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CloudBeat – Coming Fast!

August 22, 2013

Business

cloud computing, CloudBeat, Conferences, IBM, Paul Miller, PayPal, San Francisco, venturebeat

For the third year running, Paul Miller and myself are consulting to VentureBeat and helping craft a conference agenda devoid of the usual vendor pitches and in their place full of real world customer stories. Having been on a…

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SaaS Applications, Integration and Business Process

June 25, 2013

Business

Business, cloud computing, Customer relationship management, EchoSign, Jason Lemkin, Software as a Service, venturebeat, yahoo

Recently VentureBeat wrote a post that discussed fragmentation between SaaS solutions and the impact that has on organizations using different services. It is a topic that I’m interested in, not least of all because one of the businesses I’m…

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FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

November 13, 2012

Business

Cloud storage, Data Loss Prevention, dropbox, Egnyte, Encryption, FileLocker, Ken Shaw, security, SSL, Star Trek: Enterprise, venturebeat

On a daily basis I get press releases from companies offering to be the “Dropbox for the Enterprise”, these companies are treading the well worn path of leveraging the well recognized name of a player in order to get…

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Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

November 9, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, cloudcomputing, Extract transform load, IBM, quickbooks, Salesforce.com, SnapLogic, Software as a Service, venturebeat

Cross posted from VentureBeat My background and entry into the technology industry came from my experience wrangling tech for a number of different small and mid-sized businesses. I’ve seen first hand just how much work is involved in tailoring…

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CloudBeat 2012–Just Around the Corner

August 14, 2012

Business

Business, cloud computing, CloudBeat, Financial services, Paul, Paul Miller, San Francisco, venturebeat

November sees me winging my way to the US not once, but twice. The end of the month sees me once gain team up with friend and colleague Paul Miller to help VentureBeat with the content for their CloudBeat…

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Why I’m excited about CloudBeat 2011: It’s not just another vendor-centric event

November 10, 2011

Business

CloudBeat, CloudBeat 2011, Heroku, Salesforce.com, venturebeat

First posted at VentureBeat I tend to be a little jaded about cloud technology events. I’ve attended a few dozen high-profile events a year over the past handful of years, making me a bit of a veteran. The amount…

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New Media for Old Media – Congrats to RWW!

September 24, 2008

Blogging, Business, New Zealand

cloudave, GigaOm, new york times, Read Write Web, venturebeat

Big ups to ReadWriteWeb who along with GigaOm and VentureBeat are contributing to the New York Times‘ technology section. It’s a great win for a New Zealand blog (well OK of the RWW writers, only Richard (and on the…

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Blog Archives

CloudBeat – Coming Fast!

SaaS Applications, Integration and Business Process

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

CloudBeat 2012–Just Around the Corner

Why I’m excited about CloudBeat 2011: It’s not just another vendor-centric event

New Media for Old Media – Congrats to RWW!