FastIgnite, Inc. » cloud computing http://fastignite.com Igniting Startup Innovation. Quickly. Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:26:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Cloud computing at TIECon http://fastignite.com/blog/cloud-computing-at-tiecon http://fastignite.com/blog/cloud-computing-at-tiecon#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:08:46 +0000 Sim Simeonov http://fastignite.com/?p=436 Soon after my workshop on the evolution of cloud computing with Bob Brennan (CEO, IronMountain) and John McEleney (CEO, CloudSwitch) at the Nantucket Conference,  I’ll be leading another cloud computing panel with another great group of speakers at TiECon East:

  • John McEleney – CEO, CloudSwitch
  • Scott Crenshaw – VP/GM, Cloud Business Unit at RedHat
  • Dave Fachetti – Managing Director, Globespan Capital
  • Rob May – CEO, Backupify

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) events are very well executed. I invite you to join us.

]]> http://fastignite.com/blog/cloud-computing-at-tiecon/feed 0 Cloud computing http://fastignite.com/blog/cloud-computing http://fastignite.com/blog/cloud-computing#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:39 +0000 Sim Simeonov http://fastignite.com/?p=145 Sim will be leading a discussion on cloud computing sponsored by MassNetComms.

]]> http://fastignite.com/blog/cloud-computing/feed 0 Join Sim at the April 15 cloud computing event http://fastignite.com/blog/join-sim-at-the-april-15-cloud-computing-event http://fastignite.com/blog/join-sim-at-the-april-15-cloud-computing-event#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:04:36 +0000 Sim Simeonov http://fastignite.com/?p=54 I helped organize the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge’s cloud computing event. Beat the Tax Day blues and join us for a candid discussion about the promise vs. reality of cloud computing. The event promises to be great as we’ve assembled a stellar cast of speakers from both coasts.

Adam Selipsky, VP Product Management and Developer Relations at Amazon Web Services will start off with a short keynote followed by a fireside chat with me and audience Q&A. Amazon continues to lead in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) part of the cloud services spectrum but they are also pushing deeper into the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) space by improving SimpleDB and driving additional innovations such as the recently-launched beta of Elastic Map Reduce. Adam is a dynamic speaker who’s got his finger on the pulse of cloud computing.

The goal of the event is to showcase what’s possible today with cloud computing. This is where the demos come in.

My friend and former co-worker Spike Washburn, who recently founded Stax Networks, will show off his company’s PaaS offering targeting Java applications. While Engine Yard’s amazing management of Ruby apps is impressive and Google’s AppEngine shows how one can manage Python-based apps in the cloud, there are a lot more Java developers and many more Java applications out there. Stax Networks is going for the sweet spot of enterprise cloud hosting.

Following that, Fumi Matsumoto, founder/CTO of Allurent will tell the story of how Allurent migrated its e-commerce 2.0 platform from on-premise to on-demand delivery and changed its go-to-market approach in a matter of months by leveraging cloud computing. Fumi will also share some of the hard-to-come-by data about the real costs of running a product in the cloud.

Frank Gillett, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester Research will close with a panel including Roman Stanek, founder/CEO of GoodData , Richard Reiner, CEO of Enomaly and Josh Fraser, VP of Business Development at RightScale. This will be a real treat.

Register for the event now and leave a comment if you’d like to join me at the VIP reception before the event (very few invitations are left).

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