Let’s face it; calculating storage is not always easy. It is nearly impossible to calculate how much storage you are going to need for each project. The recommended storage capacity and retention times are often not accurate estimates. For example, it used to be safe to say that 90 days retention was plenty but we are now looking at storage retention rates for 5 maybe 10 years. This is mainly due to new business needs such as marketing analytics and video positioning. Long term video storage is now more common. How do you determine how much storage capacity your surveillance project requires?

Complete Your New Year's Resolution this Year

New Year’s resolutions are great, even if rarely followed. According to a recent University of Scranton Study 45% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, yet a measly 8% actually achieve these resolutions. Lack of planning is cited as the primary cause of failure. So why not plan on 5 simple resolutions that you can bang out in less than a day. So when your friends ask you if you have any New Year’s resolutions you can answer yes, and brag that they are already done.

NVIDIA® Tesla™ K20 GPU Accelerator Powers Titan

What has 7.1 billion transistors and is currently powering the world’s fastest supercomputer, Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)? NVIDIA K20X GPUs powered by Kepler GK110s. Take a step back and think for a moment about the scale of this thing: it is truly phenomenal. Titan is powered by 18,688 GPUs paired to 18,688 AMD 12 core Opteron CPUs.  This results in 560,640 processors combined with 261,632 GPU accelerator cores earning itself the number one rank on the Top 500 List. According to its score using the Linpack benchmark, the Titan is clearly a beast even in the world of cluster computing, capable of 17.59 Petaflop/s.

Black Friday is officially over, thank God! What did retailers use to ensure public safety and inventory control? Did they use additional staff members at entrances and exits? Did they simply deploy more camera solutions? Many retailers believe it or not used security cameras in hidden locations, in their mannequins. The next time you are looking at a display and see a mannequin, smile because a security guard may be reviewing the footage to ensure no assets are being stolen and or damaged.

Recently there have been a lot of new tablets coming to the market. Microsoft just launched the Windows 8 Surface tablet, Google announced their Nexus tablet, and Apple introduced the iPad mini. The launch of these new tablets made me think there must be a lot of new features following innovative trends surrounding consumer engagement, mobile experience, and ease of navigation. Windows recently announced their upgraded operating system with Windows 8 which was there biggest upgrade in years. With upgraded operating systems and technology, users assume these upgrades would completely redefine the mobile experience.

Despite the hurricane and the traffic barriers getting into the city, Seneca is ready to exhibit at CETW. Today, November 7^th is the first day of CETW and Seneca has big plans for this show. Seneca is a manufacturer of digital signage media players that are designed for all types of digital signage projects from kiosk to interactive video walls.

Immediate Need Requires Immediate Action

When your customer has a server that is down they need to be back up and running immediately. You don’t have the luxury of ordering parts from a distributor, waiting for them to arrive, assembling them and hoping everything works correctly out of the box. You are also not likely to have enough time to custom order a complete new server made exactly to your specifications. What are you to do in order to get your customer back online and in business the fastest and best way possible?

It happens almost every year, Intel implements new technology which guarantees every year there will be a launch of new processor innovations. What does this mean? Do you know the difference? Do you need to know the differences and similarities year in and year out? It can be extremely difficult to determine exactly what has changed or what impact it will have on your customers.

Desktop PCs Don't Make Good Servers

Do you have customers insisting on cutting corners to get you to install a desktop system as a server in their office? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple graphical chart to show your client the many reasons that a “Real Server” is what they need and why using a desktop based PC as a server puts their business at risk?

Everywhere we go we hear about interactive kiosks and how digital signage is gaining a foothold in different industries with wayfinding capabilities. Wayfinding is a technology to provide visitors with a simple method to get to their destination as quickly as possible, typically using a map displayed on the screen. Interactive kiosks are perfect for airports - how many times have you landed in an unfamiliar airport with no idea where to go? This type of technology would be ideal for airport, but are we there yet?