My HostingCon Presentation: “Oh My God We’re All Gonna Die…”
As you may have heard, I’ll be speaking at HostingCon 2010 next week in balmy, beautiful, and weird Austin, TX. I love Austin and am really looking forward to mingling with friends and industry colleagues, but I thought I’d mention something about my presentation before I hopped on a plane to the Lone Star State.
The name of my presentation is:
“Oh My God We’re All Gonna Die: The Future of Webhosting…and What We Can Do About It.”
Now, I admit the title is a bit provocative, but I want to be clear that what I think is going to happen to our industry in the next few years will completely transform the landscape of the web.
What this presentation will spell out are what I believe to be the coming shifts in web hosting and web infrastructure in the next few years. Like the automotive industry more than a century ago, the web is a chaotic marketplace with competing platforms and standards.
Whether it’s Windows and Linux, WebM vs OGG vs H.264, or Open vs Proprietary, the movers and shakers on the web are still arguing over foundational issues. We are only now beginning to see a crystallization of standards, and along with it we’re seeing the entrance of technology behemoths creating and promptly capturing entire segments of the internet economy.
I’ll be out of the office for a few days after I give my presentation, but I’ll be sure to post it here for all to see as soon as I’m back and am looking forward to your thoughts and feedback.
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Christian, I’m very excited to see (I hope it will be a video) your presentation!
It will be interesting to see your predictions and how game changing you think the landscape will become. Either way, I’m glad that ServInt is looking ahead to see where the shifts might be heading so your team will be in a position to ride the wave instead of being swept under by it.
One word I didn’t see mentioned in the chaotic mix above: “cloud”. This means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but I keep hearing more and more peeps in the hosting industry throw the term around relative to web hosting.
Looking forward to your presentation… I know you’ll do great!