Key takeaway: As you get into cloud computing, make sure your vendors not only have robust application programming interfaces, but also that they have demonstrated those integrations with other vendors you may be considering.
Apple wants to get into cloud services, as evinced by its iCloud Drive product, Google wants to win productivity and cloud computing, and Microsoft is setting itself along similar lines, working to convert Office into a cloud subscription service, and growing its Azure cloud platform.
New users are getting into the cloud services provided by data centers on a daily basis, and the number of applications hosted on the clouds is rapidly increasing.
Talking about demo day, Uretsky recalled how the pressure for companies is to come out of the program and be able to set up a round, but in trying to raise a seed round, the team faced the same challenges as getting into TechStars: cloud hosting is a hard sell.
As an enterprise-grade collaboration platform, Alfresco is turning downstream and getting into the consumer cloud game, with the hopes of nabbing some market share from Dropbox and Box.net.net
Like when Microsoft got into the cloud game.
