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2013

2013 Cloud Computing Survey

The 2013 Future of Cloud Computing Survey has launched. The 2013 survey results promise to reveal the key changes in perceptions and plans for cloud adoption. Take the survey here:

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2012

2012 Cloud Computing Survey

The 2012 Future of Cloud Computing Survey results (released on June 20, 2012 at the cloud leadership dinner) reveal several important changes in respondents’ perceptions and plans regarding cloud implementation.

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2011

2011 Cloud Computing Survey

The inaugural North Bridge, GigaOM Pro & 451 Group 2011 Future of Cloud Computing Survey. The survey addresses both sets of cloud constituents, users and vendors, of enterprise cloud software, support, and services. It explores key areas such... View Survey Slideshow »

Essential Reading

A Look Back at MTLC's Cloud Computing Summit

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.”...read more

Future of Cloud Survey Shows Significance of Open Source

The 451 Group was pleased to work with North Bridge Venture Partners, GigaOM and additional companies and players in the industry for the Future of Cloud Computing Survey 2011, which confirmed the...read more

Making Sense of the Cloud and Big Data with Charles Fan

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...read more

A Cloud Storm is Brewing

This week at the GigaOM Structure conference the Future of Cloud Computing Forum is unveiling the results of its first annual survey. With more than 400 respondents, virtually evenly split between...read more

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04/24/2013

Cloud Computing Survey

The 2013 Future of Cloud Computing Survey has launched. The 2013 survey results promise to reve... more »

05/16/2012

Five Cloud Trends: Delivering...

Michael Skok, general partner of North Bridge Venture Partners, keeps his finger on the pulse a... more »

04/30/2012

2012 Cloud Computing Survey...

North Bridge Venture Partners has engaged nearly forty leading Cloud Computing organizations to... more »

03/20/2012

Cloud Computing on a rainy day

Attendees at the MassTLC Cloud Computing Summit on October 13th had the opportunity to learn ab... more »

03/19/2012

Why the Debate About Html 5 for...

On the eve of the launch of Apple’s iOS5, there are many interesting discussions raging as to w... more »

03/15/2012

Enterprise Value in the Cloud?

Last week at the Structure Conference the Future of Cloud Computing, in collaboration with Giga... more »

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  • Cloud Computing Open Source

    • 2012 Cloud Leadership Dinner & MassTLC Summit - Boston

      • David Patrick, CEO, Apperian; Lora Kratchounova, Principal, Scratch Marketing + Media
      • David Patrick, CEO, Apperian; Scott Crenshaw; SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis; Tom Erickson, CEO, Acquia
      • Carlos Montero Luque, CTO, Apperian; Michael Skok, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
      • Carlos Montero Luque, CTO, Apperian; Michael Skok, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners; David Plunkett, EVP Development, Newforma, Inc.
      • Brad Steele, Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services; Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis; Bob Batcheler, EVP - Strategy, Newforma, Inc.
      • Michael Davies, Chairman, Endeavour Partners; Scott Klein, VP, Engineering, Aquto
      • Arun Agarwal, Co-Founder, SilverLining Systems; Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis
      • Clay Booma, Co-Founder, Innovation Councils; Peter Manca, CEO, Egenera
      • Jeremy Wright, COO, Corporate Focus; Brad Steele, Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services
      • David McFarlane, CEO, Akiban Technologies Inc; Mark Taber, CEO, Active Endpoints; Elena Grinev, VP, Delivery, cloudTP
      • Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis, Christine Nolan, Director of Communities, MassTLC
      • Bill Drury, VP Products and Solutions Development, Stratus Technologies, Jackie Ganim-Defalco, Business Advisor, Marketing Recon
      • Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst, Interarbor Solutions, LLC; David Plunkett, EVP Development, Newforma, Inc.; Chris Schoettle, President & COO, Enservio; Clay Booma, Co-Founder, Innovation Councils; John Humphreys, VP Marketing, Egenera; Chris Gervais, VP, Engineering, Enservio, Inc.
      • Jeremy Wright, COO, Corporate Focus; Peter Guagent, VP, Products, Acquia; Bob Bacheler, EVP - Strategy, Newforma, Inc.; Christine Nolan, Director of Communities, MassTLC; Ori Herrnstadt, CTO, Akiban; Tim Kounadis, Marketing Director, IBM
      • Brett Adam, CTO, SVP Engineering, rPath, Inc.; Brad Steele, Biz Dev Manager, Amazon Web Services; Brian Reagan, VP of Product Marketing, Actifio; Lou Guercia, CEO, Scribe Software; Joe Kinsella, Entrepreneur in Residence, North Bridge VP; Andrew Kenney, VP, Platform Engineering, Acquia; Lora Kratchounova, Principal, Scratch Marketing + Media
      • Peter Manca, CEO, Egenera; Guest; Scott Klein, VP, Engineering, Aquto; Bill Drury, VP Products and Solutions Dev., Stratus Technologies; Jay Seaton, CMO, GlassHouse Technologies; Mark Taber, CEO, Active Endpoints
      • Adam Berrey, CTO, SVP Engineering, Clinical Future, Tom Erickson, CEO, Acquia; Jeff Whatcott, CMO, Brightcove; Carlos Montero Luque, CTO, Apperian; Elena Grinev, VP, Delivery, cloudTP; David McFarlane, CEO, Akiban Technologies Inc.
      • Peter McKay, CEO, Desktone; David Patrick, CEO, Apperian; Scott Crenshaw, SVP Strategy, CMO, Acronis; Cory von Wallenstein, CTO, Dyn; Michael Skok, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners; Michael Davies, Chairman, Endeavour Partners; Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies
      • Michael Skok presenting Future of Cloud Computing slides
      • North Bridge Cloud Computing Leadership Dinner
      • Michael J Skok on stage with Paul Sonderegger, Sr. Director Analytics, Oracle at the MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Michael J Skok Presenting at the MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • MassTLC Cloud Summit 2012 “Moving from theory to practice” tops 200 in audience at Oracle headquarters in Burlington, MA

