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As part of a trip to New York earlier this year, the folks at Strateer were kind enough to set up an informal meeting with some AWS users in the area.
Before lunch they pointed out a small conference room to me and told me that they had invited "a few local users." They wanted [...]

I just read a great article by Joshua Greenbaum that brushed on the topic of the next iteration of SaaS. Greenbaum identifies SaaS 2.0 as being offerings that use aggregated data across the customer base to extract valuable information that can help any one of the customers individually. This is basically the concept of “benchmarking”. I’m completely [...]

Launching MobileMe, Apple has decided that , along with your mobile life through the iPhone, your data have to be stored in a cloud and synchronized, no matter the device you use. It works with native applications, on both Mac and PC, and stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on a secure online server, [...]

Microsoft Emerging Business Team’s Manager proposes an interesting view, beyond the classical “everything on-demand” in its blog.
A must read!

Are you looking for an opportunity to really drill down thru the hype, and learn what Cloud Computing is all about? There are a variety of "Cloud Computing" camps, conferences, and panel discussions. This post summarizes relevant events that that I am aware of; there are probably more that I have not heard about. If [...]

I'm going to go out on a limb today and try to paint a picture of where some of this cool and crazy cloud-based infrastructure may be going. While none of what I will write about is idle speculation, it is based on just a few data points, and may be totally off base. However, [...]

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Odesk, the developers marketplace has raised $15 million to sustain its development.
From Techcrunch

Jobpartners, the provider of human resources solutions announced today it raised $11 million from Société Générale Asset Management Alternative Investments and CM-CIC Capital Privé.

As the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) “gold-rush” intensifies, industry consolidation is inevitable. The latest example of this consolidation process is today’s announcement by NetSuite that it intends to acquire OpenAir.
This announcement not only reaffirms the SaaS industry consolidation trend, but it also is the latest example of a company profiled by THINKstrategies being acquired shortly thereafter. Other [...]

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With a view to responding to Google’s Open Social, Facebook’s announced today it is going to release a ’significant part’ of its platform as open source software.
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