Over 2200 companies are now listed on THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Showplace and more than 4400 people are following THINKstrategies’ latest updates on Twitter.

The Cloud Computing Showplace is the oldest and largest, vendor-independent, online directory of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions, including Managed Services, and resource center of industry best practices. Over 15,000 corporate decision-makers have subscribed to the THINKstrategies Cloud Computing Showplace newsletter.

The latest example of the business value of our online directory and industry best practices resource center comes from Justin Phipps, Director of Marketing at DocLanding.com, a secure Cloud document management provider based in Omaha, Nebraska, who told us, “Cloud Showplace accounts for 12% of referral traffic and 7.4% of new accounts for DocLanding.”

If your company isn’t already listed on the Showplace, you an add your corporate information in the appropriate application, industry and service areas by completing online registration form at … Read More »

Key executives from Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group and SoftServe have agreed to speak again at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

The latest executives to sign up to present their views at the Cloud Channel Summit peer-to-peer networking forum are:

Feyzi Fatehi, CEO, Corent Technology
Eileen Boerger, CEO, CorSource Technology Group
Russell Hertzberg, Vice President Technology Solutions, SoftServe Inc.

These senior executives will join Tim FitzGerald, Vice President of Avnet Technology Solutions’ DataCenter & Cloud Technology Solutions Practices, who will kick off this year’s Summit.

They will be joined by the following executives returning to the Summit to provide their perspectives regarding strategies and tactics for building successful partnerships in the Cloud:

Daniel Saks, President and CEO, AppDirect
Katherine Hunt, Director of Communities, CompTIA
William McCarthy, Senior Vice President, InsightCloud Solutions

The Cloud Channel Summit is … Read More »

If you missed the 2013 Cloud Analytics Summit in NYC on May 2, or would like to get a second chance to capture the insights shared at the event, all the presentations and roundtable panel sessions, as well as one-on-one speaker interviews, and event highlights from the Cloud Analytics Summit executive forum are now available online.

As you’ll see, the Cloud Analytics Summit brought together a group of real innovators — both vendors and CIOs — to discuss how the Cloud is redefining business intelligence (BI) and data integration, and enabling organizations of all sizes to overcome their Big Data challenges to achieve their business objectives.

Click here to view the Summit presentations and panel sessions. You can also click here to view one-on-one interviews with many of the Summit speakers. And, you can find other highlights from the Summit here.

We are now focusing our energies on putting together the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4, at the Computer … Read More »

Joe Weinman, the author of “Cloudonomics” and Senior Vice President of Telx, will present his views about the economics of Cloud, Mobile and Big Data at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City.

The Summit will bring together executives from leading providers of innovative Cloud-based solutions addressing today’s escalating Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Integration challenges, and CIOs and other key corporate decision-makers who are successfully employing these solutions to achieve their business objectives.

Weinman is the founder of Cloudonomics, a multidisciplinary analytical approach leveraging economics, behavioral economics, statistics, calculus, computational complexity theory, simulation, and system dynamics to assess the multi-dimensional business, financial, and user benefits of cloud computing and other on-demand, pay-per-use business models. Weinman is also responsible for leading Telx’s cloud services business development and strategy. He has also been named a “Top 10 Cloud Computing Leader” by TechTarget.

Joe is the … Read More »

IBM’s CIO, Jeanette Horan, is the latest industry executive who has agreed to speak at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City.

Ms. Horan’s organization supports IBM’s transformation agenda by ensuring that its technology strategy is aligned with its business objectives so the company can attain the goals established in IBM’s 2015 roadmap which include annual sales from analyzing business data of $20 billion in 2015. Since 2005, IBM has spent over $16 billion on 35 acquisitions to boost its analytics capabilities.

