Over the next few days in San Francisco, thousands of hardware developers will be attending the Intel Developer Forum, which is being held at Moscone Center West. If you’re a hardware geek and you want to check out where (at least in Intel’s view) your favourite hardware platforms are heading, then you can follow the fun over at the IDF website.
Looking over the session plan, Windows Home Server is represented in one key session, “Building Winning Consumer Small Office/Home Office Media Storage Servers with Intel® Architecture” - here’s the blurb:
The consumer and small office/home office (SOHO) storage market is developing and has significant revenue potential.
One interesting element I picked out of the pack, is the future need for home server devices to act not only as data storage systems, but also as devices that help organise data intelligently. I know for a fact that I have thousands of files on my home server, many of those files are probably exact or near duplicates, and right now, viewing those files on my home server requires the same old navigation paradigm that exists on all of my other PCs.
Wouldn’t it be great if your home server could intelligently present more intuitive views of your data, based on a variety of different options that you could configure? If it could automatically de-duplicate your data and hide or even delete duplicate files.
If the next big innovation space for Windows Home Server was data organisation, what features would you like to see?
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• Get an overview of the consumer and SOHO market challenges, emerging trends and key requirements for success
• Understand the consumer and SOHO storage trends and usage models
• Realize the benefits of the homeserver
• View options for building consumer and SOHO systems based on Intel® Architecture with both Microsoft* (WHS) and Linux* based designs
Hi - I'm Terry and I'm the Owner of We Got Served. The site's been covering everything to do with Windows Home Server since February 2007.
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I’ll be following this IDF conference closely, even though I’m with a WHS box at the moment I very interested in the news. I already something about smaller Centrino 2 combinations for notebooks, which is always good. (Mini-ITX WHS box anyone?)
I’m no organization expert, but I think it would be great to be able to associate multiple, hierarchical tags with files of all types. Essentially, taking the iTunes/Media Player ability to search for a song by artist or by album name and making similar functionality available to all files. So not only could you search for a song in multiple ways, a search for the artist name might bring up pictures or music videos you’ve got tagged as being of or by that artist as well.
Of course, this kind of functionality would work best if it were integrated into all MS operating systems, but I suppose it could start in WHS and its connector and move into future versions…
August 19th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
What’s organisation? Is that a UK thing?
August 20th, 2008 at 6:05 am
I’ll be following this IDF conference closely, even though I’m with a WHS box at the moment I very interested in the news. I already something about smaller Centrino 2 combinations for notebooks, which is always good. (Mini-ITX WHS box anyone?)
August 20th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I’m no organization expert, but I think it would be great to be able to associate multiple, hierarchical tags with files of all types. Essentially, taking the iTunes/Media Player ability to search for a song by artist or by album name and making similar functionality available to all files. So not only could you search for a song in multiple ways, a search for the artist name might bring up pictures or music videos you’ve got tagged as being of or by that artist as well.
Of course, this kind of functionality would work best if it were integrated into all MS operating systems, but I suppose it could start in WHS and its connector and move into future versions…