Tag: cloud connect
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Professor Tedlow of Harvard Business School visits the Valley
When I was at the Computer History Museum last month to attend Cloud Connect, I came across a familiar name outside one of the doors. Turns out that Proffesor Richard Tedlow had recently set up shop as the museum’s first resident scholar. Although he wasn’t my proffessor I definitely remember the name from my time…
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Force.com at Cloud Connect
Salesforce.com was one of the Platinum Sponsors at Cloud Connect. I stopped by their booth and had a quick chat with Kavindra from developer marketing, Ash, a Force.com evangelist and Ryan a technical marketer. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom. Some of the…
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The rise of the Google Enterprise team and Cloud
On the second day of Cloud Connect I caught up with Kevin Gough of Google. Kevin leads marketing efforts for Google Apps, website search, enterprise search and geospatial products and we chatted a bit about the evolution of the Google Apps team. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that…
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Talking “Cloud” with Rajen Sheth — Inventor of Google Apps
The week before last, the Cloud Connect event in Mountain View kicked off with an “Evening in the Cloud.” Representatives from Google, Amazon Web Services, and Force.com pitched heads of IT on why they should move all their IT to the cloud. (Not sure who convinced whom, but it was an interesting debate nonetheless 🙂…
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Alistair Croll – The Cloud, Meta-data and Predictions for ’09
Along with Sam Charrington of Appistry and Bob Sutor of IBM, Alistair Croll, a partner at BitCurrent made up the panel at Cloud Connect that tackled standards and data portability/lock-in. I grabbed some time (2:31) with Alistair after his panel to follow up on a comment he made during the session regarding meta-data in the…
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Talking to Sam Charrington of Appistry
The first full day of Cloud Connect last week in Mountain View began with a panel discussion on standards and the cloud. One of the panelist was Sam Charrington, the VP of product management and marketing at Appistry. I was able to grab a few minutes (2:37) with the affable Sam after his session and…
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Sun’s New VP of Cloud Computing Strategy: Ian Murdock
Last week at Cloud Connect I was able to grab a few minutes with my old boss from Sun, Ian Murdock. Ian, the founder of the Debian Linux distribution, came to Sun to lead the Open Solaris charge and after that tackled Developer relations. Turns out that with the latest Sun re-org Ian has now…
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Live from Cloud Connect: David Berlind
Ok well maybe its not live but here’s a short (3:34) video I shot yesterday with David Berlind, the man behind Cloud Connect. The conference kicked off Tuesday night and continues, as I type, until this evening. To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom.…
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Heading to California, Cloud Connect and Customers
Next week I’m making my way back to the Bay Area to attend the Cloud Connect un-conference that is being held Jan 20-22 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The conference is being held in the unstructured un-conference style which I prefer. It allows more time for meeting people and talking about what…