The first clutch of media event invites has arrived in time for Christmas. First up is DLD (Digital, Life and Design). This is the big gig thrown by Burda Media in Munich about 2 days before the World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos in late Jan 2010. They haven't yet put out the full program but thus far the line up includes Marissa Mayer from Google, Nokia's Tero Ojanpera, Jason Kilar from Hulu, and Own Van Natta from MySpace. Then about two hours later the invite rolled in from the Abu Dhabi Media Summit. This one takes place March 9-11 at the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi. This is a pretty tight event for about 400 people focusing on emerging media markets in Middle East, South Asia, India and China. The co-chairs for this first event are truly world-class: Rupert Murdoch from News Corp., Tim Armstrong from AOL, Kai Fu-Lee (formerly Google's top China person) from Innovation Works, Sunil Bharti Mittal from India's Bharti conglomerate, and several others. As exciting as these events are, they also remind me that in recession wracked America, some of the most important media and digital media deals are happening outside our shores. In one sense, it's a natural evolution. But I'm racking up horrible travel miles simply because the business is overseas. rock333 wrote: At the IaaS Cloud layer virtualisation is going to be essential to allow the self service attributes, all painful and slow to do with physical hardware. Moving up the stack to PaaS and SaaS the use of virtualisation may, as you say, be less required if you put lots of smarts into your software. A lot of software does not have those smarts and by utalising virtualisation of the layers below can manipulate existing software architectures to have more cloudy attributes through automation (eg run load balancers and deploy more servers automagically).
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Mar. 18, 2010 02:11 AM EDT
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