Cloud Slam 2010: The Virtual Cloud Computing Conference
March 10, 2010 by jhicks · View Comments
I’m really digging the Cloud Slam idea and delivery model.
On March 23-25 the 2nd Annual Virtual Conference on Cloud Computing will be hosted online. No travel expenses, no expensive hotels…it’s all online – BRILLIANT !!
The event covers the latest trends and innovations in the world of cloud computing with various panels, workshops and tutorials focused [...]
Microsoft is “All In” The Cloud
March 4, 2010 by jhicks · View Comments
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spend some time at the University of Washington today preaching the Microsoft Cloud Gospel.
According to a recent email and the presentation today, Ballmer says that, “…when it comes to the cloud, we are all in.”
The majority of his ”Five Definitions of the Cloud” speech (which is embedded below) dealt with improving the end-user [...]
Cloud Computing Defined
February 28, 2010 by jhicks · View Comments
So many people have tried to come up with a concise definition of what this new phenomenon called “cloud computing” is. We, in the business, each have our own characteristics that we feel make up The Cloud, but yet again, a concise, definition has always alluded even the best of us; well, until now. I [...]
See You At The Cloud Connect Conference
February 23, 2010 by jhicks · View Comments
We’ll be at the Cloud Connect Conference this year.
Cloud Connect will be Tuesday – Thursday, March 16-18, 2010 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, CA.
The overall purpose of Cloud Connect is to learn about all the latest cloud computing innovations, technologies, platforms and to identify opportunites within the cloud.
Should be a lot [...]
Jobs In Cloud Computing
February 9, 2010 by jhicks · View Comments
They’re out there folks – even if there really is no definitive definition of exactly WHAT cloud computing is…many organizations are making great strides to move into that multi-tenant, access to data from anywhere methodology.
I, for one, work in the managed server hosting industry (for my “day job”) and can attest that the entire notion [...]





