Interview

Buffet and woodwinds changing with the times

Buffet and woodwinds changing with the times

Buffet, the storied French manufacturer of woodwind musical instruments, including oboes, clarinets, flutes, saxophones and bassoons, refreshed its name and look this year. At the NAMM show, visitors to  their booth had a chance to see a name change as well as a new brand logo for Buffet Crampon USA. This is the first change to their iconic woodwind logo in over 170 years. The company decided to make its new look for the 190th anniversary of Buffet Crampon and 90th anniversary of Julius Keilwerth, the German saxophone manufacturer...

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Kalray shows the products at RSA

Kalray shows the products at RSA

Kalray – a French designer and provider of low-power, high-performance processors – is looking at American market as new opportunity for its growth. The French company was established in 2008 as a spin-off from CAE (Atomic Energy Commission) to create the processors for embedded critical application market. As this market is still strong in 2014 the Board of Kalray appointed the new management of the company and implemented the new more market oriented strategy. Eric Baissus, who founded OpenPlug in 2002, one of the most successful...

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Laura Whitmore about Women’s International Music Network

Laura Whitmore about Women’s International Music Network

January, NAMM 2016 - The Women’s International Music Network was founded in 2012 and it came about in an organic fashion, stated Laura Whitmore, its founder. As a journalist, she interviewed many female musicians and she came across the same stories again and again. One story literally blew her mind. Whitmore heard from a 70-years old female performer. After 50 years playing guitar, she still opens her performance with a killer guitar instrumental just to show right away that she knows what she is doing with her instrument. After f-...

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Trusted Computing Group’s view on SEDs

Trusted Computing Group’s view on SEDs

January, 2016, Storage Visions - Mark Schiller is Executive Director of Trusted Computing Group, which provides security standards to the computing industry. The group is a collection of over 100 partners that include commercial companies, government participation, academia and experts in the field of security and privacy. Schiller covered the challenges facing security and protection of stored content, and shared his view on SEDs (Self Encrypting Drives). Why Self-Encrypting Drives? There are world-wide financial and legal...

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Self Encrypting Drives are becoming universal

Self Encrypting Drives are becoming universal

January, Storage Visions - Michael Willett from Bright Plaza moderated the Storage Vision’s panel discussion about security and protection.  He stated that the idea of encryption being built into the hardware is becoming universal.  There are many benefits leaning on the concept of Hardware-based Self-Encryption being a better option over Software-based Encryption. First is the transparency and easy management. SEDs (Self Encrypting Drives) come from the factory with an encryption key already generated so there is no encrypting key...

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