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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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.
Jason Smith founded Torchlight Technologies when he was in high school at the age of 17. Throughout his career at UT – San Antonio he continued to grow the business. And, in order to get a “job” after college, all he really had to do was graduate – and then go to work full time for himself as the President of this growing technology and networking services firm.
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...
