GACMG 2009 Fall Conference Report

The *Greater Atlanta CMG* met on October 21 at the midtown, Bank of America building located at 715 Peachtree St.  The meeting began with *Kevin Mobley*, our fearless President, showing a video from the internet covering Google beta services. The title of the presentation was "*Cloud Encounters -a Panel discussion and More*". The group discussed implications for  the future as our computer usage shifts from individual machines and/or in-house based services to the internet cloud.

We also talked about having documents, spreadsheets, conferences, other computer usage shifting to the internet.  Making these services available to anyone in the world. Kevin informed us that the US Armed Forces currently has worldwide operations and are strategically planning to move some of their current operations to 'the cloud'. Of course, a major issue is security and that will have to be resolved before any usage is safe for the army and/or corporations.

In addition everyone was fascinated with the video demonstration on voice collaboration


Specific presentations can be found below