About three years ago I received an email from Steve Orenstein, CEO of fledgling startup Connect2Field. Steve had built a pretty cool SaaS solution for field workers – straight away I liked the space he was in, it really…
You would have thought that after years watching the shenanigans that technology marketers use to pimp their products, I would have grown used to it all. Unfortunately that’s not the case and I still get all fired up when…
The other day a minor storm broke out amongst the clouderati that had its genesis in a post Krishnan wrote looking at who is likely to disrupt AWS (teaser – PaaS from one end and alternative IaaS operating systems…
I spend a lot of time in Australia running CloudCamps that attracts a wide variety of participants – industry, government, startups and education all attend the events. One group that tends to be missing at CloudCamp however, and from…
A month or so ago I was running a CloudCamp in Australia. As always it was a great event but was made more so by a fascinating exchange between two very different people. On the one hand was Michael Folmer-Hansen from SaaS customer support vendor Zendesk, who was attending his first CloudCamp after Zendesk had […]
In a recent CloudU report – I made an effort to explain the Cloud Computing stack to non-technical, Mom and Pop businesses. As I reflected upon last week, the triangle metaphor is slightly imperfect for describing what the Cloud…
In my travels running CloudCamps all over the place, I’m always surprised how often the “how do you define Cloud” question comes up. Spending so much time in the rarefied atmosphere of the twitterverse, it’s easy to just assume…
Why do they still exist? The other day I received a call from someone looking to put on a Cloud Computing conference in New Zealand. Now it’s important, for context’s sake, to know that I’ve run around 10 CloudCamps…
I’m in Sydney en route to a CloudCamp in Canberra and taking in a day of the inaugural NetSuite APAC SuiteCloud event. Over lunch with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, APAC MD Chris Schafer and a bunch of customers and…
