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Just having come back from Barcelona and enjoyed my fill of tapas, I wanted to reflect upon a major theme I saw evident at this year’s Mobile World Congress - SECURITY. After making the trek from the ARM booth in Hall 6 up the escalator and across to Hall 3 and 5, I immediately noticed that abundance of solution providers touting security. It occurred to me that while the spotlight typically shines on bigger screens, faster processors, and svelte form factors, it’s really the bit you cannot see directly with your eyes – security - that is coming of age driving increased adoption of mobile devices in the Post-PC era, especially as it relates to BYOD (bring your own device).
For some consumers, being able to have a device that you do email, browse the web, shop, and have a bit of fun; for others, especially those who rely on their smartphones and laptops for work, it means being able do the previous AND to access you work email, corporate files, office intranet, and key line of business applications all on the same device. However the latter use has not yet been ubiquitous because of concerns from CIOs from threats of security.
There were three major movements in this area from what I saw at MWC that are in my view significant steps towards makin...
Open Compute Summit, Linley Data Center Conference, Univa Enterprise Workload Management and Baidu – The World’s First Commercial ARM Based Server Deployment!
Data centers are not what they used to be, and that’s a good thing! And the next generation of data centers will be quite different from today. That’s because we’re entering an era of unprecedented innovation and disruption focused on improving efficiency while reducing acquisition and operating costs. In parallel, new use cases are emerging that require server deployments and infrastructure on a scale that not too long ago was unimaginable. People are updating, and in some cases quite literally, rewriting the rule books on server, networking and data center design.
Let’s use Facebook as an example, now a household name providing a service (that is mission critical if you’re a teenager!) allowing friends, families, colleagues and acquaintances to connect and share as much or as little about their daily lives as they see fit. Sounds quite straight forward right? However dealing with all those simultaneous users, complex connections, frequent updates and the masses of associated data (recent photo stats: 350M/day, 7PB/month!) has led Facebook to be one of the most innovative and sophisticated data center operators in existence today.
I’ve recently taken over the server program at ARM and one of the first questions that my daughter asked me when she found out was why? “Why are you working on ARM in servers Mom?” Well last week, some of ARM’s Partners hungout to answer that very question and I think we succeeded. We had a live Google+ Hangout on Air with Canonical, HP, and RedHat. My colleague Ian Ferguson, Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical, Tim Wessleman from HP, Jon Masters from RedHat, and myself had a very scintillating conversation despite it being very early in the morning for those of us on the West coast, and the end of a very long week at Mobile World Congress for Ian and Mark in Barcelona. Although, once the 5 o’clock hour hit in Barcelona…stimulating beverages, alcoholic and caffeinated might have made their appearance on the hangout as well.
Want to know what all the hype is about ARM in servers? Watch ARM’s live Google+ Hangout on Air panel discussion with guests from HP, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. Stay late at Mobile World Congress (MWC) or get up early on the west coast on Thursday February 28 at 16:00 CET (15:00 GMT, 9:00 CST, 7:00 PST). Watch the broadcast live on Google+ or YouTube.
Below are a few of the questions and topics you can expect to find answers to:
Do you see a difference between servers being placed in Web 2.0 infrastructure and th...
We are in the run-up to Mobile World Congress and there is a lot happening in the mobile device ecosystem. Two technology areas with a lot of mobile and media operator traction are security and the new and enhanced services this brings, and the connected-everything Internet of Things – how to enable lots of small scale devices to connect to the net and offer a set of interesting new services. Expect to see related products and announcements at MWC!
Security and trust – this is central to delivering the services we want on our everyday devices. Well-designed system wide security can bring better and totally new user experiences, such as the ability to view any content on any screen, pay for things quickly and simply online with a securely captured PIN code, keeping your corporate data safely separated from your personal data, and protecting the handset subsidy investment. These services need the right tool for the job – a ...
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Just having come back from Barcelona and enjoyed my fill of tapas, I wanted to reflect upon a major theme I saw evident at this year’s 
Open Compute Summit, Linley Data Center Conference, Univa Enterprise Workload Management and Baidu – The World’s First Commercial ARM Based Server Deployment!
I’ve recently taken over the server program at ARM and one of the first questions that my daughter asked me when she found out was why? “Why are you working on ARM in servers Mom?” Well last week, some of 
We are in the run-up to 
