Archives for October, 2010

Target Architecture campaign

A key activity and skillset of Cloud Ventures is ‘Sales Acceleration’. This simply means we dig in at the coal face and very proactively help Cloud Ventures succeed by driving sales revenue activities. One sales campaign we’re launching is an international business development campaign for Canadian Cloud entrepreneurs, based on the Cloud Computing Roadmap defined […]

Cloud Camp Toronto – Nothing but upside

Sponsored by Enomaly, Windows Azure and Make Web Not War, Cloud Camp Toronto took place last night in the Metro Centre downtown. Given Cloud Ventures is about enabling new Cloud Computing start-ups, what I loved about it was the overall emphasis of entrepreneurism. If you’re a dot com veteran like me you’ll be familiar with […]

Cloud Computing – Jam today, not tomorrow

For business people, especially investors, the one core sentiment about Cloud computing I would stress right now, in October 2010, is this one. The last time I experienced it was during preliminary phases of the dot com boom, and well, we all know what followed. Cloud Computing simply represents a re-surfacing of this same underlying […]

VMaware.biz – The Coming of Cloud Aware Applications

In this great blog from Mike Vizard he describes how IT vendors are engineering their products to directly become a more integral part of the Cloud. “For that reason, we’re seeing the emergence of application-aware storage services in the cloud. For example, StorSimple has created cloud computing software that is aware of Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint […]