Call for Papers for the WebRTC Fundamentals Summit will be open through October 11, 2013. If you are an WevRTC speaker and would like to join WebRTC Fundamentals Summit faculty, please contact us via «contact organizer» by email «events (at) sys-con.com» with your session proposal and bio.
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WebRTC Summit Speaker Submissions Open
Call for Papers for the WebRTC Fundamentals Summit will be open through October 11, 2013. If you are an WevRTC speaker and would like to join WebRTC Fundamentals Summit faculty, please contact us via «contact organizer» by email «events (at) sys-con.com» with your session proposal and bio.
Which Countries Really Lead in Internet Access?
At the Tau Institute, we develop relative, «pound-for-pound» rankings that can uncover diamonds in the rough and more important, show well a nation is doing with respect to its available resources. We integrate several technology and social factors into our algorithms — on the one hand including average bandwidth, access to broadband, number of dataservers, on the other hand including income disparity, perception of corruption, human development, and the local cost of living.
We’ve ranked 102 nations, and include an overall ranking as well as regional rankings and rankings by income tier. We’ve also developed “raw” rankings, which emphasize technology parameters more than the socio-economic ones, and therefore can be used to show a country’s raw potential.
I’ll list our current leaders in several categories in an upcoming article. For now, I’d like to focus on an interesting relationship between Internet access, broadband access, and income.
I noted previously that Uganda is emerging on our charts because a relatively high number of its people have Internet access, given its low per capita income. Developing this stat goes to the heart of what we’re doing, as we seek to identify those countries that are doing the best with what they have.
A cursory review of data from the International Telecommunications Union shows the usual suspects as the world’s leaders in Internet access: Northern and Western Europe, South Korea, Canada and the US. However, we would like to know who leads the world on a relative basis, ie, who is doing the most with the resources they have? So, if we integrate the percentage of Internet access directly into the per capita income among the 102 countries that we survey, we find a Top 15 as follows:
1. Kenya
2. Uganda
3. Vietnam
4. Tanzania
5. Nigeria
6. Morocco
7. Senegal
8. Sudan
9. Egypt
10. Bolivia
11. Philippines
12. Yemen
13, Tunisia
14. Ghana
15. Malawi
This view may serve of some value to us in developing our “raw” algorithms. African nations dominate, and it shows how there are flickers of potential within the lower-income nations of the world.
To refine it a bit, we can then integrate the percentage of Internet access into fractional exponents (square roots and beyond) to dampen the influence of lower income on Internet access. We also measure our iterative results against a nirvanic “Perfect Land,” a statistical nation we’ve created that has optimal performance in every category we examine. In doing so, and in feathering in a 10% logarithmic adjustment, we come up with a Top 25 of:
1. Morocco
2. South Korea
3. Latvia
4. Estonia
5. Slovakia
6. Croatia
7. New Zealand
8. Malaysia
9. Netherlands
10. Czech Republic
11. Lithuania
12. Poland
13. Finland
14. Taiwan
15. Vietnam
16. Sweden
17. UK
18. Slovenia
19. Germany
20. Denmark
21. Bulgaria
22. Canada
23. Hungary
24. Hong Kong
25. Kenya
Again, this applies only to a ratio of percentage of population with Internet access versus per capita income. It is not in itself one of our official rankings. Rather, it is just one little glimpse of how we conduct our overall methodology. And it provides a nice relative look that doesn’t simply parrot a correlation between wealth and connectivity.
It also provides a flavor of how we balance various factors to create looks that don’t follow traditional methods, which trend heavily toward simply having wealthy nations on top, developing nations on the bottom. We are continuously fine-tuning each of our formulas and algorithms, and will be fine-tuning this view as well.
In any case, notably missing from this list are the United States (which we believe to be a consistent underperformer in its deployment of IT infrastructure, given its resources), as well as all of the BRICs nations (which we also find to be underperformers in all of our rankings).
Later, I’ll address broadband connectivity (not just overall Internet access), as well as mobile access…after I let my floating-point core recover for awhile.
Which Countries Really Lead in Internet Access?
At the Tau Institute, we develop relative, «pound-for-pound» rankings that can uncover diamonds in the rough and more important, show well a nation is doing with respect to its available resources. We integrate several technology and social factors into our algorithms — on the one hand including average bandwidth, access to broadband, number of dataservers, on the other hand including income disparity, perception of corruption, human development, and the local cost of living.
We’ve ranked 102 nations, and include an overall ranking as well as regional rankings and rankings by income tier. We’ve also developed “raw” rankings, which emphasize technology parameters more than the socio-economic ones, and therefore can be used to show a country’s raw potential.
I’ll list our current leaders in several categories in an upcoming article. For now, I’d like to focus on an interesting relationship between Internet access, broadband access, and income.
I noted previously that Uganda is emerging on our charts because a relatively high number of its people have Internet access, given its low per capita income. Developing this stat goes to the heart of what we’re doing, as we seek to identify those countries that are doing the best with what they have.
