This week we featured Bill Loumpouridis, founder, president & CEO of EDL Consulting (CloudCraze) and Rob Bialk, VP Strategic Partnerships, TalentDrive. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com/cloudcomputing

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Cloud Computing Conference: Nov 15-19 SF
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NEWS HEADLINES

Story 1 –  Apple has just had its quietest launch ever by burying a cloud music service in a list of feature sets.

There has been plenty of speculation around Apple’s plans for LaLa, the music streaming technology it acquired last December. Now, Apple is offering a subtle feature lets people stream music to their iPhones, iPads and iTouch devices by using the online storage service that comes with MobileMe iDisk v1.2. Features are limited.

Story 2 – Financial services firm UBS is reporting Amazon’s cloud business could earn $500 million this year

and could even reach $2.5 billion by 2014. Seems like the bet Amazon made with AWS in 2006 is paying off.

Story 3 – A new report from IDC estimates spending for cloud computing server hardware will rise to $718 billion by 2014, up from $582 billion in 2009.

Dave’s InfoWorld post

Story 4 -  Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, a top customer of Amazon Web Services, has decided it will NOT expand its use of the hosted service, citing a failure to agree on liability terms.

Story 5 – Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says the cloud is too lagged for casual or serious gaming

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INTERVIEW

Bill Loumpouridis Founder, President & CEO – EDL Consulting (CloudCraze)

CloudCraze, the first enterprise eCommerce product developed 100% natively on the Force.com platform.

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APP OF THE WEEK

Rob Bialk, VP Strategic Partnerships, TalentDrive

Robert Bialk joined TalentDrive as VP of Strategic Partnerships to navigate building the agreements with Strategic Partners and help focus on past relationships at F1000 for TalentFilter. Prior to TalentDrive, Rob Bialk was Regional Sales Manager for Taleo and Vurv. Over the last eight years his dedication to Hiring Management Technology offers a depth of knowledge related to challenges facing recruitment organizations.

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