Hello all! It’s that time again. 

This just in! - we just confirmed that theNew England based Cloud startup company still in stealth mode - CloudSwitch, as a second speaker at this months meeting. CloudSwitch is funded by Matrix Partners and Atlas Ventures.

This month we also have, Newton, Inc., a West Coast SaaS company that provides recruiting technology to corporations globally.  Having evaluated moving their services to the Cloud, Newton’s Chief Product Officer, Steve Hazelton, will explain his decision to forego the Cloud for now and why.  We will also get a demonstration of their product, one of the first enterprise Rich Internet Applications, and learn how companies are turning to this type of solution to build better internal recruiting capabilities. 

Looking forward to seeing you there!

-Wayne

Date: May 12, 2009
Time: Meet & Greet 6-7pm
Meeting: 7-9pm

NEW LOCATION!!! Microsoft Northeast District: Waltham, MA

Address: 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA 02451 Phone: (781) 487-6400 Fax: (781) 487-6600

Directions:  Microsoft

CloudSwitch

Ellen Rubin, Founder and VP Products for CloudSwitch

As a founder and VP of Product, Ellen in the process building an innovative enterprise software product that delivers the power of cloud computing seamlessly and securely, so companies can dramatically reduce cost and improve responsiveness to the business.

Prior to joining CloudSwitch, Ellen was VP Marketing at Netezza (NYSE Arca: NZ), the pioneer and global leader in data warehouse appliances that power business intelligence and analytics at over 200 enterprises worldwide. Ellen was a member of the early management team responsible for growing the company to over $125M in revenues, profitability and a successful IPO in 2007. Ellen has an MBA and BA from Harvard University.

 

Newton On Demand

Joel Passen, Co-Founder and COO of Newton On Demand.

Joel is our lead product evangelist and is in charge of Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining Newton, Joel co-founded GravityPeople and served as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Business Development where he led sales for Gravity’s recruitment outsourcing business unit. During his tenure, Joel led GravityPeople to be named to the San Francisco Business Times “Top 100″ for fastest growing companies in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. Joel received a degree in Political Science from The Ohio State University. You can email him at joel at newtonondemand dot com.

March 11, 2009
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

 Welcome!

Once again we have a great lineup for the New England Cloud User Group meeting:

6th Silver-lining Meeting – The New England Cloud User Group

Date: March 11, 2009  (Note: Wednesday)
Time: Meet & Greet 6-7 pm
Meeting: 7-9 pm

NEW LOCATION!!!

Microsoft Northeast District: Waltham, MA

Address: 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA 02451 Phone: (781) 487-6400 Fax: (781) 487-6600

Directions:  Microsoft

 This next meeting (03/11/2009) brings two companies that provide Infrastructure related products to the cloud. Ed Beauvais, Sr. Product Manager from EMC Corporation will be talking about the new Atmos Cloud Optimized Storage. Nicos Vekiarides, CEO of Twinstrata will be talking about configuring infrastructure using private and public cloud technologies and how to avoid the risks in the design.

 

Ed Beauvais

Senior Product Manager

Cloud Infrastructure Group EMC Corporation

 

Ed Beauvais is Senior Product Manager in the Cloud Infrastructure Group at EMC Corporation and is responsible for EMC Atmos – the industry’s leading multi-petabyte information management solution for cloud storage environments.

 

Ed joined EMC’s Technology Ventures Group in April of 2007 with the objectives of creating innovative market solutions in emerging technology markets and creating business model innovation.  Prior to joining EMC, Ed was Director of Product Management for Fidelity Investments focusing on the development and improvement of a web based service platform for the Investment Advisor marketplace. 

 

Nicos Vekiarides

Chief Executive Officer

Twinstrata, Inc.

 

Nicos has spent 18 years in the data storage field, both as a business manager and as an entrepreneur and founder in startup companies. Most recently, Nicos served as Vice President of Product Strategy and Technology at Incipient, Inc., where he helped deliver the industry’s first storage virtualization solution embedded in a Cisco switch fabric.

 

Prior to Incipient, Nicos was General Manager of the storage virtualization business at Hewlett-Packard, where he managed a multi-site business, delivering several releases of network storage virtualization products and growing the business to include host-based products. Nicos came to HP with the acquisition of StorageApps where he was a co-founder and VP of Engineering. At StorageApps, he built a team that brought to market the industry’s first storage virtualization appliance. Nicos was instrumental in the sale of StorageApps to Hewlett-Packard for $350M in 2001. Prior to StorageApps, Nicos spent a number of years in the data storage industry working at Sun Microsystems and Encore Computer. At Encore, Nicos architected and delivered Encore Computer’s SP data replication products that were a key factor in the $185M sale of Encore’s storage division to Sun Microsystems.

 

Nicos holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

 

 

 

Welcome!

Once again we have a great lineup for the New England Cloud User Group meeting:

5th Silver-lining Meeting – The New England Cloud User Group

Date: February 10, 2009
Time: Meet & Greet 6-7
Meeting: 7-9

NEW LOCATION!!!

Microsoft Northeast District: Waltham, MA

Address: 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA 02451 Phone: (781) 487-6400 Fax: (781) 487-6600

Directions:  Microsoft

Each meeting we try to have two presenters. The January meeting had two great presenters - Greg Arnette, CTO at Sonian (http//www.sonian.net) and a Cloud vendor Sun, represented by Angelo Rajdurai. We finally figured out how to post the meeting summaries, slides, and podcasts in the cloud! They are linked here: Sonian and Sun.  The conversation continueus to evolve and we are always finding new ways to leverage the cloud as we listen to entrepreneurs, investors, and established vendors share their views and ask great questions.

This months meeting we have two interesting speakers - Mike Pitaro, Found and CCO from SnapLogic and John Fawcett, CTO  from Tamale Software. 

SnapLogic provides the glue to tie Enterprise applications to Cloud SaaS offerings such as SalesForce. Tamale Software provides a shared research space for financial services organizations  that includes work-flow and collaboration tools.

 Speakers Bio’s:

Mike Pittaro
Founder and Chief Community Officer, SnapLogic

Mike started SnapLogic with Gaurav with the goal of simplifying data integration through a fundamentally new approach.

Mike has worked in the data analysis and data integration space for the past 12 years. He built his first financial data mart in 1996, and later worked on pool selection analysis for the asset-backed securitization industry. Mike joined Informatica in 1997, where he worked on product advocacy and developed the support infrastructure for the Global Support Organization, which used a mixture of commercial and Open Source software to enable collaboration and resource sharing across five distributed support centers. Before Informatica, Mike worked in the high performance computer industry, optimizing Fortran and C programs for massively parallel computers. Mike graduated from the Sligo Institute of Technology in 1983.

 

John Fawcett
Chief Technology Officer, Tamale Software

John is a Tamale founder and its first employee. Launching Tamale in September 2002, John led the development of Tamale RMS, the class-defining research management solution that also broke ground as a truly packaged enterprise solution. Before starting Tamale, John worked in Boston as a hedge fund analyst covering the software industry. Prior to joining the hedge fund, John worked as a consultant building combined data and video systems. His work included the design of an integrated live stats and video system for Major League Baseball. John graduated Cum Laude from Harvard College with a degree in Mechanical Engineering