Technology Cloud computing ecosystem map has been posted at Sandhill.com I have been working on a cloud computing ecosystem map with my colleagues over at Dealmaker Media [http://www.dealmakermedia.com] and MR Rangaswami kindly agreed to host our map on Sandhill.com [http://www.sandhill.com]. You can read the entire post here [http://www.sandhill.com/opinion/daily_
CIOs prioritizing virtualization and cloud computing in 2009 says Forrester (This was originally posted at http://www.undertheradar.com and I’m cross-posting it here as well.) Frank Gillett and his team over at Forrester [http://www.forrester.com/] have released “The State Of Emerging Enterprise/SMB Hardware Trends: 2008 To 2009″ reports. You can find them here (Enterprise [http:
Technology Cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS, Web Services call for companies closes March 20, 2009 for Under the Radar Under the Radar Round 2 Calls! As many of you know, I am extremely fortunate to be assisting the Dealmaker Media [http://www.dealmakermedia.com] team as co-chair of the upcoming Under the Radar [http://www.undertheradar.com] event on April 24, 2009 in San Francisco. This is round 2
I hope Apple is building the iTablet: a light-weight, wireless, touch screen tablet. Knowing Apple [http://www.apple.com] and the crazy speculation about their recent alleged touch-screen purchases [http://theappleblog.com/2009/03/09/touch-screen-mac-in-the-pipeline-for-2009/], I hope that they are finally building an iTablet. I have had some interesting epiphanies lately. My iPhone [http://www.apple.com/iphone] is actually a much
Stephen Wolfram builds the Star Trek voice computer, or at least the precursor to it, with www.WolframAlpha.com Have you ever googled something and thought “If only I could just ask the computer this question instead of typing in keywords, sifting through pages and pages of crap and finally find THE ANSWER” buried in one of the web pages?” There has got to be a better way. Every
Who Say’s VCs Aren’t Funding? 25 Cloud Startups That’ll Prove You Wrong (This was originally posted on http://www.undertheradar.com and is being cross-posted here.) “Are companies getting funded?” The answer still appears to be yes. As long as the market opportunity is solid, the company has an “A” team (or is close to achieving that), and they’re solving real
Technology Cloud Definitions, Benefits, Issues and Opportunities (This post is being cross-posted here but the original post is at http://www.undertheradar.com/blog) This April 24, 2009, I’m fortunate to be working with Dealmaker Media [http://www.dealmakermedia.com] who will be hosting the 13th Under the Radar conference [http://www.undertheradarblog.com/]. In one
Echosign's competition steps it up a notch. Gentlemen, ready your signature pens. Jason Lemkin [http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-lemkin] and the team over at EchoSign [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoSign] are facing a bit more competition from version 2 of InstaSign by E-Lock Technologies [http://www.powerhomebiz.com/News/022009/instasign.htm]. Jason was one of the speakers at the
Amazon made somewhere between $10M and ummm...$542M on AWS in 2008. Mmmm...seem to be missing some granularity. Amazon [http://amazon.com/] had their earnings call [http://seekingalpha.com/article/117508-amazon-com-inc-q4-2008-earnings-call-transcript?page=-1] for their Q4 2008. Buried in those numbers are the numbers for Amazon Web Services [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services] (AWS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services]). Eric Engleman did
Gartner prognosticates and pisses in punch bowl at cloud computing shindig Gartner [http://www.gartner.com/] pissed in the proverbial punchbowl [http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/gartner-says-cloud-application-infrastructure-technologies-need-seven-years-mature] this week with their prognostication that cloud computing will not be mature until 2015. Jon Foley was surprised [http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2009/02/gartner_cloud_c.html] by the conservative nature
Google can now be used to prove that your spouse is a drunkard who wasn't really doing errands. FINALLY, a real service. Google [http://google.com] launched Latitude [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/see-where-your-friends-are-with-google.html] – a features in Google Maps [http://maps.google.com/] that lets you keep track of your friend’s locations. As with all technologies, this one will pose new challenges. I can’t wait for the first
Technology Google Apps has over 1 Million business customers and 10 million users. Take THAT Salesforce! Small and medium sized business customers are flocking to Google Apps [http://www.google.com/apps/]. One of Google [http://google.com/]‘s spokespeople said that they were adding 2,000 customers per day at the end of 2007 and 3,000 customers per day at the end of 2008.
