On the second day of Cloud Connect I caught up with Kevin Gough of Google. Kevin leads marketing efforts for Google Apps, website search, enterprise search and geospatial products and we chatted a bit about the evolution of the Google Apps team.
To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom.
Some of the topics Kevin Tackles:
Growing the Enterprise team from less than 20 to over 500.
The evolution from Search -> Maps -> Earth -> Google Apps (Google’s thrust into the cloud for businesses)
Python and App Engine, going with what’s familiar and plans to expand
The week before last, the Cloud Connect event in Mountain View kicked off with an “Evening in the Cloud.” Representatives from Google, Amazon Web Services, and Force.com pitched heads of IT on why they should move all their IT to the cloud. (Not sure who convinced whom, but it was an interesting debate nonetheless )
Representing Google was Ragen Sheth, its lead Product Manager and the person credited with inventing Google Apps. After he finished speaking I was able to grab a few minutes with Ragen to learn more about what Google’s been doing in the Cloud. Check it out.
Ok well maybe its not live but here’s a short (3:34) video I shot yesterday with David Berlind, the man behind Cloud Connect. The conference kicked off Tuesday night and continues, as I type, until this evening.
To watch in High Quality: after clicking play, click the “HQ” button that will appear on the bottom.
This video was shot right in the middle of the “speed geeking” section yesterday where attendees visited nine different cloud demos being presented by the sponsors: Amazon Web Services, IBM, Mosso, Google, Right Scale and Salesforce.com.
In the Video David talks about
The idea behind Cloud Connect and whats going on
Where the cloud works best
His predictions for whats going to happen in the cloud space in ’09 (hint, watch out for the big boys).
But wait, there’s more…
If you’re interested in hearing more from Cloud connect Check back here over the next week since I’ll be posting about six more videos as well as an audio podcast with the founder of Google Apps.
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