Don’t get SaaS-y with me: 5 CloudBeat lessons you need to know

Here the big five big things you missed at CloudBeat 2012.

The cloud ate my data! Health entrepreneurs say vendors should be liable

At CloudBeat, the healthcare panel kicked off with a harrowing statistic. The vast majority of breast cancer sufferers will not benefit from chemotherapy. And yet, most patients today receive this highly invasive treatment.

According to genetics expert Ken Stineman, over …

Platform-as-a-service CEOs bet their futures on mainstream PaaS adoption

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is by far the smallest sector of cloud, but four PaaS CEOs think it's about to hit the big time.

VMWare CTO: ‘Things need to change dramatically’ at networking companies

VMWare chief technology officer Stephen Herrod believes in a future filled with choices. And he thinks networking companies better start embracing choice, especially open-source software, or face steep consequences.

“There’s not a networking company in the world that doesn’t realize …

Cloud entrepreneurs: customers don’t want to be ‘milked like a cow’

Who would have thought that a full-on debate would erupt with such a simple question, "What is open cloud?"

CloudBeat case study: Integrating Salesforce at Axcient isn’t magical

Integrating Salesforce.com isn't magical. Axcient found that it had to create a process for integrating it into the enterprise.

Box VP Sam Schillace: People won’t tolerate crappy enterprise apps anymore

Box VP of engineering Sam Schillace recently moved to his current job after several years at Google. He thinks your enterprise mobile app better have a good design or it's totally getting ignored.

Cloud security experts: Use multi-factor authentication, you dummies

If you’re not using multi-factor authentication as a company or as a consumer, you really need to start. So say the cloud security geniuses at CloudBeat 2012.

Big data’s dirty secret: Companies are storing data but don’t know what to do with it!

On stage at CloudBeat, Sequoia's Bill Coughran said he had spoken with dozens of companies that had collected unstructured data (texts, emails, reports, and so on) but had no idea about what to do with it once it was stored.

Cloud experts say healthcare is the ‘perfect storm’

For cloud technology companies that are brave enough to tackle the healthcare industry, it's a perfect storm -- there are major challenges and opportunities.

Nebula CEO & former NASA CTO Chris Kemp: ‘Next year is the year of OpenStack’

Chris Kemp has an impressive resume: a co-founder of OpenStack, former NASA CTO, and CEO of next-gen private cloud startup Nebula. Today he predicted next year would be the year of OpenStack.

Meet our 7 finalists for the CloudBeat 2012 Innovation Showdown

Without further ado, here are our CloudBeat 2012 Innovation Showdown finalists.

Are you scared yet? Why cloud security keeps these 7 execs up at night

Once upon a time, you knew who to fire when a hack took down your servers: The "little weenies" running around in the basement of your company, as AlienVault's Russell Spitler put it. But that's all changing.

CloudBeat 2012 speakers really have their heads in the cloud

We've finalized the list of speakers for CloudBeat 2012, which includes CTOs and CIOs from top enterprise customers as well as the cloud companies competing for their business. You won't want to miss it.

HP’s Meg Whitman tops list of female CEOs ranked by web presence

The female executives on the list span a variety of industries from enterprise technology to retail. Given the amount of media attention paid to technology companies of late, it's no surprise that Silicon Valley-based CEO's dominate the list.