Ms. Horan was appointed CIO of IBM in May 2011. Previously she was the Vice President of Enterprise Business Transformation at IBM and was responsible for worldwide product development for the Information Management business in Software Group, and General Manager of IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory. Prior to joining IBM, Ms. Horan spent four years with Digital Equipment Corporation … Read More »

Tim FitzGerald, Avnet Services  - Vice President of Cloud Solutions, will kickoff the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

The Cloud Channel Summit is part of the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media. The series is aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better understand how they can leverage the latest Cloud innovations to achieve their business objectives. The first event of the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit series is the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 at the Apella Executive Conference Center in New York City.

Tim FitzGerald oversees the development and growth of Avnet’s Cloud Solutions business building an ecosystem of leading providers and partners to address the demand for market-ready cloud solutions. With more than 25 years of experience, FitzGerald joined Avnet in 1989 and has held positions of increasing … Read More »

Bill Krivoshik, SVP and Chief Information Officer, Time Warner Inc. has agreed to speak at the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit on Thursday, May 2 in New York City. The Cloud Analytics Summit is a one-day, executive forum focused on the latest innovations which are enabling organizations of all sizes to address their Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Integration challenges in the Cloud.

As Time Warner’s first enterprise CIO, Bill Krivoshik leads the overall IT strategy at the company, a global leader in media and entertainment with businesses in television networks, film and TV entertainment, and publishing. He also oversees IT shared services. Prior to Time Warner, Bill served as enterprise CIO for Marsh & McLennan, CTO for Thomson Financial, CTO for Citigroup Global Investment Management, and as CIO for AIG and several GE Capital companies. He started his career with Andersen Consulting … Read More »

THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media have received a tremendous response to our 2013 Cloud Analytics and Cloud Channel Summit conference plans on May 2 and November 4, respectively. In order to respond to the speaking requests for these upcoming events in an orderly fashion, we have established an online speaker proposal process.

Please go to the following links to submit your speaking proposals for each of the Cloud Innovators Summits:

Cloud Analytics Summit
Cloud Channel Summit

We will consider each proposal on a first come, first serve basis.

Summit sponsors and those companies which propose customers as potential speakers will be given preferential treatment in the selection process. We are also looking for speaking proposals focused on key business issues rather than specific technical topics.

We will consider each proposal on a first come, first serve basis.

Contact me if you have questions regarding the speaking opportunities or have technical problems submitting your … Read More »

THINKstrategies and the Cloud Computing Showplace, in conjunction with Rising Tide Media, are pleased to announce the dates and locations for the 2013 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forums which will focus on the unique business opportunities created by today’s rapidly evolving Cloud Computing services and solutions aimed at capitalizing on the unprecedented BIg Data, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Integration and Channel Partnership opportunities in the Cloud.

Cloud Analytics Summit

We are very excited to be hosting the second annual Cloud Analytics Summit peer-to-peer networking event on Thursday, May 2, 2013, at the beautiful Apella meeting center in NYC.

After bringing together over 150 executives from the leading Cloud-based BI and data integration providers, along with CIOs from innovative companies like Facebook and Splunk at our first Cloud Analytics Summit, we believe the time is right to relocate our event to world’s commercial center where financial services, media companies and others are aggressively pursuing Cloud … Read More »

The second annual Cloud Channel Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, was a tremendous success. The peer-to-peer, executive networking event brought together over 200 attendees, 40 speakers, 23 partners and 19 sponsors. And, now you can view the 10 sessions online!

Click here to view the video recordings of the keynote presentations and panel discussions with key executives from leading Cloud companies like Salesforce.com, Google, GoodData, InformaticaCloud, MuleSoft, Rackspace, SugarCRM and VMware; software and systems vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP and VMware; along with leading VARs/systems integrators and other important channel companies including All Covered, Avnet, Centerbeam, Cloud Sherpas, Ingram Micro, Insight, Spiceworks andTech Data.

As you’ll see in the videos, the sessions examined the following key topics of concern to Cloud vendors and channel partners:

Where’s the Channel in the Cloud? A State of the Industry
What … Read More »