Archive for January, 2010

24
Jan
10

Cloud Breakfast Briefing: Cloud Computing For the Business Executive

Cloud Computing for the Business Executive

What is Cloud Computing and how can it help my company?

Presented by Delivered Innovation and SilverTree Systems

Overview

Delivered Innovation and SilverTree Systems are teaming up to provide business executives with an informative overview and peer-to-peer roundtable discussion of Cloud Computing and how this leading-edge technology can be leveraged to achieve breakthrough business results. Topics to be discussed include:

  • What Is Cloud Computing? How did we get here?
    • How does “The Cloud” help me?
    • Benefits
  • Risks and Mitigation Strategies
  • How does Cloud Computing change the way we do business?
    • Time to market acceleration
    • Business model enablement
  • Who are the players in Cloud Computing?
    • Amazon
    • Google
    • Microsoft
    • Salesforce.com
  • How do I determine my Cloud strategy?
  • Customer case studies
    • Adobe Systems
    • Polycom
    • School of Rock
  • How do I get started?

All attendees receive a copy of Jonathan Sapir’s book, Power in the Cloud : Using Cloud Computing to Build Information Systems at the Edge of Chaos.

Seating is limited to 12 business executives, so order your ticket today to reserve your place at the table.

Agenda

Friday, February 19

8:00 – 8:30 Continental breakfast and networking
8:30 – 9:10 Michael Topalovich, Delivered Innovation
9:20 – 10:00 Jonathan Sapir, SilverTree Systems

Location

Regus Park Ridge Plaza
350 S. Northwest Hwy.
Suite 300
Park Ridge, IL 60068

About the Presenters

Jonathan Sapir is the CEO of SilverTree Systems and the author of Power in the Cloud : Using Cloud Computing to Build Information Systems at the Edge of Chaos.

Michael Topalovich is the founder and CTO of Delivered Innovation. Prior to Delivered Innovation, Michael was a senior IT leader with Siebel Systems where in 2003 he spearheaded the systems management team for Siebel CRM OnDemand, one of the first enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.

15
Jan
10

Nicholas Carr: Google’s Reasons for Leaving China Aren’t as Pure as They Seem

Nicholas Carr: Google’s Reasons for Leaving China Aren’t as Pure as They Seem

While there has been significant focus on trying to figure out what the implications of Google’s recent confrontation with the Chinese government will be for the company and its bottom line, Nicholas Carr was quick to pen an article in The New Republic about the ulterior motives behind Google’s actions. Carr has been close enough to and written enough about Google over the past few years to take an authoritative position on the matter, which is what grabbed our attention. His position that Google’s potential decision to pull out of China may have less to do with ethical posturing and more to do with the the company’s image of integrity and trust with its customer base is an interesting one, and makes much more sense than a sudden change of heart over censorship or the targeting of dissidents by government-sponsored hackers.

Three key points:

It was the attack, not a sudden burst of righteousness, that spurred Google’s action.

If our trust in the Web is undermined in any way, we’ll retreat from the network and seek out different ways to communicate, compute, and otherwise store and process data.

However important the Chinese market may be to Google, in either the short or the long term, it is less important than maintaining the integrity of the Net as a popular medium for information exchange.




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