The Web sight sources a variety of perspectives and voices, the community also includes commentary by business and information technology leaders, industry analysts and the media, and active technology practitioners, officials said.
According to Blake Wolff, president of Astadia, there is a lot of misinformation surrounding cloud computing today. “We're hosting a smart dialogue with rock stars from all over the cloud computing ecosystem that helps technology buyers separate real issues from vendor hype.”
Some of the ‘best’ in the community include a social media expert from the Obama campaign and an executive from marketing automation leader Eloqua, discussing “Facebook (
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The site features a discussion on cloud computing adoption in Asia by CEO of Springboard Research. Astadia's headline
Think Tank Web video discusses, “What Does the Cloud Change for Enterprise IT?”
Upcoming highlights include Datamonitor and COPC (
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Astadia recently
joined as an authorized partner in the Convio Solution Provider (CSP (
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Astadia’s core focus areas are sales acceleration, marketing acceleration, customer service and support, and cloud transformation/application rationalization for IT.
The Astadia community site is a vast resource for cloud computing. It features monthly roundtable with industry thought leaders, a Cloud blog, a video gallery, and event listings.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
Marisa Torrieri