A cursory review of data from the International Telecommunications Union shows the usual suspects as the world’s leaders in Internet access: Northern and Western Europe, South Korea, Canada and the US. However, we would like to know who leads the world on a relative basis, ie, who is doing the most with the resources they have? So, if we integrate the percentage of Internet access directly into the per capita income among the 102 countries that we survey, we find a Top 15 as follows:
1. Kenya
2. Uganda
3. Vietnam
4. Tanzania
5. Nigeria
6. Morocco
7. Senegal
8. Sudan
9. Egypt
10. Bolivia
11. Philippines
12. Yemen
13, Tunisia
14. Ghana
15. Malawi
This view may serve of some value to us in developing our “raw” algorithms. African nations dominate, and it shows how there are flickers of potential within the lower-income nations of the world.
To refine it a bit, we can then integrate the percentage of Internet access into fractional exponents (square roots and beyond) to dampen the influence of lower income on Internet access. We also measure our iterative results against a nirvanic “Perfect Land,” a statistical nation we’ve created that has optimal performance in every category we examine. In doing so, and in feathering in a 10% logarithmic adjustment, we come up with a Top 25 of:
1. Morocco
2. South Korea
3. Latvia
4. Estonia
5. Slovakia
6. Croatia
7. New Zealand
8. Malaysia
9. Netherlands
10. Czech Republic
11. Lithuania
12. Poland
13. Finland
14. Taiwan
15. Vietnam
16. Sweden
17. UK
18. Slovenia
19. Germany
20. Denmark
21. Bulgaria
22. Canada
23. Hungary
24. Hong Kong
25. Kenya
Again, this applies only to a ratio of percentage of population with Internet access versus per capita income. It is not in itself one of our official rankings. Rather, it is just one little glimpse of how we conduct our overall methodology. And it provides a nice relative look that doesn’t simply parrot a correlation between wealth and connectivity.
It also provides a flavor of how we balance various factors to create looks that don’t follow traditional methods, which trend heavily toward simply having wealthy nations on top, developing nations on the bottom. We are continuously fine-tuning each of our formulas and algorithms, and will be fine-tuning this view as well.
In any case, notably missing from this list are the United States (which we believe to be a consistent underperformer in its deployment of IT infrastructure, given its resources), as well as all of the BRICs nations (which we also find to be underperformers in all of our rankings).
Later, I’ll address broadband connectivity (not just overall Internet access), as well as mobile access…after I let my floating-point core recover for awhile.
BMC Software to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that BMC Software, the global leader in enterprise cloud management, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
For more than 30 years, BMC has helped thousands of companies around the world master tough IT problems. From mainframe to mobile, from the back room to the boardroom, BMC delivers the automation, integration, and sophistication that enable the business and IT to perform like never before.
Windows Server 2003 End of Life Is Coming – Are You Ready? [Survey]
In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft has announced that the end of life (EOL) for Windows Server 2003 is July 14, 2015. If you’re wondering what this means for you, it comes down to this – there will be no patches or security updates, putting your applications and business at risk. New threats won’t be addressed and your WS2003 systems will become a security risk and compliance nightmare. In a recent blog post, Microsoft warns us to “watch out for performance bottlenecks,” but that’s the least of the worry. Do you have a plan in place to protect yourself (i.e., your job?)
The Industrial Internet and SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud
The Industrial Internet refers to the world of connected sensors on people, equipment, machines, parts, assets, vehicles, inventory, etc. These items are connected by embedded wireless chips that monitor sensors and wirelessly send data to a server somewhere in the world. Here is an example of how one of the largest companies in the world is utilizing the industrial Internet.
Every major part of a GE jet engine, locomotive or turbine is equipped with wireless sensors that continuously measure and wirelessly send every aspect of performance to a central server that is often in the cloud. As the data is received by the server, it is analyzed by big data analytical solutions and the results are used to improve everything from the flight path to energy efficiency.
Survey Finds Large Enterprises Adopting WebRTC
TokBox, a Telefónica Digital company, released the results of global survey of 1,161 participants regarding developer community attitudes towards WebRTC. The report, which found rapidly emerging interest from larger organizations (1,000+ employees), also found rapid WebRTC adoption amongst smaller companies (fewer than 500 employees) where more than one in four (27.1%) developers say WebRTC is already critical to their work.
Cloud Foundry Fundamentals: Build Your Own Private PaaS with Cloud Foundry
According to Gartner, the winning cloud architectures and standards of the coming years will be determined by the evolution of PaaS (Platform as a Service). This session will give an overview of the main concepts of a PaaS and will focus on Cloud Foundry, an Open Source PaaS which is mostly developed in Ruby, from key architectural definitions and up to its main components.
In his session at the Cloud Foundry® Fundamentals Summit at 13th International Cloud Expo®, Manuel Garcia, Director of Operations at Altoros’s office in Santa Fe, will walk attendees through the practical case of getting a private PaaS up and running with Cloud Foundry, will reveal the challenges one can encounter and possible solutions.
Portal Architects to Unveil New Skysync at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Portal Architects, creators of SkySync will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SkySync enables businesses to easily Sync, Copy, or Migrate Files across any on-site or cloud-based storage platform. With SkySync’s new file virtualization capabilities, organizations can perform federated searches across any number of connected systems at once. The search results are automatically aggregated into a single folder which can then be synced, copied or moved to any defined storage destination.