A great reminder of how similar we are the world over My sister sent me this video and I just had to share it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY]
Jan. 22, 2009 Cloud Connect Event Notes. Moving Legacy Apps to the Cloud with David Berlind, Rob Helm, and Lew Tucker Here are my notes from the Legacy apps session on Day 2 at the Cloud Connect Event put on by TechWeb [http://www.techweb.com/aboutus]. Thanks to David Berlind and Angela Bole and their team for putting on the event. Moderating: * David Berlind, General Manager & Co-Creator, Cloud Connect
January 21, 2009 Dealmaker Media Strategy Series: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy Meeting Notes In the Trenches: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy January 21, 2009 | 6:30 – 8:30PM Moderator: * Mark Sherman, General Partner, Battery Ventures Speakers: * Seth Sternberg [http://www.crunchbase.com/person/seth-sternberg], CEO, Meebo [http://www.meebo.com/] * Auren Hoffman, CEO, Rapleaf [http://www.rapleaf.com] * Eric Ries, KPCB and
Live streaming of Obama's inauguration caused the Internet's top 40 sites to slow to 60% of normal speed. Wow. WebGuild [http://www.webguild.org/] posted an excellent article today [http://www.webguild.org/2009/01/internet-traffic-hits-record-high-for-obama-inauguration.php] on the effect that all of the world’s live video streams [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media] had on the Internet yesterday during Obama’s inauguration [http://en.wikipedia.org/
My thoughts on the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States Like millions of other people, I am watching Obama’s inauguration on CNN [http://www.cnn.com/].com and Facebook [http://facebook.com]. It’s interesting to watch all of the prior Presidents come in and listen to the music playing. It feels oddly imperial and royal. It’s the
CGI of asteroid hitting earth and wiping us out - WHOA Wow. Check out this CGI animation of an asteroid hitting earth. Thanks to Jeff Ferzoco for pointing it out to me.
Tech Crunch says FU to all future embargoes in a very weird and low-integrity way I wondered when this was going to happen. As distribution of early news gets more wide spread (from the two big papers in town to all uhhh hundred million bloggers), I could see the holes appearing in the dyke. Tech Crunch has posted their new policy [http://www.techcrunch.com/
Single best summary of how people feel about bailing out the auto industry that I have seen yet If anybody knows who built this, please let me know so that I can attribute it properly… [http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/pastedgraphic-2.jpg]
Sign me up for the Mini-E field trial! BMW is launching a 500 car field trial [http://www.miniusa.com/minie-usa/] for their 100% electric Mini. Wooho. Sign me up! BMW – I promise to make all sorts of videos, just like this one!
Go See MILK - the story of the "Mayor of Castro" Harvey Milk, played by Sean Penn - it's fantastic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Harvey_Milk_in_1978_at_Mayor_Moscone%27s_Desk.jpg] Image via Wikipedia Wow. I went to see MILK tonight at the Castro Theatre [http://www.thecastrotheatre.com/] on Castro Street in San Francisco tonight. What an incredibly well done and powerful movie. It
What an exciting and awesome night to be visiting the USA The neighborhood I’m visiting right now in SF is completely going off – people are screaming, honking, and dancing on the streets and on the sidewalks. I watched McCain’s speech and thought it was amazingly gracious – justas I hoped it would be. I think that Obama’s speech was
Startonomics 2008- Live Blogging Hey all, I’m at Startonomics [http://startonomics.com/] today, put on by Dealmaker Media. I’ll be posting updates to this over the course of the day. Live stream is here: My notes and editorial comments are in [square brackets.] These are DRAFT NOTES. Better versions coming after the
GE stops dating Google and marries Zoho Apps instead This is a big deal. GE has signed a deal [http://www.webguild.org/2008/09/ge-drops-google-selects-zoho.php] to put Zoho Applications on 400,000 desktops. Or webtops, really. Congratulations to Raju and his team over at Zoho!