    • 2012 Cloud Leadership Dinner - San Francisco

      • Cary Breese, GenieDB; David Husak, Plexxi Inc.
      • A toast to the Future of Cloud Computing
      • Michael Skok, NBVP; Lou Guercia, Scribe Software; David McFarlane, Akiban
      • Andrew Lee, Corey Scobie, Bill Platt and John Higgins
      • Adam Berrey, David Deeths, Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, Michael Torto
      • A view into the Dinner
      • Peter Cohen, AWS and Phil Kirk, Cisco
      • Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, founder of BitRock and Erica Brescia, CEO of BitRock
      • Henry Ancona, Gautam Gupta and Frederic Hanika
      • Dante Malagrino and Paul Dul of Embrane; Jerry Chen, VMware
      • GigaOM Structure Panel featuring Dante Malagrino and Jonathan Heiliger

    • 2011 Cloud Leadership Dinner - Boston

      • Collaborators Recognized in presentation
      • Michael Skok welcomes group
      • Tom Erickson, CEO Acquia & David Baeza, Apperian
      • Chris Scoettle, Akamai & Karl Wirth, Apptegic
      • Michael Skok has a toast with David Friend, Prasad Thammineni and Bill Drury
      • Don Bulens, CEO Unidesk with Michael Simon, CEO Logmein & Chris Midgley, Unidesk
      • Eric Egertson, ActiveEndpoints & Chris Brookins, Acquia
      • Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, George Nichols and Andres Rodriguez
      • Don Bulens, Unidesk & Tom Erickson, Acquia
      • Highlights of the Future of Cloud Survey
      • Adam Berrey, EIR North Bridge raises a question
      • What's in the Future?
      • Keynote remarks from Peter Cohen, Amazon
      • Table hosted by David McFarlane, Akiban
      • Karl Wirth, Colleen Smith, Michael Simon, Prasad Thamminen
      • Peter Guagenti,Peter Cohen,Andres Rodrigues,Chris Midgely,Mark Taber,Jim Moran
      • Table hosted by Tom Erickson & Adam Berrey
      • Table hosted by Ron Pruett
      • Table hosted by Michael Skok

    • 2011 Mass TLC Cloud Summit - Boston

      • Michael Skok's keynote presentation at MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Michael Skok's keynote presentation at MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Michael Skok's keynote presentation at MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Keynote Panel MassTLC Cloud Summit
      • Adapting Desktop Offerings to a Mobile World Panel

    • 2011 GigaOM Structure Panel - San Francisco

      • Michael Skok and Dries Buytaert in the Structure Ready Room
      • Michael Skok, Lew Moorman, Dries Buytaert, John Dillon & Marten Mickos on stage
      • Keynote Panel
      • Keynote Panel
      • Keynote Panel
      • Live Voting with Mozes
      • Panelists back stage with Jay Lyman and Mike Wolf

    • 2011 Cloud Leadership Dinner - San Francisco

      • Michael Skok with Structure Panelists
      • Survey Highlights Over Dinner
      • Lew Moorman of Rackspace, and Lew Tucker of Cisco
      • Michael Skok presenting at North Bridge Cloud Leaders Dinner in San Francisco
  • Cloud Computing Open Source

    • 2012 OSBC Keynote Panel

      • OSBC Kick-off with Matt Asay
      • Interview with Marten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus
      • Interview with Sheng Liang, CTO Cloud Platforms, Citrix
      • Michael Skok Lining up the OS Leaders starting with Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat
      • Tom Erickson, CEO Acquia & Ryan Garner, VP Direct to Consumer Warner Music
      • OSBC Keynote Panel, led by Michael Skok
      • Post Panel Interviews with Ryan Garner (Warner Music) & Tom Erickson (Acquia)

    • 2011 Open Source Leadership Dinner

      • Tim Yeaton, Black Duck and Kim Weins, Open Logic
      • Peter Guagenti, Tom Erickson, Acquia, Dries Buytaert-Acquia
      • Open Source Leadership Dinner
      • Norman Nie, Revolution Analytics and colleague
      • Matt Aslett, 451 Group and colleague
      • Jeff Erhardt, Revolution Analytics and colleague
      • Andrew Aitken, Black Duck and colleague
      • Tim Yeaton and Andrew Aitken, Black Duck
      • Michael Skok, North Bridge and colleague
      • Mark Radcliffe and Juan Mata
      • Dries Buytaert, Acquia and Erica Brescia, Bitrock
      • Basil Horangic, North Bridge and colleague

    • ComputerWorld's 2011 Open Source Business Conference

      • Jim Whitehurst, CEO Red Hat - "in the spotlight"
      • Discussing the Top 3 Barriers to the Future of Open Source
      • Michael Skok, NBVP and Dries Buytaert, Acquia & Drupal Project Lead
      • Standing Room Only at the Palace
      • The Panel Wrapping up key points - Yeaton, Augustin, Skok, Buytaert & Whitehurst
      • Tim Yeaton, CEO Black Duck, Larry Augustin CEO SugarCRM, Michael Skok, North Bri

    • Future of Open Source Cocktail Reception and Dinner

      Michael Skok hosted a reception and dinner with his OSBC 2010 panelists.

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