You can also click here to view over thirty (30), one-on-one interviews with each of the Summit speakers, produced by DreamSimplicity.

We have also posted a number of testimonials from a cross-section of speakers, sponsors and attendees who found the Summit valuable and worthwhile.

As you’ll see, the Cloud Analytics Summit brought together many of the leading innovators — both vendors and CIOs — to discuss how the Cloud is redefining business intelligence (BI), data integration and Big Data. It not only produced a lot of positive feedback, but also exciting new Cloud analytics opportunities for many of the Summit participants.

We are now focusing our energies on putting together the second of our 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit series, the Cloud Management Summit, on Tuesday, June 19, once again at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Click here to see our current list of speakers and sessions.

We are also recieving an increasing number of requests to speak and sponsor our second annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 5, at the same location.

Please contact me if you are interested in speaking opportunities and Marc Sternberg regarding sponsorship opportunities at our upcoming Summits.

I hope you find the videos interesting and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming Summits.

The BoSS Awards are part of an ongoing THINKstrategies Cloud Computing Showplace campaign to recognize SaaS companies producing tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

Aryaka provides a Cloud-based WAN optimization as-a-service solution to address application and network performance issues faced by distributed enterprises. Aryaka eliminates the need for expensive and complex appliances, as well as long-haul connectivity and enhances collaboration across locations. It offers significant cost, ease-of-use and performance advantages, helping global companies achieve dramatic productivity gains and increased visibility into their WAN applications.

Click here to read about the measurable business benefits which Aryaka has delivered to its customers which earned it the latest BoSS Award from THINKstrategies.

For more information about the rules for applying for a BoSS Award or to find a list of previous winners of the BoSS Awards, go to http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/boss.html. 

Based on the success of the BoSS Awards program which focuses on SaaS solutions, THINKstrategies has launched the Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program to recognize companies which are delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions producing measurable business benefits for their customers. For more information regarding the CCBV Awards, see http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/ccbv.php

This is bringing greater attention to questions about how to best manage hybrid Cloud environments, which is the focus of the second of THINKstrategies’ series of Cloud Innovators Summits, the Cloud Management Summit on June 19.

In anticipation of that event, I’ve discussed today’s rapidly evolving Cloud management technologies and techniques in my most recent commentaries in these online publications,

IT Services Blog: Cloud-Based Analytic Tools Can Improve IT/Application Performance, 05/11/12

E-Commerce Times: Cloud Management Keys to Success, 05/11/12 

JBara’s Cloud-based Customer Success Management (CSM) application provides significant improvements in customer risk alerts, satisfaction, retention, and revenue performance.  JBara’s CSM solution provides powerful analytics and dashboards to identify and display “at-risk” customers, as well as happy ones, to generate up-sell opportunities, references, and participation in joint-marketing.

Click here to read about the measurable business benefits which JBara Software has delivered to its customers which earned the company a BoSS Award.

For more information about the rules for applying for a BoSS Award or to find a list of previous winners of the BoSS Awards, go to http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/boss.html.

Based on the success of the BoSS Awards program which focuses on SaaS solutions, THINKstrategies has launched the Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program to recognize companies which are delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions producing measurable business benefits for their customers. For more information regarding the CCBV Awards, see http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/ccbv.php.

The Cloud Management Summit is the second of the three-part 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series designed to provide an intimate opportunity for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest Cloud management solutions and share industry best practices for acquiring and administering today’s rapidly evolving Cloud alternatives to achieve their business objectives.

Chris Weitz is a Director of Technology Strategy and Architecture at Deloitte Consulting LLP, based in San Jose.  He works with the Cloud Computing industry’s leading innovators to bring value to clients through new technology strategies and solutions, and helps his clients leverage Cloud Computing solutions build innovative business models. Chris has over thirty years’ experience in IT strategy, architecture,  and operations. He has worked with leading companies around the world in the High Technology, Telecom, Health Care, Manufacturing, Energy, and Financial Services industries.

