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Internet of Things (IoT)

Mar 21
Kitsch (Shawn McNulty)

TED Talk: Trivializing the Internet of Things

By Internet of Things (IoT) 3 Comments

In 2014, the founder of MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte, spoke at TED Vancouver, sharing his vision of the Internet of Things. He was later quoted by Liz Gannes to say “I look today at some of the work being done around the ‘Internet of Things’ and it’s kind of tragically pathetic.”

Negroponte was an early astute observer of our digital world. I have always liked Negropont’s observation how backwards fax machines are: we take digital information, such as a document or a spreadsheet and and convert it to a static analog representation in order for it to be transmitted via an (analog) fax machine. Read More

Nov 06

EMC: Large Enterprises Reduce Investments in Public Clouds

By Cloud Computing, IT Strategy No Comments

By 2016, Only 12% of Workload Will Run On Public
Cloud Infrastructure

This was the surprising perspective offered by Adrian McDonald, EMEA President at EMC, addressing the audience at EMC Forum 2013 that took place on November 4 in Tel Aviv, Israel. McDonald maintains that public cloud architecture is not the right solution for large enterprises, and, in fact, CIOs are reporting that when considering the investment in security, compliance and business continuity, public cloud infrastructure is more expensive than the alternatives.

According to McDonald, market research conducted by EMC shows that large organizations are gradually reducing application deployment on public clouds. EMC forecasts that by 2016, 12% of the workload will run on a public cloud and 12% will be using a private-virtual cloud, but 76% of the workload will require internally managed infrastructure.

McDonald estimates that organizations can cut as much as 38% of annual IT expenses through virtualization and cloud deployment. But he cautions that this is an aggressive goal that requires both IT organizations and cloud infrastructure and services providers to offer new ways to deliver flexible and agile solutions and services, such as supporting customer self-provisioning.

As reported by Ran Miron http://www.pc.co.il/?p=135820

Oct 18

Connected Cars: Conduit vs. Content

By Automotive, Internet of Things (IoT), Telematics 3 Comments

In the Oct.-Nov. issue of Connected World Magazine, Dorothy Glancy of Santa Clara Law offers a point of view regarding potential privacy concerns related to connected cars.

With the hype and the hope surrounding connected cars technologies and the autonomous driving, the author is correct in identifying potential privacy and data usage issues concerning vehicle operational data and vehicle location information, other observations are hardly clear-cut and are lost in technical particulars, not all of them accurate.

In order to understand potential data privacy risks and devise appropriate remedies, we need to differentiate between data acquisition (sensors), data storage (EDR), data transmission (vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication and some telematics) and services (more telematics and location-based services). The potential for exposing private information increases as we progress in this process. Read More

Aug 26

You Are Going To Give Up WHAT For Internet Access?

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Google’s Project Loon is experimenting with helium-filled balloons to deliver Internet service to underserved parts of the world.

Internet.org, members include Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm, Samsung and others, wants to make Internet access more affordable for underserved populations by lowering the cost of cloud computing and developing lower-cost, higher-quality smartphones.

These are, of course, worthy ambitions. In January, The Economist published an article “The new politics of the internet — Everything is connected” in which it cites a study of consumers in 13 countries conducted by the Boston Consulting Group. According to the article, on average, 75% of consumers would give up alcohol, 27% sex and 22% daily showers to secure internet access for a year if forced to choose (see chart). Obviously, Brin, Page and Zuckerberg, are on to something big….

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21569041-can-internet-activism-turn-real-political-movement-everything-connected