PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Group of 20 is set to become the premier coordinating body on global economic issues, reflecting a new world economic order in which emerging market countries like China are much more relevant, according to a draft communique.
Phi Beta Iota: G-20 along with the International Monetary Fund (IMB) and the World Bank are headed for a rude decline in the next decade. What matters now is NOT trade in industrial era terms (that ignored “true cost”) but rather population and the potential of that population to create wealth. Here's our take, followed by a new book we recommend, and several categories of books that we have reviewed that bear on this matter.
Event Description: Where’s My Money?“Over the next five years, IDC expects spending on IT cloud services to grow almost threefold, reaching US$42 billion by 2012 and accounting for 9 per cent of revenues in five key market segments. More importantly, spending on cloud computing will accelerate throughout the forecast period, capturing 25 per cent of IT spending growth in 2012 and nearly a third of growth the following year,” declares custom research company IDC in a press release it issued in October last year.
There are at least two organized gangs in cloud computing, with several more emerging in the wings. This is a first cut at what we have in play.
Below the fold are a list of members of the Infrastructure 2.0 Gang and the Cloud Connect Gang, followed by a number of headlines from 2007 to date that comprise a rapid read-in.
As with the origin of computers, when librarians were not consulted, the focus on these gangs is on technical connectivity and related issues (e.g. authentication, security), and NOT on information-sharing and sense-making as the ultimate objective.
PHI BETA IOTA : Cloud Connect is about “pay as you go” services.
Event Gains Momentum with Cloud Computing Leaders on Board and IBM Diamond Sponsorship
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ — TechWeb, producers of Cloud Connect, today announce the event's elite list of advisory board members, including cloud computing leaders from Cisco, HP, IBM, McAfee and Microsoft. Cloud Connect is a premier technology event helping to drive the understanding and adoption of Cloud Computing to key audiences. The event is taking place March 15-18, 2010 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, CA. For more information, visit: www.cloudconnectevent.com.
Cloud Connect is the meeting place for the cloud technology community and provides the forum for the most powerful cloud innovations and solutions. The event will examine critical aspects of cloud computing through keynotes, panel discussions, demonstrations, and insightful interviews with the people shaping the cloud computing industry.
Click here to read the press release listing names of all those on the advisory board.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to expand and codify the FCC's four network neutrality principles and to utter horror of wireless carriers, make them apply the mobile Internet. It all adds to one of greatest policy battles at the FCC in years.
The entire story is strongly hostile to the FCC and a “must read.”
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See also: Net neutrality fight begins. Not unexpectedly, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski this week issued a call for an “open Internet,” and wireless networks are not immune. Most wireless operator executives aren't happy.
Meanwhile, we're focusing on Open Spectrum and Bottom-Up Clouds.
Cloud of Clouds is the new new meme, burying Semantic Web. You can see Vint Cerf in his traditional vest. We've asked for the names of all those attending, perhaps that will come out soon.
In the meantime, we see Google and CISCO-Nokia going head to head, whle Amazon and IBM fritter on the sides, HP brings out SkyRoom, and China creates its own Google killer. What India might be up to is a mystery–if we were in their shoes we'd be putting a Nokia factory in EACH province, and demanding that all computers sold in india be wireless equipped and capable of creating ad hoc neighborhood clouds that can survive the Obama Administration's shutting down of the Internet in the USA.
5.0 out of 5 starsPhenomenal Reference with a Priceless CD,
September 25, 2009
Jerome Glenn, Theodore Gordon, and Elizabeth Florescu
This book, which includes a CD with a ton of additional information and visualization, is worth every penny of the asking price. It brings together global statistics, illustrations, and expert depictions of alternative scenarios.
Although it focuses primarily on Energy & Economies, it is closely tied in with achieving all of the Millenium Goals set by the Member Nations of the United Nations, and cacn easily be scaled up and out as more resources are applied.