Weitz joins the following executives who will also speak at the Summit on June 19:

• Sushil Kumar, Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development at Oracle
• Scott Martin, CIO at Chipita America
• Shahin Pirooz, EVP of Engineering Operations and CTO at CenterBeam
• James Urquhart, Vice President of Product Strategy, enStratus
• Michael Crandell, Founder and CEO, RightScale
• David Roth, CEO & Co-founder, AppFirst
• Mat Ellis, CEO/Founder, Cloudability
• Feyzi Fatehi, CEO, Corent Technology
• Russell Hertzberg, VP SaaS and ISV Solutions, SoftServe
• Joseph R. Szmadzinski, CEO, IT Management Resources
• Kate Hunt, Director of Communities, CompTIA
• Chuck DeVita, Founder, Growth Process Group

Qualified CIOs and other executive decision-makers from mid-size and large-scale enterprises can still take advantage of a limited number of complimentary passes to attend the Summit, and others can obtain pre-Summit discounts. Register now to capitalize on these offers.

The three-part 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit series of executive forums kicked off with the Cloud Analytics Summit on April 25, and will conclude with the second annual Cloud Channel Summit on November 5. All of the Summits are being held at the Computer History Museum.

Contact me if you’d like to learn how your company can participate in the Cloud Management Summit or Cloud Channel Summit as a speaker or partner, and talk to Marc Sternberg if you’d like more information about sponsorship opportunities associated with these events.

Stay tuned for more details regarding our upcoming conferences via Twitter @CloudSummits.

The Cloud Management Summit will provide an intimate opportunity for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest Cloud management solutions and share industry best practices for acquiring and administering today’s rapidly evolving Cloud alternatives to achieve their business objectives.

The following executives have agreed to speak at the Summit on June 19 to date:

• Sushil Kumar, Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development at Oracle
• Scott Martin, CIO at Chipita America
• Shahin Pirooz, EVP of Engineering Operations and CTO at CenterBeam
• James Urquhart, Vice President of Product Strategy, enStratus
• Michael Crandell, Founder and CEO of RightScale
• David Roth, CEO & Co-founder, AppFirst
• Feyzi Fatehi, CEO, Corent Technology
• Russell Hertzberg, VP SaaS and ISV Solutions, SoftServe
• Joseph R. Szmadzinski, CEO, IT Management Resources
• Kate Hunt, Director of Communities, CompTIA
• Chuck DeVita, Founder Growth Process Group

Qualified CIOs and other executive decision-makers from mid-size and large-scale enterprises can still take advantage of a limited number of complimentary passes to attend the Summit, and others can obtain pre-Summit discounts. Register now to capitalize on these offers.

The Cloud Management Summit is the second of the three-part 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit series of executive forums which kicked off with the Cloud Analytics Summit on April 25 and will conclude with the second annual Cloud Channel Summit on November 5. All of the Summits are being held at the Computer History Museum.

Contact me if you’d like to learn how your company can participate in the Cloud Management Summit or Cloud Channel Summit as a speaker or partner, and talk to Marc Sternberg if you’d like more information about sponsorship opportunities associated with these events.

Stay tuned for more details regarding our upcoming conferences via Twitter @CloudSummits.

The one-day Summit will be hosted by THINKstrategies, the Cloud Showplace and Rising Tide Media. It will include five keynote presentations and five executive roundtable discussions, which will examine industry best practices for harnessing today’s innovative Cloud Analytics solutions and showcase customer success stories. Click here to see the Summit agenda and here to learn more about the Summit speakers.The Summit is also being supported by twenty sponsors and seventeen partners.

Qualified CIOs and other executive decision-makers from mid-size and large-scale enterprises can still take advantage of a limited number of complimentary passes to attend the Summit, and others can obtain pre-Summit discounts. Register now to capitalize on these offers.

The Cloud Analytics Summit is the first of three 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forums aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better understand how they can leverage the latest Cloud innovations to satisfy their business requirements and achieve their business objectives. The other forums are the Cloud Management Summit on June 19, and second annual Cloud Channel Summit on November 5. All of the events will be held at the Computer History Museum. 

Contact me or Marc Sternberg if you’d like to learn more about how you can get involved as a speaker, sponsor, partner or attendee at our other upcoming Cloud Innovator Summits.  

You can get our latest updates via Twitter @CloudSummits.

I hope to see you Wednesday at the Cloud Analytics Summit.

