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AdaptiveComputing Scores A Round – VC’s Back in Force

September 14, 2010

Business, Governance, IT, The Cloud

AdaptiveComputing, Microsoft Azure

I vaguely remember some time a year or so ago when VC funding of companies slowed down a little. It seems that little dip has well and truly passed – every week I’m receiving many email detailing another funding…

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Gmail’s Biggest Protector is Google Docs

June 29, 2010

Strategy, General, The Cloud

Recently I presented at a breakfast program put on by a local Microsoft reseller. My role was to give an overview of cloud computing and specifically articulate the value that SaaS applications can bring to an organization in terms…

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Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

October 12, 2009

Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud

canterburycloud, christchurch, iaas, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, unconference

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we…

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MYOB on the block

November 19, 2008

Business, IT, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud

MYOB

Interesting to read that suitors are coming from far and wide for MYOB. Guinness Peat Group is supporting a takeover for the business in which it already holds a 13.6% stake. It has joined in with another three investors…

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Could We Be Getting an Australasian Data Centre?

November 7, 2008

Business, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Strategy, The Cloud

News that the self-proclaimed Google “Duke of Data Centers” is in Australia holding some high level talks. Despite Google’s staunch “nether confirm nor deny” policy, some leaks seem to indicate potential for a Google data centre to be built…

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And the Winner Is…..

October 30, 2008

Blogroll, SaaS, The Cloud

After an unprecedented response (people are so shallow out there – you offer something free and they swarm like vultures) the time has come to make the draw in the Diversity Bleeding Edge Competition. First though I’d like to…

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Diversity Competition – Experience Life at the Edge

October 10, 2008

Business, Business and the Environment, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud

freebies!

Over on Geekzone Mauricio wants to send someone into space. Here on Diversity we’re not up to that level (yet) but we do want to send someone to the bleeding edge. I’m a firm believer in the Net PC…

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Computerworld on Chrome

October 8, 2008

IT, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud

Chrome

Computerworld published an article this morning looking at just how "game changing" Google’s Chrome browser is. In the article CEO of Xero, Rod Drury, Marketing manager of ProjectPartner and myself were interviewed. Check it out here.

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Build the Marketplace and the Stallholders will come

October 1, 2008

Business, IT, PaaS, SaaS, The Cloud

google, salesforce, Zoho

Zoho is launching their application marketplace today. Like other similar offerings, the Zoho location is a place where customers can come and browse different applications, try them out and buy them (or get ’em for free in some cases).…

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CloudAve weekly summary

September 20, 2008

Blogging, IT, SaaS, The Cloud

The end of our first week! CloudAve launched on Monday after lots of behind the scenes work by people all over the place – we’re stoked to be here (or more correctly there) and hope you’ll join us for…

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