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“The Cloud Is The New Dotcom” (Video Highlights)

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On Friday, during our cloud computing event, Whose Cloud Is It
Anyway?, Charles River Ventures partner George Zachary noted, "The
cloud is the new dotcom." He was one of the judges for the demo
startups, and for good or for bad, he might be right. Cloud computing
as a term is broad enough to encompass most internet startups and
already is in danger of being latched onto as the next catch-all
category. Yet there is also obviously something there. Amazon,
Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and even Facebook all want to become
the cloud platform of choice for startups and developers to build
their Web apps on.

And we are already seeing some impressive cloud-based apps that would
have been much more difficult to build without these platforms. During
the demos, for instance, Veodia showed an app for recording video in
the cloud straight from a laptop's camera—no uploading required.
FathomDB is putting a relational database in the cloud (on Amazon's
EC2), and Diomede Storage is offering its own cloud service with a
twist: online storage where you can monitor the power consumption of
each file and act accordingly.

Below are four video highlights from the roundtable that followed the
demos. In the first video, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff argues that "we
are on the threshold of fundamentally a new paradigm of computing." He
defines cloud computing both as as software-as-a-service and as
platform-as-a-service (and judging by how many cloud platforms were
represented at the event, it seems like everyone wants to be the
latter).

In the second video, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explains why Amazon is
in the cloud computing business in the first place, and says that
overall for cloud computing in general: "This is still Day One." We
talked a lot about how enterprise apps are starting to look more and
more like consumer Web apps, partly because they are both being built
on similar back-end cloud architectures. But in the third video,
Google's Vic Gundotra takes exception to the idea that enterprise apps
mimicking consumer apps is anything new.

And in the final video, Ning CEO Gina Bianchini talks about the
importance of video in the cloud and FriendFeed co-founder Paul
Buchheit talks about how consumers don't care where all the data and
applications are stored, but that applications on different cloud
platforms nevertheless have to be able to seamlessly interact with
each other. (As a side note, the reason I am on a video screen in some
of these clips is because I joined the event remotely).

To watch the video highlights, just click through the playlist below.
For those interested in watching more, you can watch the entire three
hours of the event here.

Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com

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