Michael Grant, CEO of Cloudscaling spoke at the 2013 MGI Research Cloud Innovators Summit. Recorded on March 5th 2013 at the Core Club in New York.

Michael Crandell, CEO and Founder of RightScale Speaks at the 2013 MGI Research Cloud Innovators Summit about cloud management tools market, competitive landscape and positioning of RightScale within that market. Recorded on March 5th 2013 at the Core Club in New York, NY.

NetSuite hosted its SuiteWorld user confab in San Jose, CA on May 13-16, 2013.  Well-attended, the event underscored NetSuite’s strong position in its core market. The major news, a product entry into manufacturing, will impact the generic ERP suites, a market ripe for replacement.  Execution now is the major issue facing NetSuite for the next two years.

For the longest time I refrained from making much of a comment about the proposed Dell buyout by Michael Dell and Silverlake. After all, it is a sad story whose final chapter is yet to be written. During a lunch break this afternoon, Carl Icahn in an interview on CNBC once again raised a number of non-trivial questions about the transactions and the go forward outlook for Dell.

Listening to Carl Icahn describe his alternative plan for a what amounts to a leveraged recap of Dell, a few key points have come to mind:

It is time for Microsoft End-of-Year Enterprise Agreement (EA) renewal frenzy. With financial results being more than ever important to Microsoft, buyers have opportunities to optimize their negotiation and deal process. Here’s what we are seeing in the market.