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Dylan’s Desk: How I learned to stop worrying and love “the cloud”

As I write, the VentureBeat offices sit enveloped by a cloud. In all directions, the fog wraps our office building in a soft, gray fuzz, obscuring the views of downtown San Francisco, the bay, and the ocean.

It’s not unlike …

Cloud technologies are a huge, untapped market, says Trinity Ventures’ Dan Scholnick (video)

Dan Scholnick is a general partner at Trinity Ventures. In this conversation with VentureBeat editor-in-chief and founder Matt Marshall, he discusses the future and potential of cloud technologies.

Scholnick will also be speaking at CloudBeat 2011, VentureBeat’s upcoming enterprise cloud …