In our latest podcast I talk with Jeff Hardy, Vice President of Business Operations at SmarterTools. We talk about SmarterTools and discuss a process of due diligence that the company pursued late in 2008 whilst seeking a Cloud hosting provider to support their latest product.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• Cloud Computing – Challenges, Benefits and the Future blog post
• Mike Culver, Amazon
• EF Data Corp.
• Google App Engine
• Honeywell
• Parallels Hosting Summit
• PubCon
• Rackspace
• Salesforce
• Seeing Through the Fog – The Current State of Cloud Computing from an Independent Development Perspective presentation (PDF)
• SmarterTools, Inc.
• SmarterTrack

This conversation was recorded on Friday 23 January, 2009.

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