May 2012: Nonprofit Partnerships and Cloud Interviews
This month’s three featured non-profits both support women entrepreneurs in the cloud. We will support both CloudNOW http://www.cloudnetworkofwomen.org and TiE http://www.tie.org through a series of interviews and shows and communications and look forward to sharing information, facilitating introductions and discussions, and encouraging and supporting entrepreneurship around the cloud. Separately, we will support the Anita Borg Institute http://www.anitaborg.org in their nomination efforts for various women-in-tech-leadership awards, regardless of whether their work is in the cloud. We invite your support and participation in these worthy organizations as well.
April 2012: Thoughts on Hybrid Clouds
Every week in March, FountainBlue featured interviews with members and leaders of CloudNOW, this month's featured nonprofit. With information from these interviews and surveys of dozens of in-the-know activists in this space, FountainBlue is pleased to stimulate discussion about hybrid cloud environments for enterprises, which leverages the data security of the private cloud implementations, while benefiting from the cost effectiveness, flexibility and versatility of public cloud access. Throughout the month of April, we will gather and compile and document examples and conduct interviews on hybrid solutions for the enterprise, and welcome your thoughts, nominations and questions sent to info@sventrepreneurs.com. More information is available at http://www.fountainblue.biz/consulting/cloud.html.
Integration Solutions:
1. The advancement and development of standardized or proprietary technologies and architectures that enables data and application portability for a larger variety, wider range of private, community and public clouds.
2. Sophisticated integration tools to better integrated customized, complicated legacy applications into the cloud.
Security Solutions:
3. On-premise hardware and software technologies that maximize fault tolerance.
4. Scalable Off-site (remote) server based cloud infrastructure management solutions.
Performance Solutions:
5. Solutions that maximize availability of information in large volumes - information locally and immediately - without internet connectivity.
6. Applications which allow users to define tiered access to information, resulting in optimal performance for sets of data of most relevance to them.
Virtualization Solutions:
7. Seamless integration of larger varieties of hardware platforms, operating systems, storage devices and network resources to allow for better security, performance and management.
8. Applications which optimize current resources and proactively anticipate and manage the hardware, infrastructure, application, performance and security needs of each customer.
System Management Suites:
9. Tools for managing the rapid integration of a larger range and volume of private, community and public cloud options.
10. Automated upgrades for individual clouds and integrated solutions to optimize security and performance.
March 2012: Partnering for Hackathon Events
FountainBlue will be partnering with organizations across the valley and beyond through our ‘Innovation Through Hackathons’ program, to collaboratively create different versions of hackathons, involving programmers working in collaboration over a targeted weekends to develop customer-requested mobile apps and social media/web (or other technology) solutions in Silicon Valley and later other tech regions around the world. These events might include:
- Customer-led Hackathons focused on creating demos for fundable ideas for eager customers;
- Company-led hackathon, delivered in a Reverse Job Fair manner, inviting hackers to create new and complimentary solutions;
- Funder-led Reverse Hackathons which allow active investors to define and invest in the market need, and invite hackers to create solutions for that need at a hackathon;
- And other solutions that focus on the trends in the market, the needs of the customer and the creation of technology-based, scalable, and personalized solutions to address both.
For more information, e-mail us at info@FountainBlue.biz.
February 2012: What's New with FountainBlue: Advisory Boards
We are serving on the advisory boards of for select members of our community, supporting their marketing, business development and recruitment efforts. Currently, we are providing advisory and business development support Speck Design and their product innovation services http://www.speckdesign.com, and advisory and investment strategy support for Bell Biosystems and their research on heritable magnetic signature in therapeutic cells, with huge implications for diagnostics, cancer, regenerative medicine and cell therapies. http://www.bellbiosystems.com. For more information about any of these organizations and the services they provide, and more information about the organizations where we serve, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/consulting/advisory.html.
January 16: What's New with FountainBlue: Members as Referral Partners
At the request of our members, we will be sending out our job reqs to our members, inviting everyone to strategically forward them on to their networks of contacts. Thank you in advance to everyone who elects to forward our reqs. Please tell your contacts to mention that you connected him/her to us, so that we can track the origin of our candidate leads. We are happy to pay a referral fee to members who recruit candidates who get hired and stay for a ninety-day period. You may also elect to donate your referral fee to a FountainBlue-approved nonprofit or a nonprofit of your choice. For more information about our job leads, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/openreqs.html.
January 9: What's New with FountainBlue: Giving Back
Since our launch in January 2006, FountainBlue has been committed to giving back to the community through active participation and financial support. As we shift into recruiting and consulting, we are pleased to contribute financially to nonprofit causes providing executive education, educational benefit, and women-in-leadership. Currently we are supporting the following types of organizations:
Executive Development Organizations:
Career Actions
Educational Organizations:
A Schmahl Science Workshop, as a member of the advisory committee.
Women-In-Leadership organizations:
Global Fund for Women
Global Women Leadership Network
Women's Initiative
Please e-mail us with the following information at info@whenshespeaks.com or complete the form above if you would like to considered an approved, adopted FountainBlue cause.
Your name
Recommended Nonprofit
Your involvement with Nonprofit
Why you would recommend this Nonprofit
Why FountainBlue's membership of clean energy, high tech, and life science entrepreneurs would find this nonprofit beneficial to the community overall
We are happy to profile a nonprofit each month, and recommend any of these nonprofits as worthy causes.
If you’re interested in catching up over the phone or in person, please visit http://meetwith.me/lindaholroyd and suggest a good time to connect. Please also let us know if we can support you with your recruiting, consulting and coaching needs as you grow your business.
January 2, What's New With FountainBlue : A New Year, A New Newsletter Format!
We are looking forward to an exciting new year, and an exciting new time for the valley and the global community! It is our hope that our weekly newsletter will provide you with relevant, useful information about business and market trends and their implications for your business. We invite your inquiries, suggestions, feedback and interest as we continue with our consulting, coaching and recruiting efforts! If you’re interested in catching up over the phone or in person, please visit http://meetwith.me/lindaholroyd and suggest a good time to connect. Please also let us know if we can support you with your recruiting, consulting and coaching needs as you grow your business.
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