Cloud Computing, Eloqua, and PayPal Events November 2nd-4th

I will be at the Cloud Computing Conference in Santa Clara starting today to see the latest and greatest in leveraging the Cloud and meeting with StrikeIron partners and customers (and hopefully future partners). There will be some interesting keynotes from Unisys, Oracle, and Yahoo about some of their efforts in this area as well a lot of emerging technology in the Cloud space to review. Infrastructure-as-a-service and abstraction the cloud is gaining steam, and this event ought to lay the foundation for 2010.

I will also spend some time at the PayPal X Innovate 2009 developer event in San Francisco to see how our various e-commerce APIs (sales tax rates, email and physical address verification, telephone number verification, etc.) are most applicable as the ecommerce world evolves and get a preview of PayPal's new APIs scheduled for release in 2010. There should be a good group of entrepreneurs at the event that I look forward to meeting with as well.

We will have a team and booth at the Eloqua Experience event in San Francisco this week as well, demonstrating the integration of our SMS text messaging API into the Eloqua platform, as well as several other data sources available "as-a-service" for lead scoring and other marketing purposes.

It should be quite a week!