The BoSS Awards are part of an ongoing THINKstrategies Cloud Computing Showplace campaign to recognize SaaS companies producing tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

Totango is a provider of an online customer engagement platform for cloud businesses. It offers a customer engagement database that combines real time streams of user actions, plus customer information from other sources such as CRM and social networks. Totango also allows you to create customer segments in real-time based user actions and then target sales and marketing (drip) campaigns to these segments to improve user onboarding, free trial conversion and renewal rates.Click here to read about the measurable business benefits which earned Totango a BoSS Award.

Click here to read about the measurable business benefits which Totango is delivering to its customers which earned it a BoSS Award.

For more information about the rules for applying for a BoSS Award or to find a list of previous winners of the BoSS Awards, go to http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/boss.html.

Based on the success of the BoSS Awards program which focuses on SaaS solutions, THINKstrategies has launched the Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program to recognize companies which are delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions producing measurable business benefits for their customers. For more information regarding the CCBV Awards, see http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/ccbv.php.

Here are the recent commentaries which I’ve published to put these trends into perspective,

• Sandhill.com: Cloud Analytics Opportunities Trump Big Data Challenges, 04/15/12
• E-Commerce Times: Look Who’s Going to the Big Data Party, 04/13/12
• APM Digest: The Democratization of Analytics in the Cloud, 04/05/12
• ec-bp: How the Cloud is Transforming Big Data into Better Corporate Analytics and Business Intelligence, 04/03/12
• Integration Developer News: How the Cloud is Transforming Analytics, Big Data and BI, 03/22/12
• Datamation: The Consumerization of Cloud Analytics, 03/21/12

The Cloud Analytics Summit has assembled the best line-up of innovative thinkers and leading Cloud solution providers to discuss how the Cloud is transforming the meaning of BI and data integration to meet today’s escalating Big Data and other critical business challenges. Click here to read about the innovator industry leaders who will be participating in the Summit on April 25 and our agenda for the day. 

Qualified CIOs and other executive decision-makers from mid-size and large-scale enterprises may take advantage of a limited number of complimentary passes to attend the Summit. Register now to capitalize on this limited offer.

The Cloud Analytics Summit is the first of the 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better understand how they can leverage the latest Cloud innovations to satisfy their business requirements and achieve their business objectives. The other forums include the Cloud Management Summit on June 19 and second annual Cloud Channel Summit on November 5. All of the events will be held at the Computer History Museum. 

Contact me or Marc Sternberg if you’d like to learn more about the Cloud Analytics Summit, or our other upcoming Cloud Innovator Summits.  

And, get our latest updates via Twitter @CloudSummits.

IT and business decision-makers from NASA, Wells Fargo Bank, and FIS, the world’s largest provider of banking and payments technology, are among the growing number of attendees coming to the Summit.

And, reporters from Forbes, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal will also be there.

Why are they all coming to THINKstrategies’ Cloud Analytics Summit?

Because “Big Data” has become one of the hottest issues facing corporate executives in businesses of all sizes across nearly every industry, and the Cloud Analytics Summit has assembled the best line-up of innovative thinkers and leading companies to discuss how the Cloud is transforming the meaning of business intelligence (BI) and data integration to meet today’s escalating business challenges.  

Click here to read about some of the key players and innovator industry leaders who will be participating in the Summit on April 25.

The Summit will provide an intimate opportunity for CIOs and other corporate executives to learn about the latest innovations and industry best practices regarding Cloud BI, Big Data and data integration. 

Qualified CIOs and other executive decision-makers from mid-size and large-scale enterprises may take advantage of a limited number of complimentary passes to attend the Summit. Register now to capitalize on this limited offer.

The Cloud Analytics Summit is the first of the 2012 Cloud Innovators Summit executive forum series aimed at helping corporate decision-makers better understand how they can leverage the latest Cloud innovations to satisfy their business requirements and achieve their business objectives. The other forums include the Cloud Management Summit on June 19 and second annual Cloud Channel Summit on November 5. All of the events will be held at the Computer History Museum. 

Contact me or Marc Sternberg if you’d like to learn more about the Cloud Analytics Summit, or our other upcoming Cloud Innovator Summits.  

And, get our latest updates via Twitter @CloudSummits.