North Bridge Ventures and Leading Cloud Organizations Launch 2012 Future of Cloud Computing Survey

Submitted by Michael Skok
on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 15:45

38 Additional Industry Collaborators to Participate in 2nd Annual Survey

What: 2012 Future of Cloud Computing Survey
Who:  Presented by North Bridge Venture Partners in Collaboration with 38 industry leading organizations.
Where: Take Survey Here
When: Final results presented on June 19, 2012 at www.northbridge.com/software

North Bridge Venture Partners and the 38 leading cloud organizations today announced the launch of its 2nd annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey.

Developing in the Cloud

Submitted by Michael Skok
on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 16:05

I had the opportunity earlier this month to moderate a panel on “Leveraging the Cloud in the Development Environment” for a great Mass TLC event entitled “Rapid Development & Deployment.” During my opening remarks, I focused on three key considerations:

1.           Ease vs. Control

2.           Interoperability

3.           Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

1.  Ease of use vs. Control and power. 

This is likely the first decision in your choice of development approaches in the cloud.

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The Great Cloud Vendor Lock-In Fallacy

Submitted by Orlando Scott-Cowley
on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 20:32

Most innovations and disruptive technologies tend to bring out what I refer to as the flat-Earthers – individuals who wait for the tipping point of a new technology or idea to be well past proven before getting on board.  Why is this?  It’s because as humans we’re very dependent on habit forming behavior and love to hark back to a “better time” – and ”they don’t make them like that anymore” thinking.   Adapting to change takes time, and I believe that Cloud Computing is at last winning over some of the last and most ardent deniers.

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Big Data and the Cloud: The Drive to Real-Time leads to NewSQL

Submitted by David McFarlane
on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 21:43

The Internet has forever changed the landscape of databases. It has enabled incredibly large numbers of connected users, businesses and devices, which in aggregate produce “Big Data”. Traditional Relational Databases cannot cope economically; they were designed primarily for tracking data on discrete business transactions, prioritizing reliability, consistency and reporting. Big Data creates new patterns of data capture, processing and retention, a new set of dataphysics that require very different priorities.

With the proliferation of new purpose-built database solutions for these new

Interesting Insights from the MassTLC’s Software Development Summit

Submitted by Michael Rowley
on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 15:49

I had the pleasure of being on a panel at last Friday’s Software Development Summit and also hearing the other talks and panels at the summit. The two keynote speakers, David Skok and Bill O'Donnell, gave interesting talks about the impact of recent technology trends on software development and on development for mobile platforms respectively. However, I found the contrast between the two talks to be the most interesting part.

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Making Sense of The Cloud and Big Data with Charles Fan

Submitted by Michael Skok
on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 16:46

I had the opportunity recently to sit down with Charles Fan in Shanghai. Charles is well known in China for having set up R&D facilities for EMC and VMware and for having created a world class integrated team at record speeds. Charles is currently a senior vice president and Chairman, China COE at EMC and is working on the Data Fabric of the future at VMware. During our interview I was struck by his vision and wanted to share his thoughts as I am frequently asked about the future of Big Data and how it relates to cloud.

 Michael: First of all, what is Cloud in your definition?

 Charles: When

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A Look Back At MTLC’s Cloud Computing Summit

Submitted by Michael Skok
on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 19:57

Recently I had the opportunity to keynote the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s Cloud Computing Summit. The theme of the event was “Riding the Technology Wave to Power the Business Experience.” Video’s of the session can be found here, in two parts.

I was joined during the opening keynote session by Bruce Guptill, Senior Vice President and Head of Research at Saugatuck Technologies and I think it’s fair to say that we both characterized the cloud industry as growing quickly and going through a period of transition, with the next generation of users having much higher

Rapid Development & Deployment, key topic at December 15th MassTLC Summit

Submitted by jgdefalco
on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 20:21

Join Michael Skok, General Partner, North Bridge, Mike Rowley, CTO Active Endpoints and other industry leaders for the MassTLC Rapid Development & Deployment Software Summit, "Stories from the Trenches to Help Build it Better, Faster" Hear best practices for success, the processes and tools that have enabled high-powered development teams and share a story or two of your own that helps ensure a high-quality product, on-time. When: Thursday, Dec 15, 2011 9:00am-1:00pm at the Microsoft NERD office in Cambridge. For more information, visit: http://softdevsummit.eventbrite.com/ 

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Review of MassTLC

Submitted by futureofcloud
on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 17:50

"Clouds: Trust but Verify

Review of Thursday’s Cloud Events in Boston by Cloud Council of 7 member, Lawrence Schwartz, Senior Director, Tokutek."

Clouds: Trust but Verify: http://cco7.com/?p=550

BI In The Cloud: Separating Facts From Fiction

Submitted by bevelson
on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 14:49

“… and they lived happily ever after.” This is the typical ending of most Hollywood movies, which is why I am not a big fan. I much prefer European or independent movies that leave it up to the viewer to draw their own conclusions. It’s just so much more realistic. Keep this in mind, please, as you read this blog, because its only purpose is to present my point of view on what’s happening in the cloud BI market, not to predict where it’s going. I’ll leave that up to your comments — just like your own thoughts and feelings after a good, thoughtful European or indie movie.

Market definition

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