Vince Vasquez is founder of Cloudbook which focuses on bringing innovation to the sales and marketing of products in the cloud. He brings over twenty-five years of experience at companies such as Platform Computing, Sun, HP and Cray Research. He has held a wide range of positions, including sales, marketing, business development, software development, and IC manufacturing. Most recently, Vince created and ran Sun's Software-as-a-Service business, which morphed into early work in Sun's Cloud efforts, both of which focused on delivering go-to-market success for customers and partners.
Vince holds an MBA from Stanford University, MSEE from Carnegie-Mellon, and BSEECS from UC Berkeley.
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Photographic Creativity Meets Business in the Cloud
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| ShootQ’s Customers Have Collected More Than $144 Million Through It’s SaaS Solution Hosted on the Joyent Cloud. |
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| The more visible examples of creativity often involve stories of genius. Whether staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, appreciating the complexity of sending a man to the moon, or admiring an Ansel Adams blackand-white landscape, we often associate pure genius at work in creating these masterpieces. And yet, creative inspiration and delivery don’t need to be so grand: Any mother who on the spot thinks of a clever way to distract her toddler knows this to be true. |
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Facilitating Brand Ambassadors at Facebook Scale
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| Context Optional Enables Brands to Socialize, While Joyent Provides the Underlying Cloud Infrastructure |
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| A key to becoming relevant in the world of social media is to develop brand ambassadors, people who will enthusiastically promote your brand to their friends. However, building brand ambassadors is no slam dunk. A technology-enabled service provider like Context Optional can work with your brand marketing team to develop engaging social media campaigns, including the building of Facebook applications. In parallel, a cloud computing provider such as Joyent can deliver the underlying infrastructure to enable the campaigns that go viral to scale at Facebook scale.
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Rebooting Corporate Video
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| How Cloudbook utilizes Cisco's Flip Miniopro camcorder to define the new best practice in corporate storytelling |
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David Macias
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| One of the primary tools Cloudbook uses for creating the video component of a Cloudbook StoryTM is Cisco’s Flip MinoPRO HD camcorder. Flip helps Cloudbook introduce the new generation of Cloud stars, enabling them to tell their stories in a format that is spontaneous, natural, convenient and free of the drab backdrop of a studio curtain.
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Application Platforms: The Next CloudBattleground?
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| A look at the forces behind the unleashing of more application development and deployment |
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Vince Vasquez
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| Seems like every great battle has a good guy, a bad guy, and perhaps an even uglier monster
of a thing to contend with. If you’ve ever opened a new server box, and hours later found
yourself at wits’ end searching through manuals trying to figure out why the heck the thing
won’t boot properly, you’ve faced ugly head-on.
This article discusses the forces at play in the rise of Platform-as-a-Service offerings. |
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Is the Cloud Broken?
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| And a Look at How a Second Generation Cloud Provider Offers a Solution |
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Vince Vasquez
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| The underlying architecture chosen by first-generation cloud providers borrows heavily
from the server consolidation and virtualization era. The major difference is that the
pools of compute cores are now being deployed as public-facing services, versus running
the previous generation of siloed applications. Unfortunately, the resulting inefficiencies
prevent full realization of the cloud promise of truly low-cost, high-performing, elastic
computing. In response, Joyent has emerged as a second generation provider, rethinking
fundamental cloud architecture, and ushering in the era of what they call “Smart
Computing.”
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SOASTA on Amazon: Game Changing Performance Testing
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Vince Vasquez
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| In a very real way, SOASTA and Amazon grew up together: SOASTA with its game-changing performance testing application CloudTest, and Amazon with its game-changing Cloud Computing environment EC2. Together, they are helping companies like Intuit answer the crucial question of whether their Web sites can withstand huge increases in traffic, and generate the information necessary to optimize their architecture and implementation. |
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Cloud Backup and Recovery for Small Businesses
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| HybridgeIT Deploys Zmanda Cloud Backup: Zmanda Leverages Amazon S3. The Combination Provides a Modern Alternative to Backup and Recovery. |
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Vince Vasquez
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| Companies like HybridgeIT, which provides virtual IT services for small businesses, are deploying Zmanda Cloud Backup to revolutionize disaster recovery plans. In turn, Zmanda is leveraging Amazon S3 storage cloud to store backup archives of its customers.
What this all means for small businesses is that they can now backup, archive, access, and restore years of their company’s critical data - on demand - via the cloud.
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