Conrad Maxwell, NetCell Corporation, Acting Director of Technology Planning

Expanding Home Storage Can Be a Big Problem

Abstract

Increasingly, the home PC is being used to store critical data such as personal media libraries that include irreplaceable family pictures, music and video content. When legacy consumer storage methods are used to store this library of digital content, it is even more vulnerable to data loss than before, and to fix this problem the solution doubles the cost of storing the digital library.

Is there a solution that can maintain high performance and provide protection, without doubling the cost of storage or cutting reliability in half? Yes. A NetCell Storage Processing Unit provides the functionality for Next Generation Desktop Storage and delivers high performance and extreme reliability.

The problem is not limited to price/performance and reliability alone, it requires a NetCell Storage Processing Unit which provides seamless expansion technology and delivers the un-exhaustible protected rich media storage.

NetCell Corporation will expand these topics to show how a NetCell Storage Processing Unit can help the Consumer.

Biography

Conrad started his career in Silicon Valley in the early 80’s at Dysan Corp. He worked as an R&D Manager at Dysan and was over new product design and development of hard drive and floppy media alignment machines. Then he went into Product Management over Retail and O.E.M. products lines for GTL Ltd. / ComputerLand, Samsung and Everex . From retail/O.E.M. Product Management he went on to semiconductors, he was at VLSI Technology in Strategic Marketing and managed their investment into new technologies. From there he went to Conexant Systems Inc. (formerly Rockwell), and was the Director of Technology Planning. He now runs Maxwell Consulting Associates, a firm that helps companies with their Technology Planning, Business Planning and Business Development, IP Licensing, Management and Technical Marketing.

He has an Electrical Engineering Degree, a B. S. from Cal State Hayward, and an MBA from ASU. He has been published in a technology textbook, magazines, technical journals, helped write multiple industry standards and has patents and patents pending. He was the Chairman of the Interactive Audio SIG -Three Dimensional Working Group, Member of the Board of Directors for the HomePNA and ACR SIG, and a voting member of the Bluetooth PAN working group, WECA/WiFi WG, 802.11 WGs, 802.1WGs, DVD Forum, USB WG and VESA WGs. He currently participates in SATA IO WGs, PCIe and T13.