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Job Done – Connect2Field Acquired by Fleetmatics

August 9, 2013

Business

Business, cloudcamp, Fleetmatics, Melbourne, New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, Software as a Service, Steve Orenstein

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…

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More Marketing Opportunism – Cloud in a Box as a Foil to PRISM. Meh

July 5, 2013

Business

cloud computing, cloudcamp, National Security Agency, Network-attached storage, NSA, PRISM, Protonet, Salesforce.com

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…

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Cloud Surveys, and Extrapolating Out to Disruption

June 20, 2012

Business

Business, Christian Reilly, cloudcamp, cloudcomputing, e-commerce, OpenStack, Platform as a service, Software as a Service

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…

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NetSuite Scores Resources Company–This is Big

April 10, 2012

Business

australia, cloud computing, cloudcamp, GMC Global, netsuite, Professional Services Automation

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…

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ASP Isn’t SaaS. Is It?

September 13, 2011

Uncategorized

Application programming interface, Application service provider, cloudcamp, Software as a Service, zendesk

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 […]

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Explaining PaaS

September 6, 2011

engineyard

cloudcamp, cloudcomputing, Heroku, Salesforce.com, VMware

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…

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On Definitions – Keeping it Simple with OSSM

August 23, 2011

National Institute of Standards and Technology, New Zealand

cloud computing, cloudcamp, CloudU

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…

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On Traditional Conferences

February 28, 2011

Business

cloud computing, cloudcamp, New Zealand

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…

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NetSuite – Sales Success, Keeping the Ecosystem Happy and a Hint of Future Moves

October 10, 2010

Business

bydesign, cloudcamp, erp, netsuite, SAP, suitecloud, zach nelson

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…

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