Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Today at the 2010
Enterprise Council on Small Business (ECSB) Summit, Spiceworks™,
Inc. co-founder and Vice President of Marketing Jay
Hallberg will lead a panel session with executives from CDW, Intel
and Rackspace titled “Community Marketing: Lessons from the Inside.” The
session will review how marketers can use social media to “fish where
the fish are” and participate in their target market’s preferred online
and offline communities as opposed to trying to “host their own party.”
The annual Enterprise Council on Small Business Summit (ECSB) is a
premier event held exclusively for ECSB members, their trusted partners
and invited guests. The event draws senior marketing and sales
executives from enterprise companies across the country who participate
in engaging forums, discover the latest tips and trends, and gain
insights focused on targeting the small business segment.
What:
Session – “Community Marketing: Lessons from the Inside”
Who:
Jay Hallberg,
co-founder and Vice President of Marketing, Spiceworks, Inc.
Tom Thaddeus, Business Development Manager, Rackspace, Inc.
Spiceworks is enabling ‘Social IT’ by combining network
management, network
monitoring and help
desk software with a rapidly growing and active Facebook-like
community of IT professionals. Organizations of all sizes use the free Spiceworks
IT management software and integrated online community to
collaborate with each other and support the management of their IT
networks and services.
Founded in 2006, Spiceworks™
develops the first free social IT management application that combines network
management and help
desk software with a “Facebook-like” online community of IT
professionals to help over 1 million IT pros and 140,000 IT service
providers simplify everything IT. Spiceworks makes it easy for
businesses to manage IT products and services on-premise or in the
cloud, collaborate to solve technology problems, and find the IT
knowledge and products they need day-to-day. Through its Voice of IT™
market research program, the company enables direct conversations with
IT professionals, conducts surveys and provides insight on important
technology usage, staffing and purchasing trends by small and medium
businesses worldwide.Spiceworks is a privately held company
headquartered in Austin, Texas with funding from Institutional Venture
Partners (IVP), Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. For more
information visit http://www.spiceworks.com.
Spiceworks and Voice of IT are trademarks of Spiceworks, Inc. All other
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owners.