Cloud Computing & Content: Where are the Best Opportunities?
While many enterprise-oriented publishers are pursuing the integration of content on the desktops of today’s knowledge workers, much of the content that makes today’s enterprises tick is moving away from desktops and into network-based information services. “Cloud computing” enables many of the functions that used to require PCs and intensive I.T. development in the enterprise to operate using information cobbled together rapidly from any number of suppliers into services that can be developed on highly scalable Web-based infrastructure.
Cloud computing services can be accessed securely and reliably from enterprise desktops, mobile devices or any other platform that on-the-go knowledge workers find appealing, with mix-and-match capabilities that make it easy for them to concoct their own aggregation services.
- In what some analysts are predicting will become a $95 billion industry in the next few years, what are the best opportunities for enterprise-oriented publishers to take advantage of cloud computing’s cost-effective strengths for the enterprise?
- Is cloud computing a boon for publishers or is this just another complication in trying to define premium value points for enterprise content audiences?
A panel of leading enterprise publishers and technologists unravel the rapidly blooming future of content in the cloud.
Marc Frons, CTO, Digital Operations, The New York Times
Marc Frons joined The New York Times in 2006. Since July 2007, he has overseen technology and product development at NYTimes.com while continuing to be involved in broader digital strategy initiatives at the company. Before he joined The Times, Mr. Frons was the chief technology officer for The Wall Street Journal Online and other Dow Jones consumer Web sites.
Mr. Frons started his career as a journalist. He was a reporter and editor at Newsweek and a senior editor at BusinessWeek before leaving there in 1995 to start the financial Web site SmartMoney.com, where he held the unusual title of editor and chief technology officer. The site was the recipient of a National Magazine Award for interactive design in 2001.
Charles Matheson, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC
Focused on the media and entertainment industries, Charles Matheson is responsible for managing business development efforts for the EMC Cloud Infrastructure Group. With 2007 revenues of $13.2 billion, and approximately 37,000 employees worldwide, EMC is the world leader in products, services and solution for information management and storage.
Mr. Matheson joined EMC in 2007, and has since been focused on delivering cloud computing solutions to the media and entertainment industry. Prior to joining EMC, Mr. Matheson spent ten years with the IBM Software Group where he focused on selling a broad platform of software to enable content management, collaborative computing, services oriented architecture, systems management and application development. Top accounts included Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Paramount. Mr. Matheson was as well instrumental in creating the IBM Digital Media Business Partners Program.
Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex
Larry Schwartz is a co-founder of Newstex and President of the company, with responsibility for sales, marketing and product development.
Larry has guided numerous entertainment and new media ventures, from start-up through growth, development and maturity, including Bolenka Games Online (Trivial Pursuit(R) Online), GFI Group (Nasdaq:GFIG - financial), Wizard World (publishing), Patron Technology (technology) and Tickets.com (Nasdaq:TIXX - entertainment). Most recently Larry was President of Comtex News Network, a real time wholesaler of news to the financial industry.
Previously, Larry built New Net Companies into one of the Northeast’s preeminent e-business solution providers. He was also president and CEO of Auctions.com, which he co-created with the Times Mirror Co. and co-owners Gannett, Knight-Ridder, The New York Times Company, Tribune Company, and The Washington Post Company. Larry was featured in the official history of eBay, “The Perfect Store”, by Adam Cohen, which detailing his exploits of attempting to purchasing eBay for Times Mirror and then competing against eBay on behalf of the newspapers.
Matt Turner, Principal Consultant, Mark Logic Corporation
Matt Turner is a Principle Consultant with Mark Logic Corporation where he develops content applications and helps others do the same. Previously, Matt worked with Sony Music creating community, identity and content delivery applications for artist sites and reviewing investment opportunities for Sony Music’s venture arm. Before that Matt was a PC World where he developed some of the industry’s first XML based publishing systems. Matt has been a speaker at multiple XML and publishing conferences including the XML conference, Seybold, X-Tech and OpenPublish and publishes “Discovering XQuery,” a blog about content technology.
Moderator
John Blossom, President, Shore Communications, Inc.
Mr. Blossom’s career spans more than twenty years of marketing, research, product management and development in advanced information and media venues, including major financial publishers and financial services companies (Citicorp, Quotron and for Reuters Holdings PLC), as well as earlier experience in broadcast media. Mr. Blossom served as a Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, Inc., where he provided research and analysis coverage of content technologies and financial and corporate information markets for major corporate clients, and developed successful online ecommerce services for research reports. For his excellence in qualitative research, Mr. Blossom was recognized with the Vendor of the Year award by Standard & Poor’s in 2001. Mr. Blossom holds a B.A. in English from Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut and post-graduate studies in Management, Marketing, Accounting, Business Analysis, Financial Markets, Structured Systems Analysis, and Advanced Communications Networks.
Michelle Maher is an Associate Producer at ScribeMedia.Org. She has a particular fondness for penguins.
By Dan D. Gutierrez
CEO of HostedDatabase.com
It is great to see cloud computing receive so much attention these days. We launched the web’s first database in the cloud back in 1999. Fast forward nearly ten years, and our industry is finally maturing.
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