Marvell creates the house computing cloud
- TAGS:consumer, storage
- IT TOPICS:Cloud Computing, Storage
Marvell Technology Group is a chip company located in Santa Clara, but like the best chip companies draws on expertise worldwide. The chip makers are often overlooked in the consumer space as their products end up in flashy, cool looking products while a chip looks like every other chip around.
But, the history of semiconductor design and fab is relentless in telling us that all computing wants to live on smaller and fewer chips. This is an aside to this post, but it won't be until chips get into power supplies like those little overheated boxes that change AC to DC power for our phones, etc. that we can get green on the consumer electronics front.
Anyway, while all the talk about cloud computing seems to belong to the big vendors such as IBM, Amazon, Google and -- this week because of VMworld in Europe -- VMware, Marvell is reminding us that building a little storage cloud in your house using a simple device makes sense. Rather than buy one of those big, honking media servers that are really just big storage devices in a box, Marvell, according to the Wall Street Journal, is going to introduce today (Monday, Feb. 23) a plug computer that as its name implies is about the size of a household outlet. The plugs, at about $50 each, can act in concert over a house's internal wiring and via Internet connection to the outside world to manage your digital information. Not a bad idea.Â
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