Dave O’Callaghan,  Senior Vice President of Global Channels & Alliances at VMware has agreed to be a keynote speaker at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. VMware has also become a Marquee sponsor of this year’s executive forum.

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Dave joined VMware as its “Channel Chief” in June 2013. Previously, he led O’Callaghan Capital, a go-to-market consultancy for high tech companies, and served as VP of Worldwide Distribution and VP of Sales for the Commercial West Area at Cisco Systems. Prior to working at Cisco, Dave was VP of the Western Region at Hitachi Data Systems. He has also served as a Commissioner on the Governor’s Commission on Science and Technology in Colorado, and is a Board Member for Colorado State University’s Industry Advisory Board.

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Brian Matsubara, Head of Global Technology Alliances at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Mike Desai, Senior Director of Global Business Development & Strategy at Ping Identity have joined the growing number of leading industry executives participating in the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Ping Identity has also become the latest sponsor of this year’s executive forum.

Click here and save $100 by registering now for the Summit!

Brian Matsubara is returning to the peer-to-peer networking event after participating in the first Summit in 2011, and will participate in an industry roundtable session focused on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) partnering opportunities being chaired by Andy Schroepfer, Founder & CEO, Big Cloud Sales.

Mike Desai will join Rory Cameron, SVP, Corporate Development & Emerging Platforms at CallidusCloud and Jonathan Sass, Category Manager – Cloud Services and Software at Spiceworks in a roundtable session examining partnering opportunities in … Read More »

The deadline for submitting speaker proposals for the third annual Cloud Channel Summit is this Friday, September 6. Click here to submit a speaker proposal and here to learn more about this year’s Summit.

The Cloud Channel Summit is the leading executive forum and peer-to-peer networking event focused on building successful partnerships in the Cloud. The Summit is scheduled for Monday, November 4, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Register now for the Summit and save $100!

This year’s summit includes keynote presentations by Tim FitzGerald, VP, DataCenter & Cloud Technology Solutions Practices at Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas, and Ron Huddleston, Senior Vice President of ISVs and Channels, Salesforce.com. Click here to see the executives who have already confirmed their participation in this year’s Summit.

There will also be industry roundtable discussion sessions focused on new partnering opportunities associated with the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data, and … Read More »

AppDirect and Progress Software are returning as sponsors of the third annual Cloud Channel Summit, the leading executive forum focused on building successful partnerships in the Cloud, and you can save $100 by registering now!

AppDirect’s President and CEO, Daniel Saks, will participate in an industry roundtable regarding the growing role of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketplaces, and Colleen Smith, VP of SaaS/Cloud at Progress Software, will join the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) roundtable at the peer-to-peer networking event on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Colleen and Daniel will join other key executives from leading Cloud solution providers, major software and technology vendors, and innovative channel organizations in highly interactive sessions examining partnering opportunities and best practices in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data, and Small/Med-Size Business (SMB) segments of the Cloud marketplace. Click here to see the executives who have already confirmed their participation in this year’s Summit.

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Register now to join a growing number of key Cloud Computing industry executives speaking at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, and save $100!

Executives from leading Cloud solution providers, major software and technology vendors, and innovative channel organizations will participate in highly interactive sessions examining partnering opportunities and best practices in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data, and Small/Med-Size Business (SMB) segments of the Cloud marketplace. Click here to see the executives who have already confirmed their participation in this year’s Summit.

The Summit will also include a “Speed Networking” session to give attendees additional time to meet others interested in exploring new partnership opportunities. Click here to see the agenda for this year’s event.

We are also pleased to have AppDirect, CallidusCloud, Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SoftServe returning as sponsors supporting this year’s peer-to-peer, executive networking forum. The Summit is also being supported … Read More »

The agenda for this year’s Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 has been designed to focus on the rapidly evolving Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data and Small-/Mid-Size Business (SMB) partner opportunities in the Cloud. Register now and save $100 on the conference registration fee!

The third annual Summit will once again take place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, and this year will include a special “Speed Networking” session to give attendees additional time to meet others interested in establishing new partnerships to expand their Cloud ecosystems.

Click here to see the full Summit agenda, and here to see the speakers who have already committed to participate in this year’s event.

CallidusCloud, Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SoftServe are returning as sponsors supporting this year’s peer-to-peer, executive networking forum. Click here to learn more about the sponsors, and here to see the Summit partners.

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Chris Rimer, Global Head of Partner Business for the Google Cloud Platform, Google Enterprise will join a growing number of key Cloud Computing industry executives speaking at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Chris will participate in the Cloud Channel Summit Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Industry Roundtable which will discuss Cloud Partner Success Stories: What’s Working and What’s Not. The roundtable panel session will also include:

Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Technology
Russell Hertzberg, Vice President Technology Solutions, SoftServe Inc.
Kevin O’Brien, Senior Director of ISV/OEM Business Development at Oracle

The Summit will include additional panel roundtable sessions focused on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data, and Small/Med-Size Business (SMB) partner opportunities in the Cloud.

The Summit will also include a “Speed Networking” session to give attendees additional time to meet others interested in exploring new partnership opportunities.

CallidusCloud, Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SoftServe as returning sponsors supporting this year’s peer-to-peer, executive networking forum.

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Ron Huddleston, Senior Vice President of ISVs and Channels at Salesforce.com, and Kevin O’Brien, Senior Director of ISV/OEM Business Development at Oracle are among the growing number of Cloud Computing industry executives speaking again at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Salesforce.com and Oracle are also joining CallidusCloud, Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group and SoftServe as returning sponsors of this unique peer-to-peer, executive networking forum.

Ron and Kevin will join the following speakers at this year’s Cloud Channel Summit:

Daniel Saks, President and CEO, AppDirect
Feyzi Fatehi, CEO, Corent Technology
Eileen Boerger, CEO, CorSource Technology Group
Rory Cameron, SVP Corporate Development & Emerging Platforms, CallidusCloud
Russell Hertzberg, Vice President, Technology Solutions, SoftServe Inc.
Carlos Roman, Director, Insight Cloud Programs, InsightCloud Solutions

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

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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

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