If you are coming to Austin for SXSW 2010, I’m looking to interview real people and companies who are changing and reinventing their businesses using hosting.
I’ll be there March 12 – 16.
Managed. Dedicated. Cloud. Hybrid. And all points between, reach out to me: alan at dedicatedhosting dot com and I’ll reach out to you to schedule our meeting.
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When I first heard about Project Gatsby, I was intrigued by the name, immediately associating it with the great American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
If the Great Gatsby celebrated the great Jazz Age of the 1920’s, its message was in the sense of reality that it brought, as our country was going through an era of cultural and economic transformation.
As we go through this economic recovery, the companies and individuals I get to meet through this blog collectively share a sense of opportunity that as businesses are re-tooling, they are also looking at lower cost and more efficient ways to conduct business.
Step into The Cell CyberLounge and you’ll find a bank of sixteen high end, custom built PCs made just for gamers. The company’s founder and CEO, Sean Maddox not only offers a unique facility for his customers to play the latest and coolest games, but he’s building a community of gamers who can share their most extreme wants and desires when it comes to hardware configuration, hot gaming titles and even a chance to compete in tournaments.
At the age of 15, Zain Jaffer decided to become an entrepreneur, hosting fan sites for teens. As a high school kid in West London, building sites not only kept young Zain off the streets in a rough area, but helped prepare him for a college and now, a graduate school school career.
Yesterday, there was a big announcement by The National Science Foundation and Microsoft Corporation where they agreed to offer American scientific researchers free access to the company’s new cloud computing service.
Forbes’ Lee Gomes has an insightful story where he discusses the term, cloud computing.
Gomes postulates, “… the phrase “in the cloud” is altogether different. Like all jargon, it is opaque and euphemistic rather than vivid and direct. Being “in the cloud” sounds like an undertaking involving magic carpets and gossamer wings. Who wouldn’t want to be up there, high in the sky?”
Maybe it’s really a case of computing over the Internet is going mainstream.
Take a couple of minutes out of your day to read this story.
What’s your take? Comments, always welcomed.
Mel Indyk was the former Vice President of Information Technology Enterprise Collaboration at Lucent Technologies. Read his insights and predictions for the hosting industry in 2010...
