DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT:
Dr. Coughlin is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates. Tom has over 30 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical manager. In addition to regular technical and management consulting projects he is the publisher of reports on digital storage in consumer electronics as as content creation and distribution. He is the author of the recently published Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide from Newnes (a division of Elsevier). Tom has many published reports and articles on digital storage and its applications. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference, a partner to the International CES. Tom is a senior member and was 2007 chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section and San Francisco Bay Area Council and was chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Consumer Electronics Society in 2006 and past chairman of the SCV IEEE Magnetics Society more than once. Tom is a member of the IEEE CE Society Adcom. He is also a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, TCG and SMPTE.
Tom received a B.S. in Physics and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan.
SPEAKER BIO:
This presentation discusses different mobile and static usage models for digital storage in consumer devices. These models define storage hierarchies that are useful for analyzing the proper digital storage technology for a consumer electronics application. Important characteristics of consumer storage devices are shown and guidelines are given for how digital storage should be designed in consumer devices. Demand for higher resolution content and for capturing ever greater details of the life of family members will drive increases in commercial as well as personal content storage demand. Sharing of content within a home or over the Internet creates much greater demand for storage since a shared file can be multiplied many times through network sharing. Ultimately this content must be indexed, protected, managed and the physical complexity of the storage devices must be hidden to the user by home storage virtualization.
Dr. Coughlin is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates. Tom has over 30 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical manager. In addition to regular technical and management consulting projects he is the publisher of reports on digital storage in consumer electronics as as content creation and distribution. He is the author of the recently published Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide from Newnes (a division of Elsevier). Tom has many published reports and articles on digital storage and its applications. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference, a partner to the International CES. Tom is a senior member and was 2007 chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section and San Francisco Bay Area Council and was chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Consumer Electronics Society in 2006 and past chairman of the SCV IEEE Magnetics Society more than once. Tom is a member of the IEEE CE Society Adcom. He is also a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, TCG and SMPTE.
Tom received a B.S. in Physics and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan.
SPEAKER BIO:
This presentation discusses different mobile and static usage models for digital storage in consumer devices. These models define storage hierarchies that are useful for analyzing the proper digital storage technology for a consumer electronics application. Important characteristics of consumer storage devices are shown and guidelines are given for how digital storage should be designed in consumer devices. Demand for higher resolution content and for capturing ever greater details of the life of family members will drive increases in commercial as well as personal content storage demand. Sharing of content within a home or over the Internet creates much greater demand for storage since a shared file can be multiplied many times through network sharing. Ultimately this content must be indexed, protected, managed and the physical complexity of the storage devices must be hidden to the user by home storage virtualization.
Date:
April 1, 2008
Time:
3:30PM-5:00PM
Location:
CMRR Auditorium
UCSD
Host:
CMRR
MORE INFORMATION:
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Contact: Betty Manoulian, (858) 534-6707, bmanoulian@ucsd.edu
April 1, 2008
Time:
3:30PM-5:00PM
Location:
CMRR Auditorium
UCSD
Host:
CMRR
MORE INFORMATION:
Click here to go to the website.
Contact: Betty Manoulian, (858) 534-6707, bmanoulian@ucsd.edu
Date:
Tuesday, April 01, 20083:30PM-5:00PM
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