Escape from Visio

March 2, 2009

Interestingly enough, the product that Lombardi Blueprint most often replaces for process mapping is not some high-end tool but rather Visio.  So to let Visio users know that there was a better way to document their processes we launched a PPC campaign on Friday.

The campaign takes the user to a landing page on our site where we feature a  2:49 video (starring yours truly in his very first role as a video pitchman).  After a brief intro, the video takes the viewer through a high-level overview of Blueprint and compares it to Visio.  Check it out:

If you like what you see and want to try a 30-day free trial you can sign up here.

Pau for now…

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Professor Tedlow of Harvard Business School visits the Valley

February 12, 2009

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 at business school.  I decided to knock on his door and find out what he was working on.

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Some of the topics Professor Tedlow Tackles:

  • His work around the Intel 386 processor.
  • Harvard Business School’s case-writing outpost on Sand Hill road.
  • How technology has effected the business school and using YouTube in class.
  • What in technology right now really excites him.

Pau for now…

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Force.com at Cloud Connect

February 9, 2009

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.

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Some of the topics Kavindra, Ash and Ryan Tackle:

  • Speed Geeking and Chalk Talks.
  • Why Force.com is great for building enterprise Apps.
  • Where to go to get started (hint: click here)

Pau for now…

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The rise of the Google Enterprise team and Cloud

February 3, 2009

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.

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Some of the topics Kevin Tackles:

  • Growing the Enterprise team from less than 20 to over 500.
  • The evolution from Search -> Maps -> Earth -> Google Apps (Google’s thrust into the cloud for businesses)
  • Python and App Engine, going with what’s familiar and plans to expand

Pau for now…

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Alistair Croll – The Cloud, Meta-data and Predictions for ’09

January 29, 2009

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 cloud and who owns it.  I also asked about his predictions for ’09.

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Pau for now…

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Talking to Sam Charrington of Appistry

January 28, 2009

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 talk a little about Appistry and how they play in the cloud.

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Some of the topics Sam Tackles:

  • Offering a cloud platform delivered as software and tailored for enterprise users (think Google app-engine available as software and deployable on your cloud platform of choice e.g. private clouds or Amazon EC2 or GoGrid.
  • Freeing customers from lock-in and elevating the customer experience from managing individual virtual instances.
  • Appistry’s cloud predictions for 2009 (and how Jack Bauer fits in).

Pau for now…

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Sun’s New VP of Cloud Computing Strategy: Ian Murdock

January 25, 2009

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 landed in the Cloud Computing group as the VP of Strategy.

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Some of the topics Ian Tackles:

  • How cloud computing today reminds him of the Open Source world back in 1993 when he first got involved with Linux and Free Software.
  • What might be the equivalent of the Linux distro in the cloud space.
  • The importance of standards and how Sun might play there.

Extra-credit reading:

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Pau for now…

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Live from Cloud Connect: David Berlind

January 22, 2009

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.

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This video was shot right in the middle of the “speed geeking” section yesterday where attendees visited nine different cloud demos being presented by the sponsors: Amazon Web Services, IBM, Mosso, Google, Right Scale and Salesforce.com.

In the Video David talks about

  • The idea behind Cloud Connect and whats going on
  • Where the cloud works best
  • His predictions for whats going to happen in the cloud space in ’09 (hint, watch out for the big boys).

But wait, there’s more…

If you’re interested in hearing more from Cloud connect Check back here over the next week since I’ll be posting about six more videos as well as an audio podcast with the founder of Google Apps.

Pau for now…

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