GDC Booth

Check out a panoramic pic of Jon at our booth at GDC at Moscone in S.F.

Product Consolidation a Hot Topic at This Week’s Cloud Expo

Wednesday was another eventful day here in Silicon Valley at the 9th Cloud Expo trade show, which seems to be attracting a surprisingly large crowd of vendors and potential customers from across the cloud computing industry.

Much of the news media’s attention thus far has focused on how the titans of the industry – such as Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Amazon – are positioning themselves to do business in the cloud. But just as interesting to me are the conversations taking place on the sidelines of the event between small and medium-size users of the cloud.

SMB Opportunities, and Risks, are Emerging from the Cloud

Crowds were a bit thinner on Thursday, the final day of this year’s 9th Cloud Expo trade show, but attendance was surprisingly high at my presentation on the topic of cloud computing for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs).

I was a bit worried when almost no one was there at the 9:00 a.m. starting time. But within 10 minutes the room was packed with at least 50 interested and engaged people who kept me busy through the rest of the hour with a steady stream of questions and comments.