cloud computing

Technology revolutions tend to come in waves. Personal computers. The Internet. Search engines. When path-breaking new ideas first arrive, they set the tech world afire, but mostly bore and confuse everybody else, who go on with their lives much as before, mostly oblivious to the change around them.

This is the 1,000th post to Marketo’s blog. It seems fitting to commemorate the occasion by revisiting our very first post, “Modern B2B Marketing Defined”, and commenting on what’s changed – and what hasn’t – since August 8, 2006.

As I was in San Francisco today, I managed to squeeze into a meeting with some of my former partners of the IT press tour organised by my friend Philippe Nicolas. Today we visited Engine Yard, a new player at the forefront of the implement of platforms as a service (PaaS, i.e. the infrastructure side of cloud computing) for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. 

note: this piece was originally written for the Orange Business Live blog

On November 15, after Zscaler, we visited Storsimple, provider of Hybrid Cloud technology. Ursheet Parikh is one of the 2 co-founders and the CEO of Storsimple, a promising start-up operating in the storage domain, based in Santa Clara, Calif.