"Can we (or, more to the point, should we) try to "codify" the laws and
regulations of the world into digital form, allowing computer networks and
applications to self-regulate?
What would the political fallout of such a system be?"
Also sprach James Urquhart in his Wisdom of the Clouds blog. I'm really
jealous that he came up with this great name for his blog, and I think he's
hit on something that's very profound.
Listen to Grandpa talk about the war, kids...back when I saw my first
Internet map, I was at Uniforum 1984 in Santa Clara. Bang! addresses were in
fashion, in those pre-@ days. The map was about four feet high and six feet
wide, and had an incredible array of vectors, nodes, and clusters, spanning a
Mercator projection of the world.
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Much excitement ensued about how scientific work could be... (more)
Gloom and doom are the oxygen of journalism and conference presentations.
After all, if everything worked just perfectly, there wouldn't be much to
discuss, would there?
Thus, you can find no end of great discussion about all the challenges facing
Virtualization and Cloud Computing in all its forms at the upcoming Cloud
Expo at the Javits Center in New York April 19-21.
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Three good examples are provided here from the virtualization tracks at the
event:
* "Top 10 Private Cloud Pitfalls" is a presentation from Surgient VP Brian
Wilson. In it, he promises to "provide a practical framework to assess
principle private cloud requirements and map those to design elements
including infrastructure pooling, resource allocation, and service policies."
Brian is responsible "for Surgient customer success," he says... (more)
DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real
time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors,
log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of
vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.
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"Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies,
Industry Verticals & Forecasts"
Key Findings:
In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware,
software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further
expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually
accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for
acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between
IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)
Note: Ray Roxas-Chua is the Chairman of the Commission on Information and
Communications Technology (CICT), in the government of the Philippines. He is
the youngest cabinet member in the administration of President Gloria
Arroyo-Macapagal.
I interviewed him in late 2008. The interview occurred before the Satyam
scandal in India, which in my view threatens to disrupt all outsourcing
growth in India, perhaps to the benefit of other countries, including the
Philippines.
Roger Strukhoff: Let’s start with some background information on the CICT.
Ray Roxas-Chua: The CICT was formed in 2004, as a realization of the
importance of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) to the
development of the country. We are the lead agency responsible for the active
development of ICT in the Philippines. In a nutshell, our mission is to
leverage the benefits of ICT in all aspect... (more)
Joe Manna is CIO of Live Nation, based in Beverly Hills, CA. A native of
southern California, he double majored in math and computer science at Cal
State-Fullerton before starting his career in technology. He’s spent many
years as a CTO, but now finds himself interacting more closely with the
business as the CIO of a fast-growing company in a major consumer market. Our
people called his people, and we were recently able to grab a few minutes of
his time…
This is the Company
NOW Magazine: Let’s start by talking company branding a little bit.
Joe Manna: Sure. Live Nation started as a roll-up of a number of regional
promoters and venues by Clear Channel Communication, which originally called
the company Clear Channel Entertainment. Then two years ago, Clear Channel
Entertainment was spun out on its own to a publicly-traded company called
Live Nation. Then last ye... (more)
IBM News on Ulitzer
IBM further expanded its reach into growing nations with the opening of the
first IBM Innovation Center in the Philippines. The new center aims to help
the local business and academic communities to build skills and develop new
technologies that support demand for digital infrastructure projects in
banking, energy, telecommunications, transportation, retail and government
industries.
The center, located at the UP-Ayala Techno Hub in Commonwealth, Quezon City
in Metro Manila, will provide entrepreneurs, business partners, venture
capitalists and academics across the nation with access to training
workshops, consulting services, a broad technical infrastructure, and
hands-on assistance to help bring new technologies to market. The new center
supports IBM's efforts to invest in emerging markets around the world,
helping to develop local ecosystems... (more)
It is many weeks since the time I posted at my blog, kasi I was very lazy to
write :-)
I looked at my blogstats and I see that the number of visitors is reduced
because I have not been writing. Yay, so it is time for more stories!
Thanks to everyone who enjoys my blog and thanks to everyone who makes
comments here. I did not have confidence to write one year ago, when I
started this blog. But now I know I have the capacity to write stories that
people enjoy. Maraming salamat!
I have many stories to tell you. So my plan is to post these stories more
often now that we are in the year 2010. I had a very nice Undas holiday
(editor's note: November 1, similar to the Days of the Dead celebrations in
Mexico). I could not be back in province to visit my grandmother in the
semetario for Undas. But I did make a nice meal for her and for my other
relatives. You can see in ... (more)
(The following story originally appeared as a blog entry at
www.readnowmag.blogspot.com.)
I posted my interview with Oscar Sanez, President and CEO of BPAP, the
Business Processing Association of the Philippines (www.bpap.org). Oscar runs
marathons, and have I ever mentioned I think it's hot over there? I hope they
start these races at around 3am.
He's taking the long-term view of business as well. A P&G exec for almost 30
years, located in all corners of the world, Oscar returned to the Philippines
a few years back to apply the full force of his experience and personality to
address the challenge of developing business in his native country.
The Metro Manila municipality of Makati City (left), where BPAP is located
and where I met Oscar for our interview, is one of the showcase areas of the
Philippines and of the global outsourcing industry. Its skyline, greenbelt
a... (more)
Virtualization Track at Cloud Expo
My appreciation of David Linthicum's writing increased yet again when I found
a piece on the Intertubes that he wrote about some Big Rules for cloud
computing. One of his basic premises is to avoid the big consultant shops. To
wit, he writes:
"Most big consulting firms lead with well-polished presentations and,
perhaps, some pretty smart people. However, when it comes time to do the real
work, you're staring across the table at very inexperienced individuals whose
knowledge of cloud computing is limited by the number of article printouts
they could read on the plane flight out."
My experience is that this is the approach these thieves, er, firms use in
every project they've ever undertaken. I have now forgotten more screwed-up,
vastly over-spent installations than most people remember about grand plans
from grand consultants that... (more)
Cloud Expo in New York in April
An economist in Manila thinks it possible to double the middle class in the
Philippines to 45 million people within a decade or so. This number can be
added to the tens of millions of others throughout Southeast Asia, and the
hundreds of millions in China and India.
The idea of IT as a service, provided as if it were electricity or water
(with data integrity) seems to me to be very appealing to a part of the world
that cannot and will not have the capex capacity required to leapfrog itself
into the top ranks of the global economy.
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But with cloud, maybe so. Just as asking, "what can electricity do?" sounds
like a silly question from the Ben Franklin area, asking "what can cloud
computing do?" is not the real question. The real question is, "how fast can
cloud services be ... (more)
About three years ago, I wrote an April Fool's story about a very large
server farm that was to be built in India, to be powered by three nuclear
power plants.
I, of course, thought my story was one of the funniest things ever, even if
my opinion wasn't shared by all.
Then today I had a conversation with a friend of mine, originally from India
and now working in Singapore, who said that India is working to build 20 very
large nuclear power plants by the year 2016.
The plants would average 3,000MW apiece, an enormous amount that is about
triple the capacity of the typical facility installed in the 60s and 70s
during the first great nuclear power plant building boom.
So my ridiculous story wasn't that far from reality, I guess. This installed
power would be twice the power consumed by the country of India just a few
years ago.
I'm consumed by this idea of power generation... (more)
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