A 25 year veteran of technical sales in Silicon Valley, Michael has seen the rise and fall of great companies in successive waves of technology evolution. A recognized expert on data recording and digital content distribution, Michael has worked with both rotating and linear magnetics, optical media, flash memory and the rise of Internet delivery. More recently, Michael has been involved in the Big Data revolution, selling and evangelizing NoSQL Databases and Map/Reduce analytics into the Enterprise. An Operating System agnostic, Michael is simply committed to delivering no-nonsense systems that just work.
Here at Cloudshare, we get lots of questions about moving files, content and applications into your ProPlus VMs. And in response, we explain that the Cloudshare application has two facilities for accomplishing this: File Sharing and Cloud Folders. Read the rest of this entry »
None of us is as smart as all of us
–Ken Blanchard
Here at Cloudshare, you hear us talk a lot about sharing and collaboration (see here, here, and here). That’s because our primary use is pre-production – Application Development, especially on the SharePoint platform, Hands-On Sofware Demos, Corporate Training – these are all situations where various people need various levels of access to the applications, the servers, the network, even the whole development environment. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the lessons we’ve learned over and over the last couple years is that a lot of bad things can happen anywhere in the world. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, tornadoes – it almost doesn’t matter where you are, you are at risk. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve spent my entire adult life working in the technology industry. But it was in 1990 that I had an epiphany that changed my life, very much for the better. That was when I accepted an offer from a tiny company with big hopes, and left the comforts and safety of a Fortune 500 giant, in my case The Polaroid Corporation, for the uncertain destiny of the classic technology startup.
Virtual Computers in the cloud, huh? VMs that you can set up with a couple mouse clicks, you say? That’s cute. They’re probably just toys, right? Not the kind of computer I need to do real work anyway, I betcha.