Comments on: Inside the Blackwave of Online Video http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/ The Business of Technology Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:07:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: passerby http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-814351 passerby Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:31:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-814351 <p>Don't worry they won't be around in 1-2 years. Hardware's been in deadpool ever since it was outsourced to the Chinese several years ago.</p> <p>RIP Blankwave (12-24 months in advance)</p> Don’t worry they won’t be around in 1-2 years. Hardware’s been in deadpool ever since it was outsourced to the Chinese several years ago.

RIP Blankwave (12-24 months in advance)

]]> By: VentureBeat » Blackwave, says it has major storage improvement for video http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-760578 VentureBeat » Blackwave, says it has major storage improvement for video Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:29:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-760578 <p>[...] For a more in-depth review, see GigaOm’s piece here. Tagged co:Blackwave, deal, inv:Globespan Capital Partners, inv:IDG Ventures Boston, inv:Sigma [...]</p> [...] For a more in-depth review, see GigaOm’s piece here. Tagged co:Blackwave, deal, inv:Globespan Capital Partners, inv:IDG Ventures Boston, inv:Sigma [...]

]]> By: Mike http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-749703 Mike Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:20:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-749703 <p>Interetsting</p> Interetsting

]]> By: Pete Steege http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-747383 Pete Steege Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:54:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-747383 <p>Secure portable storage can't be painless. But how can we do it with the right balance of user hassle and security? Disabling ports doesn't pass that test. Disk drive vendors are building black-hat level encryption into their hardware. This makes passwords mandatory but preserves users' options without any performance hit.</p> <p>The biggest issue is key management. If passwords are lost, the data is lost as well. But it works, and USB makers should build the equivalent into business-friendly products.</p> Secure portable storage can’t be painless. But how can we do it with the right balance of user hassle and security? Disabling ports doesn’t pass that test. Disk drive vendors are building black-hat level encryption into their hardware. This makes passwords mandatory but preserves users’ options without any performance hit.

The biggest issue is key management. If passwords are lost, the data is lost as well. But it works, and USB makers should build the equivalent into business-friendly products.

]]> By: damon http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-746828 damon Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:54:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-746828 <p>that's just it, calling themselves a hardware company gives themselves a certain mystic, a certain "hey world, you can't do this yourselves because you are just at the software layer".</p> <p>to me it's like barracuda (the spam appliance guys) calling themselves a hardware company.</p> that’s just it, calling themselves a hardware company gives themselves a certain mystic, a certain “hey world, you can’t do this yourselves because you are just at the software layer”.

to me it’s like barracuda (the spam appliance guys) calling themselves a hardware company.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-745778 Om Malik Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:20:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-745778 <p>Damon,</p> <p>that is the thing - they would not answer those questions, which I don't think is that "proprietary" but that is their prerogative. That said, you're right: it is about the software, and your deduction from their jobs page basically confirms that.</p> <p>That said, I think the "hardware" optimization of "off the shelf components" must be more "customization" and then software layer. nevertheless, its been a while since I saw a hardware company make some news.</p> Damon,

that is the thing - they would not answer those questions, which I don’t think is that “proprietary” but that is their prerogative. That said, you’re right: it is about the software, and your deduction from their jobs page basically confirms that.

That said, I think the “hardware” optimization of “off the shelf components” must be more “customization” and then software layer. nevertheless, its been a while since I saw a hardware company make some news.

]]> By: damon http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-745709 damon Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:47:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-745709 <p>hmm, look at their job openings, all software, surprise surprise</p> hmm, look at their job openings, all software, surprise surprise

]]> By: damon http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-745706 damon Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:44:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-745706 <p>“Most of the stuff out there today to store Web video is really systems that were always designed and always intended” for businesses that needed to store and sort through masses of data, not movies.. “People weren’t thinking about traditional storage systems as being used for delivering very large monolithic files of video.”</p> <p>translation, we use a larger block size in our linux ext3 filesystems....</p> “Most of the stuff out there today to store Web video is really systems that were always designed and always intended” for businesses that needed to store and sort through masses of data, not movies.. “People weren’t thinking about traditional storage systems as being used for delivering very large monolithic files of video.”

translation, we use a larger block size in our linux ext3 filesystems….

]]> By: damon http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-745700 damon Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:43:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/05/inside-the-blackwave-of-online-video/#comment-745700 <p>oh please</p> <p>my guess, they have a nice rack mounted multiprocessor running a stripped down linux with a bunch of open source video streaming software and it operates like an appliance</p> <p>no way they made their own chips, highly doubtful they did any cards, most likely just packaged things up nicely leaving out everything they can.</p> oh please

my guess, they have a nice rack mounted multiprocessor running a stripped down linux with a bunch of open source video streaming software and it operates like an appliance

no way they made their own chips, highly doubtful they did any cards, most likely just packaged things up nicely leaving out everything they can.

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