OrangeSlyce @ MIT Enterprise Forum – Cloud Computing
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 in Small Business | No Comments »
Tonight was the Phoenix MIT Enterprise Forum at the Hilton in Scottsdale with a focus on Cloud Computing. OrangeSlyce was selected as a showcase technology startup – it was a great opportunity to spread the word about OrangeSlyce with technologists and other entrepreneurs in Phoenix. Individuals from IBM, SalesForce.com and Microsoft provided excellent presentations on how cloud computing has evolved over the last few years and where its headed.
My take? Cloud computing is here to stay. Within a few years, buying servers will be like trying to run your own electric generator to run your microwave… crazy! So the big question is, how is OrangeSlyce taking advantage of cloud computing technologies? For those of you who don’t know, OrangeSlyce.com is hosted with a service called Heroku – a true cloud computing platform which completely abstracts away the concept of servers into a “power slider”. When our website gets busy and traffic becomes overwhelming, we login and nudge that bar to the right. Instantaneously, the lights stop flickering and we are back in business (of course with a higher price tag). It’s part of our strategy for 100% uptime; a goal we’ve been able to maintain for the past several months.
If your business isn’t managing servers, why the heck are you managing servers?
