Archive for December, 2009
In business we can follow the route of “this is the way we’ve always done it, and it works, so there is no reason to change our processes or strategies.” Innovations like virtualization or cloud computing hit the headlines, and many say “it is a cool idea, but we want the security and hands-on confidence of running our own servers and applications.”
Filed under: Entrepreneurs, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, LA Life, Social Issues, Social Networking, Virtualization | Leave a Comment
Tags: cloud computing, education, entrepreneur, frog soup, hanoi, innovation, matehematics, mathematics, physics, stanford, vietnam, virtualization
The message from the VC community is clear – “don’t waste our seed money on network and server equipment.” The message from the US Government CIO was clear – the US Government will consolidate data centers and start moving towards cloud computing. The message from the software and hardware vendors is clear – there is an enormous investment in cloud computing technologies and services.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurs, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, Virtualization | Leave a Comment
Tags: 3tera, cloud computing, data center, gmail, hotmail, max headroom, network, virtualization, yahoo mail
“The Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers, and other heads of delegation present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen,… Have agreed on this Copenhagen Accord which is operational immediately.” And so ends the Copenhagen Climate Summit. But what did the participants agree to? Was it substantial enough to make a difference? Did they silence the skeptics? Will Sarah Palin finally believe Alaska is melting into the North Pacific?
Filed under: Energy, Internet and Telecom, Long Beach, Social Issues, environment | Leave a Comment
Tags: china, climate change, copenhagen, cops15, german, germany, global warming, obama, united nations
Hunter Newby is on a mission. A mission to tear down the shroud of confusion preventing Americans from being wired into global communications at the same level as our neighbors in Asia or Europe. It is all about delivering broadband communications to every addressable device or person wired into the global communications matrix.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurs, Government Regulatory, International ICT, Internet and Telecom, Social Issues, Social Networking | Leave a Comment
Tags: allied fiber, broadband, dan caruso, fiber optics, hunter newby, infrastructure
A cloud spot market allows commercial cloud service providers the ability to announce surplus or idle processing and storage capacity to a cloud exchange. The exchange allows buyers to locate available cloud processing capacity, negotiate prices (within milliseconds), and deliver the commodity to customers on-demand.
Filed under: Cloud Computing, Internet and Telecom, Virtualization | 1 Comment
Tags: 3tera, cloud computing, cloud standardization, cloud storage, Fiber Channel over Ethernet, Fiber Channel over IP, ipv6, ssd
The headlines say it all… “Further commitment needed to break negotiation deadlock.” The rich nations vs. the poor nations. Industrialists vs. environmentalists. And at the end of the day, looking out over the Pacific Ocean towards Catalina Island from Long Beach, the dense brown sludge of polluted air is a constant reminder we are dumping horrifying amounts of human waste into the oceans and air.
Filed under: Energy, Internet and Telecom, Social Issues, environment | Leave a Comment
Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, california, copenhagen, cops 15, cops15, global warming
Now that is something for us to consider, far beyond the impact of climate change on the environment, there is a consensus climate change could result in increased terrorism, or war resulting from the impact of refuges escaping their homeland (due to loss of land mass, loss of rain/fresh water, desertification, etc).
Filed under: Energy, Social Issues, environment | Leave a Comment
Tags: anthony zinni, climate change, copenhagen, global wamring, sarah palin, world bank
Do you believe in global warming? Do you believe the cost of capping production of carbon dioxide is too high for our industrialized world to support? Do you believe if we do not aggressively act to stop global warming that Miami will be gone within 25 years? It is confusing to the average American, as even our news media falls on the side of whichever political party or side of the debate is being funded by their sponsors. How do we find out the facts?
Filed under: Energy, Government Regulatory, Internet and Telecom, Social Issues, environment | Leave a Comment
Tags: 2 stroke engine, bernie goldberg, brit hume, carbon dioxide, climate change, cops15, dick morris, enviornment, hanoi, india, Mongolia, sean hannity, sulfur dioxide
Citizen Journalism in Hanoi
In a city like Hanoi, people concentrate on their daily lives, with little regard to something as small as the power company digging up a sidewalk to bury high voltage power cabling. When you are concerned about your children getting to school on time, you do not concern yourself with mobile phone transmission towers being placed on a nearby building. Highway construction is more of an annoyance than a historical event.
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Tags: citizxen journalism, education, hanoi, history, vietnam, war, youth
Being a volunteer isn’t about being a martyr or suffering, or anything like that. In Hanoi, I think you can see there is a huge entrepreneurial spirit. I mean you look at the streets, and there isn’t a bit of space that hasn’t been turned over to some sort of private enterprise.
Filed under: Entrepreneurs, Government Regulatory, International ICT, Internet and Telecom | 1 Comment
Tags: entrepreneur, hanoi, ian bromage, Mongolia, vietnam, voluntary services overseas, VSO
John Savageau’s Profile
John Savageau is a life long telecom and Internet geek, with a deep interest in the environment and all things green. Whether drilling into the technology of human communications, or describing a blue whale off Catalina Island, Savageau will try to present complex ideas in terms that are easily appreciated and understood.
John Savageau is President of Pacific-Tier Communications based in Honolulu, Hawaii
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