Top 5 World Hosting Days presentations, that you have to watch
World Hosting Days are coming soon, and there are some speeches on security, cloud hosting and encryptions, that need to be recapped, before we pack our bags for this year’s event. WHD.global brings together not only hosting industry gurus, but provides panel discussions, that are crucial for development and future of the internet, as we see it now.
The speed, The cloud, The connections.
Fast moving world is now almost all-based on the open source technologies, tells us Mark Shuttleworth — entrepreneur and one of the world’s-first space tourists. Modern services and applications are modeled by teams and algorithms, and broken into smaller components for further development. Open source allows to share the data, infrastructure and models, in a way that we couldn’t imagine before — mapping and deployment of apps build with open source usage is the future of the web.
A big intake on net neutrality
Net neutrality is one of the most important internet commandments. Large companies, telecoms, internet providers and governments could block or discriminate services, that rise up to be a competition. Remember, that Skype was blocked in Mexico? Telecom businesses didn’t like the idea of free calls, provided by the app. Media law professor, Tim Wu, the creator of the term “Net Neutrality” tells us more about the policies, consequences and influence of the open internet and neutrality culture.
Be like Bill & the magic of personalization
Ditlev Bredahl from OnApp speaks about the hosting market, they growth and products, but most importantly about clients, and personas build upon local market insights, and well recognized customer needs. Researched hosters claim to develop SaaS and Cloud services, bring new products on the market and deploy more into CDN’s. Well targeted products from hosting services, can even compete with Amazon Cloud Services! If hosters play local, have a good client’s research, upsell different offers to the same clients and use one platform, no web service could be a real competition.
Here comes the King of Spam
What is spam actually? Dreas van Donselaar from SpamExperts tells us, that there’s legal spam, semi-legal spam, and illegal spam, and all should be treated differently. Each of them meets us on a different channel, whether it’s just an email or a LinkedIn information. Is there any way of stopping SPAM floods on the internet? The answer would be collaboration of hosting providers and services on the fields of security and best filters.
Government meets Technology. Fast.
We tend to trust more in Apple and Google, rather than own governments on the matters of security and data protection. But, are we sure, that our personal informations are safe with large companies? The requests for detailed informations about users tend to be a delicate matter — each government has it’s own policy on terms of requiring the data, and yes, companies make concessions for particular cases, or, even for whole countries. No One could explain it better than US Assistant Secretary for Policy — Stewart Baker.
