Web Business by Ken Burbary

Bare bones consumer engagement

I came across this visual, provided by David Armano over at Logic + Emotion, that succinctly illustrates the approach companies should be taking to talk to consumers now. Says it all, no?

The computing cloud just got bigger….AGAIN

I posted yesterday on this topic, but the news keeps coming. EMC, the global enterprise storage giant, annouced today they had acquired Pi Corp, a relatively unknown startup, specializing in cloud technology and services. EMC has also formalized a new cloud division, and hired Microsoft veteran Paul Martiz to lead it.

That makes 2 of the biggest players in their respective segments of the infrastructure technology space jump headfirst into cloud computing, all within the past 2 days. Is the cloud trend here to stay, you betcha.

The computing cloud just got bigger

I’ve already written about cloud computing and some of the reasons why I think it is a game changer, forever altering how we look and utilize web hosting (for the better). It looks like Rackspace believes the same, as evidenced by their annoucement yesterday that Mosso, a Rackspace subsidiary, will now offer cloud computing similar to Amazon Web Services. Specific product offering and pricing can be viewed by clicking on the image below:

It’s encouraging to see more players, especially industry leaders, jumping into this space along with Amazon. The result will be increased innovation, competition, and a more mature cloud computing offering. All of which benefit their customers. As the Mosso slogan says, it’s time to “Code, load and go.”