About Mike Kirkwood
Mike Kirkwood is a veteran of enterprise systems, with prior leadership roles at Cisco, Intuit, and Sony. His roles have included B2B, B2C, web operations and enterprise architect. He is currently CEO of Polka, which is focused on building a personal information architecture connecting people and systems - on our terms. He lives in Berkeley, California with his
wife, daughter, son, dog, and chickens. You can reach Mike at kirkwood@readwriteweb.com or at Twitter: @mikekirkwood
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06/ 4/10: Practice Fusion Bundles the Cloud and Dell Hardware for Doctors (0)
06/ 3/10: Rackspace Cloud Grows to U.K. - Hosting VMware and Xen in Harmony (1)
06/ 1/10: U.S. Announces Community Health Data Initiative (3)
05/31/10: Survey: More Than 80% of Businesses Support the iPad (0)
05/26/10: Facebook Privacy Briefing: Zuckerberg Shares that Privacy Does Matter (6)
05/26/10: SalesForce Ecosystem: Counting Carbon Credits in the Cloud (0)
05/24/10: Map Reduce your Inbox: Yahoo Mail is Fighting Spam with Big Data (6)
05/19/10: Storm of Innovation: Google Partners with VMware for Apps, Clouds, and Widgets (0)
05/19/10: Memcached and Beyond: NorthScale Raises Bar with $10m Series B (0)
05/18/10: Gist Gadget for Google Apps: A Look at the Social Inbox (1)
05/14/10: Google Goes Native: Offers Sneak Peek at C++ Support in Chromium (13)
05/13/10: CloudKick: Practical Efforts for Unifying the Cloud (0)
05/11/10: Cloud Sherpas: Smoothing the Path for Google Apps in the Enterprise (0)
05/ 5/10: Requires a Village: A Quest for Payment Data Portability (2)
05/ 4/10: Where People and Licenses Meet: Outsourcing with Oracle and SaaS (1)
05/ 3/10: Securing Google Apps: New Admin Feature Gives Real-Time Control (1)
05/ 1/10: The Reverse of Spam: Wordpress Integration with SalesForce (9)
04/30/10: Got Linux? Red Hat Enterprise Licenses Now Portable to EC2 (2)
04/27/10: Beyond IaaS: VMforce to Prime Enterprise Java for Cloud Delivery (6)
04/26/10: Bringing Google, Facebook, Twitter Together: Third Party Login Grows Rapidly in 2010 (14)
04/23/10: Developer Trends: Ruby in the Cloud with Enterprise Class SLAs (0)
04/21/10: One Approach to Growth: Build Your Own Cloud with vCenter in the Middle (2)
04/21/10: First Public Draft: Taking the Wraps off OAuth 2.0 (1)
04/20/10: Hitachi's Unified Compute Platform Goes for the Endzone (0)
04/16/10: Coming Soon: Multi-Tasking on the iPad with Many-Device Apps (6)
04/ 8/10: This Tweet is Priority 1: SalesForce.com's Chatter is Transactional Social Media (8)
04/ 7/10: Channeling Murdoch: Choices for Content Payments on the iPad (3)
04/ 6/10: Cloud Aware Monitoring: GroundWork and Eucalyptus Offer Private Cloud Beta Program (0)
04/ 3/10: iPad: Citrix Brings Windows 7 Back to the Future (2)
04/ 3/10: Are You the Next Zynga? The Rocket Science at RightScale Helps Deliver a Safe Liftoff (0)
03/31/10: Cloudkick Broadens its Scope: Now Monitors the Datacenter (0)
03/31/10: Rulers of the Cloud: A Multi-Tenant Semantic Cloud is Forming & EMC Knows that Data Matters (5)
03/29/10: Earth Hour: Is it Time to Virtualize the Electrical Grid? (3)
03/26/10: Rulers of the Cloud: Your CEO has a SalesForce.com-Powered TweetDeck, and She's Following You (8)
03/25/10: Act Now. Amazon and Microsoft Launch Windows Server License Mobility Pilot (0)
