Here’s the company’s CEO, Howie Wu, talking about his vision of Cloud Computing and the decentralizing of data so that you can manage your own infrastructure at your fingertips.
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If you are a business with an online presence, it is important that your website and other online services are available 24/7, all year round.
Regardless, there is going to come a time when your managed, dedicated or hosted site is going to go down for some reason.
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Clint Watson calls him self a software craftsman and art fanatic. He loves to build software and loves great art. His business, known as Fine Art Studio Online, has been helping artists sell their art online.
Originally, Clint helped artists build their web sites, but quickly realized that he did not want to have to make constant changes and modifications that required tremendous amounts of time. He then developed a platform that enabled artists to build their own web sites without the need for servers and ongoing maintenance.
Hope Bertram is President of the Chicago-based Windy City Social, Inc., a networking group committed to helping professionals in their 30’s and 40’s connect on a social, intellectual and professional level. She also has another site, The Year of Hope.
Meritage Homes is custom home builder that has already constructed more than 60,000 homes across the southern and western part of the United States. The company is now ranked as the tenth largest homebuilder in the country, on the Forbes’ Platinum 400 – Best Big Companies of America, the “Fortune 1000” largest corporations of America and has been named Texas Builder of the Year five times. The company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol MTH.
