Cloud Computing, Telecom, the Internet and SOTU

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David Byrd
David Byrd is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer for Raven Guru Marketing. Previously, he was the CMO and EVP of Sales for CloudRoute. Prior to CloudRoute, He was CMO at ANPI, CMO & EVP of Sales at Broadvox, VP of channels and Alliances for Telcordia and Director of eBusiness development with i2 Technologies.He has also held executive positions with Planet Hollywood Online, Hewlett-Packard, Tandem Computers, Sprint and Ericsson.
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Cloud Computing, Telecom, the Internet and SOTU

I have been writing a blog covering technology and telecommunications for seven years and each year I listen to the State of the Union (SOTU) address with an ear towards how the industry, to which I have dedicated many years, will be referenced.

Last night, the SOTU given by President Obama did not mention our industry. That was nothing new as it has been left out more times than not. However, the speech was not the administration’s usual litany of accomplishments and open agenda items for the coming year. It was more about addressing the negative political climate and failure of leadership exhibited by America’s politicians both in office and those seeking new positions in government. However, without our industry there is no conversation, just silence.

Telecommunications changed the speed and breathe of information. The Internet expanded the forms of communication and generated innovations for commerce, healthcare, transportation, entertainment and much more. Cloud computing is the next trend that will affect how we work, play and live. While the Internet represents the cloud in terms of connectivity, cloud computing represents a migration to the cloud from standalone systems, on premise equipment, platform defined solutions and investments in the status quo. Cloud Computing exists because of the Internet and digital communications.

The Internet/cloud and cloud computing are different things. Cloud Computing consists of a service provider and subscribers or users. For example; customers or users of Uber and Airbnb are leveraging the Internet to gain access to a service. Users have no infrastructure or requirement to make subscription payments. However, in this case, Uber or Airbnb may consider or take advantage of cloud computing to provide the service to the user. They would be the entity making monthly payments to a cloud service provider.

CloudRoute is a Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) offering cloud computing solutions from Microsoft, other third party vendors and over time its own. CloudRoute is aggregating solutions and services for businesses so they can improve their operations and capital management. This is the contribution of cloud computing complementing the contributions of telecommunications and the Internet.

It is not up to cloud computing, telecommunications or the Internet to address growing political distrust, partisanship, government stagnation and divisiveness. The call during last night’s SOTU was to politicians and the American people to address the issues dividing the country and reducing our ability to lead and affect global issues. Not exactly stuff in our professional wheelhouse.

However, when the clarions sound for a stronger economy with growing businesses, accelerated employment to meet greater business commitments, improved productivity to drive higher rates of customer satisfaction and increased revenues to satisfy rising customer demand, CloudRoute and the cloud computing community will be answering. Cloud computing is providing the infrastructure and services that support strong economic growth, collaboration and innovation. Just what America and businesses around the world need today.



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