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?"

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.

Announcing the CloudBeat 2012 Innovation Showdown

Calling all cloud fanatics! Nominations are open for our Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of the CloudBeat 2012 conference (Nov. 28-29) at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City.