03/24/10: Healthcare Reform is a Cloud: Interview with Matthew Holt & Richard MacManus (5)
03/22/10: Enterprise Cloud Control: Q&A with Eucalyptus CTO Dr. Rich Wolski (3)
03/19/10: Rulers of the Cloud: Google Becomes the Cloud, Search is a Feature (7)
03/18/10: Got Budget? Virtualization Leads to Fewer Meetings (1)
03/17/10: Future: Amazon's 'Think Clouds' are Data Aware (0)
03/16/10: Rulers of the Cloud: Will Amazon's Computing Fabric Become a New Economy? (7)
03/15/10: LadyGaga as a Service: Bringing Apple and Google to Commerce 2.0 (16)
03/12/10: Will Google's Cloud be a Cozy Nest for Aviary? (7)
03/11/10: Health Clouds Forming: California's Health Internet Exchange (3)
03/10/10: Cloud Religion: Do's, Do Not's, and a Glimpse of Nirvana (1)
03/ 9/10: Network as a Service: Open Source Enables Efficient Cloud Hosting (1)
03/ 9/10: Cisco in the Core: Preparing for the Next Generation Internet (2)
03/ 5/10: Do Open Protocols Bring Storage Costs Down? (2)
03/ 4/10: Reinventing the Handshake: Polite Servers and Smart Networks Lead to Active Security (1)
03/ 4/10: Feeding Amazon's Cloud of Workers with Virtual Peas (2)
03/ 2/10: Reporting From RSA 2010: Identity, Health Care, and a Higher Realm of Credentials (4)
02/26/10: Lady Gaga as the Killer App: Moving Identity into the Cloud (10)
02/26/10: Be Found on Twitter: Connecting Our Dots in the Social Graph (9)
02/24/10: Sometimes it Pays to Solve Hard Problems: CA Acquires 3Tera (0)
02/24/10: Microsoft to Government CIOs: Choice is Here (2)
02/24/10: Rackspace Cloud: An App Store that Pays (3)
02/22/10: Blazing the Path to Email Collaboration: Without all of the Buzz (4)
02/19/10: Rulers of the Cloud: Will Cloud Computing Be the Second Coming of Cisco? (4)
02/18/10: Google Certification Program: Building Cloud Approved Developers (1)
02/17/10: Facebook and Twitter: SalesForce.com Offers Social, Real Time Enterprise Tools (2)
02/16/10: Investing in the Cloud: Trending Topics for a New Fund (2)
02/15/10: Will One Company Become the Dominant Player in Cloud Computing? (19)
02/12/10: Is Virtualization to Windows what Windows was to DOS? (1)
02/11/10: Loving the iPad: A Real Computer for Virtualizing Enterprise Apps (8)
02/10/10: Paperboy 2.0: Using the Cloud to Get Paid for Application and Content Subscriptions (0)
02/10/10: BlueLock Lets You Customize Your Cloud Infrastructure (2)
02/ 9/10: Mobile Health: Will Network Applications Help Us Get Healthy? (5)
02/ 8/10: VMware Partner Exchange 2010: What happens in Vegas Comes to your Enterprise (0)
02/ 3/10: Walking Among Giants: Who Wins With Virtualization? (3)
02/ 1/10: Will The Cloud Deliver A 'Computer' to Every Person and Education to Every Child? (6)
01/29/10: Are you the New Twitter? Services to Help Scale your Business (10)
01/28/10: In Networks We Trust? Sure, But Privacy Is Another Matter (5)
01/27/10: Extraordinary Measures: Computing in the Cloud for Cancer (2)
01/26/10: Getting Started With Virtualization: What You Can Do On a Shoestring (10)
01/25/10: The Healthcare System: An Apple Tablet's Biggest Opportunity (18)
01/25/10: Is Virtualization Magic? (And Other Questions Your Manager May Ask) (2)
01/23/10: What Brings Businesses to the Cloud? Convenience (0)
01/22/10: Where Angels (And Apple) Sing: Music Moving to the Cloud (0)
01/21/10: The Collaborative Cloud: Battle for the Inbox (1)
01/20/10: Is The Enterprise Cloud Coming To Us, Or Are We Coming To The Cloud? (0)
